Kunal Shah is a believer in the power of “FREE.” He is the founder of Freecharge.in, possibly the only original Indian e-commerce idea which was not inspired by a global player. Inspired by the idea of FREE, Kunal pioneered a model whereby customers recharge their mobiles, DTH and data cards online and are rewarded with equivalent value coupons, vouchers, offers and deals of the top retailers in the country.
Kunal wants to take this model and apply it to more than just mobile recharge. Why can’t everything sold online be virtually free? Kunal believes it most certainly can. Currently the CEO and founder of Freecharge.in, Kunal was previously the founder of PaisaBack, a mail-in rebate company, and the business head at TIS, a US-focused BPO for retailers. Kunal is proudly a drop-out of the NMIMS MBA program, and a graduate of Philosophy.
Founder, Managing Partner
Pinstorm, Seedfund
Mahesh Murthy is one of India’s recognised experts in youth marketing – having helped launch MTV India, run Channel V and managed offline and online marketing efforts for brands like Pepsi, Nike, Idea Cellular, Lipton and The Economist.
Mahesh has spent over 25 years in marketing and advertising, of which the last 15 have been in digital marketing. After dropping out of college, Mahesh sold vacuum cleaners from door to door, worked with Grey in India and Ogilvy in Hong Kong, where he won notoriety and awards as a creative director on HP, Korean Air and other brands – for whom he wrote and directed a spot voted â
CEO ,Carwale.com
“After completion of his MBA and spending the first three years of his career in a start-up, Mohit took the entrepreneurial plunge with an initiative aimed at building the concept of telemedicine in remote villages. Post that, he ventured into delivering customized software. In 2005, while creating software for a car dealership, Mohit saw the frictions in car buying and founded CarWale.com.
Today, CarWale is South Asia’s leading car portal and acknowledged as the market leader in its space. Backed by India’s leading early stage venture capital firm Seedfund and top tier US venture fund Sierra Ventures, and with over 2.4 million visits a month, the portal is way ahead of its nearest rival launched by Times of India. It has influenced approximately $3 billion of car transactions in India and has won many prestigious awards including the Red Herring Asia Top 100, BusinessWeek’s Top 25 young entrepreneurs in Asia and PCWorld Web Award for best automotive website.
Carwale.com offers a complete consumer-focused service that includes content and tools for exhaustive research, pricing and marketplace information. As consumers research and make purchase decisions, the portal connects them with automotive manufacturers, finance and insurance companies, allowing them to make the best decisions for their automotive purchases. CarWale also offers more than 400,000 pages of car research, tips-advices, road-tests etc.
It has also what could be India’s first used car and new car price guide. It provides the on-road price of almost all cars being sold in 300+ Indian cities. It also serves 8,000 used car value checks every day. The Recommend Me A Car feature is used by more than one thousand new car buyers every day. From 500 used car listings in Oct’ 05, the portal today has around 15,000 listings. CarWale offers more than 400,000 pages of car research, tips-advices, road-tests etc.
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Award winning journalist + Bestselling author + Prominent lyric writer + Radio Storyteller (92.7 BIG FM) + Bollywood Scriptwriter + Photographer + Entrepreneur (Newspaper : Gaon Connection)
Sahil is an author, web entrepreneur and founder of Synage Software (www.synage.com) – a technology company in India that successfully pioneered one of Indiaâ
Founder & ceo of Instamojo.com where we are making online commerce simple, fun & dead easy. Previously built 2 startups. 1 exited. Raised venture money 3 times. Last company rose $20M. Passionate about e-commerce, payments and mobile ecosystem.
A cynic of the highest order, Varun is an engineer from IIT (Varanasi) who couldn’t develop any feelings for a 9 to 5 job. His comedy is derived from milking the holy cows after killing them. He hates TV to the extent that he bought one to smash his TV loving neighbor into.
He is the lead writer of India’s first and foremost stand-up comedy show Jay Hind, and has written for The Great Indian Comedy Show and Oye! It’s Friday in the past. He has also written the lyrics for Anurag Kashyap’s two-part film ‘Gangs of Wasseypur’ (2012).
Founder, mydentist
Vikram’s company is the largest dental chain in India providing affordable but high quality dental care services using the best available technology and maintaining high levels of sterilization standards. mydentist currently employs more than 150 dentists and caters to more than 5000 patients every month through 34 dental centers in Mumbai and Pune.
Educational Qualifications: Bachelors in Production Engineering (Mumbai Univ.), MMS Marketing (Mumbai Univ.)
Prior to mydentist, Vikram worked with Southside Infusion Pharmacy chain (Houston TX, USA), Lionbridge technologies (Mumbai) and ICICI Bank (Knowledge Management).
