Mr. Vinod Ganjoor
CEO and Chairman, Eurindia

Vinod Ganjoor has over 15 years of collective experience spanning private equity, credit- and high yield research, commercial lending, and as a credit officer in a commercial bank. He is the key founder and Chief Executive Officer of EurIndia Limited, a private equity firm set up in late 1999.

Focused on early-stage companies, EurIndia has made several successful investments since its inception, in the areas of IT services, software testing, e-security, and business process outsourcing. In May 2005 its leading portfolio company, Allsec Technologies Ltd, listed on BSE and NSE, becoming the first pure-play Indian BPO company to go public. Vinod currently serves on the Boards of Allsec Technologies, and Thinksoft Global Services, which is India 's leading independent software testing company in the financial services vertical.

Vinod has previously worked 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 . He has also worked in London with the Global Markets division of Deutsche Bank as a senior bond analyst in the Media/Technology/Consumer sectors. 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).