
Corporate Profile
Success stories:
The list is not exhaustive ....
Management Team, Board of Directors and Advisors
Amod Agrawal (FCA) He has been associated with arranging finance for industries and has successfully raised over Rs. 10,000 crores in Term Loan and Rs. 300 crores as equity engaged in raising Venture funds for Information Technology Industries. Handled various due diligence assignments, valuation of Businesses, Companies, assets and vetting of technical, financial collaboration and joint venture agreements. He was associated as an Advisor to the Cabinet Minister for Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution, Central Government of India. |
Dr. Pradeep Chowdhry Dr. Pradeep Chowdhry has twice served as President of TiE-Detroit (tie.org, tie-detroit.org). As a serial entrepreneur and angel investor over the last twenty years, he has launched several firms and participated from ideation to successful exits. Two of the firms (CALS Limited and Virage) went public, CALS in India in 1993 and Virage on NASDAQ in June 2000. Two other firms, Imageware and I-Connect, were acquired in 1998 and 2001. In 2000, he set up and managed an internet incubator with other angel investors and funded six firms in the internet space. Despite the dotcom bust, five of the six firms initiated survived and received subsequent funding. Pradeep believes this was due to selecting the right opportunity and right entrepreneur. He has served as Director, Center for Entrepreneurship, Eastern Michigan University and has been active in several local organizations that mentor entrepreneurs including CEO Club, New Enterprise Forum, MIT Forum, Michigan High Tech Growth Collaboration, and Great Lakes Angels. He is also involved in a Michigan based hedge fund Pradeep has a strong interest in Sustainable Development & Bottom of the Pyramid scalable micro-enterprise rural initiatives particularly in health, water and IT. He has initiated a project to set up the Center for Sustainable Development at Eastern Michigan University and at an institution in India. He is also launching a major healthcare initiative in India. |
Sarvesh Goorha Sarvesh has helped set-up IT/Telecom companies globally. He guided Auditel Expense Management P Ltd, a Telecom audit and Expense Management Company. He has the distinction of rolling out one of the largest BPO project in the ITeS industry for Fortune 500/FTSE 100 Company. Formerly, Sarvesh was associated with Data Access (a joint venture with PCCW- Hong Kong Telecom) as CTO and Director on the Board. He had set-up NOW ISP countrywide and built India's first global VoIP telecom networks covering several countries. He has also worked with the DCM Shriram Group and as Director of the IT Company. He was Chairman of Export Committee for Manufacturers Association of Information Technology (MAIT), Member of Electronic & Software Export Promotion Council (ESC) and the Federation of Chambers of Commerce of India (FICCI). Has led several government and industry delegations for IT export promotion and has several papers published on IT strategies, emerging technologies and Internet solutions. He is also a visiting faculty member at several prestigious institutions in India and abroad. Assignments done for some
of the leading Companies, including: Intel Corp,
Conseco Corp., Cable & Wireless, EXL Inc., PCCW / Hong
Kong Telecom, National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC),
Oil & Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), Bharat Heavy Electricals
Ltd. (BHEL), Gas Authority of India Ltd. (GAIL), Indian
Navy & many others. |
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Dr. Vinay Kumar Nangia Dr. Vinay Kumar Nangia, a Distinguished Alumnus of Banaras Hindu University, has over 35 years of managerial experience, including at senior and top levels in India and overseas, in banking, industry and education. He has multi-functional expertise in Banking, Finance, General Management, Education and Insititution Building. This includes experience of raising and deploying financial resources in India and overseas and setting up of new ventures in India and a new industrial project overseas. Banking experience includes exposure in commercial banking, merchant banking, investment banking, trade finance, project finance and training. Experience in education includes active participation in formulation and setting up MBA and MCA programmes in IIT Roorkee. He has travelled widely across all the five continents for business, training, pleasure and cultural familiarization. He has worked in rural, semi urban and metropolitan areas in government, public and private sectors during his career including having worked in three countries. Amongst others, he has held the position of Head of the Department in IIT Roorkee thrice, Managing Director and CEO of an investment and finance company in Mumbai, Senior Vice President at Essar group at Mumbai, Group Director of a large business and industrial house at Lagos, Nigeria as an international banker at Singapore. Professor Nangia is member of various bodies and boards of several academic and other institutions. To name a few, he has been a member of the governing council of DOEACC, and a senior expert with International Telecommunication Union, Switzerland, a United Nations Agency, working on international consultancy projects, the last being in Sri Lanka. He is an invited member of the Expert Group on Knowledge Management of Asian Productivity Organisation, Tokyo and he is a panelist on the Knowledge Management Panel and Corporate governance Panel of the Bureau of Indian Standards. During the last seven years, Professor Nangia has been actively engaged in large scale ICT projects, relating to e-governance. He is Principal Investigator of a Rs. 5 Crore project, “National Competitiveness in Knowledge Economy”, awarded by the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, Government of India.
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Virendra Kumar (FCA) Virendra is practicing for more than 18 years. Responsible for finalization of statutory audits, internal audits and system audits for various large & medium size corporate bodies. Engaged in income tax assessments & appeals, public sector audit, tax consultancy & corporate law matters. He has also been involved in due diligence assignments and vetting of share purchase agreements and valuation of shares. Assignments done for some of the leading Companies, which include: Indian Oil Corporation (MJPL) Division, Vayudoot Ltd. Indian Railway Construction Co. Ltd. (IRCON), Indian Farmers Fertilizers Cooperative (IFFCO), Ashoka Hotel (an ITDC Unit), Project Equipment Corporation Ltd and many more
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