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Kapil
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Mr. Kapil Kapoor, an Indian national, is our Chairman and non-executive Director. He obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from the University of Delhi and a Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM) from Indian Institutue of Management (“IIM”), Ahmedabad. Mr. Kapoor is currently the Chief Operating Officer for Timex Group USA, Inc. Before that he has been the Managing Director of the publicly held Timex Group India Limited from Oct 2000 and until Oct 2009 was the Senior Vice President of the Asia-Pacific Region for the Timex Group. He also continues to serve as Vice Chairman of Timex Group India Limited Mr. Kapoor started his professional career in 1987 with Nestle India Limited. He later worked with Bausch & Lomb, where he was part of the start up team that launched RayBan sunglasses and the Bausch & Lomb vision care range in India; and subsequently went on to manage the overseas marketing territories of Russia, Ukraine and East Africa in addition to the SAARC region. In 1996, Mr. Kapoor relocated to Thailand as the Country Manager for Bausch & Lomb and was promoted to Commercial Director in 1998 with regional responsibility for South East Asia and the SAARC region. |
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Sanjeev Bikhchandani |
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Sanjeev Bikhchandani, an
Indian national, is our Managing
Director and Chief Executive
Officer. He is also a Promoter.
Mr. Bikhchandani obtained a
Bachelor of Arts degree in
Economics from St. Stephen
College, Delhi University in
1984 and a Post Graduate Diploma
in Management ("PGDM") from IIM,
Ahmedabad in 1989. Mr.
Bikhchandani is one of our
founders. He joined us in April
2000. His work experience
includes an advertising position
at Lintas India Limited, a
marketing position at HMM
Limited (now known as Glaxo
SmithKline), and a senior
management position at CMYK
Printech Private Limited (owner
of The Pioneer newspaper). Mr.
Bikhchandani was selected as a
finalist for "Ernst and Young -
Entrepreneur of the Year" award
in 2005. |
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Hitesh
Oberoi |
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Hitesh Oberoi, an Indian
national, is our Whole Time
Director and Chief Operating
Officer. He is also a Promoter.
Mr. Oberoi obtained a Bachelor
of Technology degree in Computer
Science from the Indian
Institute of Technology, Delhi
in 1994 and MBA from IIM
Bangalore in 1996. At IIM he
featured in the Director's Merit
List. He joined us in March 1,
2000. Mr. Oberoi has set up our
sales and marketing operations
and has been instrumental in
launching new products and
services at Naukri.com and has
also helped set up the
Jeevansathi.com and 99acres.com
businesses. He looks after
sales, marketing, product and
other operations at Naukri.com.
The Quadrangle, Jeevansathi and
99acres businesses also report
into him. Prior to joining us,
Mr. Oberoi was the Regional
Planning and Distribution
Manager (North India) for the
Ice Cream Division of Hindustan
Lever Limited, the Indian arm of
Unilever Plc, where he worked
for almost four years. |
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Ambarish
Raghuvanshi |
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Ambarish Raghuvanshi, an
Indian national, is our Whole
Time Director and Chief
Financial Officer and Head,
Legal & Administration. He is
also a Promoter. Mr. Raghuvanshi
obtained a Bachelor of Commerce
degree from St. Xavier's
College, Kolkata in 1983 and a
Post Graduate Diploma in
Business Management ("PGDBM")
from XLRI, Jamshedpur in 1987.
He is a qualified Chartered
Accountant. Mr. Raghuvanshi
joined us in October 20, 2000
and has been part of the early
management team. Prior to
joining us, Mr. Raghuvanshi has
had a wide range of experience
in corporate and investment
banking with Standard Chartered
Bank, HSBC, and the Bank of
America, where he has assisted
and advised corporates across a
wide spectrum of the industry on
capital raising, mergers and
acquisitions, and raising
working capital. |
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Arun Duggal |
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Arun Duggal is an experienced
international Banker and has
advised companies on Financial
Strategy, M&A and Capital
Raising.
He is Chairman of Board of
Directors of Shriram Transport
Finance Company, Shriram
Properties Ltd, Shriram City
Union Finance Ltd., and Shriram
EPC Limited. He is the Vice
Chairman of International Asset
Reconstruction Company.
He is on the Board of Directors
of Jubilant Energy NV., Patni
Computers (Chairman, Audit
Committee), Fidelity Fund
Management, Manipal Acunova
Limited, Zuari Industries, Info
Edge (India), Dish TV India
Ltd., Mundra Port & SEZ Ltd.,
and Hertz (India) and Mortice
Limited (Singapore). Mr. Duggal
is Advisor to IMA (formerly
Economist Intelligence Unit,
India). He is a member of the
Investment Committee of Axis
Private Equity. He is Vice
Chairman of Indian Venture
Capital Association.
He was on the Board of Governors
of the National Institute of
Bank Management. He is a Board
Member and erstwhile Chairman of
the American Chamber of
Commerce, India.
Mr. Duggal is involved in
several initiatives in social
sector. He is a founder Director
of Bellwether Microfinance Fund
which provides equity capital to
promising Micro Finance
organizations and helps them in
capacity building. He is a
Trustee of Centre for Civil
Society, New Delhi, which
focuses on improving the quality
and access of education to
students especially for the
poor. He is Senior Advisor (Asia
Pacific) to Transparency
International Berlin, which is
undertaking a number of
initiatives to combat corruption
problem around the world.
Mr. Duggal had a 26 years career
with Bank of America, mostly in
the U.S., Hong Kong and Japan.
His last assignment was as Chief
Executive of Bank of America in
India from 1998 to 2001. He
spent ten years (1981-1990) with
the New York Corporate Office of
Bank of America handling
multinational relationships.
From 1991-'94 as Chief Executive
of BA Asia Limited, Hong Kong he
looked after Investment Banking
activities for the Bank in Asia.
In 1995, he moved to Tokyo as
the Regional Executive, managing
Bank of America's business in
Japan, Australia and Korea. From
2001 to 2003 he was Chief
Financial Officer of HCL
Technologies, India.
A Mechanical Engineer from the
prestigious Indian Institute of
Technology, Delhi, Mr. Duggal
holds an MBA from the Indian
Institute of Management,
Ahmedabad. He teaches Banking &
Finance at the Indian Institute
of Management, Ahmedabad as a
visiting Professor.
He has dual citizenship of India
as well as of the U.S. A theatre
enthusiast, he also plays tennis
and enjoys trekking in the
Himalayas. He is married to Dr.
Rita Duggal and they have two
daughters. |
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Ashish
Gupta |
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Ashish Gupta, an U.S.
national, is a non-executive
Director. He has obtained a
Bachelors of Technology degree
in Computer Science from Indian
Institute of Technology ("IIT"),
Kanpur, where he was awarded the
President's Gold medal; and a
Ph.D. in Database Technology
from Stanford University, U.S.A.
Mr. Gupta is a partner at Helion
Venture Partners, investing in
early stage companies in India
and in the U.S. Mr. Gupta has
been involved in several
startups in the U.S. and in
India as an investor and board
member. These include Daksh, now
part of International Business
Machines ("IBM"), rated as the
top Business Process Outsourcing
("BPO") company in the world. He
is also a co-founder of Tavant
Technologies. Before working at
Tavant Technologies, Mr. Gupta
was at Amazon.com which he
joined in 1998 with the
acquisition of Junglee.com where
Mr. Gupta was co-founder, Vice
President of Engineering, and
board member. Junglee was a
pioneer in data integration
technologies and the application
service provider internet
business model. He has also
worked at Oracle Corporation and
at IBM's Almaden Research
Center. Mr. Gupta has published
and presented numerous papers at
international conferences, as
well as edited a book on
"materialized views" published
by Massachusetts Institute of
Technology press. |
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Saurabh
Srivastava |
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Saurabh Srivastava, an
Indian national, is a
non-executive Director. He has
obtained a Bachelors of
Technology degree from the IIT,
Kanpur and a Masters of Science
degree from Harvard University,
USA. Mr. Srivasatva is one of
India's leading IT
entrepreneurs, angel investors
and venture capitalists. He
chairs or sits on the board of
several companies. He founded
one of India's most trendsetting
IT companies, Xanza
Plc.(previously IIS Infotech).
