Gaurav
Dalmia
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Gaurav
Dalmia is a member of a leading industrial family in India,
with substantial business interests mostly in India, UK
and USA. The Dalmia Group has interests in cement, industrial
ceramics, chemicals, real estate, information technology,
investments, engineering and trading. Mr Dalmia is a prominent
private equity investor through his investment vehicle First
Capital. He has been involved in investments in more than
fifty companies, mostly in India, some in the US, in technology,
entertainment, engineering, infrastructure, speciality chemicals,
agro-products, apparel and consumer products. |
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Mr Dalmia co-founded Infinity, a leading Indian technology
venture capital firm. He is an early investor in and member
of the Investment Committee of GW Capital India, a general
Indian private equity fund started by Gary Wendt, former
CEO of GE Capital. He is the founder and Chairman of Landmark
Holdings. Mr. Dalmia sits on the Boards of various companies
and investment vehicles in India, Europe and the US. He
was selected by the World Economic Forum as a Global Leader
for Tomorrow for the year 2000. He has a BS in Computer
Science from Salford University in the UK (Ranked 1 in 200)
and an MBA from Columbia Business School (top 5% of class). |
Arun Jain
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Arun
Jain worked for several years for the New York City-based
management consultancy firm, Booz, Allen & Hamilton.
His assignments were primarily in the areas of Business
Strategy, Marketing, and Organization Design. For four years,
Mr. Jain directed the Firm's global business with the various
multilateral lending institutions, including the World Bank. |
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Since returning
to India most recently in 1992, Mr. Jain has helped promote
Sabic India, a joint venture with Sabic, the largest company
by market capitalization in the Middle East; and Omega Designs,
an Apparel company that designs, develops, and markets high
fashion clothing for customers primarily in North America.
Mr. Jain started CLIPS, a company that supplies a full range
of good quality office products several years ago. He is
an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School. |
Rakesh Malhotra
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Rakesh
Malhotra is a CPA with 23 years experience in real estate
financing. Formerly, he has worked with Landmark/Dalmia
for 7 years, and was the CFO of Ansal Properties, one of
India's top developers, where he had worked for 16 years.
Currently, he is the president of Emaar MGF. |
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"Mediocre minds usually
dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding." |
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| La Rochefoucauld |
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