ATTENTION TO ALL JUNIOR MEMBERS

The course offered by Mr. Sanjeev Bikhchandani and an illustrious team of entrepreneurs took shape in the course of a brainstorming session in my office as we addressed the emerging trends in the domain of higher education in general and in College life in particular. I am quite certain the Junior Members who enroll for this course will find it absolutely worthwhile, both on account of the manifest usefulness of the course contents and the dream team that administers it with Sanjeev and Jaipal as the coordinators of the Course.

At this stage we have to limit admissions to this course to 50. This could be revised later on, but not earlier than the beginning of the next session. While in principle the course will be open to students from other colleges of the University, Stephanians will be admitted preferentially. I encourage the Junior Members to take advantage of this great opportunity.

PRINCIPAL

"DRAFT COURSE DESCRIPTIOIN"

Leadership Lessons from the Road Less Travelled
Conversations with High Achievement Entrepreneurs
 

Objectives – The course aims to enable the participants to appreciate the various facets of leadership and the behavior and traits of successful leaders through listening to the life stories of a dozen high achieving entrepreneurs and interacting with them.

Facilitators – Jaipal Anand, Sanjeev Bikhchandani

Enrolment – Maximum 50 students

No of sessions – 13 sessions of two hours each. Total 26 hours of instructor contact.

Assessment – Submission of a written essay at the end of the course

Attendance – Minimum 80% attendance mandatory to obtain a participation and completion certificate

Course Methodology
The primary mode of learning will be the story telling method. High achieving entrepreneurs will speak about their life stories, how and why they started out, what were/are their motivators, what difficulties and challenges they faced along the way, how they built their team, how they managed to work with very little capital and so on.
Sessions will be interactive. The facilitators will introduce and sum up each session and draw out the learning from each session.
Readings will be distributed as a part of the course. Participants are expected to complete the readings on their own as background material. They will not be discussed in class.
At the end of the course participants will be expected to submit an essay, which will be graded.

Proposed List of Entrepreneurs to be invited to speak in the programme

1.       Sanjeev Aggarwal. Co-founder Helion and Daksh
Sanjeev Aggarwal is a co-founder of Helion Ventures and serves on the Boards of Agni, Amba Research, Anantara, Make My Trip, Mindworks Global, Global Talent Track, Azure Power and Nine dot Nine Mediaworx. Prior to Helion, Sanjeev was the Founder and CEO of Daksh, having been with the company from its inception in 2000 to its acquisition by IBM in 2004. Sanjeev ran the company as its CEO till June 2006. Daksh was a pioneer in BPO sector in year 2000 and had over 20,000 employees by June, 2006. During this period, Daksh was rated as the World’s Best Managed BPO company (Black Book of Outsourcing) and was ranked as the #1 employer in Indian BPO market by IDC. Sanjeev was chosen "Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the year" in 2002. Prior to founding Daksh, he worked for 15 years with leading technology companies serving the domestic Indian market. Sanjeev led the Strategic Initiatives at Motorola India. He worked with Digital Equipment Corporation in delivering technology solutions and was recognized as the "Decathlon Winner", a recognition given to top 1% managers worldwide. He also served as the CEO of 3COM India. Sanjeev has a Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering and an MBA.

2.    Sachin & Binny Bansal – Co Founders Flipkart

Sachin Bansal, CEO and Co-founder, Flipkart

Sachin spent his early years in Chandigarh.  He graduated from IIT-Delhi with a degree in Computer Engineering. In 2006 he joined Amazon.com in India which he later left to set-up Flipkart.

As CEO, Sachin oversees all the customer facing activities of the company ranging from technology to marketing. He is also in charge of Flipkart’s corporate divisions which include the finance and legal departments.
An avid gaming enthusiast, Sachin likes to spend most of his free time with his family.

Binny Bansal, COO and Co-founder, Flipkart

Born and raised in Chandigarh, Binny went on to get a degree in Computer Engineering from IIT Delhi. He had a brief stint at Amazon before taking the entrepreneurial plunge with Flipkart.

At Flipkart, Binny oversees all operational activities that come into play from the time the customer places an order till the time of delivery. This spans across divisions like warehousing, logistics and customer support. 
A big fan of Salman Rushdie as well as Stieg Larsson’s ‘Millennium’ series, Binny is also passionate about soccer and NBA. An active sportsman, he used to captain his school basketball and soccer teams.

