Associate at SBI Capital Markets
Bombay Area, India
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- Associate at SBI Capital Markets
- Founder/CTO at NetIndian
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- Coordinator, Publicity at Mendeley Ltd.
- Senior Analyst at Lehman Brothers
- Senior Summer Analyst at Lehman Brothers
- Intern at National Informatics Center
- Intern at National Informatics Center
- Education
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- Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore
- Delhi College of Engineering
- Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Delhi
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Vivek Abraham’s Summary
Interested in a fast-paced, flow, quantitative-oriented role in capital markets; Experience in computer-based mathematical modeling for financial time series analysis
Vivek Abraham’s Specialties:
Using programming languages to perform quantitative analysis on financial time series; Advanced knowledge of financial derivatives and structured products
Vivek Abraham’s Experience
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Associate
SBI Capital Markets
(Privately Held; Investment Banking industry)
September 2009 — Present (3 months)
Part of the execution and marketing team at the Capital Markets for public issue of equity.
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Founder/CTO
NetIndian
(Online Media industry)
December 2008 — Present (1 year )
Founded a news and media startup focussed on India. Created the entire infrastructure, and now looking for investments or alternate revenue streams for the firm.
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Coordinator, Publicity
Mendeley Ltd.
(Capital Markets industry)
October 2008 — December 2008 (3 months)
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Senior Analyst
Lehman Brothers
(Public Company; LEH; Capital Markets industry)
July 2008 — October 2008 (4 months)
Obtained the SII Certification in Regulations, Securities and Financial Derivatives, required for FSA, UK approval
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Senior Summer Analyst
Lehman Brothers
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; LEH; Investment Banking industry)
April 2007 — May 2007 (2 months)
Interned as a summer analyst on the Quantitative Portfolio Advisory and Hybrid Rates Trading desks.
Quantitative Portfolio Advisory: Analysed large fund trades using proprietary models on various risk factors; Advised clients on their exposure to various risks and transaction costs.
Hybrids Rates Trading: Built a model for oil futures price trend over multiple years; Studied the kurtotic risk of world equity indices, and relationship between index levels and their volatility indices. -
Intern
National Informatics Center
(Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)
December 2005 — May 2006 (6 months)
Implemented and benchmarked two information security measures on mobile phones. The comparative results were non-concomitant with industry predictions, and were presented in a paper at a national-level paper presentation competition.
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Intern
National Informatics Center
(Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)
June 2005 — July 2005 (2 months)
Prototyped, designed and developed e-Visit, a web-portal application to schedule appointments with employees of an organisation, and designed to replaced the existing paper-based system.
Vivek Abraham’s Education
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Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore
Post Graduate Diploma in Management , Finance , 2006 — 2008
Developed a long-term business strategy for a subsidiary of Tata Motors, a $3.43 billion Indian company; analysed financial statements to model scenarios and make recommendations (2007)
Modeled the Korean crisis of 1997, using the Altman Z-score model, to highlight its causes (2007)
As part of Sigma, coordinated a 2-day Pan-Asian conference for GPLv3 at IIMB, presided by Dr. Richard Stallman, founder of Free Software Foundation, which saw over 1000 footfalls (2006)
As part of Sigma, negotiated a 15% reduction in prices in a deal worth Rs. 10 mn. for 800 laptops with Lenovo for 1000 students across 3 colleges (2007)
Ranked among the top 0.16% among 175,000 candidates in the Common Aptitude Test for admission into Indian Institutes of Management (2006)
Developed a dynamic scheduling algorithm for interviews for 250 candidates in 100 firms for 5 days as part of the placement process at IIMB (2008)- Activities and Societies:
- Sigma (The Computing Club), Phootage (The IIMB Music Band)
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Delhi College of Engineering
Bachelor of Engineering , Computer Engineering , 2002 — 2006
Received the sole job offer from Yahoo! India on campus
Dissertation titled "Comparison of the RSA and ECC encryption standards on mobile phones". Presented the paper in a national-level paper competition and won the 3rd prize, 2006. A resultant paper was published in ACM's Ubiquity (http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/volume_9/v9i20_singh.html)
Graduated with Honours, stood 5th in the department, 2002-06.
Class Representative of the Department, 2002-2006.
As part of the quizzing club, help organise many national-level quizzes and participated and won in many other national-level quizzes, 2002-06
Ranked 76 (out of 20,000 candidates) in the Common Entrance Exam for engineering colleges under Delhi University- Activities and Societies:
- Quizzing Club
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Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Delhi
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Vivek Abraham’s Interests:
Playing the piano, blogging, quizzing, playing football, programming (Linux, C++, PHP/MySQL), mathematics Also taught a learning-challenged child English for a year, 2003-04.
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DCE Entrepreneurs
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