Boardroom Media (CEO News)
At CEO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top India based CEO’ operating in the Sales space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Vaibhav Jain
Founder and CEO of StartupFlux
Vaibhav Jain is the Founder of StartupFlux- A startup intelligence platform. He also runs Block labs – Research Oriented Startup Studio specializing in Machine learning and Block Chain technologies. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Tele-Communication from PICT, Pune. Vaibhav wants to streamline and scale Big Corporations, and at the same time empower and create startups. Apart from technology, he has a keen interest in analytics, innovation and Design.
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About BlockLabs, SF Venture Partners, StartupFlux: We envision ourselves as ‘McKinsey for Startups’. Built to help Startups and Businesses looking for a Digital Transformation.
Thirukumaran Nagarajan
Co-founder & CEO of Ninjacart
Thirukumaran Nagarajan, an Anna University-CEG and IIM K alumnus, has over 9 years of experience. He is a serial entrepreneur, has built Shout App and Eduraft, before starting Ninjacart.
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About Ninjacart, Shout: Ninjacart is a business-to-business fresh produce supply chain that connects farmers, manufactures, and brands to retailers directly.
Krishnan Vishwanathan
CEO and Founder of Kissht
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About Kissht: Kissht is a financial technology platform that provides loans and credit for consumers.
Surga Thilakan
Co-founder and CEO of Salesken
Surga worked at Ujjivan Financial Services, India’s leading microfinance institution as their Head, Marketing and designed and executed several innovative loan products for the urban poor. She has also worked at Goldman Sachs, London in their private equity and structured finance groups, on the origination desk, managing Goldman’s investments in infrastructure assets across the UK, France, Italy, Spain, Greece, Germany, Belgium and Turkey. She also worked at Ernst and Young, India advising clients across FMCG, Oil & Gas, Power, Hospitality, Pharma, Telecom and Retail industries on taxation related transaction structuring. Surga has an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and is an associate member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. She is a gold medallist at the board, university and chartered accountancy levels. Surga loves travelling, painting, poetry and hopes to produce an animated feature film someday.
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About Salesken: Salesken is a conversational intelligence platform that gives insight into customer-salesperson interactions.
Max Yoder
CEO, Co-Founder of Lessonly
Max Yoder Lessonly Co-Founder and CEO Lessonly. Max Yoder is grateful that he got cut from the basketball team two years in a row. Out of thousands of applicants, Max was one of 20 recipients of the Orr Fellowship, earning a position at one of Indiana’s most dynamic companies.
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About Lessonly, Quipol: Lessonly is a simple training software that helps teams learn, practice, and do better work.
Vinay Agrrawal
Founder and CEO of Hubler
Though his dream is to build new companies every minute, Vinay busies himself by running day-to-day operations at Hubler. His favorite thing about being an entrepreneur is solving complex ideas and distilling them into new businesses. In fact, he’s transformed companies to unlock immediate gains by at least 75% YoY growth without sacrificing on his fitness routine. Driven by his love for innovating, he led the creation, and subsequent acquisition, of his company Unicel Technologies – a leading enterprise cloud communication solutions provider. Not only is he a pro at creating high performance organizations, he also advises businesses on product roadmap and delivering world class solutions. – – Vinay attended Symbiosis (Pune) before moving to the telecom sector. From banking OTPs to your product orders; finding unique ways to deliver messages that matter to people and businesses.
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About Hubler: Hublerhelps enterprises automate their business processes into web & mobile apps in 24 hours without writing a single line of code.
Sanna Vohra
Founder & CEO of The Wedding Brigade
Sanna Vohra is the founder and CEO of The Wedding Brigade. She started her first company when she was eighteen at Brown University, and immediately fell in love with the thrill of building a business. She later worked at the global marketing agency Saatchi & Saatchi X, and at Morgan Stanley New York’s investment banking division, focusing on technology equity transactions. She soon felt it was time for her next venture. Months later, while sitting with a friend describing the pain of planning her sister’s wedding, she knew she had found it. The seeds for The Wedding Brigade were planted that morning, and she has not looked back since.
