Atulya Mittal

Atulya founded Avan to enable him to work on things he loves so that work feels more like play - technology, food, and business. He is always on the look out for innovative business models, passionate entrepreneurs or "diamond in the rough" deals that would be interesting and challenging enough to keep him intellectually stimulated at the cost of a few sleepless nights. Atulya has had stints in New York, as a Media and Telecoms banker, in London, as a Power and Utilities banker, and in Mumbai as an executive in the Strategy and Finance teams at Ispat Industries, one of the top five integrated steel producers in India, now part of JSW Steel. He holds a B.Sc in Economics (Finance) from the Wharton school (2007) and an MBA from the Harvard Business School (2013).