Rupesh G Mehta

- Fund raising for Equity Portfolio Management Scheme in Indian Capital Markets - Structuring and arranging of Private Financing between Indian Real Estate Developers and investors - Corporate and Trade Finance for SMEs - Estate Planning for HNI clients through Trust or Offshore structuring - Independent Private Banking - Investment advisory - Due Diligence and Valuations - Business Plans for Startups or SMEs

- Private Banking - Structured Products, Bond Portfolios, Universal Life, Trust Formation - Coverage Area: Africa, Middle East and India

• Raised over $50m in assets under management from new client acquisition through networking, references and personal contacts • Built partnerships with numerous global financial services companies to include their products in the Edelweiss Product Offerings - including mutual funds, life & general insurance, international forex and commodities, direct equity and managed accounts • Implemented a $1m project to roll-out the online trading platform and integrate it with the internal office systems and stock exchanges • Successfully established the operations of the company in Dubai within 2 months by creating a structure according to business requirements and local company laws, licensing, identifying office space and hiring staff • Headed a team of 10 Retail and HNI Wealth Management Relationship Managers and 3 remote back-office employees • Nominated for Leadership training for high performance

• Identified the need to enter the Non Resident Indian market before many other financial institutions, thus gaining first movers advantage • Achieved year-on-year average growth of 150% in revenues and assets under management by introducing new business lines such as Wealth Management, Equity Broking, Commodity Broking, Life & General Insurance and Institutional Equities • Led a team of 20 executives including Wealth Management Relationship Managers, Equity Dealers and Commodity Dealers to manage wealth of over $100m • Recognized consistently by major asset management companies as one of the top distributors of their products • Built client relationships with over 80 ultra high networth individual clients including entrepreneurs, family offices, CEOs, CFOs and management executives

- Broker member of Dubai Gold & Commodity Exchange (DGCX) - Serving clients in clearing their trades in Futures of Gold, Silver, Oil and Currency contracts.

•Forecasted and efficiently monitored costs for a $2B business by periodically reporting and highlighting high cost areas, thus reducing cost by implementing programs and techniques – reduced $0.2MM in travel and living expenses in 2002 by correctly identifying high spent areas and putting in controls for effective cost reduction. •Managed and closely monitored the global balance sheet with $450MM in net assets for effective cash flow/ funds flow reporting for decision making of higher level management. •Provided higher level management with accurate variance analysis, thus leading accurate periodic forecasts •Fulfilled Project Finance Analyst role for digitization projects like ERP, ePDM (Data Mart), PartsEdge (Online ordering system) handling total project budget of approximately $25MM. •Automated 7 critical reports in Business Objects tool for fulfilling the reporting needs from the new ERP system. •Green Belt certified by successfully completing a Six Sigma project cutting payment time of freight invoices by approx 25% and saving approx $50K annually in late charges, interest, and hours spent in non-value adding activities. •Other responsibilities includes headquarter reporting, hedge accounting, finance support for other functions in the company.