Gunjan Bagla

Gunjan Bagla is managing director of Amritt Ventures, Inc., an advisory service facilitating business between the United States and India. Mr. Bagla provides guidance in entering new markets, global strategy execution, finding and managing vendor partners, and establishing overseas offices. Amritt clients include many Global 2000 corporations as well as emerging companies in North America and Europe.

Mr. Bagla has 25 years of global sourcing and marketing experience. He has held senior positions in global technology sales and marketing. Mr. Bagla has managed teams sourcing products and services from China, India, and Europe. He began his career as an engineer for Larsen & Toubro, a prominent Indian industrial firm. Mr. Bagla came to the U.S. and later worked as director of program management for Tandon Computer. Born and raised in India, he now lives in the United States and travels to India on business frequently. 

He is the author of Doing Business in 21^st Century India: How to Profit Today From Tomorrow’s Most Exciting Market. Mr. Bagla's article, Understanding India: The New Frontier for American Business, discusses differences when conducting business in India. He has an article for the Technology Council of Southern California, PROFITING FROM INDIA: The New Frontier For Technology Sales. He has a new interview with the Hollywood Reporter, entitled, Q&A: Gunjan Bagla. See the MarketWatch write-up of Mr. Bagla and the Caltech IRC course, Business With India, August 2008. He has also authored articles for BusinessWeek.

 Mr. Bagla’s articles on global business have been published in CIO Magazine, Business World, Daily Variety, and Dataquest India. He is a frequent speaker on the subject in both India and North America. Mr. Bagla is a charter member The Indus Entrepreneur (TiE), a business association including Western and Indian organizations. He is also a member of the Asia Society.

Mr. Bagla earned his MBA with honors from Southern Illinois University. He received his bachelor’s degree in engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Kanpur and is a global leader of the IIT alumni movement.