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Arvind Agarwal, Founder & CEO, C4D Partners

With two decades of experience in PE/VC investing, Arvind is a seasoned Alternative Investment Professional focusing on Social Impact Investing.

As the CEO at C4D Partners, he heads the global operations of the C4D Asia Fund and takes pride in supporting and building organizations that make a positive difference to society and simultaneously create wealth for the stakeholders.

Arvind also serves as a director and advisor for 9 (Nine) plus portfolio companies, wherein he provides strategic guidance to the companies.

Before joining C4D Partners, Arvind worked with organizations like Abu Dhabi Capital Management, Goldman Sachs, and Evalueserve India Private Limited.

Arvind Agrawal, Director, VNR Seeds Pvt Ltd

CA Arvind Kumar Agrawal is a Graduate in commerce, Fellow member of The institute of Chartered Accountants of India, Diploma in Information System Auditor (D I S A) as post qualification Course, QMS Lead auditor course (Based on ISO 9001) from Nigel Bauer & Associates, U.K.

CA Arvind Kumar Agrawal is a practicing Chartered Accountants having vast experience in the following fields: Audits, Taxation, Company matters, Project funding and implementation, System Development, Business Process Definitions. CA he is heading as Proprietor of Chartered Accountants firm M/s. Agrawal Arvind & Associates, since1997. He is expert in Agro Finance, system and Process Developments. He played a major role in the upliftment of farmers of Chhattisgarh by supporting them in implementation of innovative and mechanized farming. He conducted Seminars on Farm economics at different platforms. He is also in Boards of several Companies.

In Social life, he is an active Jaycee Member, graduated as an Excel Trainer (CNT) from JCI University, Chesterfield, USA and conducted more than 100 workshops on different subjects related to life and required for capacity building. He is also a part of program on livelihood up gradation of World Bank, run by Madhya Pradesh Government in capacity building measures.

Arvind Bansal, Executive Director and Head, Products and Advisory, Avendus Wealth Management

Arvind Bansal has over 20 years of experience into wealth and asset management business and is based in Mumbai. At Avendus, he heads the products and advisory desk for the Wealth business and his primary responsibility includes building the business's  product capabilities in equity, fixed income and real estate asset classes. Prior to joining Avendus,  he worked with Ocean Dial's asset management team, an Avendus entity now. Prior to Ocean Dial, Arvind was the Chief Investment Officer (CIO) for multi-manager business of ING Mutual Fund. He has had successful stints with KPMG and ICICI Prudential as well.

Arvind holds a Bachelor in Engineering degree from IIT, Delhi and an MBA degree from ISB Hyderabad.

Arvind Gangoly, CEO, Schedulers Logistics India Pvt Ltd | @schedulersindia

Arvind Gangoly is the CEO and co- Founder of Schedulers Logistics which is a niche cold chain logistics and solutions provider in the Food and Pharma space. He has used his experience in  supply chain management to build up an organisation that is providing a reach to over 100 towns in India and neighbouring countries. After taking a pre-mature release from the Army in 2006, he has worked with fairly large grocery retail companies namely TESCO, Aditya Birla Retail and Foodland Retail. He has been instrumental in setting up of a number of control measures during the nascent stage of business of these companies and that was of significant help in containing loss. He was honoured with Global Tesco Values award in the year 2010.

He is a Post graduate in Materials Management  with a degree in Foreign trade and has been a senior logistician with the Ministry of Defence, Govt of India, prior to his joining the retail industry. He also has the distinction of working as a Logistics Head with the United  Nations for their  Operations in East Africa for close to 3 years.

Arvind Godara, MD, Natureland Organic Foods Pvt. Ltd.

Natureland Organic Foods Pvt. Ltd. is promoted by Mr. Arvind Godara first generation entrepreneur into agriculture and agricultural processing business. Natureland was established in order to bring about organic revolution in the agricultural business which as a family he have been into for decades but have restricted to conventional farming and mostly utilised for captive consumption. Being from the Agricultural background after completion of his education, he forayed into entrepreneurship and took the family business to a new landmark and progressed into an organised business of Organic Foods, Agri processing, Warehousing, Fruits, Seeds and Allied Agri  Businesses, where he has a vision for doing betterment for the Farmer Community and at the same time keeping the ingredients of farming pure and secure.

His vision is to build a robust, sustainable organic produce value chain management, which is commercially viable and ensures the betterment of all the stake holders, maximizing long term returns on investments by being a leader in market with a promise of peace and prosperity for all. He is committed to promote sustainable livelihoods for small and marginal farmers, Follow transparent & fair trade practices with all stakeholders.

