About

When you set out to build a business, you know what you want to create. You have a clear vision of your future, but at every stage of growth there are new challenges and learning curves to address. You may find yourself asking “who do I need to hire, how do I expand, how do I execute on this new project, and how will I continue to handle all of these challenges as my business scales?”

At Arctic 90, we call these challenges the 90%.

The unsexy but integral part of ensuring success in your business.

We are a boutique advisory that prioritises operational excellence and strategic execution to drive business results for impact driven enterprises.

We leverage our lived experience of entrepreneurship and our operational capabilities to help businesses focus on critical tasks and drive sustainable growth. We offer services in all key areas of operation from strategic planning to new market entry and everything in between.

Our Story

Arctic Holdings was created in 2009 by Ishani Chattopadhyay, as a boutique advisory firm focused on helping impact driven organisations pursue sustainable growth with offices in Melbourne and Mumbai.

Ishani has worked with an array of companies in Australia, UK, USA and South Asia and believes that the execution piece is a critical failure point for many SMEs, ventures and high growth businesses.

Cue Arctic 90!

Arctic 90 is the bold, new version of Arctic Holdings with operational excellence at its core. To execute on her mission, Ishani chose to create a collective and bring on other entrepreneurs with lived experience in venture building and shared values.

If you want to execute on your ideas, vision or strategy - get in touch!

  • Ishani Chattopadhyay

    FOUNDER & MANAGING DIRECTOR

    Ishani has a career spanning over 24+ years across India, South Asia, Australia, USA, and UK with a focus on strategic advisory, operational management, growth, new market expansion, investment and innovation. In terms of sectors, Ishani has spent most of her time on renewable energy, climate-tech, food and sustainability amongst others. Ishani has run several incubation and acceleration programs and mentored over 150+ enterprises, SMEs and businesses on their strategy, investment, governance and operations. Ishani is passionate about working alongside impact driven founders and help architect their growth story. Ishani is a Chemical Engineering and Science graduate (BSc/BE) from the University of Melbourne, Australia and holds an MBA degree from the London Business School, UK.

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  • Caroline Sanz-Veitch

    PARTNER

    Caroline has worked across agency, not-for-profit, corporate and startup. Her keen interest in human behaviour, new economic models and blending design with business saw her move from running her own women-focused fitness business to working in organisational psychology with global organisations SHL and Chandler Macleod, before moving into the social enterprise space, consulting into the for-purpose and not-for-profit sector. Her more recent roles have been leading Strategic and Service Design teams at Isobar Australia and Beyond Blue, using human-centred design and systems thinking practices to improve how organisations design business models, products and services. Caroline is passionate about systems change and creating meaningful outcomes.

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  • Ben Sandhu

    PARTNER

    Ben has advised startups and accelerators for a number of years in both the UK and Australia before joining Ida Sports as a co-founder in 2018. He is passionate about using business as a force for social change. Ben has previously headed up RMIT’s LaunchHUB programme, and was a Senior Lecturer and Industry Fellow at Monash Business School.

    Using his background in professional sport, Ben helped build Ida from its first prototype into a thriving company that has received investment from the LA Dodgers, the Billie Jean King Foundation, Elysian Park Ventures and R/GA Ventures. He secured contracts with two of the largest sports retailers in the US, and the company is on track to be in over 700 locations around the world by mid 2025.

    More than anything though, Ben loves helping people that are passionate about a problem turn their ideas into thriving businesses.

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  • Amber Rath

    BUSINESS ANALYST

    Amber is passionate about customer-centric roles with 7+ years of experience in various hospitality businesses including management roles. Amber also owned her own business as a freelancer for website development and branding and worked with multiple clients to deliver digital strategy and analytics.

    At Arctic 90 Amber has played a critical role in managing client relationships and using her business analyst skills to support projects. Amber is passionate about delivering customer satisfaction and creating value for impact-driven organisations and founders.

    Amber has completed an Undergraduate Certificate in Psychology at Curtin University and a Brand Content and Social Media Marketing Course at RMIT.

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