 3.       Vinayak Chatterjee – Founder and Chairman, Feedback Infrastructure Services (P) Limited
Born in 1959, Vinayak Chatterjee graduated in Economics (Hons) from St. Stephen's College, Delhi University (1976-1979) and did his MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (1979 – 1981).  He co-founded Feedback Infra in 1990. Feedback Infra today is India's leading provider of professional and technical services in the infrastructure sector.  These services include Advisory, Planning & Engineering, Project Management and Operations & Maintenance. Feedback Infra has over 1400 professionals, predominantly engineers and MBAs from India’s top schools.  It is headquartered in Gurgaon, National Capital Region of Delhi, and has Regional offices in Mumbai,  Bangalore, Chandigarh, Hyderabad and Ahmedabad. Mr. Chatterjee is often called upon to play a strategic advisory role to leading Indian companies, the Government of India, various Ministries dealing with infrastructure, as well as multilateral and bilateral institutions in the areas of infrastructure planning and implementation. He interacts regularly with the Planning Commission and various State Governments on infrastructure policy, projects and related enabling frameworks. He is one of the leading proponents of the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model for developing India’s infrastructure through his steering of the successful India Infrastructure Initiative – a partnership between IDFC and Feedback Ventures. In 1998, the World Economic Forum at Davos selected him as one of the 100 Global Leaders of Tomorrow. Currently, he is the Chairman of the Confederation of Indian Industry’s (CII) National Task Force on Regulatory Framework in Infrastructure.  He has chaired the CII’s National Council on Infrastructure (2003-06, 2007-09), CII’s National Committee on Urban Infrastructure (2001-03) and was the Chairman of CII (Northern Region) for 2000-2001. He is on the Board of Directors of SRF Limited and Avantha Power and Infrastructure Limited.  He is also on the Advisory Boards of HDFC India Realty Fund, L & T Power and also a member of the Board of Governors of the Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow. He is a well-read columnist and writes a monthly column on infrastructure for Business Standard called ‘INFRATALK’.  He has authored a book titled “Getting it Right – India’s Unfolding Infrastructure Agenda”.

4.   Ashish Dhawan  - Co Founder and Senior Managing Director, ChrysCapital Investment Advisors
Mr. Dhawan co-founded ChrysCapital Investment Advisors in April 1999. Prior to that he worked at the Risk Arbitrage Group at Goldman Sachs, GP Investments, a $1 billion private equity fund in Brazil, McCown De Leeuw & Co., a $1.2 billion private equity firm and the Mergers Group at Wasserstein Perella. Mr. Dhawan received an MBA with distinction from the Harvard Business School and a BS in applied Mathematics and Economics with magna cum laude honors from Yale University. Ashish is on the India Advisory Board for Harvard Business School. He is also on the advisory boards of several non-profit organizations including TeachForIndia, Janaagraha, Centre for Civil Society and GiveLife,  Ashish will transition into a new role running a non-profit focused on K-12 education in mid-2012.

5.   Deep Kalra – Founder and CEO Makemytrip.com
Deep Kalra is the Founder and CEO of India‟s leading online travel company, MakeMyTrip.com. MakeMyTrip was established by Deep in April 2000 after a successful corporate career at GE Capital, AMF Bowling Inc. and ABN AMRO Bank. Under his stewardship, MakeMyTrip has grown rapidly to become the largest online travel agency in India and also one of the largest travel companies in the country. The company achieved sales of Rs. 3400 crore during the financial year ending March 2011 and continues its rapid growth of approximately 50% in the current year. In August 2010, MakeMyTrip successfully listed its IPO on NASDAQ, reinforcing its position as an industry leader in the online travel space. MakeMyTrip was the first Indian travel company to list overseas and also among a select group of IT companies to list in the US stock market. MakeMyTrip has been ranked amongst the top 3 companies to work for in India, in successive years 2010 and 2011 as per the ‘Great Places to Work’ Survey. MakeMyTrip was ranked #1 in the categories of Professional Services, Employee Involvement & Collaboration and Fun at Work. Deep is a member of the Executive Council of Nasscom and chairs the Nasscom Internet Working Group. He serves on the Board of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) New Delhi and is also a Charter Member of TiE. Deep currently serves as an independent Director for One97 Communications Ltd. and IndiaMart.com. Deep is a founding member of “I am Gurgaon”, an NGO focused on improving the quality of life in Gurgaon and is closely involved with other NGOs like Udayan Care. Deep was awarded the „Internet person the year 2010‟ at the India Digital Awards held by the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IMAI). He was also chosen as the IDMA Person of the Year in 2011. Deep holds an MBA (PGDM) degree from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (1992) and a Bachelor‟s Degree in Economics from St. Stephen‟s College, Delhi (1990). His interests include swimming, yoga, quizzing, adventure sports and travelling to new places
 

