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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 Karnataka based CEO’ operating in the Consulting 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.
Bhaskar Bodapati
Chief Executive Officer of GMR Group
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About GMR Group: GMR Group is an infrastructure provider with a wide presence, impact and scope that extends from: • National to the global.
Mike Holland
Chief Executive Officer, Embassy Office Parks of Embassy Group
Mike Holland is the Chief Executive Officer of Embassy Office Parks, one of India’s leading property developers which owns and manages over 25 million sq ft of commercial real estate space across Bangalore and Pune. Embassy has an office development pipeline in excess of 20 million sq ft including four new business park projects in Chennai and Hyderabad. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Building Surveying and a Master’s degree in Property Development (Project Management) from Thames Polytechnic and South Bank University and is a fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. He has over 25 years of experience in the commercial real estate sector in Asia, Europe and USA. Prior to joining the Embassy Group, he was the Chief Executive Officer of Assetz Property Group. He founded the JLW India/Jones Lang LaSalle India business and has served as its country manager and managing director from 1998 to 2002. He also served as director of corporate services responsible for the procurement and real estate function of Microsoft Corooration across Asia Pacific. including India and China between 2003 and 2006. Mike is also a member of the RICS South Asia Board and is actively involved in several community activities in India and is a Board Member of a number of charitable organisations focused on disability and education.
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About Embassy Group: Embassy Group is a real estate development company that offers property development, asset management, and property management services.
Pradeep Lala
Chief Executive Officer, Embassy Services of Embassy Group
Pradeep Lala is the CEO at Embassy Services since 2013. In a short span of time, he has taken Embassy Services to become one of the largest business units within the Embassy Group. Additionally, under his leadership, Embassy Services has expanded its operations to multiple domains and ensures business continuity to around SOM sqft of space. Pradeep has ensured that Embassy Services has become known in the Integrated Facilities Management industry for its operational excellence and dedication towards customer service. Pradeep has a degree in Mechanical Engineering and an MBA in Finance. He began his career at Ingersoll Rand, where he worked for 14 years and became the only Indian Channel Partner. Post this, he founded the Horizon Group in 2000. and worked tirelessly to establish a strong leadership for the company, so that it could run independently.
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About Embassy Group, Horizon Airtech: Embassy Group is a real estate development company that offers property development, asset management, and property management services.
Abhishek Nayak
CEO and Co-Founder of Bicycle AI
Abhishek is excited by practical applications of deep learning. He previously headed product management at Ezetap, a fast growing mobile payments startup. He founded Gharpay(acquired by Delhivery) and ClinkNow(acquired by Ezetap), both backed by Sequoia Capital in India. He studied Biological Sciences at BITS Pilani.
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About Accel, Appsmith, Bicycle AI: Bicycle is a full-stack customer support service provider.
Rajeev Yadav
Founder, MD & CEO of Fincare
Rajeev has over 23 years of experience in financial services sector with a major part of his career as a business leader with global exposure. His professional expertise spans extensive P&L, business development, strategy & planning, product & relationship management capabilities . His previous stints include India Business Leader -PL & Mortgages (GE Money), India CMO and Business Development Leader (GE Capital), India CEO (GE Money) etc.He holds a BE degree from IIT and PGDM from IIM.
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About Fincare, Fincare Small Finance Bank: Fincare is an investment company that manages multiple businesses in one single platform.
Priti Sawant
Founder & CEO of JoulestoWatts
JoulestoWatts is led by Priti Sawant. She brings over two decades’ experience in managing strategic engagements and leverages her vast operational experience to advise companies on growing their business by uncovering new opportunities and identifying untapped revenue streams in addition to developing leadership capital. She is widely recognised for her role in charting the growth of IT contract staffing in India and defining path-breaking staffing models for Fortune 500 technology companies. A hands-on people person, she is known for shaping and fostering enthusiastic and energetic work culture and building high-performance teams. Priti successfully led Magna India operations as COO during 2010-2012, a period of heightened activity and global expansion. She was elevated to Executive Director & CEO of Magna Infotech in 2013 with the responsibility to oversee the company’s Indian and global operations. A premier IT contract staffing company, Magna Infotech is an Ikya Group company owned by $30bn Fairfax Group. Currently, Magna Infotech is a 7500-strong company with Rs. 400-crore turnover. Priti is an active CII IWIN member and also channels her energies to mentor startups. She is also known in industry circles as a talent acquisition trendsetter and a gender diversity specialist. A keen advocate of gender diversity at the workplace, she had 50 per cent leadership roles driven by women and her internal core staff comprised 40 per cent women. She has helped organisations articulate strategies for the development of women at the workplace by defining and addressing the challenges they experience and encouraging their professional growth. Priti has a background in Electrical Engineering and Marketing Management. Prior to her association with the Ikya Group, Priti’s career has seen her essay managerial and leadership roles at Accenture and Boston Management Consultants.
