Gaurav Harlalka is a strategy and research professional with experience spanning startup founding, internal consulting, and investment analysis. He has worked across construction materials, carbon black, specialty chemicals, and consumer sectors, combining primary research with financial modeling to support high-stakes decisions.
Currently part of the Aditya Birla Group Leadership Program, he works across strategy, global expansion, and new business building projects within the group's operating companies.
At Birla Carbon's Atlanta office, he supported $200M+ capital allocation decisions through multi-scenario financial modeling and expert-driven primary research across plant heads, R&D teams, and external consultants.
At Grasim Industries, he identified Vietnam as a priority export market for viscous filament yarn by spotting a sustainability trend among Western brands, then led the GTM and trade expo presence that validated the thesis.
Before ABG, he founded Gobuild, a B2B construction materials procurement platform, scaling it to ₹25Cr ARR by introducing structured financing into the value chain and using commodity price forecasting to generate 30% gross margins.
