Surajit Datta

About Surajit Datta

Lead a 35 member team responsible for FP & A, Finance Business Partnering, Capital Structure Planning and Data Analytics & Visualization of ~$2 billion IP Software Business and ~$100 million Enterprise SaaS BUs. Responsible for financial and business KPI reporting, budget, long term planning, analytics, firm wide opex management, opex and cash flow optimization, data science based predictive revenue forecasting.Key Corporate Finance & Corporate Development Deal Lead on the $40B sale of Arm to NVIDIA and spin-off of Enterprise and IoT Software assets. Key deal team member of integration planning. Seasoned corporate finance and M&A professional, Board Member with over 15 years of experience in FP & A, Business Partnering, Strategic Finance, Corporate Development & Strategy, Capital Raising and Investment Banking.Prior to the current role, senior deal lead on M&A transactions and investments at Arm across multiple sub-sectors in software and hardware technology including emerging semiconductor IP, cloud, IoT software and cyber security. Led origination and execution of advisory, debt & equity transactions. Closed 50+ public and early to late stage private company transactions including >$150 billion of M&A and >$20bn of financing transactions.Advised Executive management and Boards of Directors on growth strategy, strategic alternatives, capital structure, shareholder distribution and activist situations.Led multiple teams across the entire transaction lifecycle: deal structuring, due diligence, valuation, fairness opinions, negotiations, deal financing, Investment Committee/Board of Directors approvals and investor communications. Advisory transaction experience includes startup capital raise, public and private company sell-side and buy-side M&A, leveraged buyouts, JVs, activism defense and cross-border deals.

Experience

1. Chief Financial Officer

   Kodiak

   Aug 2025 — Present · Mountain View, CA, US

Education

• Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

  B. Tech (Hons.), Chemical Engineering

  1992 — 1996

• Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta

  PGDM, Finance, Marketing

  1997 — 1999

• The University of Chicago Booth School of Business

  MBA, Analytic Finance, Accounting

  2003 — 2005

Skills

• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Corporate Development
• Strategy
• Investment Banking
• Emerging Markets
• Financial Forecasting
• M&a Experience
• Capital Markets
• Fixed Income
• Financial Modeling
• Due Diligence
• Hedge Funds
• Financial Accounting
• Equities
• Leadership
• Corporate Finance
• Dcf
• Derivatives
• Financial Analysis
• Bloomberg
• Lbo
• Valuation
• Private Equity