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About The Wedding Brigade: The Wedding Brigade offers planning, and shopping portal for Indian weddings
Kausshal Dugarr
Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer & Chief Experience Officer of Teabox
Kaushal’s family has been involved in the tea industry since the 1940’s, this itself gives us an insight as to where the quest for Teabox originated. His experiences and encounters with the Tea era from the childhood make him the perfect person to lead this campaign of restructuring the Indian Premium tea business. Kaushal is the Founder/CEO of Teabox, world’s first vertically integrated tea brand that is disrupting a $50 billion industry with its innovations in technology/supply chain. It has raised over $8 mn in external funding and has been widely chronicled as a disruptive idea in a 200-year old industry. Started in 2013, Teabox has shipped over 40mn cups of tea to customers in 110 countries. Kaushal has also been recognized as Entrepreneur Magazine’s 35 Under 35 (2017), Fortune Magazine’s Top 5 Creative People (2016), CNBC’s Young Turk (2016), an INK Fellow (2015) and AACSB Influential Leader (2015). Kaushal has also been featured in publications such as New York Times, CNN, Forbes and The Economic Times. Most recently he was selected as one of the 40 Under 40 by Fortune magazine. Prior to Teabox, Kaushal worked at KPMG Singapore as a Senior Associate & Corporate Finance Analyst. Kaushal graduated Cum Laude with a Bachelor’s of Business Management from the Singapore Management University (SMU).
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About Teabox: Teabox develops an online platform that offers organic tea and tea-based products direct from the source.
Sheshgiri Kamath
CEO & Co-Founder of Adjetter Media Network
Sheshgiri Kamath is the Co-Founder and CEO of Kapture CRM. He is also the Co-founder of Adjetter Media Network.
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About Adjetter Media Network, Kapture CRM: Adjetter Media Network is the creators of KaptureCRM, a end to end sales, marketing, operations and customer service automation suite.
Racharla Manikanta
Founder & CEO of ShopTap
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About ShopTap: ShopTap is a digital sales platform designed to bridge the gap between online sellers and offline buyers .
Danish Ahmed
Founder & CEO of Shopsity
Danish Ahmed is Founder at Yebhi
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About Hospals, Shopsity: Discover what’s selling in fashion stores nearby, with photos, offers and prices.
Yeshu Singh
Co-Founder & CEO of Upscale
Yeshu is the co-founder & CEO at Upscale, an AI-powered sales platform that accelerates B2B sales pipeline and revenue. Before Upscale, he founded Gopigeon in 2015, a SaaS logistics management company for eCommerce. Gopigeon was acquired by Narvar and thereafter, Yeshu worked with Narvar in product management and operations to strengthen their core offering. His core skills lie around team building, product management, and business development. Yeshu has an entrepreneurial vision to build the next big technology product company from India in the sales technology space. Yeshu graduated from IIT Kharagpur in 2015.
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About Upscale: Upscale is a Sales Engagement Platform that accelerates B2B sales pipeline and revenue.
Milind Prabhudesai
Co-Founder & CEO of BizKonnect
A management professional with an entrepreneurial drive and passion to scale up businesses globally. Strongly believes that people do business with someone they trust and most of the business happens through network. BizKonnect is founded with the same belief to help companies scale up their businesses globally. Before BizKonnect, Milind helped Xpanxion, a software services company, to acquire marquee global clients, to accelerate sales, right through its successful acquisition by UST Global. Prior to joining Xpanxion, he was heading the India operations for mValent, a Boston-based software product company acquired by Oracle. He also helped eGain Communications, a Sunnyvale ( CA ) based software product company to set up and grow their services and solutions business unit in India. Milind spent extensive time as a manager for Ernst & Young Consulting in their Chicago office working on global engagements with clients like Motorola and Sony. He has worked with Wipro Systems, as an account coordinator and technical consultant for the GE Aircraft Engines account in Cincinnati, USA. He started his career as a software professional with the Management Services Division of Telco ( Tata Engineering ). Bachelors of Engineering in Electronics and Telecommunications from the National Institute of Technology (NIT/REC), Nagpur and an MBA (PGDM) from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bangalore
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About BizKonnect: BizKonnect is an enterprise grade global actionable sales intelligence platform.
Rajiv Bajaj
CEO of Bajaj
Rajiv Bajaj is the CEO of Bajaj. He is a graduate with distinction in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pune in 1988, and then completed his masters in Manufacturing Systems Engineering, with distinction, from the University of Warwick in 1990. He is at Bajaj Auto in the areas of Manufacturing and Supply Chain (1990-95), R+D and Engineering (1995-2000), and Marketing and Sales (2000-2005), and has been its Managing Director since April 2005. His current priority is applying the scientific principles of Homoeopathy to the task of building a brand-centered strategy at Bajaj Auto to achieve its vision of being one of the world’s leading motorcycle manufacturers. He has been on the board of Bajaj Auto Ltd since March 5, 2002.
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About Bajaj, Bajaj: Bajaj manufactures and sells scooters, motorcycles, three-wheeler vehicles, and spare parts in India.
Easwar Murthy
Founder and CEO of Iorta Technology Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
Easwar Murthy is the founder and CEO of IorTa Technology Solutions.
