Dr Sittampalam is the founder and Managing Director of Sage & Hermes Ltd.

His experience straddles banking, insurance and specialist fund management in an international spread of leading companies, and has given him insights into investment management from widely different perspectives. He has a special interest in derivatives and other innovative portfolio management techniques. He has spoken at major international conferences and meetings to audiences worldwide, and has often contributed on investment matters to leading publications. Dr Sittampalam now runs his own investment management research and consultancy company.

In the last few years, Dr Sittampalam has advised leading global financial institutions on their investment management business strategy and operations.

He has written three books on the industry: Corporate Governance Activism, Coming Wars in Investment Management, and Evolving Techniques in Investment Management. He was also the editor at launch of Funds International, a global financial newsletter subscribed to by senior executives of large financial institutions worldwide.

Dr Sittampalam is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries in the UK and holds a PhD in Sub-Nuclear Theoretical Physics from Imperial College, London.

He started his investment career at Schroders and subsequently moved to Abbey Life where he established the international investment department and managed global bond and equity portfolios. He also held a supervisory role over the investments of Zwolsche Life in The Netherlands.

Following a move to Touche Remnant, Dr Sittampalam joined Swiss Bank Corporation's newly established institutional investment management operation in London. He spearheaded the establishment of Swiss Bank's mutual fund subsidiary in Ireland. Subsequently, he was managing director of Sanwa International PLC, the London based merchant banking arm of Sanwa Bank, one of the largest Japanese banks, where he established Sanwa's new investment management subsidiary.