Vikram Gandhi is the founder and CEO of VSG Capital Advisors, and senior advisor to the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. He is also the founder of Asha Impact, an impact investing and policy advocacy platform focused on critical development challenges facing India and other emerging economies.

Vikram is a faculty at the Harvard Business School, where he teaches both the MBA and executive education programs. He is a founding board member of Social Finance India, and is on the board of the Grameen Foundation. He has spent 23 years in investment banking at Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse. In his long career in investment banking, Vikram has focused on advising board of directors and CEOs from around the globe on strategic direction and implementation of major mergers, acquisitions, and capital raising initiatives.

Vikram holds a BCom with high distinction from the University of Mumbai and an MBA from the Harvard Business School, where he was designated a Baker Scholar. He is also a qualified chartered accountant.