India

Farzan Ghadially

Farzan.Ghadially@wbaforum.org
Currently I am the President of Vighanarta Eternal Recourses, an investment management firm that advises clients especially UHNI and HNI clients in investment in the listed as well as the unlisted space. I work very closely with the state governments especially government of Maharashtra the leading state in India on various investment platforms to attract Foreign Direct Investment, I was the key member which established the first Information Technology (IT) Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in the state of Maharashtra and helped shape the integrated township policy in the state, which has been taken as a bench mark by many state governments around India. At present I am involved under the state government under the ‘Magnificent Maharashtra’ scheme to attract foreign capital in the state of Maharashtra. With the scheme I am involved in a Pharmaceutical SEZ in the city of Latur, developing a solar park with a capacity of 600 MW in the state.
I am very well networked and connected within the media fraternity and write a coulomb every Monday for a leading newspaper on finance, I am the author of two books which have sold over 50,000 copies each namely “Investing in Turbulent Times” and “Investing in Turbulent Decade that was & beyond”, I am a member of the prestigious MRDT (Million Dollar Round Table) club and have been a TOT (Top of the Table) financial advisors for many years. At present mentor and advisor to a couple of start-ups and helped early stage and SME companies raise capital in the last financial year to a tune of $30 Mn.
I am a visiting faculity in leading management  colleges like S.P . Jain and Welingkar's and teach the family business school and full time MBA in the finance and fund raising domain for SME's and startups.