Kundan Saran Bio

Kundan joined ICICI Venture in 2008. Since then, he has been involved with new business development and strategic fund-raising initiatives of the company across its different verticals, resulting in AUM/AUA expansion of over USD 4 billion for the company sourced from Indian and foreign investors through 9 different products. His focus areas include private fund formation, fund raising and investor relations with an experience straddling strategy formulation, fund structuring and formation, marketing strategy formulation, distribution, fund raising including investor negotiations and documentation, fund operations, investor relations, investor servicing and other organizational matters including corporate communications. He works closely with the MD and CEO and the various investment and corporate teams across various verticals at ICICI Venture. Prior to joining ICICI Venture, he has previously worked at Aditya Birla Group (a leading Indian business conglomerate) in their Corporate Strategy and Business Development Group, Business Consulting Group (a leading Indian strategy consulting firm now called Avalon Consulting) and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) in their Corporate Finance and Investment Banking team. During his professional career spanning over 26 years, he has worked extensively both in India and overseas. He completed his B.E with Honours and MMS with Honours from the Bombay University