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Vaibhav Maloo (born 26 August 1985) is an Indian businessman and columnist, serving as the managing director of Enso Group. He was a founding employee and has seen the group evolve from an energy focused entity to entering diversified sectors like trading and healthcare. He resides in Mumbai and has written columns for known publications.

Early life & Education
Vaibhav Maloo was born in Kolkata. He studied in New Delhi and then Mumbai before going overseas for higher education. He has a bachelor's degree in business administration from Carnegie Mellon University and a postgraduate diploma in global business from University of Oxford. He enrolled at University of Cambridge for Executive MBA but left it midway to devote full time attention in Enso Group.

Business & Career
Vaibhav Maloo began his business career early, while studying, as he took time off during his undergraduate studies to work back home. His initial role was handling group business development and strategy and as he gained experience, he was appointed as the director of Ensearch Petroleum. He was on the board of Asian Oilfield Services, a listed oil & gas services company on BSE as an independent director for two years.

He led the healthcare venture of the group as the executive chairman of Enso Healthcare, and founded Enso Care, which is a brand now for Enso Alumni. They had bagged public private partnership (PPP) projects to run diagnostic centres in state run hospitals in the states of Punjab and Maharashtra. It is the same company that later got the contract for contract manufacturing of Sputnik V & Sputnik Light vaccines in India.

In 2013, he founded Enso Foundation, a charitable body affiliated with the group.

Vaibhav was part of an attempt by Enso Group to rescue once India's largest airline Jet Airways, in February 2020.

Enso Group is managing a portfolio of oil & gas and mining assets in Russia, Canada and Africa. They had also diversified into infrastructure. Rapid Metro Gurgaon had Enso as a JV partner.

Cycling
Vaibhav got involved with Tour de India, India's largest cyclothon as managing director in 2013. During his initial days at the cyclothon body, he tied up with students from University of Cambridge who came and did a study on it's operational model.

Columnist
He has been a guest author with BW Businessworld magazine. Most of his contributions have been on different topics pertaining to regulatory reforms, economics and business. He has contributed to Times of India, Financial Express, Economic Times, Quint, Outlook, Business Insider and other publications as well in India.

Personal life
He is vegetarian and believes in karma.

Awards & Honours

 * 10 Best Leaders in Oil & Gas 2021 - CEO Insights Magazine
 * India's Greatest Leaders 2020-21 - AsiaOne Magazine
 * Indian Achievers' Award for Business Leadership 2021 - Indian Achievers' Forum
 * Youth Icon Of The Year 2021 - Xel Research