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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, an Indian national, is our Founder and Executive Vice-Chairman. 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. 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). Sanjeev, along with his partner Hitesh Oberoi, won the “Ernst and Young – Entrepreneur of the Year” award in 2008 for Business Transformation. He also won the Dataquest Pathbreaker Award & the Teacher’s Achievement Award for Business in 2008. Sanjeev is a frequent speaker on entrepreneurship at conferences and at business schools. |
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Hitesh Oberoi, an Indian national, is our Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer. 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. 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, 99acres.com and Shiksha.com & other new businesses. 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. Hitesh, along with his partner Sanjeev Bikhchandani, won the “Ernst and Young – Entrepreneur of the Year” award in 2008 for Business Transformation. |
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Ambarish Raghuvanshi, an Indian national, is our Whole Time Director, Group President-Finance and Chief Financial Officer. 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. 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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Mr. Arun Duggal is a Visiting
Professor at the Indian
Institute of Management,
Ahmedabad where he teaches a
course on Venture Capital &
Private Equity. Mr. Duggal is a
Senior Advisor to TPG Capital, a
major Private Equity firm
headquartered in San Francisco.
Arun Duggal is Chairman of Board
of Directors of Shriram Capital,
Shriram Transport Finance
Company, Shriram Properties,
Shriram City Union Finance, and
Shriram EPC. He is also Chairman
of Bellwether Microfinance Fund,
which provides equity capital to
promising Micro Finance
organizations. He is the Vice
Chairman of International Asset
Reconstruction Company. He is an
experienced international Banker
and has advised companies and
financial institutions on
Financial Strategy, M&A and
Capital Raising.
He is on the Board of
Directors of Jubilant Energy.
Netherlands (Chairman Audit
Committee), Patni Computers
(Chairman, Audit Committee),
Fidelity Fund Management, Ecron
Acunova, Zuari Industries, Info
Edge (Chairman Audit Committee),
Dish TV, Mundra Port and Mortice
Limited (Singapore) (Chairman of
Audit Committee). He is a member
of the Investment Committee of
Axis Private Equity. He was
erstwhile Chairman of the
American Chamber of Commerce,
India He was on the Board of
Governors of the National
Institute of Bank Management.
Mr. Duggal is involved in
several initiatives in social
and education sectors. 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.
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,
Ahmadabad.
He is a US national and
Overseas Citizen of India. 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. They live
primarily in New Delhi, but also
spend some time in their homes
in Kasauli (Himachal Pradesh)
and New York. |
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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, 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 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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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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