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Vivek Gahalut
Vivek Gahlaut is famous for his creative ideas and commitments towards business and specially for the environment. Vivek is a renowned and esteemed figure in finance, health and wellness, and commodity trading. He has over 23 years of experience in many fields and countries. The way he has traveled shows how flexible, smart, and determined he is to be the best at everything he does.
An Overview of his Career Journey Leads Up to the Future
Currently, Vivek Gahlaut is one of the co-founders of Dubai, UAE-based agri-commodity trade company Terra Firma Commodities DMCC. He entered into the business industry in 2014 and has grown quickly since then. The Business trades and distributes rice and other agricultural goods in West Africa. Vivek added raw cashew nuts, sugar, pasta, and frozen foods to its list of products in the portfolio that helped Terra Firma grow its business with his strategic strategy.
The company grew very amazingly and by the end of 2021, Terra Firma will have made an impressive USD 90 million in sales. His focus on backward integration and sustainable food production shows that he wants to make a good difference in the places where his business operates.
Before coming to India to start Terra Firma Commodities DMCC, he spent six years in India where he invested his money back into the health and wellness industry there. He established and ran five health and wellness clubs and a successful business selling gym equipment. Soon with his efforts, his businesses became market winners. During this time, he also ran a family angel fund that invested in new tech companies, showing that he had a great sense of what would be popular in the future.
His Corporate Progress From New York to India
When Vivek earned his MBA degree in International Finance from Thunderbird Graduate School of Management in Arizona in 2003, he moved to New York and started working for Ernst & Young. He joined the Services Advisory group of Ernst & Young's Financial and played a significant part at the company. He, simultaneously, led teams on projects that dealt with cash management, financial risk management, and treasury during his tenure. He had some of his customers were Fortune 500 companies, top banks, and asset managers.
In the financial services field, he stands out because of his ability to come up with strategic ideas and grow businesses. During his last few years in New York, Vivek switched his working style and started working as an independent consultant giving professional advice to his private clients .
Media Highlights Vivek Gahlaut
Vivek Gahlaut’s expertise and contributions towards energy and finance industry have garnered attention in various reputable organizations. Explore the latest press coverage and articles that highlight his innovative approach to the business industry, his leadership at Preston Trading, and his impact on the field.
Development in his early age
Before earning his master's degree, Vivek started his advanced academics journey at the National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra, where he earned a graduation degree in engineering in 1997. After his graduation, he did his first job at Toshiba in New Delhi, India, where he worked in a factory that made TV picture tubes. This experience helped him build a strong background in manufacturing and taught him discipline and technical skills that would help him a lot in his work.
After working at Toshiba he realized that to excel his knowledge which was possible only through education so he moved to the United States in 2001 to get his MBA because. He was passionate to learn more and to improve his skills exceptionally. His time at Thunderbird Graduate School of Management not only gave him a deep knowledge of international finance, but it also gave him a broader view of how business is done around the world. This made him ready for the varied and exciting career that lay ahead.
Conclusion
Vivek Gahlaut has an outstanding professional journey that inspires people with his innovative ideas, an eagerness to take risks, and a dedication to long-term growth. Vivek has always shown that he can change, come up with new ideas, and lead, from his early days working in manufacturing to his current job trading commodities around the world. People all over the world who want to be traders and business leaders look up to him and his journey.
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