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title: "Saurav Khater - Chief of Staff - Finance & Strategy in Pune District | Tal"
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# Saurav Khater on Tal

## Headline

Chief of Staff \- Finance & Strategy at Bioprime; ex \- Inferless \(PeakXV portco\); KPMG Deal Advisory; PwC Audit

## About

Chief of Staff & Strategic Finance Operator at intersection of finance, strategy, and execution; have 10\+ years of experience across startups and Big4 advisory\. Partner to founders in fundraising, financial strategy, and scaling operational infrastructure\. At Bioprime, apart from heading Finance function, as part of Founders Office my contribution is into Operations, Digital, Strategy and HR functions\. Driven by creating value for businesses and inspiring people to perform at their highest potential\! Co\-founder of FOC, a community of operators in Founder’s Office / Chief of Staff / EIR roles with 50k\+ LinkedIn reach, leveraging it to exchange operator playbooks, source talent, and solve real startup challenges through curated discussions, events, and masterclasses Earlier, was founding member of Inferless \(acquired by Baseten, a $5bn company\) \- an early stage startup in the AI/ML space building a serverless GPU offering\. Being in Founder's Office, my role was very dynamic and cross\-functional\. Earlier, was part of the Deal Advisory team at KPMG, working on complex M&A deals\. Primarily carrying out financial due diligence for both buy side and sell side which involves analysis of financial, commercial and operational data to provide insights to key decision\-makers\. Worked in the Assurance line of service at PwC; successfully performed risk assessment, review of business processes, review of internal financial controls, statutory audit, tax audit, certifications and financial review for clients; gained deep understanding on the functioning of large corporate houses and business\.

## Location

Pune District

## AI stack

claude

gemini

## Work experience

Chief of Staff \- Finance & Strategy at Bioprime™, Feb 2024 \- Present · 2 yrs 8 mos, On\-site, Part of the Founder’s Office team, operating at intersection of finance, strategy, and execution\. — contributed in $6mn Series A fundraising: shaping the pitch deck, investment narrative and positioning; supporting investor conversations; driving outreach to 25\+ VCs, completing the due diligence activities — Led $1\.8mn debt funding, end to end: evaluated 10\+ providers across bank, NBFC, venture debt funds, negotiated the term sheet, did all documentation with lawyers, and completed due diligence, compliances, CPs — Smoothly managed investor relations \- timely MIS every month; audit confirmations; surveys; any other ad\-hoc queries; helped founders structure the conversations around all the financial metrics with insights and data — People & Org alignment: served as a strategic thought partner to the founders, influencing organizational design and leadership structure as the company scaled\. Acted as founder’s force multiplier by coordinating cross\-functional initiatives, and driving execution across finance, operations, and growth teams — Designed a two year program to attract and retain top talent of Chartered Accountants, promoted it in good forums leading to strong employer branding and receiving 500\+ applications, selected two candidates, and groomed them up for success\. Maintained lean team of 6 for finance and logistics operations and outsourced payroll, tax compliances, secretarial matters to expert firms — Revenue and receivables analytics: developed and led thorough business finance reviews for B2C sales team comprising 13 clusters with 60\+ team members\. Customer and sales person wise analysis of sales, collections done to give actionable insights to team for reducing DSO and increasing revenue — Built a 5\-year financial model to project growth trajectory, funding requirements, sales efficiency required to achieve profitability — Digitisation initiatives: implemented ERPNext; EquityList for ESOPs; Unolo \(app for field sales team\)

Co\-founder & Community Enabler at Founder's Office Club \(FOC\), Oct 2023 \- Present · 3 yrs, Bengaluru, Founder’s Office Club \(FOC\) is India's largest community of top talent in Founder’s Office, Chief of Staff, EIR and Office of CxOs roles\. FOC has 50k\+ LinkedIn reach\. Our community fosters a robust professional network to exchange operator playbooks, source talent, and solve real startup challenges through curated discussions, events, and masterclasses Stay in the loop by exploring us here: https://linktr\.ee/foc\_community

