Pratik Agarwal

Brainstormer, Business leader, Connector, Entrepreneur, Event planner, Finance professional, Global soul, Idea generator, Industrialist, World traveler

Currently VP Business Development & Corporate Strategy at Vedanta Resources Plc and Sterlite Technologies Limited (sister companies). Founded and heading a infrastructure business within the group which is focused on Power Transmission, Bulk Ports, and Broadband Infrastructure. Currently building India's first high-speed FTTH (fiber to the home) network, which will be operator neutral and will be capable of providing speeds unto 1 Gpbs in top 8 cities of India. Previously helped envision and write the building blocks of Vedanta university - India's first not-for-profit multidisciplinary university being built on a 6000 acre campus in Orissa with an endowment of 1 billion dollars. MBA from London Business School and Undergrad from The Wharton School, Upenn. Passionate about flying small planes, listening to world music, fusion of Indian and Western, percussion instruments & golf.

Flying small planes, improving higher education in India, building infrastructure, meeting random people who are as different from me as possible,