Sundar Raman is an Indian sports business professional. He is currently working with

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as its CEO - Sports. He was working for the

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(BCCI) and was the Chief Operating Officer of the highly successful

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(IPL) from its inception in 2008 to 2015. Raman was appointed as the IPL COO by former IPL Chairman and Commissioner

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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

. In March 2021, he was named as a consultant by IPL team

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Personal life

Raman was born in Madurai and then brought up by his parents in

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and

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along with his two elder brothers. He graduated from

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with a degree in applied sciences. In 1993, Raman got post-graduate management degree in advertising & communications from

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Career

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

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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 3 November 2015. Shortly afterwards he was appointed as the CEO of Reliance Sport which is part of

IPL Controversy

Raman was at the helm of affairs when the IPL betting and spot-fixing scandal was unearthed in 2013 involving some cricketers,

Team Principal and

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President,

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's son-in-law,

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and a few other individuals. Raman maintained the stand that Meiyappan was not a team official during the ensuing investigation conducted by former Chief Justice

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revealed that he is evaluating Raman's role in the IPL scandal.

References

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