Ashutosh Ganesh Zawar

Ashutosh Zawar: Co-Founder & Lead Trainer @ Academy of Financial Training

Ashutosh is a rank-holder Chartered Accountant and a Bachelor of Commerce from University of Pune, India. He has over 9 years of experience ranging from Investment Banking and Project Finance to Corporate Training.

Over the last 3.5 years at AFT, apart from managing the Business Development and Day-to-day activities of the business, Ashutosh has over 1,000 hours of professional training experience. He has been instrumental in launching new training programs and innovating curriculum across topics such as Advanced Financial Modeling, Advanced Excel and VBA, Corporate & Project Finance. He also looks after the e-learning, multimedia content management at AFT.

Before co-founding Academy of Financial Training (AFT), he worked for more than 3 years with the Project Finance team at IDFC, a leading financial services company in the Infrastructure domain, he has worked on sectors such as healthcare, education, tourism, telecom and Power. His work profile included operational and financial modeling, business appraisal, valuation analysis, drafting of terms and commercial negotiations. Before joining IDFC in 2007, he worked with Morgan Stanley’s Investment Banking team for around 2 years.