Sam Subramaniam is the CEO of Brand Capital, the $4 billion strategic investment arm of The Times Group.

Sam has worked extensively in general management, strategy, business development, investing, operations and turnarounds.Prior he served as a senior adviser for a multi-billion-dollar retail finance and insurance business. Sam founded a family office called Sprout Growth Advisors and also a clutch of SPVs and Investment funds that together invested and managed over $3 billion in India between 2005 and 2015. He was also a Managing Partner and Board Member of Houlihan Lokey (India+SE Asia) – the major US Mid-market investment bank.

Earlier he served on the leadership team of American Express Company’s Strategic Planning and Business Development Group and he was an investment banker at Goldman Sachs. He started his career as a management consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton. Sam has served as an economic adviser to the Dalai Lama’s Central Tibetan Administration and was also an eminent researcher on Intelligent Transport Systems during his early career.

Sam graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and holds graduate degrees from Vanderbilt University and the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business.