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About JoulestoWatts: JoulestoWatts is a business solutioning and consulting company that delivers client-focused and multi-disciplinary solutions.
Rajeev Pathak
CEO of funtoot
Rajeev has a master’s degree in Business Administration from IIM Bangalore and M.Tech from BITS Pilani. Prior to eDreams, Rajeev was GM – Software Products Group at Wipro (100 MUSD Business at Wipro). He has won many awards at Wipro in business innovation, business development, account and project management. Rajeev has 19 years of work experience to his credit.
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About funtoot: The inventor of world’s first intelligent and adaptive personal tutor “funtoot” for K-12 education.
Prahlad D.N.
Founder and CEO of Surya Software Systems
D. N. Prahlad is the founder and CEO of Surya Software Systems Private Limited, Bangalore. Surya focusses on products for financial risk management of financial institutions in general and banks in particular. In addition, Prahlad is on the advisory board of Computer Science and Automation Department of Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He served as an adjunct faculty at Indian institute of Information Technology, Bangalore in its formative years. He serves as an advisory board member of PathShodh Healthcare, a company with leading edge nano-technology in diagnostic measurements related to diabetes. Prahlad is a B.Sc. with honours in mathematics from Bangalore University and B.E. (Electrical technology and Electronics) from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Prior to founding Surya, Prahlad played a key role in the rapid growth of Infosys Technologies, being associated with Infosys from its formative years. He brings with him a high level of experience of working with multiple Fortune 50 clients, creation of new services, products and strategies.
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About Surya Software Systems: Surya Software Systems is specialized in analytics and data collections, products for financial risk and treasury management.
Pravin Agarwala
Co-Founder and CEO of BetterPlace Safety Solutions
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About BetterPlace Safety Solutions: BetterPlace provides businesses with contractor workforce management, including onboarding, training, and background checks.
Ravi Segal
CEO of Manav Energy Pvt Ltd.
Ravi Segal is the CEO at Manav Energy.
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About Manav Energy Pvt Ltd.: Manav Energy Pvt. Ltd. is subject matter experts in the field of electrical safety and reliability, protecting valuable life and assets.
Yamuna Sastry
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Cab Dost
Yamuna Sastry is the Founder and CEO of Cab Dost. Working with the taxi drivers community to help them file their Income tax returns and aim to bring financial inclusion by creating awareness to build a credible track record and plan their finances. There is nothing more rewarding than them being able to help people from the bottom of the pyramid finally reap the benefits of financial inclusion, like building a track record of income, becoming financially literate, reducing the cost of credit from the organized sector, getting their first TDS refunds, and most importantly instilling the culture of compliance. After working with 10000+ drivers, 6 Crores TDS Refunds have gone back, 1.3 Crore Taxes paid, Fin Literacy Programs for 12000+, inspired us and to extend our services to many such at the bottom of the pyramid-like delivery partners, truck drivers, auto drivers, housekeeping, small scale self-employed and another contract workforce, etc.
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About Cab Dost, Spark – Financial Wellness: Cab Dost provides taxi drivers with expert advisory services related to tax planning to ensure that they secure a financial future.
