Abhinandan Jain

Manager - Planning and Performance - Transport at Dubai Airports

• United Arab Emirates - Dubai
• My current job since October 2015

Principal Consultant at LeighFisher

• United Kingdom
• October 2008 to September 2015

 Currently involved in business development efforts for LeighFisher in India; instrumental in expansion of the surface transport line of business in India and Asia; working closely with the European teams of the company
 Provided advisory services to major private airport developers in India (GMR and GVK) covering master planning, capacity assessments, and economic regulatory advisory services at Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Kochi and Bangalore International Airports. Work led to savings in capital and operating expenses
 Undertook feasibility studies for various greenfield airports in India and Asia (Navi Mumbai, Mopa, Jamshedpur and Hassan in India; Hanthawaddy in Myanmar) involving market assessment, and preparation of aviation activity forecasts
 Project Manager for traffic due diligence, transportation planning and traffic and revenue forecasting studies for various highway and toll road concessions in Bangladesh, Chile, Colombia, Croatia, India, Ireland, Peru, and the United States. Provided advice related to traffic, revenue, risk and performance issues.
 Worked closely with senior management to prepare the firm's Market Entry Strategy for South East Asia. Recommended and implemented the selected Business Plan for the Surface Transport sector.
 Transaction and transport planning support for several toll road concessions and urban transit schemes spanning Australia, India, Spain and the United Kingdom. As part of these assignments, I undertook financial, statistical, risk and revenue modelling for project sponsors, private equity firms, investment banks, operators and government bodies
 Provided asset performance monitoring advice on PPP concession projects; updated traffic and financial model assumptions and parameters to reflect the changes in macroeconomic conditions, risk profile and capital structure
 Prepared successful bid documents for several international projects; demonstrated thorough understanding of market strategies, commercial, legal and financial risks, mitigation measures and identifying bid partners
 Calibrated & validated one of the most technologically challenging public transportation models (London Transport System, LTS model) that was built to guide decisions on congestion charging, Mayor’s Transport Strategy and investments in public transport across London, UK
 Specified and developed transportation models (South London, Sunderland and Tyne & Wear) to carry out economic and financial appraisal and sensitivity testing for proposed infrastructure assets

Associate Planner at Feedback Ventures

• India - Delhi
• June 2007 to August 2007

Developed a quantitative tool for measuring real estate market attractiveness to be used by the Blackstone
Group for their investment decisions.
 Prepared a business plan and formulated entry strategy for Hindustan Construction Company in order to enter the ports sector in India