Solaron Sustainability Services, Founder

Vipul Arora is founder of Solaron Sustainability Services. Solaron offers Sustainability audits and assessments across 16+ Emerging markets including India, Brazil, China, Russia, Mexico, Peru, Chile, Africa, UAE and Eastern Europe with the help of a 65+ Analysts based on the ground in these EM’s. “Best in Context”™ is a proprietary framework developed by Solaron, to analyze and identify companies that would be future leaders in their respective markets.

An Engineer and MBA by training, Vipul has worked in several Industries ranging from IT & IT Enabled Services, Food, Agriculture, Banking, Financial Services, Non-Profit and Logistics in India, US, UK, Mexico and Brazil over the last 12 years. He has strived to incorporate Sustainability in different contexts since 1997. This was at a time when Sustainability was less known, especially in the Indian & other Emerging markets.

From 2004 through 2006, as an Emerging Market Fellow of the Reuters Digital Vision Program at Stanford University he conceptualized ‘e-Mandi’, an agricultural spot exchange for Indian farmers to help double their incomes and reduce wastage of food in Indian supply chains. He helped set up this exchange later by working with MCX (www.mcxindia.com). This exchange is now live in the form of National Spot Exchange Limited in India and serves customers in one third of Indian states.

He later helped Reuters Market Light (RML) as Vice President, Strategy in the roll out. RML shares market prices with farmers on their Cell phones in local language. A Social Entrepreneur at heart, he left Reuters in 2007, to set up Solaron.