Sundar Raman is currently working with Reliance Industries Limited as its CEO - Sports.
12 Facts About Sundar Raman
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Sundar Raman was working for the Board of Control for Cricket in India and was the Chief Operating Officer of the highly successful Indian Premier League from its inception in 2008 to 2015.
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Sundar Raman assumed a more powerful position within the BCCI after Modi's ouster in 2010.
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In November 2015, Sundar Raman stepped down as COO of the Indian Premier League.
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Sundar Raman was born in Madurai and then brought up by his parents in Trichy and Chennai along with his two elder brothers.
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Sundar Raman graduated from PSG College of Technology in Coimbatore with a degree in applied sciences.
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Sundar Raman began his professional career in 1995 as a media planner with the erstwhile Hindustan Thompson Associates now J Walter Thompson.
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Raman eventually took over as the managing director of Mindshare India, a division of ad group WPP's media agency Group M In January 2008, Raman delivered a presentation to Lalit Modi, the then Vice President of the BCCI, which eventually led to him being hired by Modi to help him conduct the inaugural edition of the IPL.
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In February 2008, Sundar Raman was officially appointed as IPL COO after a decade in strategic media thinking business working for brands such as Unilever, PepsiCo, Motorola, Samsung and Amex.
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Sundar Raman resigned from the post of COO of IPL on 3 November 2015.
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Sundar Raman was at the helm of affairs when the IPL betting and spot-fixing scandal was unearthed in 2013 involving some cricketers, Chennai Super Kings Team Principal and BCCI President, N Srinivasan's son-in-law, Gurunath Meiyappan, Vindu Dara Singh and a few other individuals.
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Sundar Raman maintained the stand that Meiyappan was not a team official during the ensuing investigation conducted by former Chief Justice Mukul Mudgal.