Vivek Gahlaut has more than 23 years of experience working in multiple fields across three continents. He received his diploma from the National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra in 1997 and decided to start his professional career further. Then he quickly joined Toshiba in New Delhi, India, where he worked in the facility that manufactured television image tubes. After spending few years at Toshiba, he decided to grab more knowledge through education and in 2001, he relocated to the United States of America in order to enroll in the Thunderbird Graduate School of Management in Arizona and earned a Master of Business Administration degree in International Finance.
Immediately after completing his graduation in 2003, he went on to work for Ernst & Young in New York, where he started working in the Financial Services Advisory practice. He worked there over the period of next six years where he was responsible for leading teams working on multiple projects related to treasury, cash management, and financial risk management. He served many Fortune 500 businesses, including prominent banks, asset managers, hedge funds, insurance firms, and others. Over the course of his last two years in New York, he worked independently for private clients.
After being associated with numerous organizations & esteemed clients, Vivek decided to do something for his home country India. His love for his country was the major reason that in the year 2010, Vivek made his way back to India and made investments in the health and wellness industry. There were five health and wellness clubs that he successfully managed for a period of six years, in addition to a gym equipment trading firm. Then atf a successful entrepreneur career in 2013 he moved to Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and in 2016, he eventually sold his investment in the Indian fitness venture. During the time that he spent in India, Vivek was also in charge of managing a family angel fund that allocated seed cash to new technology businesses.
Following his relocation to the United Arab Emirates in November 2014, Vivek co-founded Terra Firma Commodities DMCC, an agri-commodity company. The company is involved in the trade and distribution of rice in West Africa. It obtains a wide variety of broken rice from India, Thailand, and Vietnam, and then sells it through local companies in Ghana and Ivory Coast. The raw cashew nut market is another area in which Terra Firma Commodities has grown its operations.
As part of its expansion into the raw cashew nut market, Terra Firma Commodities has begun purchasing cashew nuts from Ivory Coast, Guinea, and Tanzania, and then selling them to processors in India and Vietnam. By the end of the year 2021, the company had successfully achieved a net profit of $7.8 million and had reached revenues of $86 million within a span of seven years.