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Riya Arora gets managing director’s post at Inspirational group
MUMBAI: Riya (Rani) Arora has been appointed as the managing director of Inspirational group, bringing 27 years of extensive experience as a global leadership development and communications consultant. In her role, she will manage a wide range of leadership interventions across various sectors, including financial services, IT, FMCG, automotive, and manufacturing.
Riya, who previously served as the director for inspirational development group’s India office, holds a marketing degree and several certifications, including executive coaching, MBTI, DiSC, NLP, and assessment centers certification. She also possesses an honors diploma in information systems management.
Before her current role, Riya enjoyed an 11-year tenure at Capgemini (formerly Kanbay), where she created communication strategies and led comprehensive leadership development programs globally. Her final position was as the global head of assessment and development centers, where she oversaw programs across the US, UK, Singapore, Australia, and India.
As an independent consultant, she has collaborated with high-profile clients such as Barclaycard, World Bank, and Bajaj Auto, delivering customized leadership interventions. Riya’s earlier career included managing a computer academy and teaching French.
Beyond her professional commitments, Riya is an ardent follower of Sri Sri Ravishankarji and a daily practitioner of Sudarshan Kriya, advocating the importance of well-being in personal and professional settings.
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UK’s OnlyFans seeks US investor at $3bn valuation after owner’s death
The adult video platform is seeking stability after the death of its billionaire owner
LONDON: OnlyFans is looking for a new partner. The London-based adult video platform is in advanced talks to sell a minority stake of less than 20 per cent to Architect Capital, a San Francisco-based investment firm, in a deal that would value the business at more than $3bn (£2.2bn).
The move is driven by an urgent need for stability. Leonid Radvinsky, the Ukrainian-American billionaire who owned OnlyFans, died of cancer last month at the age of 43, leaving the future of one of Britain’s most profitable privately held businesses suddenly uncertain.
The choice of Architect Capital is not arbitrary. The firm has deep expertise in financial services, which aligns neatly with OnlyFans’ ambitions to offer banking products to its creators, many of whom have long struggled to access basic financial services because of the nature of their work.
The numbers behind OnlyFans are, by any measure, staggering. The platform posted revenues of $1.4bn in the year to 30th November 2024, with a pre-tax profit of $684m, up four per cent on the prior year. Payments to creators totalled $7.2bn over the same period, a rise of nearly ten per cent. Radvinsky personally collected $701m in dividends from the business in 2024 alone, on top of more than $1bn in such payments he had already received. The platform, run through its parent company Felix International, hosts 4.6m creator accounts, with performers keeping 80 per cent of subscription proceeds and the platform pocketing the remaining 20 per cent. It has 377m fan accounts in total.
The current minority stake talks represent a notable scaling back of ambitions. In January, OnlyFans was reported to be in discussions with Architect about selling a majority stake of 60 per cent. Before that, the company had explored a sale to a consortium led by Forest Road Company, a Los Angeles-based investment firm. Neither deal materialised.
OnlyFans has built an enormously lucrative business on content that mainstream finance has long refused to touch. Now, with its owner gone and a $3bn valuation on the table, it is looking for the kind of respectable institutional backing that might finally persuade the banks to take its calls.
