An accomplished entrepreneur and a multifaceted personality of UK, Tarun Ghulati aims to contest as Mayor from London !

The Uttarakhand chief minister along with his entire entourage is back from his over ambitious project ” Uttarakhand Global Investors Summit “, in London from where he was successful in mobilising funds worth Rs thousands of crores of for Uttarakhand’s industrial development including development in the fields of infrastructure, health, pharmaceuticals, agriculture, tourism, education etc.

The chief minister had during this three day tour of his, has interacted with influential investors of Indian and foreign origin in England and invited them to participate in Uttarakhand Global Investors Summit to be held in Uttarakhand in the month of December.

Among the important dignitaries the chief minister met, interacted sought his significant views was a leading personality of Indian origin living in England Tarun Gulati who is
an accomplished business man in London UK, having steered several Multi national company ( MNC ) as CEO !

Tarun was born in Delhi India & his father Mr SP Ghulati was Secretary Govt of India. He is a family friend of highly respected entrepreneur and social activist KC Pandey ( Founder of UDAAN ( Uttarakhand Dialogue & Action Network ) a social organisation comprising members of Global Uttarakhandis ) committed for the development of Uttarakhand !

An outstanding personality and an Indian born Tarun Gulati is aiming to contest for the prestigious post of Mayor from London in the near future.

An MBA, holding an M. Com (Business
Administration), Post Graduate Diploma in International Trade including Post Graduate Diploma in Marketing & Advertising Tarun Ghulati is a seasoned Chairman, President, CEO, Board Member and Strategic Advisor with an enviable track record of delivering practical and creative solutions to complex issues in banking and financial services’ businesses across the world having spearheaded financial services related businesses across continents.

A widely travelled person while in various significant positions Tarun has lived across countries in Asia Pacific, Middle East, Africa and the UK . working in 6 countries primarily with Citibank and HSBC where he was an International Manager (IM).

Kindly recall that HSBC’s elite cadre of global leaders making up only 0.10% of its workforce globally.

What is peculiar about Tarun Gulati is that helped zero-to-one efforts, led established business at scale, encouraged teams enable them growing up from scratch and created market leading businesses internationally.

A unique and outstanding person as he is Tarun possesses a rare combination and dexterity of strategic insight and ability to execute in a diverse range of situations and complexities.

Apart from these abilities of outstanding calibre, Tarun is a Co-Founder and Co-Chair India Startup Festival (ISF) which is the largest of its kind, empowering entrepreneurs and
fostering a robust start-up and scaleup ecosystem.

What is unique about his leadership acumen is that Tarun Ghulati during his career never gave up but incessantly proved his mettle as a outstanding personality. Being a longest serving Committee member and former
Deputy Chairman of the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry Asian Business Association having been at the forefront of
supporting businesses in the UK, India and other countries he us also a Strategic Advisory Committee Member, Global Cyber Alliance with United Nations ECOSOC Special Consultative
Status. This entails working internationally to help in eradicating cyber risk and improving our connected world.

A multifaceted and multidimensional personality Tarun Goyal is a former board member of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TIE),
UK, the world’s largest non-profit that fosters
entrepreneurship, having also supported businesses across sectors.

Currently he also the President and CEO, of Squared Watermelon Ltd. facilitating and creating solutions for the Next Generation
of inheritors and creators of wealth.

In addition to these achievements Tarun launched the 21st Century Icon Awards, building a global brand from scratch.The Awards celebrate success of the Next
Generation. In their 7th year, the Awards are highly acclaimed, covered by media in over 80 countries with finalists/winners attending from 44 countries to date.

Further ahead – as a Group President and CEO, Bramer Corporation Ltd, Mauritius, he provided leadership to the Presidents and CEOs including 2000 colleagues for a listed bank, Insurance, Asset Management and other entities. He is also credited for being the Non Executive Vice
Chairman and Chairman Credit Committee of the bank when during his pivotal tenue Ghulati ensured that the market leads in position for the Insurance company and the bank became fastest growing in Mauritius.

He also managed assets in excess of USD 2.4 billion as CEO, UTI International Ltd. Led country managers in Dubai, Bahrain and
the CEO, Singapore. He raised circa USD 700 millions of new money for various UTI funds. As if this, was not enough Tarun has launched and led asset/wealth management and private banking businesses in the UK, India, Thailand, Singapore, Qatar, Bahrain, Dubai, Mauritius and Kenya.

Apart from these pivotal responsibilities handled by him with immense outstanding ability and dexterity as the chief of the HSBC Premier, UK, he managed assets of around USD 40 billion making over USD 900 millions of income by way of leading 850 Premier Managers across 1600 branches, implementing and embedding transformational change to create a market leader.

As the Head of HSBC International Personal Banking, UK, he ensured a seamless proposition across countries for international customers. Also appointed to the HSBC Global
Customer Group Management Committee. Worked collaboratively with HSBC CEOs internationally to develop customer driven strategies, consistent culture behaviours, policies and operational processes.Tarun was also responsible for 15 countries across Asia Pacific as Operations Manager International, HSBC Hong Kong. He ensured their profitable functioning through implementation of
Annual Operating Plans in line with the overall Strategic plan. He launched retail banking, credit cards and SME businesses across Asia Pacific.

Tarun was involved in the USD 33 billion merger of Marine Midland Bank USA into HSBC Bank
USA.

Tarun managed Credit & Risk for 14 countries in Asia Pacific, including Japan as Credit Manager International, HSBC Hong Kong. Credit proposals ranged from aircraft leasing and financing (Emirates, China Eastern, Qantas etc), structured deals like Tokyo Disneyland, and vanilla credit proposals going into billions of dollars.

In his s important capacity as Country Manager Personal Financial Services and Credit Cards, HSBC Qatar, motivated around 350 colleagues to achieve net profit which was more than the combined HSBC businesses in Bahrain,
Kuwait, Jordan and Oman.

As Senior Vice President, HSBC Thailand, he led the business development for the bank.Tarun worked in HSBC, India, leading the Financial
Institutions Group (FIG) business for Eastern
India, Bangladesh and Nepal, managing institutional relationships. He then managed the credit operations for the Commercial and Corporate bank in Eastern India. He moved to
lead HSBC’s Retail bank in North India. Tarun’s contribution for 5 years to Citibank, India as Head of Business Development enhancing the distribution reach to create a market leader in Consumer banking was highly laudable. Subsequently, was Head of Collections Non-Performing customers. Opened two
subsidiaries as Head of Projects. Tarun has assisted in several M&A transactions, which include the USD 142 million stake of T Rowe Price in UTI Asset Management. He has run several start-ups, outsourced
extensively, created strategic alliances, partnerships building distribution networks including setting up n leading sales teams internationally.

Besides all these outstanding achievements a multidimensional personality Tarun Ghulati sits on several regulated boards and advises several entities in the UK. He has sat on over 40 boards in Singapore, Guernsey, Mauritius, Botswana, Kenya and the UK. Managed Risk across
continents and has been regulated across jurisdictions.

According to reports while interacting with the chief minister in the England investors summit Tarun Ghulati exhibited quite an interest in ensuring investment in Uttarakhand through his efforts, sources and initiatives. The chief minister invited him to attend the Uttarakhand Global summit slated to be held in the month of December. Around 80 or more investors, industrialists and corporate honchos had participated in the deliberations led by the Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami at Buckingham, Taj in London.