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About Iorta Technology Solutions Pvt. Ltd.: Saas; Sales Management Solutions for Insurance companies
Sharmila Sundaram
CEO & Founder of Corefactors
Sharmila is Co-Founder & CEO of Corefactors. She is Concentrated and Goal Oriented Business Development Professional. Under her Leadership, Corefactors has been awarded in Top 20 Marketing Technology Companies in India and Asia Pacific and HOT 100 Technology: RACE TO GRACE 2017 award.
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About Corefactors: Corefactors offers Integrated Business Suite, Teleduce. It helps businesses to sell faster, resolve faster and scale faster
Soumitra Paul
Chief Executive Officer of PlayBook AI
Founder of Wisely, Two failed start ups- 1 in education, another in Aviation.
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About PlayBook AI: Playbook AI provides an omnichannel sales acceleration platform that analyzes the behavior of prospective customers using machine learning.
Ashish Choudhary
Founder and CEO of TRIAD Marketing Services
A marketing specialist with over 10 years of experience in creating and managing deep engagement programs with both trade and consumers. Ashish has a varied cross domain expertise. His initial stint was with NetCarrots where he was engaged in helping brands engage with consumers. Since 2009, Ashish has been running his own Trade & Consumer Marketing agency successfully. He has also pioneered the building of two innovative marketing technology tools- ARMS and MICRO MIRACLE that help trade and marketing managers plan, launch and monitor their trade and consumer marketing programs. Ashish’s core skills are in Trade Marketing, Channel and Incentive Programs, Scheme Administration and Marketing Technology implementation
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About TRIAD Marketing Services: TRIAD is a Trade and Channel Marketing Technology company providing customized marketing solutions to its clients.
Kartik Sarwade
CEO of 7x Sales
Kartik Sarwade serves as the Chief Executive Officer at 7x Sales.
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About 7x Sales: Cloud-based Sales Planning platform to make sales Data Driven and Continuously Improving
Anjali Schiavina
Managing director, CEO of Mandala Apparels
I am a committed social entrepreneur. I would like to be recognized as a profitable, ethical business, with a commitment to preserve traditions, protect precious techniques and high quality skills while supporting communities as well as environmental causes in a demanding global textiles industry
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About Mandala Apparels: Mandala Apparels manufacture apparels in both woven and knits and our factory has GOTS/FLO certifications.
Swapnil Gawade
Cofounder & CEO of StartEZ
Founder at StartEZ
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About StartEZ: 1. One platform for all startup needs (legal, tax, product, funds, marketing, ads, incubation + much more) 2.
Justin Javith
Co-Founder & CEO of LeadMine
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About LeadMine: Fastest way to find your next customer
Abdul Manaf
Founder and CEO of Tastyspots Infoway
Abdul Manaf is the Founder and CEO at TastySpots.
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About Easysoft Technologies, Tastyspots Infoway: TastySpots is a free and simple platform for foodies to explore unique, popular and authentic food spots that can provide you the best food
Nizamudheen Valliayattu
CEO & Founder of Toolyt
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About Toolyt: Increase Field Force Productivity by 40%
Danisha Jinnah
CEO/Founder of Elite Consulting Group (Indianapolis)
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About Elite Consulting Group (Indianapolis): Elite is providing training on lean management.
Sumesh Menon
Founder & CEO of RetailbeanLite
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About RetailbeanLite: RetailbeanLite is a Saas / cloud based Retail software
Anil Jain
CEO & Co-Founder of Process Master Technologies
In 2012, founded PROCESS MASTER, an IT Consulting and solution providing company headquartered in Indore, India. Since the foundation of company, sincere efforts made PROCESSMASTER emerge out as one of the most esteemed names of central India, recognized for providing copper-bottomed off the shelf products for regulated industries like Pharmaceutical, Chemical,Lifesciences and other processing industries.Presently serving as the Director (Business Development) of the company. plays an integral role in company strategic planning, development and defining its future evolution. Being a believer of independent individual growth, lets people learn and lead, and mentors his peers whenever required. Creating great employment opportunities and providing exceptional corporate exposure is also a matter of prime focus, create a great work culture at PROCESSMASTER that can be characterized by positivity and presents room for continuous learning and growth. Specialties: QMS, ERP, CRM, Enterprise Mobility,Business Analytic, Big Data,CSV(computer systems validation)
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About Process Master Technologies: Process Master Technologies is an eminent name in the business sphere, renowned to offer unsurpassed IT software solutions.
Anil Laxman Lade
Founder and CEO of Marketyard
Anil Laxman Lade is the Founder and CEO at Marketyard.
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About Marketyard: Marketyard is a Mobile Application that enables Users to BUY, SELL & RENT “Everything” related to Agriculture.
Saim Ahmad
CEO & Co-founder of Key 2 homes
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About Key 2 homes: A qualified professional team is at the disposal of the property seekers for one on one interaction and guidance in the property decision.
