Sarosh Kumana
President, CEO of Turant
Incline Village, Nevada
Overview
Work Experience
Consultant, Strategic Advisor
2017 - Current
Customized creative solutions for C-suite executives on financial, strategic, marketing, operations, HR issues. In most cases, my involvement includes a significant equity investment and a part-time role to take the company to the next level of profitability and/or to exit.
President, CEO
2019
Automated workflow software platform for property management operations, including marketing and maintenance, particularly suited to highly regulated jurisdictions; date and time stamped records of interactions with tenants to forestall he-said-she-said disputes; promotes and creates collaborative non-contentious relationships between landlords and tenants; litigation avoidance, push-button comprehensive litigation records, particularly valuable in regulated and rent controlled geographies; this system was optimised over 15 years of hands-on property management operations and user feedback.
Strategic Advisor / Board Director
2007
* Wrisk - UK/Europe - InsurTech - big data, analytics to optimize insurance sourcing, dynamic underwriting and pricing, monthly billing/ payment systems for millennial market * BackLot Cars - National - inventory-sharing, market expansion, multiple ancillary services for auto dealers and consumers, including "fair pricing" transparency, 3rd party inspections, centralized digital records (seed investor and advisor, exit ~$425M Nov 2020) * PharmaSecure - Global - regulatory serialization, product authentication, patient compliance, analytics, supply chain tracking for pharmaceuticals in Asia, MENA, Africa, expanding into other verticals and geographies *Swiftly - Global - big data analytics: works with transit agencies to improve service quality, efficiency, and reliability (exit ~$105M Dec 2020) * Storefront - Global - platform for listing, viewing and booking temporary and "pop-up" retail, office and event space.
Board Director
2016
FFE provides college scholarships (for the year 2023-24 over 16,294!) to exceptionally bright and motivated Indian students (top 10-15% academically) who face serious financial barriers (bottom 10-15% economically), enabling them to achieve professional success as engineers and doctors. FFE alumni pledge to pay it forward and support future scholars, and many go on to sponsor 5, 10 or 15 others, snowballing into a sustainable model. FFE provides an irreplacable hand-up at a critical moment, transformative for individuals, families and whole communities. FFE lights the lamp of knowledge and opportunity!
Strategic Advisor
2015
The Nonhuman Rights Project, through education and litigation, is changing the common-law status of at least some nonhuman animals from “things,” which lack the capacity to possess any legal rights, to “persons,” who possess such fundamental legal rights as bodily integrity and bodily liberty, and those other legal rights to which evolving standards of morality, scientific discovery, and human experience entitle them.
The Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) is the only civil rights organization in the United States working through litigation.
Chair
2012
Insurance & Reinsurance
Public Policy Committee
2012
ACA is the world’s largest community of preferred providers of capital, representing and connecting the most active seed-stage investors across North America. ACA works with incubators, universities, economic development organizations and others to support entrepreneurship and assist startups in their quest for knowledge about angel capital. The Public Policy Committee works with state and Federal legislators and policy makers to shape employment, incentive and tax policy to develop a competitive startup ecosystem.
The Angel Capital Association is a professional and trade association supporting the success of angel investors.
Advisory Board
2011
Grow VC Group is the global leader of fintech innovation and digital finance services. We started the world's first equity crowdfunding service, and since then have introduced many new digital finance services for investing, lending, hedging and portfolio management. Grow VC Group focuses on enabling the digital transition in the global alternative finance ecosystem. Currently the Group includes ten businesses and growing.
Board Director, Ambassador Council
2009
Board Director 2014 to 2020; 2024- present Ambassador Council 2009 to present Global Footprint Network is an international think tank working to advance sustainability through use of the Ecological Footprint, a resource accounting tool that measures how much nature (ecological resources) we have, how much we use and who uses what. By making ecological limits central to decision-making, GFN is working to end overshoot and create a society where all people can live well, within the means of the only planet we have: "Spaceship Earth"..
Advisory Council, Center for Entrepreneurship, Carnegie-Mellon University,
2007
The Donald H. Jones Center’s interdisciplinary/academic approach, coupled with experiential learning, is geared towards students leading innovation, change, and growth in start-ups, emerging companies, and mature organizations. Distinguished as one of the first business schools to offer formal entrepreneurship education, the Tepper School continues this legacy by advancing research that contributes academic programs related to innovation, entrepreneurial leadership, and team-based collaboration.
Education
MBA
1975 - 1977
B.Com.
1970 - 1974
High School
1963 - 1970