Vikas Arora
Board member
He is a senior finance professional and entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience across varied businesses and geographies.
He serves as Group CFO for Action group of companies.
Having completed his chartered accountancy at the age of 23, he ventured into starting his own consulting, was instrumental in helping his clients with their strategy, finance, and tax matters, and gradually expanded into the GCC region.
He has been working in GCC for the past 18 years, as Group CFO/head of corporate finance and board advisor for multi-national companies, including Action group of companies, Alshaya group, and his well diversified experience includes raising investor capital for growth, managing multi-billion$ capital/debt portfolio, helping businesses achieve successful exits, IPO, strategy, corporate and family governance matters, structuring, international tax, etc.
He also continues to strategically invest in businesses in India, GCC, US, in varied sectors including tech, health care, and real estate. He has completed his chartered accountancy from India and his Entrepreneurship program at Oxford University London, he is a regular contributor of articles to business magazines and publications, and was awarded the Alternative Investments CFO of the year 2019 as part of the Global CFO excellence awards.