Dr. Pradeep Garg | Chairman Emeritus
Dr. Pradeep Garg leads the multi-business Kundan Group. Founded in 1971 Kundan Group enjoys a leadership position in Gold {digital gold, refineries, jewellery, minting} and is emerging as a top tier player in renewable/green energy {Hydro, Solar, Wind} with Kundan Green Energy. Dr. Garg is credited with expanding, consolidating and scaling the core business of Kundan – gold. Under his guidance the Group has emerged as the largest and most trusted business house with an unrivalled status in the bullion and gold sector: from mining to refineries to trading and retail besides enhanced scale and impact through global strategic alliances. Widely acknowledged for his integrity, foresight and organizational abilities, under the leadership of Dr. Pradeep Garg the Kundan Group has grown to 20 geographical locations world-wide and 2 in India, employing 1200 people, generating robust business growth paths with strong socio-economic impacts. In recognition of his business acumen and successful turn-arounds of several project he has received several awards and recognitions.
Board of Directors
Chairman & Managing Director
Mr. Udit Garg
With an incrementally increasing international profile in business development, allyships and new market activation, Mr. Udit Garg is a passionate leader of organizational growth and optimization. He oversees the Kundan Group’s global operations, seeking to optimize the Group’s growth trajectories. In addition, he leads Kundan Group’s business division of renewable energy, with Kundan Green Energy. A subsidiary of the Kundan Group , Kundan Green Energy is committed to contributions in consistently generating sustainable green energy alternatives through optimal efficiencies in materials, techniques, systems and processes. Embedded in sustainability, since 2017 it plays a growing role in India’s transition away from fossil fuels towards sustainable green energy. Amongst India’s leading power traders and one of the few brokers as Category II Inter-State Trading Licensee from the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) the company collaborates with electricity boards and discoms to deliver a comprehensive suite of trading services spanning short-term, medium-term, and long-term open access arrangements.
Mr. Udit Garg has demonstrably accelerated corporate growth paths, new business development and diversifications for the Group. Among his transformative contributions has been the pivotal role he played in establishing a multi-stakeholder sales, distribution and logistics network besides exponential growth of the chemical products portfolio, expanding it exponentially to a tenfold growth. This remains a watershed for the Group. A well known thought leader in the green energy, sustainability and climate space, Mr. Garg routinely shares perspective on sectoral trends and developments.
Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
Mr. Varun Gupta
Mr. Varun Gupta represents rich and diverse professional credentials across different aspects of fiscal strategy, oversight, bids, business development, corporate and government affairs, besides business alliances and structuring. This includes consistently demonstrated transformations through mergers and acquisitions, structural reforms and re-structuring, forging national and international alliances. With leadership briefs in large, multiple-stakeholder driven organizations like SBI Capital Markets and CRISIL {a Standard & Poor company}, Mr Gupta remains keenly invested in agendas of economic reform. And has worked closely with several Government ministries and departments at the central and state levels. Widely recognized for his professional integrity, he has been the designated first responder and advisor for central and state governments.
A member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), Mr Gupta helms strategic planning and initiatives for the Kundan Group. In addition to overall operations of the Kundan Group, he leads strategic formulations and alliances including business development, expansion of existing businesses, mergers and acquisitions, taxation accounts and cost management. Mr Varun Gupta is a recipient of impressive peer reviewed awards and honours.
Director
Mr. Vidit Garg
Mr. Vidit Garg is focused on business and management practices with a view to creating efficiencies of scale. Besides managing group corporate affairs, external relations, business alliances, governance. He spearheads Kundan Minerals & Metals which incorporates the Group’s Gold business. He played a key role in the sustained growth and expansion of the initial gold business into a comprehensive and integrated business. Mr. Vidit Garg manages the end-to-end value chain from prospecting and mining to concentrates to channel partners, to refineries, to production, to distribution and sales.
Director
Mr. Deepak Gupta
Mr. Vidit Garg is focused on business and management practices with a view to creating efficiencies of scale. Besides managing group corporate affairs, external relations, business alliances, governance. He spearheads Kundan Minerals & Metals which incorporates the Group’s Gold business. He played a key role in the sustained growth and expansion of the initial gold business into a comprehensive and integrated business. Mr. Vidit Garg manages the end-to-end value chain from prospecting and mining to concentrates to channel partners, to refineries, to production, to distribution and sales.