Mid last year, we mandated BEN to find JV / Technology Partners which aligned with our technology roadmap. We were a bit sceptical when we handed over the mandate to BEN as our efforts with some bankers and other larger consulting outfits had not yielded good results by then. However BEN did a fantastic job in conducting a global search covering both Europe and North America and were able to bring several credible options that broadly met our qualifying criteria to the table. Over the next 5 months, our leadership team closely worked with BEN to further evaluate different options brought in and we now have successfully signed up with a few suitable Partners. I believe BEN’s understanding of the automotive industry and eMobility space in particular, their clear understanding of our technical and market requirements and their strong expert network with suitable domain expertise made all the difference. Overall I consider this engagement with BEN as a very successful one, that has given us more confidence to handover a new mandate to them.
Vivek Vikram Singh
Managing Director and Group Chief Executive Officer, Sona Comstar
BEN is a very unique business model. We recently completed a very strategic engagement which had a team of BEN Experts work very closely with our Global Procurement, R&D and Manufacturing teams for over 1 year to deliver significant bottom-line impact. BEN’s team doesn’t limit themselves to developing the solution framework but works closely to help implement the same as well. Have been very pleased with what we have achieved together with BEN
Gaurav Jain
Senior Vice President, South Asia, Reckitt
BEN is a very unique business model. We recently completed a strategic due diligence which had a strong BEN Expert work very closely with our Global Manufacturing teams to conduct the assessment in a very short period of time. I look forward to exploring more opportunities with BEN
Sunil D’Souza
CEO, Tata Consumer Products
When we evaluated a strategic investment in Carbon Fibre Composites, BEN and their Composites Expert worked with us from the concept stage, helping us understand the domain of Carbon Composites, determine our investment thesis and then helped us perform a global search of potential targets. They worked with us to shortlist target companies, visited global expos with our team, obtained meetings and interactions with the founders of multiple targets and patiently supported us through the entire process. We worked with them closely on the deal stage as well, where they supported us on technical and market due diligence and closely working with our legal and financial partners to support us for transaction closure. We look forward to their continued support as we create the desired value in our investment in the coming years
Sriram Viji
Deputy Managing Director, Brakes India
BEN have been working with us over the past year for various organic and inorganic opportunities. I have been impressed by their ability to find the right experts to help our company. They have worked closely with me and my team in executing these projects and I am looking forward to positive outcomes in these projects.
Arvind Balaji
Joint Managing Director, Lucas TVS
BEN have partnered with us to diligence a business that we were evaluating, enabling us to quickly identify drivers for operational improvements that could help drive EBIDTA improvements. In another situation, the BEN team worked with us to identify procurement efficiencies in non-commodity spends, delivering significant cost savings.
Rajev Shukla
Managing Director, Everstone Capital
Our association with BEN has been quite good so far. We started with a few areas in Manufacturing to test this model out but we were able to now scale this across multiple areas. Their ability to define the problem and get the right Expert has been quite impressive. We look forward to them having the same client focus and outcome oriented approach as they start to scale their business.
Sriram Viji
Deputy Managing Director, Brakes India
Getting access to world class expertise to address our growth strategies quickly is an appealing value proposition and we have been able to leverage them in an area where we had to do a business feasibility for a new line of business and we found the engagement quite rewarding. We are now expanding our footprint with them in newer areas.
Ananth Ramanujam
Director, Turbo Energy Limited
I like the BEN model of being able to engage multiple external experts and get their inputs in arriving at a strongly validated Value Proposition and got tremendous value in using the same.
Arunabh Das Sharma
CEO, Sagacito Technologies
