Mr. Sivakumar has over 15 years of investment process and research experience. Mr. Sivakumar oversees SUN's investment activities in India, across all business verticals and provide inputs on various facets of the private equity investment process including due diligence, transaction structuring and deal closure. He worked in SUN's Moscow office as Head of Research & Investments for SUN Capital Partners for five years where he was involved in deal origination, research & due diligence, transaction structuring, assembling investor consortia and closing several private equity deals for the Fund. Prior to SUN, Mr. Sivakumar spent several years in equity and credit research in public markets with Crosby Securities, Peregrine Capital and CRISIL. He also has six years' industrial experience with ICI India where he worked in several commercial functions.

Mr. Sivakumar received an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and a Bachelor of Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology.