Mr. Chand Das
Business & Leadership Coach , Startup Mentor , Angel Investor - CSD Associates
Mr. Chand Das is a former CEO and Co-Founder of ITC’s Education & Stationery Products Business, where he led the creation and scale-up of Classmate, India’s largest and fastest-growing student stationery brand. He holds a PGDM from IIM Bangalore and a B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Kanpur. With a distinguished 35-year corporate career, he has successfully built and grown both B2B and B2C businesses. He is currently an angel investor with the Keiretsu Forum, a CEO coach with Coaching Foundation India, and a Senior Advisor at Villgro Innovation Foundation, India’s leading social enterprise incubator. He has invested in 30+ startups across agribusiness, healthcare, fintech, IoT, education, and livelihoods, and mentors several of them in leadership and scale-up journeys.