01American Greetings: corporate valuation and M&A case
Recommended a $75M share buyback after triangulating valuation upside, strategic fit and repurchase feasibility.
- DCF
- Comparable-company analysis
- Sensitivity analysis
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
~15%
Gross-margin improvement at the family distribution business, via pricing and cost control
20+ races
Global Formula 1 logistics case spanning 5 continents and time-critical freight movement
8 years
Co-owning Laxmi Enterprises: full P&L ownership, working-capital discipline and supplier negotiations
Figures are derived from academic, competition and project work; client-specific data is anonymised or illustrative where required.
Where I work
01
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 valuation, event logistics and venture capital that show how I frame a problem, build the numbers and land a recommendation.
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02Audi F1: event logistics and LSP selection
Structured a partner-selection framework balancing delivery reliability, race readiness, customs capability and Audi's net-zero ambition.
- Event logistics
- ABC analysis
- MCDA
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.
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
DCF and sensitivity analysis, American Greetings case
Event logistics
ABC analysis, MCDA and SLA framework, Audi F1 case
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
Audi F1 event logistics case
Logistics service provider selection framework for a global race calendar
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