Balaji Sambasivam

Balaji Sambasivam is a talented financial leader and retail enthusiast with over 12 years of experience in managing, growing and leading businesses. His expertise in accounting, audit, fraud examination, COBIT, and ERP implementation has made him a recognized and certified FCA, CPA, CISA, and CFE. He loves retail and customer-centered businesses and enjoys reinvigorating finance teams, influencing positive change, and using data analytics for informed decision-making. Balaji believes in continually monitoring processes to identify and execute potential innovations to improve revenue, reduce costs, enhance productivity, boost efficiency, and deliver better value to customers while increasing shareholder returns.

As a hands-on operator, he has led and grown a large format home retail business five times, from $ 80 million to $ 400 million, in 12 years while handling 20,000 SKUs, servicing three million customers annually, and managing a team of 2,000. Balaji is a CFO at Mazzucchelli's, a national luxury retailer with 70 stores, where he has implemented a robust and dynamic dashboard for all business partners across brands, reduced wages costs by 12%, and worked closely with PWC - Assurance, Tax advisory & Business Intelligence teams.