National Bulk Handling Corporation Limited (NBHC) is one of the first and leading integrated commodity and collateral management company. It is an accredited warehouse of the National Commodity and Derivatives Exchange (NCDEX). In April 2014 India Value Fund purchased 100% equity of NBHC from Financial Technologies Limited for INR 2420 Millions. Withbusiness worth INR 65,000 Millions, NHBC currently has a pan-India network of over 1450 warehouses across 17 statesamounting to about 1.50 million tonnes of warehousing capacity. It also has over 50 facilities pan India for quality testing and pest management services and caters to customers ranging from farmers, processor, traders, domestic and international corporate, commodity exchanges as well as 44 banks.

Vijay Kumar Venkataraman, an Electrical Engineer from IIT Madras and an MBA from Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi has been appointed as Chief Business Officer at NHBC. He has over 28 years of experience which includes about 21 years of progressive sales and business development experience in the Agricultural/Commodities sector. After initial stint as Chief Trader at Britannia Industries Limited. and ITC Limited, Venkataraman joined Cargill Inc. as Merchandising Manager in October 1994. He joined VST Natural Products Limited, Hyderabad as CEO in February 1998 and in December 1999 moved on to Arthur Anderson, Bangalore as Associate Director. In June 2002 he started his own venture, Cogentview Info Solutions Private Limited., in mobility solutions. In April 2006, he moved back to corporate world as Head – International Business for Reliance Industries Limited (Retail). In June 2009 he joined National Commodity and Derivatives Exchange as Chief Business Officer.