Ajay Prabhu
CEO of KVP Business Solutions
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About KVP Business Solutions: Salesforce Implementation Partner / Ruby on Rails Developers
Sayandeb Banerjee
Co-founder and CEO of TheMathCompany
Sayandeb’s role in Mu Sigma entails client delivery, people development and providing thought leadership across multiple client accounts. He has over 15 years of experience in analytics, business intelligence, and quantitative modeling using advanced data mining techniques and data management. He was one of the founding members of GE’s offshore analytics unit (now Genpact), which he helped them grow from 10 to 750 people. He also has significant domain expertise in Consumer Finance and Insurance business verticals. Sayandeb has an MS in Quantitative Economics from Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Calcutta & New Delhi; where he ranked first and was the recipient of the ISI Alumni Association gold medal.
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About Mu Sigma, TheMathCompany: TheMathCompany is a data science firm
Arjun Pratap
Founder and CEO of EdGE Networks
Arjun Pratap is founder and chief executive officer at EdGE Networks. Fueled by the vision to build future-focused HR technology solutions – Arjun leads EdGE to be an innovative Artificial Intelligence driven HR technology solutions provider – focused on helping organizations solve their toughest talent acquisition and workforce optimization challenges. Prior to EdGE Networks, Arjun has worked with organizations such as SpeedERA Networks and Akamai Technologies, where he was responsible for building their India and international businesses. He also headed the sales function at Dexler Information Solutions to provide strategic direction in building the company. Arjun holds a post graduate degree in Information Systems and International Business, from The University of Sydney, Australia.
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About EdGE Networks: EdGE provides nextGen technology solutions for workforce transformation powered by data science and artificial intelligence.
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.
Rajesh Bhat
Founder / CEO of Iron Lady
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About Head Held High, Iron Lady: Iron Lady develops breakthrough transformational programs that enhance the capabilities of people.
Vinod Kumar
Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director of Subex
Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director, at Subex Limited.
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About Subex, Subex Secure: Software providers for Revenue Assurance, Fraud Management, IoT Security, Partner Management, Telecom Analytics & Network Analytics
Pari Natarajan
Co-Founder & CEO of Zinnov
Pari has successfully spearheaded engagements for Fortune 500 companies and helped them effectively globalize their R&D initiatives and bolster their business footprint in India and across other emerging markets.
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About Zinnov: At Zinnov, we work in tandem with our clients to tackle organizational challenges, improve performance and build institutional capability.
Triveni Shankar
CEO & Founder of Prowide Solutions
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About Prowide Solutions: Prowide Solutions is a full service web and mobile application development company with a special focus in entrepeneurship.
Aashish Solanki
Founder & CEO of NetBramha Studios
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About NetBramha Studios: NetBramha, is an award winning user experience design studio offering research, strategy & design for B2B & B2C clients over last 14 years.
Atul Shinghal
CEO of Probe Equity Research
Having spent over 16 years in large corporates, Atul was drawn to Probe for the freedom it brought to his thinking and the ability to actually do stuff. At Probe his mandate is to hire great people, who deliver high quality research to a set of very satisfied customers. Atul started his career selling threads with Madura Coats and has subsequently worked in banking and insurance with Capital One and Old Mutual in India, UK and South Africa. He has had successful stints in leading turnarounds, break through growth and start-ups. His passion is for building and driving businesses through data and analytics – that are simple, scalable and sustainable. Atul grew up in an army family and has travelled extensively around the country, finishing his schooling at Mayo College in Ajmer. A graduate from IIT Madras and IIM Bangalore, he is a keen golfer, enjoys travel and splits his free time between his kids and watching Arsenal.
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About Probe Equity Research, Probe Information, Scripbox: Probe is an investment research and analytics company based out of Bangalore, India.
Ganesh Iyer
CEO – India Operations of Symphony Ventures
Ganesh, a veteran BPO and consulting executive, is a post-graduate from Xavier School of Management and a graduate from National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli. He has previously worked at Firstsource, Cognizant, HCL and eVentures over a 20-year career spent in India, the U.S. and Europe. In his last role at Firstsource, he was responsible for global strategy, marketing, investor relations and mergers and acquisitions. Over the course of his career, he has led client engagements in various banking, financial services, telecommunications, manufacturing and pharmaceutical industries across the globe. He is also an active member in various start-up networks in India.
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About Symphony Ventures: Symphony is a professional services firm passionate about creating value for the world’s leading organizations.