6.       C V Madhukar – Founder and Director PRS Legislative Research
PRS Legislative Research is an institution that is a pioneer in supporting MPs and political parties with analysis on legislation and other issues that come up in Parliament.  Madhukar started his career as an investment banker and has later worked in senior positions in Pratham. He co-founded the Akshara Foundation and helped set up the Azim Premji Foundation.  He has also worked with the World Bank in Washington DC.  He was Edward S. Mason Fellow at Harvard University and holds an MPA from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, an MBA from University of Houston and a BE from Bangalore University. Madhukar is an Echoing Green, Ashoka, and Eisenhower Fellow.  He was elected Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2008                                                                               

7.    Chandan Mitra – CMD and Editor in Chief The Pioneer and Member of Parliament Rajya Sabha
The Pioneer is a 146-year-old English language newspaper with headquarters in New Delhi and published simultaneously from six other Indian cities. The Pioneer Group publishes Rail Bandhu, on-board magazine of Indian Railways, the world’s largest railway network and at present also produces a lifestyle magazine, Exotica. CHandan was working as the Editor of the Newspaper when he did a Management Buyout. In 2003 he was nominated by the President of India as a member of the Upper House (Rajya Sabha) of Parliament for a six-year term. He was an unattached member of the House and served on the Parliamentary Standing Committee of Rural Development since 2004. He was also a member of the Parliamentary Consultative Committee of Tourism and Culture. His term ended on August 28, 2009. In June 2010 he was elected to the Rajya Sabha for a second term, this time as a member of the BJP, India’s main Opposition party, from the State of Madhya Pradesh. Currently, he serves on the Standing Committee on Environment & Forests. Chandan entered journalism in 1984 as Assistant Editor of The Statesman, and subsequently held senior editorial positions in The Times of India and Hindustan Times before taking over as Editor of The Pioneer in 1996. In 1998, when the newspaper was about to shut down due to heavy losses, he bought out the brand from the previous owners and the organization has since made a remarkable turnaround. Prior to journalism, Chandan spent several years as an academic. Having obtained his bachelor’s degree in Economics and his master’s degree in History from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi in 1977, Chandan taught Far Eastern History at Delhi’s Hansraj College and was also faculty at the History Department of Delhi University, taking post-graduate lectures. In 1980 he was selected for the Commonwealth Teachers’ Scholarship, which enabled me to study at Oxford University for my doctorate. In 1984, he was awarded the D.Phil by Oxford University for his thesis, ‘Peasant Mobilisation and the Nationalist Movement in North India, 1937-42’. He has authored two books, ‘Constant Glory: A History of La Martiniere, 1836-1986’ (OUP, 1986) and ‘Corrupt Society’ (Penguin/Viking, 1998). In journalism, he specializes in North Indian society, role of caste in politics, issues of rural development, anatomy of terrorism, India’s foreign policy, and popular culture. He also appears frequently on various TV news channels in English, Hindi and Bengali as a political commentator.

 

8.       Pallav Nandhini – Founder and CEO Fusioncharts
Pallav is the co-founder and CEO of FusionCharts, and an angel investor. He started FusionCharts at the age of 17 as a way to make pocket money. Today, FusionCharts has over 18,000 customers and 400,000 users in over 110 countries. His entrepreneurial journey has been covered by various magazines like Forbes, Entrepreneur, Business Today, Economic Times and numerous blogs & websites.  He holds a Masters in Computer Science from University of Edinburgh and loves his traveling, beer and poker.

