Bhuvan Balaji J

Manager @ Alvarez & Marsal

About

Bhuvan is a Manager with Alvarez and Marsal India - Business Transformation Services (BTS) unit and is based in the Bangalore office. At A&M he works with private equity and corporates on due diligences, restructuring and performance improvement projects. Prior to joining A&M, Bhuvan has worked with Standard Chartered, dealing with cloud-based and serverless technologies as a Software Development Intern. Bhuvan completed his MBA from the Indian Institute of Management Lucknow (IIM-L) in 2024 specializing in finance & operations and was an Institute ranker (IR) in his second term at IIML. He has also earned a bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering with a minor in Management Studies from the National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK-Surathkal)

Country

India

City

Bengaluru

Industry

Management Consulting

Skill

Written Communication, Due Diligence, Quantitative Analytics, Market Sizing, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Excel, Telugu, Kannada, Hindi, Communication, Scheduling, Java, AWS Lambda, Amazon S3, C (Programming Language), Microsoft Office, Event Planning, HTML, Public Speaking, Negotiation

Experience

Manager

Alvarez & Marsal

2024-5 - Present · 2 yrs 5 mos

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

CDD Academy Winner - 2025 • Commercial due diligence of a US-based AI talent services firm valued at USD 2 Bn+ for a Southeast Asia based sovereign wealth fund • Commercial due diligence of an international home appliances company (USD 1 Bn+ revenue) for a Southeast Asia based sovereign investment entity • ~ USD 10 Bn+ GPU-as-a-service market assessment for a Southeast Asia based sovereign wealth fund • Vendor due diligence of an Indian B2B e-commerce company with a GMV run rate of $500M+, across seven sectors • Techno-commercial due diligence of a USD 150 M+ AUM, Indian NBFC focused on affordable housing finance for a global private equity firm • Commercial due diligence of an Indian apparel value retailer (USD 100 M+ turnover) for a leading global private equity firm • Sales acceleration program for a digital therapeutics (DTx) subsidiary of a global pharmaceutical company (USD 900 M+)

Summer Intern

Alvarez & Marsal

2023-4 - 2023-6 · 3 mos

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Awarded pre-placement offer Intern in the Business Transformation Service Practice. Projects include: • Resolution advisory and turnaround for the third-largest aviation player in India • Commercial due diligence project in the healthcare sector for a global PE/VC fund • Delivered modules on market opportunity sizing, competitor benchmarking, and financial benchmarking for players in the Agritech and Consumer space

Class Representative

NITK Students' Council

2021-7 - 2022-5 · 11 mos

Acted as a point of contact between 100+ students, professors, and the administration. My work involved scheduling timetables, assignments, exams while ensuring students of my batch meet all the necessary criteria to obtain an undergraduate degree.