Ghoutham Umapathy
About
Ghoutham Umapathy is from Tamil Nadu, India. Ghoutham is currently Managing Director & Co-Head - Investment Banking (Technology) at Spark Capital. In Ghoutham's previous role as a Executive Director & Co-Head - Investment Banking (Enterprise Tech & Digital) at Spark Capital Advisors, Ghoutham worked in until Jul 2024. Prior to joining Spark Capital Advisors, Ghoutham was a Director & Co-Head - Enterprise Technology - Investment Banking at Spark Capital Advisors and held the position of Director & Co-Head - Enterprise Technology - Investment Banking . Prior to that, Ghoutham was a Vice President - Investment Banking at Spark Financial Holdings from Feb 2020 to Mar 2022. Ghoutham started working as Head & GM - M&A and Investments at L&T Technology Services Limited in San Francisco Bay Area / Bangalore, India in Jan 2018. From Jan 2018 to Jan 2020, Ghoutham was Board Observer at Graphene Semiconductor Services Pvt Ltd.. Prior to that, Ghoutham was a Board Observer at Esencia Technologies Inc. from Jan 2017 to Jan 2020. Ghoutham started working as Senior Manager - M&A and Corporate Strategy at L&T Technology Services Limited in San Francisco Bay Area / Bangalore in Jan 2017.
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Ghoutham Umapathy's current jobs
- Sale of US based Product Engineering/ER&D business (>7 offers) - Atmecs ($200mn ++ Deal) - Sep'25
Ghoutham Umapathy's past jobs
Lead Business Development & Execution Closed & Completed Transactions: - Sale of US based Kaleidoscope to NASDAQ listed Infosys (US $ 42mn) - Sale of UAE / India based Encore Theme Technologies to NYSE listed Wipro (~ US $ 20mn) - Secondary stake sale of Qube to SS Cinemas - Sale of India / US based Botree Software to Sanaka Capital (PE) (US $20mn) - Sale of US based Innologic to Affirma Capital backed Prodapt (~US $20mn) - Sale of Nexting to Results CX - Sale of US based Allyis to Tech Mahindra (US $125MN) - Majority Stake Sale of India / US based Zifo Technologies to Boston based TA Associates (EV US $410mn) - Sale of ASIC / VLSI IP business to US based Marvel Semiconductor (~US 15mn) - Sale of Germany based Industry 4.0 business "Infocore" to "Nagarro" (Germany based digital engineering leader) (~US $ 20mn) - Raised $800Mn from GIC Singapore into a leading US based Digital Services & BPM business - Sale of US / India based IP led Digital transformation business (~US $ 200mn deal) - Sale of US based Embedded Engineering company "Mobiviel" to Global Logic/ Hitachi - Sale of Exterprise Solutions - RCM to Carpe Diem - Fornax - Sale of Oremus - US/UK/India based F&A accounting transformation specialist
Lead involved in L&T Technology Services acquisitions of Pan Asia based Graphene Semiconductors Closed Deals: - Acquisition of Orchestra Technologies - Acquisition of Graphene Semiconductors - Acquisition of Esencia Technologies - Divestment of IP assets of Esencia to Oculus FB group - Acquisition of Cisco Router and wifi business
Taking care of the following Corporate Development Initiatives for L&T Technology Services - Inorganic Strategy including Cross-border Acquisitions and Strategic Investments -> Lead involved in L&T Technology Services acquisition of Esencia Technologies (US) - Corporate Strategic Initiatives including Large Deals & Bid Management, Long Term Growth Plans, Account Mining & Rationalization - Part of Core team involved in Public Listing in NSE - BSE / IPO exercise of L&T Technology Services
Expertise includes Corporate Strategy & Planning, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Finance, Strategic Account Management, Debt & Equity funds Raising, Strategy formulation & Business Plan creation, High Growth & Top customer analysis & focusing on Non-Linear growth channel, Pipeline analysis 1) Mergers & Acquisitions: * Expertise & hands on experience in end to end deal formulation - Funnel to Consummation * Strong focus on Financial Modeling & Valuation * Hands on experience in Synergy analysis, Accretion & Dilution modeling, Strategic Fit analysis and focus on Deal Conceptualization & Execution * Steered several Strategic Presentation & Analysis for the Executive & Top Management * Program managing acquisition opportunities through the deal cycle including liaising with Investment bankers on potential targets, internal discussions with senior management, conducting due diligence on targets, submission of final bids and completion of acquisition process 2) Strategic Corporate Initiatives: * Part of the core deal team involved in the Refinancing of High Yield Bonds $325M in US market * Steered & part of core team involved in Credit Rating Upgrade exercise with Moody, S&P * Hands on experience in Corporate Restructuring exercise in the Rest of World operations in IGATE 3) Strategic Account Management: * Steering the top Strategic Account Management exercise in IGATE & Pipeline Analysis * Extensive analysis of the Top accounts in IGATE and driving the growth strategy * Prepared strategic initiative road-map and driving inorganic growth strategies across verticals and horizontals * Authored short / long term strategic account plan & road map with respective Business Heads across Verticals & Horizontals
M&A, IPO and Restructuring situations in Transport, Shipping & Support Services sector. Deal experience across Airlines, Transport, Support Services sectors such as Airline Catering, F& B Concession catering, Security Services etc. Expertise includes: Financial Modeling, Relative & Intrinsic Valuation, Industry Analysis and Bench-marking, Synergy and Strategic Fit of Europe listed Transport & Support services firms o Knowledge of databases - MergerMarket, FactSet, Bloomberg, Thomson One and Factiva
Summer Internship : 1) Project Finance - Kochi Terminal 2) Cost analysis/ Revenue Analysis/ Sensitivity Analysis/ Risk-Demand Analysis 3) Project Evaluation Criteria- NPV/IRR/Profitability Index / Pay Back Period/ Discounted Pay Back 4) Forecast of P/L & Cash Flow & Valuation of Equity