9.       Kunwer Sachdev – Founder and Managing Director Su-Kam
Mr. Kunwar Sachdev is the prime moving force behind Su-Kam’s evolution into a top-of-its-class company. A post graduate in Mathematics and LLB from Delhi University, Kunwer has never settled for the beaten path. At the young age of 20 and without any financial backing, he started a cable business and made a success of it. Soon, however, he switched to making inverters in 1997, an almost uncharted territory at that time. His entrepreneurial vision put Su-Kam on a strong growth trajectory in a relatively short period of time.
Today, Su-Kam’s product range includes Inverters & Home UPS (both domestic and High Capacity) SMF batteries, UPS, Solar products etc. and has 176 products in its kitty. Su-kam’s products are exported to as many as 70 countries all over the world. Driven by the desire to innovate, Kunwer continues to be closely involved with the research and development, production, strategic marketing, business operations and advertising for the company. In 2006, Kunwer received the most coveted ‘Bharat Shiromani’ title and has been nominated twice for the ‘Young Entrepreneur of the year’ award by Ernst & Young. Under his able leadership, Su-Kam has also received ‘National Award for quality products’, ‘Sectoral Award for highest Export in Consumer Electronics (Non-SSI)’ from Govt of India and ‘Innovation for India 2008’ award from Marico Innovation Foundation.

1  R Satyanarayanan – Founder and Chairman Career Launcher
Satya, like the millions, is a man with a dream. What sets him apart from the millions is the passion and determination to follow his dream. A cricket aficionado to the core, he dropped his Class XII Board exams to get that one extra year of playing for his under-17 cricket team! He graduated from St. Stephen’s College, New Delhi, with top marks and went on to study at the prestigious Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. A brief stint at Ranbaxy was enough for him to realize that it was time to follow his passion – education and entrepreneurship. In 1995, with help from his friends, he started Career Launcher, with one goal in mind – to enable individuals realize their potential and make their career dreams come true. What began as a hugely successful Personality Development Program (PDP) has now become Asia’s largest education service provider. Years of experience in mentoring and interacting with bright young minds from all over the country lent him a keen insight into nuances of education & training.  After taking over the test prep market, Satya found that CL’s philosophies of education and learning required a more holistic and structured platform that could best be achieved through mainstream education. CL’s foray into mainstream education came with its chain of K-12 schools, the Indus World Schools. Its philosophies such as ‘child centric learning' and 'multiple intelligence' are implemented in its curriculum and day-to-day activities. Career Launcher also started its B-School, the Indus World School of Business and Vocational Training initiative recently. Today, while leading one of South Asia’s leading education service provider, Satya is also a certified Crestcom and NTL trainer who has trained corporate bigwigs in leadership and management skills; besides thousands of students, teachers and corporate executives. Occasionally, he also trains the Delhi state cricket team in the area of “mental preparation”. Satya’s entrepreneurial zeal and his conviction in his dreams were recently acknowledged by Dell’s when he was featured in their ‘Take Your Own Path’ Campaign.  More recognition and accolades have constantly poured in, in the form of various national and international awards like the Karmaveer Puraskaar ‘09 presented by iCONGO  and the Most Promising Entrepreneur Award presented by Asia Pacific Entrepreneurship Awards ’09. Satya is deeply passionate about physical fitness and when he is not working, he can’t stay away from the tennis court and yoga. He feels this reenergizes him physically, emotionally, and mentally. His other passions include music and poetry. Currently, Career Launcher enables people achieve their career dreams in more than 250 locations across the India and Dubai. As India rises through her challenges towards a promising future, Career Launcher is dedicated to guide and mentor her youth, at every step, right from play school till their dream career.
 

11.   Srikant Shastri – Founder Solutions Integrated Marketing Services
Srikant Sastri provides strategic leadership as India Chairperson for Vivaki, a new entity created by Publicis Groupe, for leadership in the digital era. In this role, Srikant oversees leading media, digital & marketing services agencies- Starcom Mediavest, Zenith Optimedia, and Solutions/Digitas.

Srikant has been a successful entrepreneur who built two and exited two innovative companies; one in the marketing services space, Solutions Integrated, which was acquired by the Publicis Groupe, and the second one, Team4U, in outsourced staffing space, acquired by Randstad. Both businesses achieved scale (2000 employees, and 15,000 employees respectively) and market leadership before being acquired.

