

From 2015 to 2018 Tony served as Aon's Global Chief Human Resources Officer, where he designed, launched and scaled their "Leading Aon United" program to capture the collective potential of ~50,000 colleagues. The purpose of NVG is to help meaningfully expand Aon's relevance to clients in more than 100 countries, creating opportunities for Aon colleagues and increasing Aon's sustainable growth rate.
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CEOs, CHROs, consultants, and plans leading in this arena are turning to Burnalong as they work to redefine what it means to serve and engage employees and members in achieving their full potential and wanting to stay connected," said Tony Goland.īefore stepping into his role as Burnalong Senior Advisor, Tony served as Global Chief Innovation Officer at Aon, creating and leading its New Ventures Group (NVG). "We are experiencing a secular shift in the social contract between employers and employees, including digital gig workers, which over time will result in significant changes to the employment value proposition. Intellectual Capital Advisory Services (Intellecap), “a social-sector advisory firm” that advised the last round of equity capital for Bhartiya Samruddhi, will advise the coming round as well. He has also stated that the MFI may turn to raising debt after this round of equity capital, and may raise even more equity in June.


S Ramachandran, Bhartiya Samruddhi’s Chief Financial Officer, has stated that the MFI is “in talks with mainstream players”. This investment was covered by Microcapital and investors included Lok Capital LLC, Aavishkaar Goodwell India Microfinance Development Company, and Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI). This comes after Bhartiya Samruddhi raised USD 9.87 million in equity capital in April of 2009. The India-based microfinance institution (MFI), Bhartiya Samruddhi Finance Ltd, which is part of BASIX, a group of companies that participate in microfinance and other services to the poor, is planning to raise USD 20 to 25 million in equity capital in the next two to three weeks. In the following three years, BASIX “ to reach out to over 10 countries”. He also says that BASIX will begin to “interact with MFIs” in Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia this month. BL Parthasarathy, the Senior Group Vice-President of BASIX, has stated that “To meet the needs of global customers, it is necessary to foray into the least developed countries and emerging ”.

MicroCapital reported on Basix’s role as a “technical partner” for a USD 1 million equity investment by the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the investment arm of the World Bank, in the MFI ‘Papua New Guinea (PNG) Microfinance’. This comes after BASIX has already provided technical services to MFIs in Papua New Guinea, Timor Leste and Sri Lanka. BASIX Group, which consists of several companies based in India that participate in microfinance and business services to the poor, has begun to provide technical assistance to microfinance institutions (MFIs) in various African nations such as South Africa, Ethiopia, and Rwanda.
