Vinod Ganjoor

Vinod is the key founder and Chief Executive Officer of EurIndia Limited. 

Vinod currently serves on the Boards of Allsec Technologies, and Thinksoft Global Services, India’s leading independent software testing company in the financial services vertical. Over the last several years he has been instrumental in advising companies on their corporate and financial strategy; and involved in guiding companies on their personnel, product line, partnering, and outsourcing decisions. He has over 16 years of collective experience spanning private equity, credit- and high yield research, commercial lending, and as a credit officer in a commercial bank.  Companies he has worked with have included both public and private corporations that have successfully financed themselves through the venture, private equity, mezzanine, bond, bank debt, and public equity markets. He has been a frequent speaker at Wharton, LBS and INSEAD events, addressing topics related to outsourcing and the business/investment environment in India.

Post-MBA, the initial part of his career was spent in India with Bank of America as a corporate banker, after which he was a senior credit analyst with Standard Chartered Bank in their regional headquarters in the Middle East, covering lending to small and mid-sized, high growth business enterprises. After completing his Masters from London Business School, he worked in the Global Markets division of Deutsche Bank as a senior bond analyst in the Media/Technology/Consumer sectors, and subsequently covered the same sectors on the high yield desk. He was the lead research analyst for debt issuances by large European corporations such as Deutsche Telecom, KPN, Pearson, Bertelsmann, etc. While with the high yield desk he was the lead analyst on the Auto Trader bond issue as well as the Coral Mezzanine (PIK) transaction. While at Deutsche Bank, he was ranked its number one MBA recruiter globally and among the pioneers of the drive to recruit both LBS and IIM (India) students.

Vinod has an MBA from the University of Massachusetts (1988) and a Masters in Finance from London Business School (1996).

N S Raghuram

N S Raghuram (Raghu) joined EurIndia as Director-Investments in October 2000. He was previously a key member of the investment team at ICICI Venture, one of India’s largest Venture Capital firms and has more than 10 years of venture capital experience in India. With EurIndia he has been involved in the day-to-day responsibility of managing the portfolio, and is an alternate Director to Vinod Ganjoor on the Boards of Allsec and Thinksoft. While at ICICI Venture he led, managed and exited from investments in the Information Technology and Life Sciences sectors. Some of the investments he has been closely involved with during his VC career include Allsec Technologies, Biocon, Medicorp Technologies and Bangalore Genei. The initial part of his career was spent in Robert Bosch Gmbh's India Subsidiary, Motor Industries Co. Limited, where he was a part of the initial project team which launched the Bosch range of Portable Electric Power Tools in India.