Managing Brief—Education: Financiers get training on pitching to investors By Anusha Shrivastava29 January, 2007 (c) 2007 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. Edition which includes article. AS MICROFINANCE gets hot, so does the competition that would-be financiers in the developing world face for global funds. Enter a training program to help managers of small institutions sell investors on their organizations -- and field questions about risk. The training went well for M. Udaia Kumar, managing director of India-based Share Microfin Ltd., one participant in the program hosted by Women's World Banking and the Global Markets Institute at Goldman Sachs in New York. His pitch at a mock roadshow brought in $14 million. Then he headed to California and real-world investors, from whom he hopes to raise $22 million this year.