Vikas Ramniwas Sharma
Strategic advisor and mentor for new businesses, M&A, and the Software Group.
- Years operating
- 20+[TBD]
- Companies built
- Sixteen
- Sectors
- Seven
Vikas Ramniwas Sharma is a first-generation entrepreneur, operator, and investor who has built scalable businesses across telecom, infrastructure, IT, education, real estate, fashion, electrical, and emerging technology-led models.
Over two decades, he has built IVS Group from individual operating businesses into a portfolio of independently operating companies united by a common operating philosophy — anchored in governance, cash discipline, and a long-term institutional mindset.
Today, he serves as CMD & Promoter of IVS Group, and as strategic advisor and mentor for new businesses, M&A, and the Software Group. He continues to operate businesses, not just own them — applying a single discipline of systems, cash, and people across sixteen otherwise independent institutions.
[TODO: confirm career start year — to corroborate the 20+ years statement. Add 2–3 specific milestones with year markers below.]
- [YEAR]
- First venture[TODO milestone]
- [YEAR]
- Telecom expansion[TODO milestone]
- [YEAR]
- IVS Group named[TODO milestone]
- 2026
- Sixteen companiesAcross five operating clusters.
On building institutions, not merely companies.
I have spent two decades operating businesses, not just owning them. The discipline that runs through every company in IVS Group is one I learned as a first-generation entrepreneur — that institutions outlast their founders only when systems outlast their owners, when cash is treated as the measure of truth, and when people are treated as the only durable asset.
The companies under the IVS Group umbrella are not subsidiaries. They are independent businesses that share something rarer than common ownership — a common operating mindset. Each is run by professionals, with its own P&L, customers, and balance sheet. What unites them is governance, philosophy, and an unhurried belief in compounding.
Build institutions, not merely companies. That is the discipline IVS Group is built on.”
Build institutions, not merely companies.
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