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| Paresh Rajde (Founder & Chairman) |
A Chartered Accountant (1991 Batch) with over 20 years of rich experience across multi-functional domains viz., Finance, Accounting, Technology & IT enabled Services, Gaming and Product Development;
As Executive Director at Turbo Infotech Limited, pioneered the development & launch of web-utility Direct Tax portals viz., www.taxationindia.com in 2001; |
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As Founder & CEO of Forbes Infotainment Limited, successfully launched “DhanDhanaDhan”, a lottery brand that achieved a turnover of over Rs.300 Crores in its inaugural year of Operations and successfully sold the brand to Mr Shapoorji Pallonji / Forbes Group;
Pioneered India’s first innovative, integrated, multi-services S-Commerce® (Service-Commerce) Platform and successfully established brand “Suvidhaa”, the fastest growing S-Commerce® company in India;
Conceived & built the web-services model of e-Ticketing for IRCTC which led to Suvidhaa becoming the 1st to be connected with IRCTC, which was later offered to other aggregators;
Was awarded the prestigious Girnar Award (2007) and the Kutch Shakti Award (2008) in recognition for his contributions in bringing a wide range of customer-centric G2C/B2C Services to the doorstep of the common man;
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, acknowledging his pioneering efforts, honoured Mr Rajde with the Business Achiever (SME) Award in the year 2009.
The revolutionary socio-economic Business Model of Suvidhaa was ranked amongst Asia’s Top 100 Start-ups by Red Herring 100 Asia in 2009 and was nominated for the Top 200 Global Start-ups for the year 2010.
His vision for an inclusive growth won Suvidhaa the SKOCH Virtual Corporation Award for Digital Inclusion for Rural & Urban Poor (2010), the SKOCH Financial Inclusion Award (2011) and more recently on 22 Sept. 2011, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) honoured Mr Rajde with its prestigious Inclusive Business Leader Award for the year 2011 |
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| Haresh Bathija (CEO & Board Member) |
Haresh was the founding member at Reliance Venture Asset Management Ltd., the corporate venture capital arm of the Reliance Group. He is a recipient of the 2012 Rashtriya Sanman Award.
Haresh has had considerable experience in deal lifecycle through identification and investing in high growth potential companies across varied sectors. He managed and represented Reliance Venture’s investment in multiple portfolio companies both in India and globally. He served on the Board of Suvidhaa Infoserve, AllGreen Energy India, Pelago Inc (acquired by Groupon), Stoke Inc and Scalable Display Technologies. |
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He has over 18 years of operating experience. His prior work experience includes Tata Teleservices Limited, where he led the turnaround of the post paid mobile business and grew the subscriber base multi-fold to a multi-million dollar business with over a million customers. He is also credited with launching India’s first Push-To-Talk service in collaboration with Qualcomm. As product head, he led the enterprise vertical mobility business and successfully launched several mobility solutions.
He earlier served with Zip Telecom limited, where he led the launch and marketing initiatives of ‘Zipfones’ - India’s first private sector payphone service and helped grow the base to over 22,000 outlets. Earlier to this, as Head Marketing of Associated Breweries, a United Breweries Group company, had him spearheading the launch of San Miguel beer, India’s first international beer brand, which also led to the creation of the premium beer segment. Haresh began his career with Arvind Mills and was a key team member that launched the highly successful ‘Ruf n Tuf’ brand – the world’s first branded ready-to-stitch jeans pack.
He serves as a mentor to several start-up initiatives such as the IIM (A) incubation center, Economic Times’ Power of Ideas program, NEN Foundation and the MIT $100K program.
Haresh received an MBA from S.P. Jain Institute of Management and Research, Mumbai and graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce from University of Madras.
He served as President of AIESEC, the world’s largest non-profit students’ organization. He is a follower of the Art of Living Foundation and is passionate about discovering global food cultures and loves travelling to off-beaten locations.
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| Rahul Bhamburkar (Sr. VP – Sales, Marketing & Operations) |
Entrepreneurial leader with over 17 years of sales and marketing experience in managing multiple categories across leading organisations like Hindustan Unilever Ltd. and Godrej Sara Lee Ltd.
He was part of the Management Committee of Godrej Sara Lee Ltd. as Head of Sales and Business Development and successfully led the due-diligence team on the USD 280mio acquisition of the Indonesian group Megasari Makmur. |
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At Suvidhaa, Rahul heads the B2B vertical and is responsible for P&L, revenue and distribution footprint.
Rahul has completed GPMD from Ross School of Business, University of Michigan. He is a Mechanical Engineer from VNIT, Nagpur and has also completed post graduation in Management from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
As part of his Social commitment, he raised more than Rs. 1 Lac for CRY by completing the Full Marathon in SCMM 2010. |
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| Sidharth Saxena (VP – Business Development) |
| Sidharth holds an MBA in Marketing & Finance and has held senior management positions throughout his dynamic career with MNC’s such as eBay India (formerly Baazee.com), Citibank N.A. and Deutsche Bank AG to name a few.
As Director, Global Sourcing, South Asia, for Deutsche Bank AG, managed a spend of $ 200 Million and was instrumental in the bank’s sourcing strategy. In this role, he implemented various policies & procedures, thus enabling the business group to save a total of $ 52 Million during his stint. |
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At Suvidhaa, Sidharth heads the Business Development vertical for B2C and Bank Alliances for Cash Management Services. |
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| Shashank Sathe (CTO) |
Shashank has 17+ years of experience in core Information Technology. He has been a pioneer in the development & deployment of Internet & eBanking applications in India.
He possesses extensive industry knowledge on eBanking, eTrading, ERP, SCM, CRM, Online / Internet Advertising, deploying large scale Rich Internet Applications, Live Audio-Video Broadcasting over the Internet & Clustered / Grid Computing. |
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Shashank holds multiple masters & post-grads in information systems management, business
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statistics & operations research from the NCC-UK, NMIMS, IIM-A & WeIMS.
He continues to host corporate workshops & discussion forums on a number of cutting-edge technology issues & open-source based high-availability computing. |
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| Prashant Thakar (VP – Accounts, Finance, Legal & Admin) |
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Has over 14 years of experience in Strategic Financial Planning & Management Accounts, Auditing, Taxation, MIS & Operations.
Prashant has done his B.Com from Mumbai University, Accounting Technician from Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) & completed his management in finance from IIM-Calcutta. |
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Held key positions in leading Corporate Groups including Asian Paints, Cobra PLC., and People Group (Shaadi.com, Makaan.com, Mauj.com etc.)
Prashant has been instrumental in raising capital for past organisations totalling to $36Mn.
At Suvidhaa, Prashant heads Finance and legal vertical & is responsible for Fund Raising , Financial Strategy/Reporting, Taxation, Investor Relations, Legal/Statutory compliance. |
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| Naresh Sharma (VP – IT) |
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Has over 25 years of experience in implementing IT Strategies & IT Projects in several Pharma majors including IPCA Laboratories.
Successfully implemented SAP at Glenmark Pharmaceuticals, integrated 64 C&F Agents and 7 Factories at Workhardt using Web. |
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At Forbes Infotainment, he was instrumental in rolling out 2000+ wireless real-time POS Terminals to generate approx. 1 million transactions per day.
At Suvidhaa, Naresh heads Technology initiatives and is responsible for Integration and Development. |
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