The Best Advice I Ever Got

AASHISH P. SOMAIYAA CEO WHITEOAK CAPITAL ASSET MANAGEMENT

—ALOKESH BHATTACHARYYA

WhiteOak Capital Asset Management Ltd is India’s youngest AMC, founded and run by professionals ‘A suit is tailored the moment the cloth is cut’ What was the problem you were grappling with? We were re-strategising a business when I took up my role as a CEO for the first time in late 2012. I was tasked with creating the product lines, organisation design and its structure. Whom did you approach for advice? I reached out to Raamdeo Agrawal, Chairman and Co-founder of Motilal Oswal Financial Services, and my then boss. What was the advice you received? He told me with his characteristic earthy intelligence: “kapda jaise katoge, suit waisa silega; silne se suit nahin silega”. As we all know, tailoring a good suit that fits well is an art and a science; and very few tailors get…

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