Aruna Mukesh Katara is President of Hope Foundation and Research Centre, a Public Charitable Trust promoted by the FINOLEX Group.

She has over 22 years of experience in key performance areas such as Management, Administration and facilitating the expansion of the family-owned business.

She has dedicated her efforts towards the inception and actualization of her dream projects of providing quality education to the not-so-privileged student community.

Hope Foundation and Research Centre was established in 1979 to serve the society with twin motives of medical health accessibility for the needy section of society and to provide quality higher education and research in rural and urban India

She assumed the role of being one of the key management members responsible for infrastructure creation, material procurement, budget & financial management and other result-oriented activities of creating world-class IT facilities at the globally renowned International Institute of Information Technology, Hinjawadi, Pune