Our Company

Tarun Gupta

Founder & CEO

Tarun Gupta is the Managing Partner of T&A Consulting, with over 18 years of experience in in the field of Corporate & Investment Banking and Consulting.

Tarun has a proven track record in promoting bilateral trade and investment between India and various countries across different continents. He leads a team of experienced professionals who have assisted over 300 overseas companies from more than 20 countries, looking to do business in India.

Tarun is a regular participant at key industry events, with close working relationship at CXO level in leading Indian organizations and various Foreign Economic Development Organization’s looking to strengthen trade and investment ties with India. His international engagements include:

• Strategic Advisor to Switzerland Trade & Investment Promotion
• India representative of Six Swiss Exchange to attract Indian listings
• Director India Office - South Carolina Department of Commerce
• India representative to Hungarian National Trading House
• India Trade Advisor, Finpro Oy
• India Trade advisor "Invest Northern Ireland"

Tarun’s prior experience includes Head of International Business Division, at HSBC Bank Plc, United Kingdom and Regional Head of Corporate Banking for HSBC in India, running a wide portfolio of corporate customers operating in diverse industries

Tarun is a graduate in Mechanical Engineering from Delhi University and an MBA from Indian Institute of Management.

Saurabh Khanna

Partner

Saurabh has over 10 years of experience in consulting and business development and leads the client engagement practice within T&A. He holds a degree in International business and have assisted over 100 foreign companies to make inroads into the Indian market. Saurabh is well networked among the manufacturing, food and healthcare sector in India and travels extensively to Europe, USA and ME. Saurabh also has an experience of assisting companies explore business opportunities outside of India, especially in emerging markets within Asia and Africa.

Andy U. Kasper (PhD)

Partner

Andy has over 25 years of operative experience and business development in international markets with a broad range of industries. He is well networked within the Swiss export industry and acknowledged advisor for FDI and implementation of manufacturing sites in overseas markets mainly in the Middle East, South-Asia and Far-East countries. Andy travels extensively in the Gulf countries and is mandated for selective countries in Far-East.

Andy holds a MSc in Applied Physics from ETH Zurich, earned a PhD from University of Geneva and an executive MBA from City University, Seattle.

He speaks English, German, French and Italian with some knowledge of Arabic and Hindi.

Anuradha Bhattacharya

Director - Research

Anuradha has 11 years of International Trade Consulting and research focused on business strategy & India Market Entry. Anuradha has worked closely with Economic Development and Trade Promotion Organizations to promote bilateral trade with India. Over the span of her career, Anuradha has carried out more than 100 consulting projects for foreign companies aiming to do business with India.

Anuradha has an in-depth understanding of the multi-cultural business environment and she has been working on international consulting projects from various geographies of the world.

Anuradha is Trained in Foreign Trade and Cross-Cultural Communication from Hamburg, Germany and is certified by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs & Energy.

Anuradha has led consulting projects for foreign companies aiming to do business with India i.e. market entry projects, opportunity assessment studies, technology collaboration, low cost country sourcing and partner identification assignments.

Richa Bhandari

Director - Outward FDI

Richa Bhandari is Inward Investment Promotion specialist and has 14 years of research and consulting experience which includes working with overseas government agencies (European including Scandinavian/US) in identifying outbound foreign direct investment opportunities from India.

Richa is experienced in Liaising with the identified/prioritized set of Indian companies to arrange focused meetings for visiting foreign delegates. She has Participated in various global events in India as well as overseas along with clients to identify Indian companies that have specific plans for overseas expansion

Richa has led more than 30 inward investment attraction roadshows

Rachna Gupta

Director - HR & Operations

Rachna has over 12 years of experience spread over varied domains such as India Market Entry, Partner identification, Market Intelligence and HR.

She has worked with well known European organisations, across various key sector including Education, Food Tourism and FMCG. Having worked in the UK and India, Rachna has good understanding of multi-cultural business environments.

Over the span of last 3 years Rachna is heading HR & Operations with primary focus on handling India Recruitment requirements for overseas clients looking to set-up operations in India, by the way of appointing In-country representatives/Managers, new team set-up.

Her key responsibilities include talent acquisition, employee retention, performance management, training and development.

Debpriya De

Senior Engagement Manager

Debpriya has extensive experience in trade and investment consulting across diverse industries including Coporate Finance, Logistics, Packaging, Fintech, Engineering Goods, FMCG, Construction, IT, Specialty Chemicals, Medical Equipment, and Automobiles, to name a few. Debpriya has worked with global businesses from multiple countries including Finland, the UK, Switzerland, Hungary, the USA, Japan, Brazil and Israel, as well as foreign Government Trade Promotion Bodies promoting bilateral trade with India.

Before joining T&A, Debpriya was a key member of IndusInd Bank's Stuctured Finance Division, specializing in M&A, Project Finance and Capital Raising transactions.

Ashish Vats

Director – Education

Ashish is an Education Consultant with MBA Marketing from Birmingham City University, UK. Ashish comes with over 15 years of cross functional experience across Education, Business Development, Relationship Management, Sales and Marketing.

Ashish has been spearheading Queen’s University Belfast in the Higher Education segment in India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka with key responsibility to maintain efficient relationship with nominated agents and other associated partners, including initiative to develop institutional tie-ups with top Indian Higher Education Institutions for twinning programs, Capacity building initiatives, faculty exchange, student exchange, joint research collaborations. Ashish is a regular participant representing QUB in various seminars, education events and spot admission sessions across India in partnership with partner agents to recruit quality students.

Arjun Mukund

Senior Engagement Manager - Tourism Representations

Prior to joining T&A Consulting, Arjun was handling Sales and Marketing at ICS Travel Group’s (a premier destination management company) office providing services to Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Indonesia. He also has rich experience of working with National Tourism Offices and Luxury Hotels. He has an established personal rapport with the travel agents across India and also organised multi city roadshows and is an expert at activation of ATL and BTL activities for the Indian travel trade.

Tanwisha Mishra

Client Engagement Manager

Tanwisha is an International Trade Consultant with 5 years of experience in market entry. She has worked across various sectors including Finance, Energy, Infrastructure, FMCG, and Automotive among others. This includes extensive experience of engaging with several Trade Promotion Organisations, and European companies in market entry advisory. Over the span of last 3 years, Tanwisha has worked in ~30 consulting projects across 8 countries and has authored ~10 reports. Tanwisha also has prior experience of working with Fortune 500 companies.

She has successfully authored in-depth research reports on various sectors like FMCG, Precision Engineering, Railways, Beverage industry and Waste management sector in India including market sizing, Indian import dependence, regulatory policy assessment, and impact of government initiatives in India towards fostering growth in the sector.