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.

Deepti has a work experience of about 14 years. She has worked with Hindustan Unilever, Hindustan times, LimeRoad, Vodafone and Voonik.
She comes with a rich experience in the areas of B2B & B2C marketing, ATL & BTL, brand management, CRM, product management and GTM strategy.
She likes solving problems through technology and has created products using gamification to enhance customer engagement. Before joining us she was heading Brand & Customer experience at Voonik.

Sachin Verma is the Vice President – Operations at Portea. He has over 17 years of accomplished operations experience in healthcare, hospitality sector and pharmacy retailing. Previously, he has been the President – Retail at Glocal healthcare Systems based out of Kolkata. He was also the Deputy General Manager of North India Retail Operations at Apollo Pharmacy based out of Delhi.  He is a Hotel Management Graduate, MBA and a Black Belt in Six Sigma.

Saritha has over 24 years of experience in areas of Human Resources, Service Delivery, and TQM. With Management and HR qualifications from MAHE and XLRI, she has worked extensively on designing and implementing various HR processes, Learning & OD solutions, Talent Management Programs, Service Delivery Management, Six Sigma & Total Quality Management., Transformational Projects, Human Process Labs, Designing and Delivery of Leadership Capability Building etc.

She is professionally certified by T V Rao Institute to design and run Assessment Centers in addition to being a Black Belt in Six Sigma and a certified practitioner of psychometric tools like MBTI and FIRO-B..