Sundar Raman

Sundar Raman
Born	1971/1972 (age 44–45) Madurai
Nationality	Indian
Occupation	Ex COO, IPL & CLT20. CEO - Reliance Sports

Sundar Raman is an Indian sports business professional. He was working for the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and was the Chief Operating Officer of the highly-successful Indian Premier League (IPL) from its inception in 2008 to 2015. Raman was appointed as the IPL COO by former IPL Chairman and Commissioner Lalit Modi in January 2008. He assumed a more powerful position within the BCCI after Modi’s ouster in 2010. In November 2015, Raman stepped down as COO of the Indian Premier League. Subsequently, he joined Reliance Industries Limited as its CEO - Sports.

Raman was born in Madurai and then brought up by his parents in Trichy and Chennai along with his two elder brothers. He graduated from PSG College of Technology in Coimbatore with a degree in applied sciences. In 1993, Raman got post-graduate management degree in advertising & communications from Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies in Mumbai.

Sundar Raman began his professional career in 1995 as a media planner with the erstwhile Hindustan Thompson Associates now J. Walter Thompson. 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. In February 2008, 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. Along with Modi, Raman was instrumental in shifting the entire IPL T20 cricket tournament to South Africa in 2009. Raman resigned from the post of COO of IPL on 3rd November 2015. Shortly afterwards he was appointed as the CEO of Reliance Sport which is part of Reliance Industries Limited.

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