Viraj Kulkarni is the Honorary Consul of Cyprus in Mumbai, overseeing the state of Maharashtra. He is the Founder and CEO of PIVOT Management Consulting Pvt. Ltd., Asia’s largest custody-focused consulting firm with operations in India, Singapore, and Cyprus, and coverage of GIFT City. GC Legend: In 2022, he became the first India-based careerist-entrepreneur to be inducted as a GC Legend into the Global Custodian Hall of Fame, joining 351 Legends across 108 countries in the USD 317 trillion custody industry.
He is a Director at PIVOT Consultants (Cyprus) Ltd., an Independent Director at Motilal Oswal Trust Company, Bharat Forge Investments Ltd., NCCL, and the advisory Board of a Luxembourg-based company. He has authored over 41 papers on capital markets, primarily published globally. A Fellow of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India, Viraj has over 35 years of experience spanning emerging and advanced capital markets. In roles such as Country Head – Securities Services at Citibank (India and Switzerland), JPMorgan Chase, BNP Paribas, and helped establish Morgan Stanley Securities Services in India.
Viraj mentored entrepreneurs across Asia for the Asian Development Bank’s PROFIT Project. He chairs the International Trade & Commerce Committee at the Bombay Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
