BURZIN SUTARIA

Experience & Activities

Burzin has managed and led teams to execute several types of projects including business plans across a wide variety of industries (industrial products, agriculture, healthcare, fintech, specialty chemicals). He has expertise in developing business plans, feasibility studies, valuations, due diligence and buy & sell-side transaction advisory.

Burzin also runs the Strategy management office of a private strategic company. His responsibilities include advising the chairman on strategic expansion as well as strike deals with global companies to enable them to expand in the MENA region.

Burzin independently managed the valuation of a landscaping business. This involved gathering of management input and a site visit of operations. This was followed by a detailed market assessment of the industry and similar competitors. Using this input, a robust valuation model and report was generated detailing the valuation of the company. His superior project management skills ensured the deliverable was of high quality within the stipulated time frame.

Burzin conducted a valuation of a physiotherapy center in GCC. This was followed by submission of initiatives in the form of a strategic road map so that the business improves its valuation to ready itself for a stake sale in the near future. He recommended cost-saving initiatives such as shutting down of unprofitable centers and termination of certain high-cost sponsorship contracts from which the business was not deriving incremental benefit. He also prepared organizational templates through which management could track performance of administrative staff and doctors and recommended incentives that would improve employee productivity.

Before joining Empact Consulting and prior to his postgraduate qualifications, he worked as a risk and research analyst where he researched arbitrage opportunities across the forward curve of energy commodities. He developed and maintained high probability-low risk investment strategies across the following products: Brent oil (ICE), WTI (NYMEX) and Gas Oil (ICE). He conducted, reported and analyzed primary and secondary research related to these commodities. He generated research reports on these energy products detailing arbitrage opportunities in inter-commodity and crack spreads. He had also analyzed the risk/return profile of several positions using Value-at-Risk models as well as Sharpe Ratio and Jensen’s Alpha metric of analysis.

He holds a Masters in Finance from S P Jain School of Global Management (Singapore, Sydney, Dubai) and a Bachelors of Science in Industrial Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, USA.