# Ravi Sood

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{{Short description|Canadian businessman}}
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'''Ravi Sood''' (born July 5, 1976) is a Canadian [financier](/source/financier) and [venture capital](/source/venture_capital)ist. He was raised in [Waterloo, Ontario](/source/Waterloo%2C_Ontario), and resides in Hong Kong. He received a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the [University of Waterloo](/source/University_of_Waterloo). He is the co-founder and former CEO of Navina Asset Management and its predecessor company Lawrence Asset Management, which at its peak controlled over $800 million in assets globally.{{Citation needed|date=October 2025}}

Sood has also founded several businesses operating in emerging markets, including Buchanan Renewables Inc., Feronia Inc., Jade Power Trust, Abraxas Power Corp., and Golconda Gold.{{Citation needed|date=October 2025}}

Sood became well known in Canada as a regular TV personality and frequent guest host of the [Business News Network](/source/Business_News_Network)'s evening news programme ''Squeeze Play''.  He is best known for commenting in the media on the [income trust](/source/income_trust) sector,<ref>National Post's Financial Post & FP Investing. November 5, 2005. Diane Francis. "Lawrence report might help Goodale". Toronto. {{cite web |url=http://www.financialpost.com/scripts/story.html?id=1d3912fa-ac97-4f40-9d2e-c6926cc853f4&k=31265 |title=Lawrence report might help Goodale |accessdate=2009-12-07 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120305171839/http://www.financialpost.com/scripts/story.html?id=1d3912fa-ac97-4f40-9d2e-c6926cc853f4&k=31265 |archivedate=2012-03-05 }}</ref> [global market](/source/global_market)s,<ref>BNN: Squeezeplay. June 30, 2009: Overseas Funds [06-30-09 5:30PM]. http://watch.bnn.ca/squeezeplay/june-2009/squeezeplay-june-30-2009/#clip189113 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090703113513/http://watch.bnn.ca/squeezeplay/june-2009/squeezeplay-june-30-2009/#clip189113#clip189113 |date=July 3, 2009 }}</ref> [natural resource](/source/natural_resource)s and [agriculture](/source/agriculture).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/investment-ideas/how-best-to-invest-in-agriculture/article1423758/|title=How best to invest in agriculture|date=August 23, 2012|website=The Globe and Mail|publisher=The Globe and Mail Inc.|access-date=May 30, 2018}}</ref><ref>"Investing in Agriculture" {{cite web |url=http://agvisiontv.farms.com/ |title=Advertising with Agvision |accessdate=2010-03-16 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20061018111808/http://agvisiontv.farms.com/ |archivedate=2006-10-18 }}</ref><ref>BHP aims to go solo on potash marketing but honour existing Canpotex commitments [https://archive.today/20120908022204/http://www.canadianbusiness.com/markets/headline_news/article.jsp?content=b4261601]</ref>

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