Mr. Vinod Kumar
President,India SME Forum
About Mr. Vinod Kumar
Starting his career in international collaborations and projects, in 1989, saw Vinod at the nerve centre of various successful Joint Ventures and Collaborations in Electronics & Telecom, Media & Publishing, Industrial & Consumer Electronics, Hospitality and Finance, with Multinational corporations entering India through the FDI route. Vinod started out as a technology entrepreneur to lead the development & successful sale of an indigenous developed navigation and geographic information system based tracking patent and business, to a Russian Space and GIS Conglomerate. As an Investor he presently invests in profitable, innovative, Small and Medium Companies. Vinod, supervises and mentors investments of over 135 m $ apart from mentoring over two hundred Entrepreneurs, across various sectors. Vinod’s experience in start-ups, seed, equity & development financing and capacity building of MSMEs has successfully led to innovative strategies in equity & growth capital investments in SMEs apart from the development of successful strategies for a nationwide Capacity Building Framework at the India SME Forum. Vinod is member of the Board of World Union of SMEs headquartered in San Marino, nominated as a Member of India’s Central Bank, the Reserve Bank of India’s Standing Advisory Committee on Flow of Institutional Credit to MSME Sector under the Financial Inclusion Development Department and is also a nominated member on the High Powered Monitoring Committee under National Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe Hub under StandUp India of the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises of the Government of India.