Vivek Tandon is the Founder and CEO of EB5 BRICS – the go to source for everything related to EB-5 U.S. Immigrant Investor Visa (Green Card) Program. A lawyer and an investment banker, Vivek’s primary focus is on educating investors in India, Mexico and Brazil about EB-5 Visa Program and EB-5 regional center projects and EB-5 direct investments. Vivek holds Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) securities licenses and is associated with a registered broker-dealer NMS Capital Advisors, LLC – a Beverly Hills, California based global, privately held, independent, diversified financial services firm providing investment banking, asset and wealth management and EB-5 consulting services.
Prior to starting EB5 BRICS, Vivek worked as an in-house attorney overseeing contractual matters and acted as the business development head of a legal technology and services outsourcing company that was based in India where he learned the intricacies of how business and law come together to impact a company’s bottom line. Vivek has vast experience as a litigation lawyer and worked at a national firm in Los Angeles litigating consumer protection matters. As a public defender, he represented parents in juvenile courts in Los Angeles and Santa Clara Counties. Vivek received his law degree from Suffolk University School of Law, and in addition to working for his Immigration Law professor, he interned at the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office assisting in criminal prosecution matters. Prior to law school, Vivek worked as an underwriter for a national mortgage bank after receiving his Bachelor in Finance and Business Administration from California State University Long Beach. Vivek is very active in the South Asian Bar Association of Southern California and The Indus Entrepreneurs and has served on the executive board of the North American South Asian Bar Association.
Vivek’s parents brought him to the United States in 1993 when he was 14-years old. Growing up in a middle-class family in New Delhi, India, Vivek learned early on the value of honesty and hard work and put those values to work in his professional and personal pursuits in the United States. Vivek is very thankful to his parents for giving him access and opportunity to live and work in one of the best countries in the world. Vivek is married and lives in Southern California with his wife Sunita and Chocolate Labrador ‘Russell’ and a Maltipoo “Rocky” and fully enjoys the outdoor lifestyle that California offers with occasional trips to the Hawaiian Islands, Mexico and the Caribbean. Vivek is fluent in Hindi and Punjabi.