Bio

Ranu Dayal is a Partner of Long Arc Capital and Head of Ownership Initiatives. Prior to joining Long Arc, Ranu was a Senior Partner and Managing Director at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) where he led the South-East Asian business and served on the Audit Committee. Ranu has over two decades of experience as a management consultant, working in New York, New Delhi, Singapore and Bangkok. As a consultant, he specialized in turnarounds and the strategic repositioning and organization redesign of businesses to enable growth. Through his various assignments, he covered a wide range of companies across sectors, including: Financial Services, Telecom, Real Estate and Infrastructure. He was a Fellow at BCG and an industry advisor to the World Economic Forum on the subject of Financial Institutions in Emerging Markets. Prior to his consulting career, Ranu taught economics at the University of Oxford, the Kobe Institute and Delhi University. Ranu currently serves on the Boards of Agile Frameworks, a provider of a cloud-based, SaaS software solution for engineering services firms; CircleBlack, an enterprise software business for financial advisors; Concertiv, a procurement and spend management services platform; Renaissance Alliance, an insurance distribution platform for independent agents; Robertson Stephens, a wealth management business; and Tinubu Square, an enterprise software business for specialty lines insurance (all LAC portfolio companies). Ranu earned a D.Phil. in Economics from Oxford, an M.A. from JNU and a B.A. from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi.