Mr. Vikram Agrawal
Vikram Agrawal is a mission-driven, operationally-focused investment and management professional who believes that everyone deserves an opportunity to be successful, however they define success. Vikram is currently partnering with Texan businessman and environmentalist Trammell S. Crow and has a dual mandate focused on leading investments and catalyzing impact in environmental sustainability and resilience. He is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of American Resilience Partners (a Texas-based entrepreneurial middle market private investment firm) and is the Director of EarthxCapital at EarthX (the international non-profit’s division that has a mission to catalyze impact through investment and business dealmaking).
Vikram has 15 years of investment and management experience across several industry sectors in the United States and the emerging markets (Latin America & the Caribbean and Europe, Middle East, & Africa) through his prior roles with a global investment bank, an international financial institution focused on private-sector development in the emerging markets, a multi-billion dollar turnaround-focused private investment firm dedicated to saving American jobs by saving iconic American companies, and a middle-market private equity firm that makes control investments in strategically viable & underperforming companies.
Vikram invests in and works with businesses in various life cycles, including those in concept, start-ups, growing businesses, and businesses in need of a strategic or operational turnaround. He is focused on helping American companies develop a Strategic Value Proposition through strategic and operational initiatives. He has significant experience developing investment theses, sourcing and structuring equity and debt investments, conducting strategic and financial analyses, and partnering with company senior management to develop and implement strategic, operational, and other transformational initiatives that drive growth, improve overall profitability, and increase value for all stakeholders.
Vikram received his MBA from Yale School of Management, where he was a recipient of the Award for Excellence in Ethics and Leadership. He received his Bachelor of Science from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, where he studied International Political Economy, and is currently a member of the Board of Governors for the Georgetown University Alumni Association.
In his free time, Vikram likes to mentor students and young professionals, advise entrepreneurs and start-ups, travel, grill, and play & watch sports.