ECube, an ESG (environment, social and governance) platform launched by a group of former Tata executives including Mukund Rajan, Govind Sankaranarayanan and Alan Rosling, announced the appointment of Chandru Badrinarayanan as managing partner. Early this year, Ecube had announced a fund raise of $1 billion jointly with Quantum Advisors.
Mr. Badrinarayanan was till recently executive director and head of MSCI’s India business and has more than 30 years of experience across financial markets, business strategy, risk management, analytics, ratings, sales and banking, among other segments.
In recent years, he has worked with various stakeholders in India to evangelise the concept and relevance of the ESG, along with his other responsibilities, said a statement from ECube.
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He would be involved in institutional investor engagement, ESG research, investee company interactions, investment monitoring, IP management and new business development, ECube said in a statement.Incidentally, Mr. Badrinarayanan spent more than six years at MSCI developing its India business related to indexes, analytics and ESG, and grew the firm’s business and presence at a rapid pace. He was MSCI’s India country head till April 30, 2019.
“Chandru is a pioneer of the ESG movement in India, and with his sophisticated understanding of the key drivers of ESG improvement, will add huge value to our agenda of behavioural change in corporate India in favour of better ESG performance,” the statement said, quoting ECube chairman Mukund Rajan.
