Neeti Virmani is a visionary and innovative thinker, strategic, creative, tenacious, inclusive and accomplished business leader, venture advisor with 25+ years of proven track record. For 15+ years, she has led strategic large-scale transformation, business performance governance excellence & built enduring capabilities across diverse sectors: Telecom, FMCG, Media & Entertainment, with mass-consumer focused Brands: Airtel, Pepsi, Aircel and Reliance Broadcast Network Limited (92.7 BIG FM).
She is currently an Advisor & LP with Loyal VC. She joined them in 2019 as Advisor & LP, and has served them as a Venture Partner from 2020 to 2024. As a Venture Partner, she has supported the growth of the portfolio companies and also with fundraising, with credible success. She has mentored more than 100 early-stage technology start-ups across sectors: Telecom, Media & Entertainment, FMCG/Consumer businesses, Fintech, Education, Sports, Travel, Healthcare, E-commerce, HR-tech, clean-tech, bio-tech, agri-tech, blockchain, food tech, prop tech to set-up and scale-up successfully. Having worked and lived in emerging markets like India, South Korea, and the wider APAC region, she has mentored start-ups globally: brings with her a deep expertise in strategic oversight and diversified experience and knowledge of diverse markets. She brings a multicultural lens and bias for practical execution. Her experience of working in complex situations, has helped her develop the secret to give a clear, simple yet powerful, executable strategy for a complex business challenge.
She is currently serving as Global Expert with Blockchain Founders' Fund; National Expert for South Korean Chapter & Online Jury member for World Summit Awards supporting UN WSIS, Vienna. She is a Mentor at Founder Institute also. She has been a Mentor at Global Start-up Lab, in Pangyo, South Korea for two years.
As a member of Non-Profit board (Seoul International Women’s Association), for two years, she successfully led pioneering initiatives, including implementation of Philanthropy initiatives focusing on promoting developmental changes in the Education sector, in South Korea. She has been a board member of the Foreign Advisory Board (under the aegis of the Incheon City Government) at Songdo, Incheon for four years. As a member of FAB, she contributed to policy advisory and expatriate integration strategy.
She is deeply committed to advancing women’s leadership and cross-border business collaboration and serves as the Inaugural President of the South Korea - India Business Council, at WICCI (Womens’ Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry). She has served as a Member with Expat Professional Business Women Network (EPBWN), in South Korea too. As a founding member of the movement called the ‘Power Women’, she has always stood together with other Senior Female Leaders, to provide a nurturing eco-system for women to reach their full Leadership potential.