Chief of Staff \- Finance & Strategy at Inferless, Jun 2022 \- Feb 2024 · 1 yr 9 mos, Bengaluru, Built serverless GPU Inference for AI/ML companies proudly from India, later acuired by Baseten, a $5bn company Part of the Founders Office team: looking at business from a founders lens, dealing with ambiguity, fast pace of activities, and volatility that is inherent to any early stage startup\. Assisting with anything and everything that releases founders bandwidth\. Key projects:\- — Managing investor relations and presentations, built the structure for the monthly MIS, defined the key metrics to be tracked, defined process to be followed by cross\-functional team members — Pricing strategy and financial modelling for Serverless GPU business — Customer onboarding SOP — Optimizing treasury: deployed idle funds in various treasury instruments \(AAA\+ rated\) — Externalization of company to USA: analysis from a business efficiency, regulatory and tax viewpoint — Built finance function from ground up: workflows around finops processes, migrated bookkeeping from Tally to Zoho, built clarity around monthly cashflow tracker and subsequently brought down TAT from 10 days to 3 days\. have successfully outsourced the bookkeeping and compliance activities after evaluating 5 vendors\. — Successfully outsourced monthly payroll activities\. — ISO, SOC 2, GDPR: owning the implementation and execution of all GRC activities for getting compliance certificates/reports for ISO 27001, SOC 2 and GDPR — Hard pivot of business: worked with the founders in evaluating 4 different spaces for pivoting the business\. Carried out primary research around market size, existing players, how we can enter, what could be our differentiating factor etc\. — Change Management: spearheaded a change management strategy during the startups pivot from Peakperformer business to Inferless business; ensured that our vision and goals for the pivot were well\-defined and communicated these changes transparently to all team members\.

Senior Finance Manager \| For Peakperformer Business at Inferless, Apr 2022 \- May 2022 · 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Assistant Manager \- Deal Advisory \(FDD\) at KPMG India, Apr 2021 \- Mar 2022 · 1 yr, Bengaluru, Part of Deal Advisory team performing financial due diligence\. Worked on 25\+ transactions across technology, startups \(SaaS, AI\), manufacturing \(pharma, chemicals, textiles, EV\); — Experience of working on deals across sizes from seed stage to series B to listed MNCs \(Sanofi, Clariant, L&T\)\. From a scale perspective, have exposure of businesses having turnover ranging from $30mn to $140mn\. — Analyzed target company data to identify historical and projected financial and operating trends, quality of earnings and working capital considerations, and potential net\-debt items \(liabilities and risks\), which impacts valuation of the target company\. — Carried out variety of analysis on revenue and margins of different business, developing a solid understanding of key drivers impacting growth and sustainability\. Crunched huge datasets and converted it into insights and simple messages\. Carried out analysis of customers/vendors contracts to identify any unfavourable clauses impacting deal value\. — Carried out analysis in all other expense areas like employee costs, SG&A costs, leases etc\. to identify any unusual trends\. — Communicated with CXOs of clients and target companies to articulate issues, impacts and recommendations of key findings — Effectively coached junior team members on the job to get quality output from their end and ensure their learning and development — Assisted in carrying out detailed research on Indian pharmaceuticals sector and identifying potential deal themes across domestic formulations, API, CRAMS and nutraceuticals portfolio\. — Developed confidence in dealing with ambiguity after working on a wide variety of deals\. Fear of the unknown has gone away\.

Senior Associate \- Deal Advisory \(FDD\) at KPMG India, Apr 2019 \- Mar 2021 · 2 yrs, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Audit Assistant \(Articleship\) at PwC, Mar 2015 \- Mar 2018 · 3 yrs 1 mo, Clients across power generation & distribution \(turnover of $900mn\) and manufacturing sectors: worked on statutory audit, limited reviews, tax audits, review of business processes and internal financial controls, certificates for corporate governance

## Education

Chartered Accountant, The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India

Bachelor of Commerce \- BCom, St\. Xavier's College \(Autonomous\), Kolkata

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