Arvind Togra

I help build and scale businesses.

  • Growth opportunities
  • Intelligent solutions
  • Simple execution
  • Sustainable models
  • Responsible communities
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From priorities to plans to results.

12+ years in corporate strategy, planning and transformation at global companies in India. I turn executive priorities into growth roadmaps, portfolio choices and business plans, then see them through to execution.

Education and experience

Time period Organization Position Profile
– present Self-employed India Venture builder,
expert adviser		 Building AvyFin, an AI investment-research tool;
advising via GLG and Infollion. Open to the next role
in strategy, planning or transformation.
– Hult Dubai Dubai, UAE MBA,
Strategy		 Hult Prize and IIMA Dubai crisis-management competitions. Dean’s List; Consulting Club, Volleyball Club.Dean’s List. Hult Prize competition.
IIMA Dubai Crisis Management Competition.
Consulting Club, Volleyball Club.
– Spark Minda Noida, India Lead,
Corporate Marketing Planning		 Growth strategy and portfolio governance for a ~US$520M, 29-plant group. ~US$1.8B FY2030 roadmap approved;
~US$10M recovered; win rate from 18% to 40%.
– Denso Gurugram, India Head of Sub‑Section,
Corporate Planning		 Business and financial planning for two plants, 18 business units and 32 products. ~US$570M operating plan; ~US$41M capex;
break-even sales from 79% to 72%.
– Motherson Noida, India Deputy Manager,
Business Strategy		 Long-term plans, M&A screening and synergies on three continents. Integrated an acquired business in Spain;
long-term plan for a new greenfield plant.
– Poly Medicure Faridabad, India Senior Engineer,
Operational Strategy		 Led a five-person operational-excellence team across six facilities. Equipment effectiveness from 50% to 72%,
deferring new-machine capex.
– Bharat Gears Faridabad, India Senior Engineer,
Operational Excellence		 Lean, value-stream and VAVE programs with Eaton and Anand Group. Successful ACMA award submission.
– DCRUST Murthal Sonipat, India B.Tech,
Mechanical Engineering		 Annual-fest core committee; sports association; dance committee. Inter-college fests at IIT Kanpur,
IIT Delhi and BITS Goa.

~ approximate; one crore is ten million rupees. ECB rates on , per US$1: ₹96.7, AED 3.6725, €0.892, S$1.280

Certifications

  • Introduction to Management Consulting Emory University,
  • Finance of Mergers and Acquisitions: Valuation and Pricing University of Illinois,
  • Agile Project Management Google,
  • Operations Excellence Rutgers University,
  • Fundamentals of Visualization with Tableau University of California, Davis,
  • AI For Everyone DeepLearning.AI,

Skills

Strategy
Growth roadmaps, portfolio priorities, scenarios, M&A
Finance
Operating plans, P&L, cash flow, capex, pricing
Transformation
Operational excellence, system rollouts, governance
Applied AI
Multi‑agent tools, AI‑assisted builds, automation
Tools
Excel, Power BI, Tableau, Salesforce, Zoho, SAP, Python

What I’m building, what I’ve built, and what others say.

AvyFin is my own venture. The two projects beside it are from my earlier employment, at Spark Minda.

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My venture

AvyFin

In development

An AI investment-research tool, since

  • Multi-agent AI orchestration for the Indian and Global South markets.
  • Automates complex financial analysis and builds data-driven investment strategies.
  • Redesigns financial value chains, with ethical AI governance built in.
  • Built with Python and AI on virtual machines.
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Projects from my earlier employment

FY2030 growth roadmap

Spark Minda, –

Project lead, with a team of four, reporting to the Group CMO.

A ~US$1.8B organic-growth roadmap for FY2030, from a ~US$520M base, approved by the Group CEO.

  • Planned by customer, product, vehicle model, plant and year: 5 business lines, about 50 customers, 174 products and 29 plants.
  • Market sizing (TAM, SAM, SOM) moved the targets toward sensors and die casting.
  • Annual targets for revenue, recoveries, new business and launches, reviewed weekly to quarterly.

Portfolio profitability and commercial recovery

Spark Minda, –

Project lead, with a team of four.

~US$10M recovered from customers in FY2024–⁠25, close to 2% of group revenue.

  • An 80/20 margin review of 1,500+ business combinations, checked by Finance: about 17% of them made 80% of revenue.
  • Every business placed to grow, benchmark, turn around, maintain or exit; a loss-making ~US$16M line was exited.
  • A 23-parameter recovery framework, from materials and freight to tooling and wages.

Recommendations

All six on LinkedIn

  • Arvind is a methodical Corporate Planner with an ability to absorb large volumes of information, interpret it to gain understanding & insights and express the same beautifully.

    Neeraj Sharma CEO, Automotive, Supreme Group Managed Arvind as Group CMO, Spark Minda

  • Arvind is analytical, hard working & a great team player.

    Neeraj Mahajan Former CEO, Al Naboodah Group, Dubai Managed Arvind as Group President & CMO, Spark Minda

  • …a great collaborator and would be an asset to any company he joins.

    Mandy Sahota Head of Career Development & Employer Relations Taught Arvind during his MBA at Hult
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