Venus Barak

In her second innings with Franchise India, Venus, leads the International Business with FranGlobal. Her earlier role was spearheading Francorp India. Venus brings over 18 years of experience combining International Development, Corporate Consulting, Sales and Entrepreneurship across 45 countries in various sectors.

She has spent last decade working with over 4000 SMEs and Fortune 500 companies such as FedEx, Ronald Mc Donald's House of Charities, Virgin Atlantic, Alcon, 3M, Tata Group, Reliance, Aditya Birla Group, Mahindra & Mahindra, ITC etc.

where she has been instrumental in addressing donor relations, fundraising, growth and development issues. With deep understanding and experience of growth models like: Franchising, Channel Development, Distribution, Licensing, Strategic Alliances, Government policy, Funding, Fund Raising, Brand Development, Sales and Marketing, Venus commands authority when it comes to business growth.

She is also skilled in implementing sustainable and scalable processes, B2B business development, operational excellence, client relations, and mentoring cross-cultural & functional teams with an aim to drive incremental growth towards organizational value and performance. She regularly speaks and moderates business conferences, lectures at Management Colleges and writes for publications. Her passion lies in 'solving problems and unlocking potential' both in an enterprise as well as individual entrepreneurial setup.