He actively mentors, incubates and funds start-ups and is promoter of several Indian consumer Internet and ecommerce companies including Bigbasket.com – India’s largest eGrocery company, Bluestone.com – leading online jewelry company, Avagmah.com – India’s fastest growing online education company and HomeLane – India’s leading end to end, vertically integrated interior design and manufacturing provider which delivered more than 1000 projects delivered across the country. In addition, his angel investments include little eye labs (acquired by Facebook in Jan 2014), mustseeIndia.com, overcart.com delyver.com, onlineprasad.com, Pokkt, SilverPush and Oximity.

Previously, Ganesh founded of the data analytics BPO firm Marketics until March 2007, when the company was acquired by NYSE listed WNS for $ 63 MM.
His previous venture, CustomerAsset was started in mid-2000 and later acquired by ICICI (NYSE listed, India’s largest bank) and is now publicly listed in India as First Source Solutions.

In 1990, he founded his first company – IT&T, one of India’s top multi-vendor IT service and support company. The business was acquired by iGate (a listed company) in 2003.
Ganesh has also worked as the CEO of Wipro/Bharti British Telecom – a British Telecom JV in India, and held a senior management position in HCL Ltd.

He is also a popular speaker in entrepreneurship, start-up and technology events. He has been recognized as one of the “Iconic Entrepreneurs of India” in a document published by National Knowledge Commission, Government of India.
He serves as a member of Board of Governors of Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. Krishnan is a post-graduate from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, and has a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Delhi University.

Vaibhav has over 18 year’s diversified experience in building new businesses across Industries such as Business Process Outsourcing, Technology and Supply Chain Management.
He was the co-founder and CEO-India at iSeva, a leading BPO Company, and grew it to 2200 employees in 5 years prior to its acquisition by e4e in 2005. iSeva also consistently ranked amongst the best BPO companies to work for in India. Post the acquisition, he was the President at e4e managing India Operations across 4 centers and 3500 people till 2007. Subsequently, he co-founded and ran o2s360, a B2B distributor loyalty and coupon management software company for 4 years.
In his last assignment, Vaibhav was the Chief Marketing Officer at Microland, a leading IMS Services company. He was responsible for global marketing and services strategy functions of the company. He successfully launched the Cloud Services for the company including forging partnerships with technology majors like VMware and Citrix etc.
He has worked with Citibank and Saint-Gobain in the early part of his career. Vaibhav has been an accomplished speaker at many forums and events like InterOp, CII, TiE and Cloud Connect etc. He has also published numerous papers and articles with many leading publications over the years. He has been actively involved in promoting entrepreneurship and serves on Advisory Board for many start-ups. Vaibhav is a B.Tech. from IIT Kanpur and a MBA from IIM Calcutta.

Kavita heads marketing at Portea. Previously, Kavita was GM – Marketing at Taxiforsure & owned all initiatives for demand generation, positioning & messaging. She owned the marketing campaigns for Dell India Consumer Marketing team and was part of the team that drove Dell to No.1 position in India. From selling hair oil at Marico to designing ads for Dell laptops, she thoroughly enjoys all things marketing. She is an alumnus of IIM Ahmedabad & NITK Surathkal.

Ashish brings 15+ years of experience in Medical Equipment business. After working in US Healthcare, he built a successful Home Healthcare business in India (Health Mantra) which was acquired by Portea.

Manoranjan leads the business development effort of our Pharma BU and has been instrumental in creating the sizeable portfolio of Speciality Pharma Distribution and Services. Prior to this role he has a rich 15 year experience spanning diverse functions in big Pharma companies.

He has completed his Post Graduate studies from NALSAR University of Law and Osmania University College of Business Management and holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Chemistry. He enjoys working on new initiatives in complex environments where change is the growth driver.

Barnali comes with 12 years of experience working in diverse industry segments – HR Consulting, Manufacturing, Retail, Pharma and Consumer Durables. She is a Botany graduate and holds a Master’s degree in Personnel Management and Industrial Relations from Pune University. She also holds International Certifications in HR and Psychometric assessment tools. Prior to Portea, she has worked with Wipro, Allergan India, Landmark Group, Arvind Brands and The Headhunters India.