Three Headed Lion: research, risk management, and advisory services

about us

Three Headed Lion (THL) is India’s leading distributed market intelligence, research & risk management company.

Our unrivaled last mile intelligence connectivity in India means we provide macro and ground-level insights and expertise through our operational network of 1000+ market intelligence and information (MIIPs) providers located in 640+ districts across the subcontinent.

We strive to:

Provide sound and timely expert analysis & judgment on developments and issues that impact India and the global economy.
Offer robust understanding of India’s risk environment through political, economic and societal lenses.
Drill down policy level/regulatory changes to reveal its impacts on sectors, companies & people with varying degrees of purchasing power.
Unearth what’s trending in India (not on Twitter), but in its buoyant emerging market at macro, commodity and micro levels.
Provide comprehensive market intelligence and micro level data on key sectors.
Objectively assess the effectiveness of citizen-centric government programs and initiatives.

Leadership

Javed Matin, President & CEO and Co-Founder

Javed Matin is President and Chief Executive Officer of Three Headed Lion, a leading distributed market intelligence, research & risk management company focused on India.

Matin has over 20 years of senior management experience working with Fortune companies in Hi-Tech and Oil & Gas sectors in the US and India. He is a versatile, “hands-on” leader who consistently creates and executes high results-based strategic and tactical plans for market and product development. Matin has comprehensive knowledge of technological and business strategies to compete and prosper in dynamic markets.

Matin earned his MBA from the Warwick Business School, UK and BE in electrical engineering from National Institute of Technology, India.

S.K. Velath, Head of India Operations and Co-Founder

With 16 years of an expansive career in Media, Risk Analysis & Business Intelligence, Strategic Communications including Campaign Designing & Implementation, Defense-Security-Strategic Affairs Reportage & Analysis and Government Affairs consultancy, Velath has a wide network of contacts in government, civil society and media across India, South & South East Asia, Central and West Asia.

Velath's extensive experience stretches from being deployed as a war-reporter in the frontlines of conflict theatres—Afghanistan, Iraq, Sri Lanka, Central Asia, Nepal, Jammu & Kashmir and India’s North-East—to designing climate change campaign and communication strategies. He has acquired a wide range of skills over the years through his on-ground investigations probing insurgencies and militancy to unraveling coastal security deficiencies to developing high quality market intelligence reports. He has traveled widely in India and Asia and is well networked with decision-makers, influential opinion makers and with a variety of primary information providers. He has been a consultant to Greenpeace on communicating and disseminating critical climate change issues.

An inveterate multi-tasker, he is also a strategic communications consultant on renewable energy sector for Green Purchasing Asia. His research-based writings, reports and investigations regularly appears in magazines, newspapers and TV.

Velath is a Chevening Wolfson Press Fellow from Cambridge University, UK and holds a Masters Degree in International Relations & Strategic Studies from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India.

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