Ravi Sood
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| Residence | Hong Kong SAR, China |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Education | B.Math (Honours) |
| Alma mater | University of Waterloo |
| Known for | Agriculture, Mining, Africa, Natural Resources |
| Website | Galane Gold Ltd. |
Ravi Sood (born July 5, 1976) is a Canadian financier and venture capitalist. Sood was raised in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada and resides in Hong Kong. He was educated at the University of Waterloo (B. Mathematics) where he was the recipient of numerous scholarships and awards including a René Descartes Fellowship, a Canada Scholarship in Technology, and a National Corporate Scholarship awarded by the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada. He is the co-founder and former Chief Executive Officer of Navina Asset Management Inc. and its predecessor company Lawrence Asset Management Inc which at its peak controlled over $800 million in assets globally. On August 6, 2010 Navina Asset Management Inc. was sold to Aston Hill Financial. On November 1, 2010 Aston Hill reported that Ravi Sood was no longer employed by the company and had moved on to other endeavors.
Sood has also founded several businesses operating in emerging markets including Buchanan Renewables, Feronia Inc., Transeastern Power Trust, and Galane Gold. Buchanan Renewables is an innovator in the commercialization of biomass and a major contributor in the reconstruction of Liberia as featured in Time Magazine and the Financial Times. Buchanan raised nearly $200 million in debt funding from the US Government Overseas Private Investment Corporation. The company was acquired from Sood by a Swiss group and a consortium of Swedish investors including Vattenfall AB and Swedfund.Feronia Inc., where Sood serves as Chairman, is as a result of the acquisition of a division of Unilever plc one of Africa's oldest companies and largest employers with both oil palm plantations and arable farming operations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Feronia has attracted bluechip global investors as backers including the UK’s Development Finance Institution, the CDC Group. In 2010 Sood and his partners founded Galane Gold Ltd. which in 2011 acquired the Mupane Gold Mines in Botswana. Galane currently produces approximately 50,000 ounces of gold annually. He also currently serves as a Director of Elgin Mining Inc., the owner and operator of Sweden's largest gold mine.
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