An alumnus of the Harvard Business School and the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Vishal Goel has global experience across India, US and Singapore markets. He has been engaged in multiple entrepreneurial ventures in his 20+ years of professional career. He co-founded Cerestra Ventures in 2015 – a private equity platform focused on investments in niche social infra-assets and social impact investment strategies in Education, Lifesciences & Industrial sectors. He conceptualized and executed investment strategy across verticals & led deployment of USD 200 Mn. He has been instrumental in conceptualizing and developing the ‘Genome Valley’ cluster in Hyderabad city under the PPP model as an Advisor to the Government. At Rx Propellant-an Actis backed platform, he devised a pan-India strategy to establish Lifesciences clusters in high-growth market and identified investment opportunity of USD ~500 million across 6 million sq. ft with the existing portfolio consisting multiple projects in Genome Valley, Hyderabad along with Bengaluru, Pune and Mumbai which are major Lifesciences hotspots. Their upcoming platform – The Medical Centre is aimed at transforming healthcare experience in India through its infrastructure delivery platform with integrated health and wellness facilities. Under his aegis, Cerestra plans to list its portfolio of edu-infra assets as Schoolhouse InvIT – India’s maiden Education Infrastructure focused platform.