Arvind has done his schooling from Birla School, Pilani, has gained his Bachelor Degree from Delhi University. He is young, dynamic, result oriented and have proven records of establishing and successfully running the business. Under his leadership Natureland Organic Foods Pvt. Ltd. has transformed the face of agriculture and rural development in Rajasthan and 7 states of India, He has devised ingeniously simple technology and techniques in Organic agriculture. He firmly believe that more than resources, it is the resource management capabilities of the rural India that needs immediate intervention. From the start up of Natureland, time has brought many a feather to their cap, from a family run business to a Pvt. Ltd. Organisation, Launching of the retail brand of Natureland Organic, exporting Organic Foods and further Investment by SIDBI in Natureland is recent landmark.

Arvind Heda, CTO, Naukri.com @ Info Edge India Ltd

Arvind Jhamb, CEO - Overseas Agriculture Projects, Ruchi Soya Industries Limited

A Hard Core Leader with 30 years of experience in the Government as a part of Civil Services, in Public Sector Undertakings and Private Sector.  Responsible for providing strategic leadership and management direction to support the functioning of the organization. Have had wide experience covering General Administration, Project Planning and Implementation, Disaster Management, HR Management, Petroleum and Food Grain Sectors, Vigilance, Intelligence, Investigations, Multi-model Logistics, Banking etc. while working in the Government.  

Tenure in the Private Sector has encompassed Creation of Agri Business Hubs, setting up of largest Cool Chain for fruits and vegetables in India right from the conceptual planning to the operationalization, covering the whole gamut of activities like mapping of the operational areas, man-power development, market studies, development of R & D protocols, SOPs, Planning & Construction of physical infrastructure.

Another key highlight has been the establishment of a Commercial Farming Project in Ethiopia from ground ‘Zero’. The Project involves production of field crops for the first time in a new area, and their value-addition through processing.

Arvind Kodikal, Sr. Investment Officer, Triodos Investment Management BV

Arvind Kodikal joined the Emerging Markets investment team at Triodos Investment Management in March 2013 as an Investment Officer for Asia (South and South East Asia) and became a Senior Investment Officer in January 2016. Currently, Arvind is Senior Investment Officer – Private Equity – with a focus on direct and fund investments in global emerging markets within financial inclusion and fintech space. He also sits on the board of Intellegrow (A SME venture debt finance company) in India. After graduating with a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce from the Bangalore University, Arvind worked for Goldman Sachs Asset Management in India for three years. He also holds a Master of Financial Management from the Rotterdam School of Management of Erasmus University in the Netherlands.

Arvind Kumar, CEO & MD, ATTUNE Technologies

Arvind, Founding Member of Attune Technologies, has around 10 years of experience in areas of Entrepreneurship, Enterprise Technology Architecture Management, Pre-Sales and Client Management across different International Geographies. Having done BE and MS in Software Systems, Arvind was closely associated with providing IT Solutions to the global healthcare market. As a Technology Specialist at Philips Medical Systems, he was responsible for the design and development of the state of the art Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) product. During his stint in iSoft, Arvind managed software architecture for the world’s largest civilian IT project - Connecting For Health (CFH), National Health Service, UK.

While evolving IT Solutions for global healthcare market, Arvind was perplexed with the low levels of IT penetration in domestic healthcare market. He immediately saw a huge gap in the market and market in the gap. Having made up his mind to launch his own venture, Arvind enrolled himself for an MBA program in IIM Calcutta to equip himself with tools required to establish and run a business entity. He simultaneously started identifying individuals for his start-up team and launched Attune Technologies in the year 2008. Arvind is currently providing the leadership and handling operational & strategic initiatives at Attune.

Besides Attune, Arvind is the Founding and Management Committee member of Gnyan Prabodh, an NGO working towards eliminating illiteracy in India. He was one of the founding members of the trust with a modest sponsorship of 3 students in year 1999 and grew the trust to sponsor 313 students in the year 2007. In total, 700 students with the sponsorship amount of Rs. 17 Lakhs has been disbursed by the trust. Arvind is also a Professional cricketer and has represented his district and state in various tournaments.

Arvind Mathur, Ex, ADB Venture Capital

Arvind P. Mathur, CFA, FRM, has held a variety of positions, including Head, Capital Markets at the Asian Development Bank and Senior Adviser, Citi. Arvind is Chairman, Private Equity Pro Ltd. a new venture that he has recently begun.

Arvind experience encompasses both fund and direct investing in the emerging markets of Asia. He has helped structure, and invested in, over 30 private equity funds, including 5 infrastructure funds and a number of General Partnerships. He has been a member of Investment Committees and fund boards. The funds have targeted investments in India and China besides several other emerging markets of Asia.