Suparna Rao
Co-Founder & CEO of Excellence4u
Suparna Rao is a Co-Founder & CEO at Excellence4u.
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About Excellence4u: Excellence4u is a Bangalore-based company offering assessment process outsourcing solution for IT industry.
Vijay Kumar
CEO and MD of Peepal Consulting
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About Peepal Consulting: Peepal Consulting is a recruitment company in Bangalore.
Lokesh Thati
Co-Founder and CEO of Akira Consultancy
Lokesh brings with him expertise & forte in Business Intelligence, Analytics and Global Sourcing. His vast hands-on experience working with CPG, Finance and Healthcare Industries gives Akira an unparalled competitive edge. His current responsibilities include expansion strategy of business in global growth markets.
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About Akira Consultancy: Akira Consultancy is a specialist business intelligence and analytics services firm.
Karthikeyan Kuppuswamy
Founder and CEO of JumpQs
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About JumpQs: Context Information Bombs from Drones to Phones
Ranjith Kumar Diraviyam
Founder & CEO of Bevywise Networks
Graduated from Anna University, Chennai. A people friendly person and a great mentor. Carzy about Products and Technology. – 18+ Years of experience in Software industry working on the complete product lifecyle (Requirements, Analysis, Design, Development, Quality, Deployment and Customer Support) – Experience in handling Installable and Web based products. – Expert in building solutions end to end for Internet of Things.
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About Bevywise Networks: Enable Businesses creating world class IoT Solutions for other Businesses and Customers
Kashyap Kompella
CEO of rpa2ai
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About Real Story Group, rpa2ai: rpa2ai is a global industry analyst and advisory firm.
Anoop Kulkarni
Founder and CEO of Innotomy Consulting
Anoop Kulkarni is the founder and CE of Innotomy Consulting.
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About Innotomy Consulting: Innotomy Consulting offers consultancy, training, workshops and teaching.
Animesh S.
Founder & CEO of eAgeIT
Animesh S. is the founder and CEO of eAge Technologies.
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About eAgeIT: e-Learning
Senthil Kumar
Founder & CEO of Intepat IP Services
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About Intepat IP Services: Intepat IP Services is a niche intellectual property consulting firm providing property-related services.
Navin Thangiah
Founder and CEO of MobileOffize
Navin Thangiah is the founder and CEO of MobileOffize.
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About MobileOffize: MobileOffize is a mobile SaaS platform for digital transformation of small and medium enterprises with distributed teams.
Dharmendra SINGH
Chief Executive Officer of Intgrea Partners
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About Intgrea Partners: INTGREA digital platform is a SaaS application for management and execution of M&A transactions starting with deal discovery.
Harish Duganapu
Founder & CEO of yubaris
Harish duganapu is originally from [[bangalore]], His business partner, Srikanth.G & Vivek gupta, is also from bangalore. After completion of degree Harish duganapu joined Spar hypermartket company where he served for few months. In 2010, he joined SWIGGY Then he got SRIKANTH .G & Vivek gupta and after 6 months they both decided to leave swiggy.They initially thought of starting a e-commerce search engine, but realized that the market for books [[E-commerce in India]] was very small. Hence, after leaving SWIGGY in 2015, they founded [[yubaris]] [[zingrush]]as an [[e-commerce]] and theis core company name is VIZZVE TECHNOLOGIES PVT LTD
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About yubaris: Buy Engineering (BE|B.tech|ME|M.tech), Medical, CA, Law Books, PU, SSLC, Degree (BCA|BSC|BA|B.
Rajeev Banduni
Co-founder and CEO of GrowthEnabler
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About GrowthEnabler: GrowthEnabler delivers data, insights & intelligence on disruptive technologies and digital innovations
Raj Bhatt
CEO of Knowledge Foundry
Raj focuses on the retail, financial services, and telecoms verticals. His areas of interest include management consulting, direct campaign design, retail promotional optimization, attrition analytics, channel partner analytics, and inventory management. Raj has more than 15 years of experience in analytics and management consulting. Before KF, he led CRM Analytics at Marketics (now WNS). He was instrumental in starting the retail and financial services practices. Raj has held senior positions at Booz & Co. (New York) and Adventis (New York) where he advised several global companies in telecoms and financial services. He holds an MBA degree from IIM Ahmedabad, and a B.Tech. degree from IIT Bombay. He has completed the requirements for a CFA charter.
