Manoj Kumar

Co-Founder & Ceo, Trustee, Social Alpha and Tata Institute For Genetics And Society, Head - Innovation And Entrepreneurship - Tata Trusts
India

At Tata Trusts, Manoj is responsible for creating sustainable ventures that serve critical social needs. Manoj leads the university partnerships and innovation portfolio for the Trusts and founded the social enterprise incubator to enable lab to market transition of social innovation ideas and prototypes. He is also the architect of Social Alpha, an ecosystem stack that aims to provide full lifecycle support to social innovators and entrepreneurs including validating the product strategy, business incubation, go to market and seed capital. Manoj is currently raising a venture capital fund to provide early stage risk capital to high impact technology start-ups in the social sector.

Prior to his association with Tata Trusts, Manoj co-founded Malgharia, a boutique consulting firm that helps companies identify and address their most critical challenges and turnaround business performance. He has been an entrepreneur as well as investor with about 15 start-ups in his personal portfolio. He has also worked for over two decades in investment banking and financial technology firms, playing global leadership roles, mostly in the areas of Sales & Trading, Product Management, Corporate Strategy, M&A, Business Development, Innovation and R&D Management. Manoj serves on the advisory and governing boards of a number of companies, including a few non-profits and research institutions.

Manoj is an alumnus of Harvard Business School and lives in Bangalore, India.