01ICCAS MedTech: AI oncology SaaS commercial case
Developed a €7.17B German market-opportunity estimate and a €388K-€940K phased funding recommendation, presented to the client team.
- Financial modeling
- Market sizing
- Pricing
Leipzig, Germany
Finance, Shipping, Venture & Strategy
MBA candidate at HHL Leipzig working across corporate finance and M&A, shipping and industrial operations, venture capital, and strategy consulting.
Six years at sea as a marine engineer, three years co-owning a distribution business, now valuation, deals and strategy work: finance grounded in how businesses actually run.
Incoming Commercial Finance Intern at Carl Zeiss Meditec (Oct 2026 - Mar 2027) · Exploring full-time corporate finance, M&A, strategy and business-partnering roles from January 2027.
Selected results
€7.17B
German digital-health market opportunity modelled bottom-up (ICCAS project)
€388K-€940K
Phased funding recommendation presented to the ICCAS client team
~15%
Gross-margin improvement at the family distribution business, via pricing and cost control
$245M / $27M
New Heritage Doll Company revenue and operating profit assessed in a capital-budgeting case
Figures are derived from academic, competition and project work; client-specific data is anonymised or illustrative where required.
Where I work
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Corporate finance & M&A
Valuation, DCF, synergies, deal structuring.
02
Shipping & industry
Six years on German-managed container vessels; asset and fuel economics.
03
Business ownership
Co-owner of a distribution business: margins, working capital, P&L.
04
Venture capital
Due diligence, unit economics, cap tables and investment memos.
05
Strategy & consulting
Market sizing, go-to-market and client-facing recommendations.
Experience and affiliations
Selected work
Three cases across consulting, capital budgeting and venture capital that show how I frame a problem, build the numbers and land a recommendation.
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02New Heritage Doll Company: capital budgeting decision
Recommended the Match My Doll Clothing Line as the stronger strategic and financial investment.
- Capital budgeting
- NPV and IRR
- Payback analysis
03VC Investment Cup: early-stage due diligence
Finalist round; investment thesis recognised by the judging panel.
- VC-method valuation
- Unit economics
- Commercial due diligence
From operations to finance
That combination fits companies where finance has to understand the operating reality behind the numbers: industrial technology, medtech, manufacturing, logistics, mobility, infrastructure and other asset-intensive businesses.
2013 to 2019Operations
Six years as a Fourth Engineer on German-managed container vessels: planned maintenance, spares and fuel budgets, technical compliance and root-cause analysis where a day of downtime costs six figures.
2019 to 2022Business ownership
Three years co-running a family edible-oil distribution business: working capital and credit terms, pricing and cost control, supplier and dealer negotiation, and a KPI system that made decisions faster.
2024 to 2026Corporate finance
The HHL MBA added formal method: DCF and comparables, transaction analysis, scenario modelling and the discipline of defending assumptions in front of a client or a panel.
Read the full story
Six years at sea taught me that operational reliability, risk management and maintenance discipline have direct financial consequences. Co-running a distribution business made working capital, margins, supplier terms and cash conversion personally tangible. The MBA at HHL translated those instincts into structured capability in valuation, corporate finance, M&A and strategy.
Experience
Incoming · Oct 2026 - Mar 2027
Commercial Finance Intern
Carl Zeiss Meditec, Germany
Selected to join the commercial finance team of a listed medtech group. Scope and responsibilities to be added after the internship begins.
Mar 2026 - Jun 2026
Consulting project: AI oncology SaaS
ICCAS Leipzig
Built a three-scenario five-year revenue and cost model, sized the German market opportunity bottom-up at €7.17B and designed a phased go-to-market. Presented a €388K-€940K phased funding recommendation to the client team.
Jun 2021 - Jul 2024
Co-Founder
Laxmi Enterprises, India
Co-ran an edible-oil distribution business. Improved working-capital discipline through supplier and dealer-term renegotiation, increased gross margin by approximately 15% alongside a cost-control programme, and introduced a Power BI KPI system that cut management decision time by roughly 40%.
Hands-on experience in cash conversion, margin management, supplier negotiation and operational KPI design.
Jun 2015 - May 2021
Fourth Engineer
Anglo-Eastern Ship Management, German-managed container fleet
Operated and maintained propulsion and auxiliary machinery aboard German-managed container vessels. Supported technical compliance under international maritime standards and used structured root-cause analysis in a high-cost, safety-critical operating environment.
Relevance to finance: asset economics, maintenance and fuel budgets, risk management and an intuition for how operating decisions show up in cash flow.
Sep 2014 - Feb 2015
Associate
Wipro Limited, New Delhi
Client-facing associate on a telecommunications account: resolved escalated customer issues and documented recurring fault patterns for the service team.
Jul 2012
Mechanical engineering intern
Mahindra & Mahindra, India
First plant-floor exposure during the BTech: machinery operation, maintenance routines and safety practice.
Capabilities
No proficiency bars: each capability points to the project or role where I used it.
Core finance
Financial modeling
Three-scenario five-year P&L, ICCAS commercial case
Capital budgeting
NPV, IRR and payback comparison, New Heritage Doll Company
Commercial due diligence
Unit economics and CLV, VC Investment Cup
Business valuation
Comparables and VC-method rounds
Working-capital analysis
Cash conversion cycle at Laxmi Enterprises
Additional finance methods
- Comparable-company analysis
- VC-method valuation
- Unit economics
- Cap table modeling
- Scenario and sensitivity analysis
Analytics and tools
- Advanced Excel
- Power BI
- Python
- Capital IQ
- SAP S/4HANA
- Tableau
- R
Languages
- English: full professional proficiency
- German: B1, progressing toward B2
- Hindi: native
Skills are demonstrated through the project and experience examples above.
Recognition and development
New Heritage Doll Company case
Capital-budgeting recommendation comparing two growth investments
VC Investment Cup 2025
Finalist, pan-European venture-capital case competition
HHL Leipzig GPA 1.6
German grading scale, MBA in corporate finance, valuation and M&A
CFA Program Level I candidate
Registered for the November 2026 sitting
About
I grew up around a family business, spent six years at sea as a marine engineer on German-managed container ships, and then spent three years running the family company's finance and operations. Both taught the same lesson from different angles: numbers only matter when they describe what is actually happening on the ground.
The MBA at HHL Leipzig gave that instinct a proper toolkit: valuation, M&A and corporate strategy. And I now work on commercial cases where the analysis has to survive a client conversation. I am building a career in Germany at the point where operations and finance meet.
In a nutshell
A 30-second introduction
Education and credentials
MBA, HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management
Corporate finance, business valuation and M&A · GPA 1.6 (German scale) · 2025-2026
CFA Program Level I candidate
November 2026 sitting
Graduate Mechanical Engineer (GME), Anglo-Eastern Ship Management
Marine engineering training programme · 2015
- BT
BTech, Mechanical Engineering
Meerut Institute of Engineering & Technology, Gautam Buddh University · 2013
Open to finance, strategy, consulting and venture roles
I am exploring full-time opportunities across Germany and Europe in corporate finance and M&A, strategy and consulting, venture capital and investment analysis, and commercial roles in shipping, logistics and industrial businesses.
- Location
- Leipzig, Germany