Rajib Ranjan Borah

MBA (Finance, Strategy).

Experienced in varied financial domains as a (i) financial services strategy consultant and as a (ii) derivatives market maker.

• Trader, Optiver - Amsterdam.
- Derivatives Market Maker for European automobile, energy, chemical & technology stocks.
- Equity Arbitrage: (i) correlation & (ii) pair arbitrage

• Management Strategy Consultant, PwC - Mumbai & other cities in India
- Advised top management on business strategy & operational improvements. (Industries: Private Equity, Insurance, Commodity Derivatives Exchange, Pharmaceuticals)

• Intern, Solutia - EU HQ, Belgium
- Business consulting project for the global strategy group of an international chemicals group.

• Intern, Bloomberg - New York
- Designed financial services tools to complement Bloomberg's financial news & data services

• Senior Apps Engineer (Financial),Oracle - Hyderabad (Pre MBA)
- Part of a 45-member international team which designed the Customer Data Hub product - a revolutionary ERP concept which is acknowledged as one of the 22 most important innovations at Oracle (since 1977)

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MBA (Finance, Strategy) from IIM Calcutta - one of India’s topmost management education institutes.

I was in the top 100 out of 140,000 applicants who wrote the entrance test.

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Represented India at 13th World Puzzle Championship -Croatia 2004.
3rd-Indian National Championship.

Socio-economics & geo-politics:

- Top 15: Univ of Tokyo’s 130th anniversary event on International Leadership.
- Top 20: Knowledge@Wharton's International essay contest
- St Gallen Symposium, Switzerland - 2006 & 2007
- ISFIT-world's largest student festival, Norway

Recipient (/finalist) of India's most prestigious scholarships:

- Indian National Biology Olympiad - top 24
- Aditya Vikram Birla Scholarship - top 20
- JBNSTS - 1st
- NTSE
- NEC

Rajib Ranjan Borah’s Specialties:

• Trading: High Frequency Trading (Equity Arbitrage), Equity Derivatives Market Making, Index Derivatives

• Industries: Capital Markets, Management Consulting (Financial Services), ERP Software (Oracle Financial).

• Value Innovation Techniques: "Blue Ocean Methodology" & "Lead User Collaboration Methodology"

Rajib Ranjan Borah’s Experience

Partner

iRage Capital Management Services

(Partnership; Capital Markets industry)

May 2009 — Present (7 months)
Equity Derivatives Market Maker/ Arbitrage Trader

Optiver

(Privately Held; Capital Markets industry)

March 2008 — February 2009 (1 year )

Optiver is a leading derivatives market making & arbitrage trading house in Europe, South Asia & Australia.

• Primary Market Maker for derivatives on energy, automotive & pharmaceutical stocks. Provided liquidity for instruments expiring till December 2012. Handled many desks including those of some of the senior-most traders

• Arbitrage: explored equity arbitrage opportunities on the basis of (i) correlation of different stocks & indices, (ii) pair arbitrage

(high frequency statistical arbitrage - trading upto 2.5 million stocks for individual equities in a single day on the screen)

• In the arbitrage desk, doubled P&L returns against historic levels (despite regulatory changes preventing trading in 5 out of 11 stocks on that desk).

• For the ADR arbitrage team, designed a tool which enabled direct migration of trading to other instances of the trading application (eliminating 5 to 10 minutes of downtime associated with every migration)

• Certifications: Xetra & Eurex. 100% score on Eurex certification (German derivatives)
Management Strategy Consultant

PricewaterhouseCoopers

(Partnership; Accounting industry)

April 2007 — February 2008 (11 months)

Advised top management of client firms on business strategy & operational improvements.
Designed business development pitch-books.

• Studied feasibility of establishing a new national commodity derivatives exchange for a consortium of firms

• Facilitated launch of a PE fund in India

• Strategy Formulation (Blue Ocean methodology) for India’s 3rd largest general insurance company. Business Process Re-engineering and IT process review

• Assisted a global pharmaceutical firm in choosing a site for expanding operations in India
Intern

Solutia Inc, Belgium (European headquarters)

(Chemicals industry)

October 2006 — December 2006 (3 months)

• Identified product and business innovations using the ‘Lead User Collaboration’ methodology - collaborated with experts in multiple domains.

(Confidential project aimed at producing an industry revolutionizing innovation with multi-billion dollar market potential in industries as diverse as architecture, automobiles, etc)

• Identified 2 relevant experts for the next-stage workshop as against an original target of 1
R & D Intern

Bloomberg LP, New York

(Privately Held; Financial Services industry)

April 2006 — June 2006 (3 months)

Bloomberg is the world’s largest financial data & news provider - my project was to help Bloomberg diversify into financial services.

• Designed equity derivatives auto-execution model for the Bloomberg platform; enhanced the existing broker billing system
Senior Applications Engineer (Financials)

Oracle Corporation

(Public Company; ORCL; Computer Software industry)

June 2003 — June 2005 (2 years 1 month)

• I was part of a 45-member international team which designed the ERP concept of Customer Data Hub. It is acknowledged as one of the 22 MOST IMPORTANT INNOVATIONS AT Oracle (since 1977).

• Module Lead of 3 key modules

• Worked concurrently on the development of 4 new Oracle Financials products.

• Conducted recruitment & mentored new recruits, including experienced professionals from the industry

• Promoted from Applications Engineer to Senior Applications Engineer in a record period of 1 and a half years

• Collaborated with critical international customers & with other product teams (functional requirement understanding & software crisis management)

• Managed the activities of our team of 9 members (in India) in my Project Leader’s absence
Software Intern

HCL Technologies

(Public Company; 532281; Information Technology and Services industry)

December 2001 — January 2002 (2 months)

• Designed a resource management system 'Project Detail Consolidation' for optimum utilisation of project resources.