Hemendra Aran

Hemendra Aran (born September 1974) is an Indian origin entrepreneur, author and movie producer. Hemendra is the founder and CEO of Aranca Research. a Mumbai based research, analytics and advisory firm with offices in London (United Kingdom), Boston (United States), New York City (United States), Palo Alto (United States), Shanghai (China) and Gurgaon (India).
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Hemendra pursued his B.Tech in Civil Engineering from IIT Madras,. Thereafter, he completed his Masters in Business Administration from London Business School with specialization in Entrepreneurship and Finance. He is also an alumnus of Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley.

Hemendra founded Aranca in 2003 and currently operates in the capacity of Chief Executive Officer. He started his career with Infosys Technologies Limited, where he worked on outsourcing, project management and process re-engineering consultancy assignments to Goldman Sachs, Reebok, and Thomson Consumer Electronics. He is a regular commentator on media channels such as BBC News, Channel News Asia, and The Economic Times . Hemendra has also delivered talks at top-tier institutes such as London School of Economics, the Indian Institutes of Management, the Indian Institutes of Technology, and Confederation of Indian Industry.

Hemendra is the author of 2 books on the topics of outsourcing and global financial markets.

In addition to Aranca, which is a research and analytics firm, Hemendra also heads the movie production company Meher Miracles and has produced the Hindi feature film Yeh Khula Aasmaan in 2012 under the banner Gitanjali Creations. Yeh Khula Aasmaan was the winner of the Best Foreign Feature Film at the All Sports Los Angeles Film Festival and Kids First! Film and Video Festival in USA. He was also featured on the leading Indian entertainment television channel ETC Bollywood on the Komal Natha show

Hemendra is married to Gitanjali Sinha and has two children.