Vikram Murthy
Verified Expert in Finance
Finance Expert
Portland, United States
Toptal member since July 14, 2022
Vikram relaunched his consulting practice after a 25-year career in investment finance and strategy, evaluating investments and advising senior managers at Disney, Wellington Management, and Booz Allen. He enjoys freelancing because it provides him with the opportunity to work with fascinating entrepreneurs, investors, and business leaders, helping them solve noteworthy business problems, build sustainable businesses, and allocate capital wisely.
Career Highlights
Education Highlights
Case Studies
Expertise
Work Experience
Principal Investor
Kaveri Capital Management
- Operated primarily small-cap public equity investments across all sectors through rigorous fundamental research, strategic analysis, and financial statement review.
- Implemented an investment process targeting asymmetric risk and reward scenarios in companies demonstrating compelling market positions, free cash flow returns on invested capital, business catalysts, rising insider ownership, and net asset values.
- Contributed with fundamental research and financial analysis insights on an ongoing basis to the MicroCapClub, a members-only investment forum focused on shared idea generation and due diligence.
- Identified and profited from investments in XPEL, Oroco Resources, Cogstate, Collectors Universe, Viemed, BP, and Wells Fargo.
- Acted as general contractor on an extensive remodel of the owned 1907 Portland Historic District Craftsman Home while rigorously analyzing the inner eastside Portland, Oregon real estate market.
Global Development Consultant
The Walt Disney Company
- Managed project teams comprising full-time Disney staff across multiple geographies, including the United States, western Europe, and Asia.
- Built and defended the business cases for the redevelopment of a theme park-adjacent retail, dining, and entertainment complex and a stand-alone location-based entertainment venue with third-party professional sports content.
- Created and defended a business case and a strategic sourcing plan for a newly-evolving in-park entertainment format.
- Led the project team in conducting high-level market assessment work for potential new overseas theme park locations.
Vice President
Wellington Management
- Managed $100 million in enterprise software sector portfolios and outperformed the benchmark by 600+ basis points since inception, which represented a 32-month track record.
- Earned Wellington clients over $200 million from November 2005 investment in Mercury Interactive.
- Generated enterprise software and financial technology investment recommendations through rigorous fundamental research, interviews, and financial statement analysis and modeling. Internal ownership of companies under coverage exceeded $1 billion.
- Presented and defended recommendations to Wellington's portfolio managers in written and verbal form, including an annual industry primer highlighting key sector themes and expected winners and losers.
Manager, Walt Disney World Business Planning & Development
The Walt Disney Company
- Assessed the economic and strategic rationale of all new on-property hotel projects comprising 20,000+ hotel rooms and made capital investment recommendations totaling over $1 billion to senior management.
- Led the project team in examining the economic and strategic feasibility of an expanded internal monorail system. Personally earned Performance Excellence Award as a result of the efforts.
- Evaluated non-capital intensive strategies to increase hotel inventory under Euro Disney management on a financial, strategic, and brand consistency basis. Recommended and helped implement a long-term ground lease with a third-party investor.
- Promoted to Senior Analyst after 10 months, progressed to Manager 11 months later, and was recognized by the President as one of Walt Disney World's top performers (accorded to <5% of employee base).
- Spearheaded Walt Disney World's first undergraduate recruiting effort for professional strategy positions.
Management Consultant, Media & Entertainment Practice
Booz Allen Hamilton
- Researched US industry best practices to inform a strategy to grow news programming revenues for an international media client.
- Analyzed the foreign, multi-channel television revenue growth potential for a US broadcast network and a professional US sports league. Prepared case studies illustrating potential success factors and pitfalls.
- Assessed stand-alone economics and cost synergies of an electronic publishing acquisition target for a traditional US publisher.
Education
Master's Degree in Business Administration (MBA)
Stanford University - Palo Alto, CA, USA
Bachelor's Degree in Economics
Duke University - Durham, NC, USA
Skills
Finance
Market Opportunity Analysis, Profitability Analysis, Valuations, Equity Valuation, Valuations, Equity Research, Equity Research Analysis, Financial Modeling, Revenue & Expense Projections, Forecasting
Output Software
Excel Development, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Word
Data & Analysis Software
Financial Data
Geographic Expertise
United States
Industry Expertise
Restaurants & Dining, Real Estate, Entertainment & Leisure
Other
Writing & Editing, Analysis, Virtual Coaching, Investments, Financial Analysis, Design Strategy, Case Studies, Market Research & Analysis, Management Consultants, Growth Analysis, Theme Parks, NPV Calculation, Investment Ideas, Capital Allocation, Business Cases, Business Strategy, Investor Presentations, Investment Presentations, Financial Presentations, Business Plan Consulting, Customer Segmentation, Market Research Analyst, Growth Strategy, Market Sizing, Value Proposition, Enterprise Software, Business Planning, Business Modeling, Executive Presentations, Presentations, Strategic Planning, Public Speaking, Leadership, Site Planning, Global Sourcing, Fintech, Data, Data Science, Financial Forecasting, Product-market Fit, GTM Marketing, Client Presentations, Team Management, Board Presentations, Financing
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