Vinayak has been chairing and providing leadership to CII's National Council of Infrastructure as its Chairman for the second consecutive year. At the recent Business Today-Yes Bank SME Awards, he was bestowed with the prestigious "Star SME CEO" of the year award. Vinayak is also a strategic advisor to leading Indian companies, the Government of India, the Ministry of Finance, State Governments, as well as multilateral and bilateral institutions in the areas of infrastructure planning and implementation.  He interacts regularly with the Government of India, the Planning Commission and various State Governments on infrastructure policy, planning, projects and related enabling frameworks.  He heads the Infrastructure PPP Group of the Bihar Development Council.

Vinayak Chatterjee co-founded Feedback Ventures in 1985.

In 1998, the World Economic Forum at Davos selected him as one of the 100 Global Leaders of Tomorrow.He is one of the leading proponents of the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model for developing India’s infrastructure through his steering of the successful India Infrastructure Initiative—a partnership between IDFC and Feedback Ventures.

He was also the Chairman of CII’s National Committee on Urban Infrastructure for 2002-03 and 2003-04 and was the Chairman of CII (Northern Region) for 2000-2001.  He is on the Board of Directors of SRF, BILT Power, and on the Advisory Board of HDFC India Realty Fund. 

Vinayak writes India’s only newspaper column on infrastructure.  His “INFRATALK” appears in Business Standard.  He graduated in Economics from St. Stephen's College, Delhi University and did his MBA in 1981 from IIM, Ahmedabad.