Project Manager Sales

Gurinder Sidhu

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EXPERIENCE

Credit Suisse Group, New York, NY, June ‘06 – Dec ‘08

Associate Investment Banking, Technology Group

Advised IT services, financial technology, software and semiconductor clients on mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts,

initial public offerings, and debt capital market transactions

Advised clients on sell-side and potential buy-side M&A transactions; responsibilities included identifying actionable targets,

performing valuation analysis, drafting sales memos and management presentations and managing data room & diligence process

Executed equity & debt financing transactions; responsibilities included drafting S-1and road-show presentations, conducting

extensive due-diligence, developing LBO models, preparing internal credit memos, rating agency presentations and offering memos

Representative M&A transactions:

Advised Albridge Solutions, a financial data consolidator, on its sale to PNC Financial Services for an undisclosed amount

Advised a large U.S. based regional bank on the divesture of $1.0 billion plus payment processing business

Advised Covansys Corporation, a global consulting and technology services company, on a $1.3 billion negotiated sale to CSC

Advised a leading U.S. based semiconductor / signal processing company on the divesture of its Asian based RF tuner business

Representative equity transactions:

Joint book-runner for a $200 million initial public offering of SS&C Technologies, a leading provider of software and services for

the financial industry (recently withdrawn due to market conditions)

Lead book-runner for a $125 million initial public offering of Mistras Group, a leading non-destructive testing company (pending)

Sole book-runner for a $250 million initial public offering of a software focused Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC),

sponsored by a leading Indian IT outsourcing company (pending)

Advised iGATE Technologies on the spin-off and public listing of its Professional Services business (Mastech Holdings)

Representative financing transactions:

$110 million first/second lien financing supporting the acquisition of Hyland Software by Thoma Cressey Bravo

$4.0 billion senior note financing for IBM to refinance the ASR bridge-loan and general corporate purposes

$500 million revolving credit facility for King Pharmaceuticals

Pinkerton Consultants, Boston, MA, 2001 – 2004

A boutique IT consulting firm with $80M in annual revenues

Practice Manager

Established a new ecommerce vertical focused on Consumer-Packaged-Goods industry

Generated sales leads, forged alliances with technology providers and managed project implementations at multiple clients; grew

the practice to over $1.0 million in revenue within the first year of operations by acquiring five new clients

Textrade.com, New York, NY, 2000 – 2001

An online b2b startup in the textiles industry with over 7,000 trading members in 14 countries

Project Manager / Solutions Architect

Transitioned operations of an online textile marketplace from Computer Science Corp. (CSC) to an internal tactical team

Managed an 18 member team of developers and business analysts to operate and further develop the online platform

Peregrine Systems, Atlanta, GA, 1998 – 2 000

A software company that specializes in asset management and ecommerce software

Ecommerce Consultant

Developed and implemented ecommerce software solutions at various client including AltaVista, AT&T, DHL, Dofasco Steel,

Northeast Utilities, SEH America, Verizon and UPS

Azerty Incorporated, Buffalo, NY, 1996 – 1998

Intern – International Work Exchange Program

EDUCATION

Cornell University – Johnson Graduate School of Management

Master of Business Administration, May 2006

Panjab University – Department of Chemical Engineering, Chandigarh, India

Bachelor of Engineering, Chemical, 1995

AIESEC Exchange student, Goteborg, Sweden 1996

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