More about Farzan Ghadially
Farzan Ghadially is the Senator - India for the World Business Angel Forum (WBAF), an affiliated partner of the G20 Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion (GPFI).
As a Senator his role includes helping the start-up / early stage companies along with SMEs to rise to a global scale leveraging the WBAF network across 111 countries around the globe. He is also a mentor with the Atal Incubation Centre a leading Incubation Centre supported by the Government of India.
He is on the mentor board of the Incubation at IIM Sirmaur. By profession he is an Investment Banker and heads a multi-family office. He has a rich experience in the financial services industry in India and overseas. He is a member of the prestigious MDRT (Million Dollar Round Table) club and has been a TOT (Top of the Table) and COT (Court of the Table) two of the highest accolades for financial advisors.
He has been a speaker at many international and national conferences on personal finance, private equity and family office. He is the author of two books “Investing in Turbulent Times” and “Investing in the Turbulent Decade That Was & Beyond”.
He writes in leading financial newspapers including the Mid-Day where his column features every Monday in the finance section alongwith interactive videos for Mid-Day viewers on a monthly basis. He is a visiting faculty in leading management colleges like S.P. Jain, NMIMS, JBIMS, Welingkar, Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India etc.
He is the chair for Yuva as well as Learning & Development at Young Indians (YI) a part of CII. He is the president of Stellar Toastmasters Club a part of Toastmasters International and also the former President of Rotary club of Andheri Mumbai. He has been conferred with the 2021 Business Mint’s Nationwide Awards 40 under 40-Industry Expert Investment Category & Indian Achiever’s Club-40 under 40 Indian Achievers Year 2021.
He is recipient of India Prime Awards 2022- India Top 100 Professors 2022 and India Top 100 Authors 2022.
He works closely with corporates on the fund raising especially for early stage companies, fund management for HNI and corporate clients and also an advisor for family businesses in areas of restructuring and monitoring as well as investor relationship. A keen supporter of Web 3.0 ecosystem for companies in India and overseas.
As a Senator his role includes helping the start-up / early stage companies along with SMEs to rise to a global scale leveraging the WBAF network across 111 countries around the globe. He is also a mentor with the Atal Incubation Centre a leading Incubation Centre supported by the Government of India.
He is on the mentor board of the Incubation at IIM Sirmaur. By profession he is an Investment Banker and heads a multi-family office. He has a rich experience in the financial services industry in India and overseas. He is a member of the prestigious MDRT (Million Dollar Round Table) club and has been a TOT (Top of the Table) and COT (Court of the Table) two of the highest accolades for financial advisors.
He has been a speaker at many international and national conferences on personal finance, private equity and family office. He is the author of two books “Investing in Turbulent Times” and “Investing in the Turbulent Decade That Was & Beyond”.
He writes in leading financial newspapers including the Mid-Day where his column features every Monday in the finance section alongwith interactive videos for Mid-Day viewers on a monthly basis. He is a visiting faculty in leading management colleges like S.P. Jain, NMIMS, JBIMS, Welingkar, Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India etc.
He is the chair for Yuva as well as Learning & Development at Young Indians (YI) a part of CII. He is the president of Stellar Toastmasters Club a part of Toastmasters International and also the former President of Rotary club of Andheri Mumbai. He has been conferred with the 2021 Business Mint’s Nationwide Awards 40 under 40-Industry Expert Investment Category & Indian Achiever’s Club-40 under 40 Indian Achievers Year 2021.
He is recipient of India Prime Awards 2022- India Top 100 Professors 2022 and India Top 100 Authors 2022.
He works closely with corporates on the fund raising especially for early stage companies, fund management for HNI and corporate clients and also an advisor for family businesses in areas of restructuring and monitoring as well as investor relationship. A keen supporter of Web 3.0 ecosystem for companies in India and overseas.
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