Xansa plc. is a USD 600 million
IT company listed on the London
Stock Exchange. Mr. Srivasatva
chairs Infinity, India's leading
seed-stage VC fund as also the
Indian Venture Capital
Association; and sits on the
boards of several of India's
central and state governments'
VC funds. Mr. Srivasatva is a
co-founder and past chairman of
NASSCOM, the Indian software
industry association, President
of The Indus Entrepreneurs ("TiE"),
Delhi and on the global board of
TiE, which is the world's
largest organisation devoted to
entrepreneurs. He is on the
advisory board of the Imperial
College, Business School London,
an adjunct professor of
entrepreneurship at IIT, Mumbai.
The IIT, Kanpur has conferred on
him the "Distinguished Alumnus"
award. |
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Bala
Deshpande |
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Bala Deshpande is working (since 2008) as Senior Managing Director with New Enterprise Associates (India) Pvt. Ltd based in Mumbai. Prior to this, she was Director of Investments at ICICI Ventures where she had been since 2000. At ICICI Venture, she used her operational experience to identify opportunities for investment and to play a strategic role in shaping the future of investee companies. She launched leading e-commerce ventures like Traveljini and BillJunction and was a Director at Subhiksha, Pantaloon Retail, Air Deccan, Nagarjuna Construction, Welspun, TechProcess Solutions and Info Edge (India) Ltd. Her private equity experience has seen the full cycle from nurturing young companies to executing over ten exits including IPO, buy-back, strategic sale, and capital market divestments. Prior to ICICI Venture, Ms. Deshpande worked with leading multi national companies such as Bestfoods, Cadburys, and ICI. She was a part of the Strategic Planning Team at Bestfoods and was also nominated for the Women Leadership Forum held at Bestfoods, New York. Ms. Deshpande has a master’s degree in Economics and Business Administration from Jamnalal Bajaj, Mumbai. |
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Sandeep
Murthy |
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Sandeep Murthy, a national
of U.S.A, is a partner at
Sherpalo Ventures (www.sherpalo.com)
focused on investment
opportunities in India. Mr.
Murthy also evaluates and
manages investments in India for
Kleiner Perkins Caufield and
Byers Holdings Inc. In 2005, Mr.
Murthy has obtained an MBA from
the Wharton School. He also
holds a Bachelor of Science
Degree in Systems Engineering
from the University of
Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of
Economics Degree from the
Wharton School both obtained in
1998. Mr. Murthy began his
career in investment banking at
Credit Suisse First Boston in
their Technology Group in Palo
Alto, California. Mr. Murthy has
spent the past few years in the
internet space in the U.S.A most
recently working at IAC/InterActive
Corp. (www.iac.com), the owners
of companies such as Expedia,
Match.com, CitySearch, Gifts.com
and other online businesses.
Prior to joining IAC, Mr. Murthy
worked at Sony Music in the new
technology group where he
focused on launching a digital
music service for Sony Music. |
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Dr. Naresh
Gupta |
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Dr. Naresh Gupta is a B. Tech in
Computer Science from the Indian
Institute of Technology, Kanpur,
where he was named a Gold
Medalist. He holds master's and
doctorate degrees in computer
science from the University of
Maryland, College Park. He has
been widely known as a computer
science expert in the areas of
shape, motion, image
understanding, and AI research.
His Ph.D. thesis, "Recovering
Shape and Motion from a Sequence
of Images," was nominated for
the ACM Distinguished
Dissertation award.
Dr. Naresh Gupta is Managing
Director of Adobe's India
research and development center
that he started from concept in
1997 and has since grown to be
the second largest Adobe's R&D
campus worldwide. Dr. Gupta is
also responsible for the Print
and Classis Publishing Business
Unit at Adobe. In this role, he
oversees product marketing and
development for Adobe's
standalone print, Web publishing
and e-learning tools such as
Adobe® PostScript®, Adobe®
Contribute™, Adobe Captivate™,
Adobe Technical Communications
Suite software. His organization
serves a broad and established
base of customers who are
publishing content on paper,
electronically or over the Web.
Prior to joining Adobe, Dr.
Gupta served as principal
scientist and director of the
applied artificial intelligence
(AI) group at LNK Corp., a
company funded by the U.S.
Department of Defense to develop
solutions for image and pattern
recognition, target tracking,
data mining, data fusion and
compression. |
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