Vinod Kumar Wuthoo

Starting his career in international collaborations and projects, Vinod has been 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. He then went on to head one of India's big 4,  IT Consulting companies, as its MD, before starting out as a technology entrepreneur to lead the  development  of a patent and business on navigation and geographic information system, and its subsequent sale to a Russian Space and GIS Conglomerate.

As a Serial Investor and part of an international consortium invested in Sustainable Development, he presently invests in profitable, innovative, Small and Medium Companies and leading extensive research and analysis of linkages, growth potential and market factors of SMEs involved in over 29 clusters across 11 Sectors including Food Processing, Dairy, Leather, Pharma, Engineering and Automotive in 19 Indian states.

As an investor and mentor, with a passion for growing innovative and disruptive brick and mortar, Small and Medium companies with a high growth trajectory, Vinod, currently serves as the Honorary President at the India SME Forum, apart from advising various governments and International institutions like UNCTAD, UNISAR, ITC, for strategizing and dealing with current issues and future challenges of Sustainable Livelihoods & Economic Empowerment. Vinod is member of the Board of World Union of SMEs headquartered in San Marino, Member of the WUSME Permanent Commission of Economic & Financial Issues, Member of 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 Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises of the Government of India.