Suresh Sadagopan is a Principal Financial Planner at  Ladder7 FA, who has built the practice.  Apart from the practice, he has been associated with FPSB, India for about two years in their Examination Review Committee, which is responsible for the maintaining the quality of exams that aspiring students are put through. Also, he writes regularly in various publications on Finance & related subjects.  He has written over a 100 articles on various aspects of Finance and  related subjects for TOI, DNA Money, Business Standard, UTVi, Money Today, moneycontrol.com, Financial Planning Journal etc.  He was also  on the expert panel of 30 minutes to wealth on NDTV profit, was on the expert panel of FPSB on “Gold as an asset class”,  participated in “DNA Conversations”  as one of the panelists for deliberating on the subject “tax planning in recession” & was a panelist in the discussion on "Empowering the Consumer", organised by Money Today. He has also conducted corporate training programs on Financial Planning for senior personnel in the Financial services field and has conducted sessions for seminars organised by FPSB, India for CFPCM Certificants. He has taught in the past on Financial Planning subjects, for candidates pursuing CFPCM. .  Academically, apart from CFPCM , he has done  Master of Management Studies (MMS ) from BITS, Pilani. He had also done a Post Graduate Diploma in International Marketing.