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About Knowledge Foundry: Knowledge Foundry is providing analytics and research solutions for retail, e-commerce, consumer brands and B2B companies.
Sibi Kabilan
Founder and CEO of KayaDev AI
Sibi Kabilan is the Founder and CEO at KayaDev AI.
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About KayaDev AI: AI & Automation Services Company
Vikram Melkote
CEO of VGROUP
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About VGROUP: VGROUP is a brand strategy, design and communications agency with a simple but powerful belief.
Sukirti Panigrahi
CEO of Digiby
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About Deloitte, Digiby, Growth Ventures: Digiby is a next generation marketing consulting company with end to end strategy and implementation in marketing Automation and Martech.
Reuben Ray
Founder and CEO of Pexitics
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About Pexitics: Pexitics is an Analytics firm specializing in HR Analytics and BFSI Analytics. It launched its product PexiScore in 2017.
Vijaya Kumar DS
Founder, MD and CEO of iGniTe Inclusive Technologies
Vijaya Kumar DS has 23 years of experience from IT, wireless, data networking and R&D. He is an experience leader was instrumental in building teams, customer/client engagement, transitions and product activities in his previous companies. He worked with C-DOT Alcatel Lucent Research Center, Alcatel Lucent, IBM India/Canada, Sasken Communication, Tech Mahindra and Power Grid Corporation Of India Limited.
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About iGniTe Inclusive Technologies: iGniTe Inclusive Technologies is an organization which is focused on R&D for Product Development & Business Software Solutions.
Deepti Arora
CEO and Founder of Healclinic Healthcare
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About Healclinic Healthcare: Healclinic is a wellness startup providing healthcare consulting to global clients and holistic workshops to corporates
Jeff Bennett
Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of SiegeWorks
Jeff Bennett is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of SiegeWorks.
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About Allgress, SiegeWorks: SiegeWorks is the Provider of enterprise security, consulting and integration services.
Kishan Thangali
Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director of Mandamus Info Knowledge Consultants
Senior IT Sales management professional dedicated to leading successful teams to drive revenue and marketing goals. Strong combination of engineering and general management qualifications. Initiate and direct valuable alliances that allow organizations to adapt to the needs of overseas and emerging markets. Known for fusing entrepreneurial drive and vision with business acumen to launch missions and bring them to fruition. Proven ability to build and manage creative, highly energized, focused teams. Measurable revenue enhancement and expense reduction achieved by establishing clear strategies, executing interdisciplinary programs, and building internal coalitions and external alliances.
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About Mandamus Info Knowledge Consultants: Mandamus Info Knowledge Consultants is a provider of integrated cyber fraud management services.
Sudheer Kiran
Founder & CEO of Digital Vow
Sudheer Kiran is a Digital Marketing Consultant in India, He helped more than 100 brands by improving their brand awareness and lead generation process that helps to get potential customers. Having several years of experience in Internet Marketing, Inbound Lead Generation, Brand Development & Search Engine Marketing. As an aspiring online entrepreneur, He started his first start-up company with an ultimate goal of World’s Best Digital Marketing Agency.
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About Digital Vow, OneBill: DigitalVow is a Digital Marketing Agency
Susanta Mukhopadhyay
CEO of Prolific HR consultant India Ltd
Susanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay is the Chief Executive Officer at Prolific HR Consultants (India) Ltd.
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About Prolific HR consultant India Ltd: Prolific HR is a job placement consultancy and payroll outsourcing company that helps candidates apply for best MNC jobs.
Abhas Deodhiya
CEO & Co-founder of JobShikaar
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About JobShikaar: Jobshikaar is an online job search platform for job seekers throughout India.
Jais Joy
Chief Executive Officer of DreamHomes Club
B.Tech graduate from one of the premier institution in India, Around 16 years of IT experience. Around 11 years with IBM worked on all cutting edge technologies and managed key projects.
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About DreamHomes Club: DreamHomes Club, LLC is founded for developing and selling a product currently branded as ‘DreamHome’ .