Srikant is respected as a pioneer & leading marketing practitioner, and has been on the jury of Cannes Lions, and Dubai Lynx. He has also been a speaker at TED India in 2009.

Outside of business, he has been deeply involved in drawing attention to development issues in Indian society through an initiative called "GROWTH-FOR-ALL"( www.growthforall.org ). Growth-For-All initially started with a focus on integrated community development with the aim of creating a scaleable model in the not-for-profit sector. It is now re-focusing itself on social entrepreneurship. Srikant has traveled extensively to rural parts of Central & Northern India to observe the work of innovative NGOs at close quarters.
Srikant is an engineer from IIT, Kanpur and an MBA from IIM, Calcutta.
While his interests include current affairs, contemporary history, and economic development, he is really passionate about his belief that India is destined to be a global power in this century. This belief is being reflected in a few firm commitments: first, to, to ensure that his personal skills & network are deployed on social projects that facilitate inclusive economic development; and, secondly, investing time in mentoring young entrepreneurs, especially social entrepreneurs. At TiE Delhi/NCR, he chairs a special interest group on Social Enterprises.

12.   Pramath Sinha – Founding Dean ISB and Managing Director of 9.9 Mediaworx
9.9 Media has a diverse set of traditional and new media businesses, spanning print, online, research, conferences and events.  It focuses on niche and special-interest media with about a dozen prominent brands such as Digit, The CTO Forum, CFO India, Inc. India, IT Next and EDU. Pramath spent 13 years with McKinsey and Company, the international management consulting firm, where he was a Partner.  During his McKinsey tenure, he assisted both public and private sector clients in a diverse set of industries on issues relating to business strategy and performance improvement in North America and Asia.  After starting his career in the North American Practice, he moved to India in 1997 and helped build and grow the Indian Practice.  He led McKinsey India’s telecom, IT, and media practices as well as its Organisation Practice, where he focused on issues of transformation and leadership.  He is currently a Senior Advisor to McKinsey and on the Board of the McKinsey Knowledge Centre. Before founding 9.9 Media, he was the MD & CEO of the ABP Group, one of India’s leading and most diversified media conglomerates with leading properties in the newspaper, magazine, and TV genres.  It has properties such as Ananda Bazar Patrika, the #1 Bengali daily, The Telegraph, Eastern India’s #1 English daily, Businessworld, the #1 national business weekly magazine, STAR News (in partnership with STAR TV), the popular Hindi news channel, and India’s top book publisher, Penguin Books India (in partnership with Pearson International). Pramath took a year off from McKinsey to be the Founding Dean of the Indian School of Business (ISB), an initiative led by McKinsey and a group of leading Indian business leaders, in partnership with Kellogg, Wharton, and London Business School to establish a world-class business school in India.  The ISB is today regarded as one of India’s leading b-schools and was ranked 13th in the latest Financial Times ranking of global business schools.  He has been associated with the project right from its inception and continues to be actively involved in the School as a member of its Board of Governors.  Additionally, he is leading a group of philanthropists to create a world-class university in India which has just launched the Young India Fellowship, along the lines of the Rhodes Scholarship.  Pramath is the Chairman of Elephant Capital LLC, and is on the Board of Directors of BILT, India’s largest paper products company; DLF-Pramerica, an insurance JV between India’s leading real estate company and Prudential of USA; and Kaleidoscope Entertainment Pvt. Ltd., a prominent film and TV production business. Pramath received M.S.E. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering and applied mechanics from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.Tech. in metallurgical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.

13.   Ishita Swarup – Serial entrepreneur and Co Founder and CEO 99labels.com
With a degree in Economics from Delhi University and an MBA from IMT, Ishita began her career with Cadburys in brand management. Soon after, the entrepreneurial bug bit her and she hasn’t looked back ever since. An entrepreneur by personality, Ishita has been part of 3 start-up’s during her career spanning 20 years and all in extremely diverse fields. Her first start up was Orion dialog, a pioneer in the ITES sector in India. Orion was amongst the top 3 domestic BPO’s at the time she decided to exit by selling the company to Aegis BPO part which is part of the Essar Group. Ishita continued as COO- India at Aegis which today ranks amongst the top 5 BPO’s across the world. Her second start-up has been in the Social Sector where she helped set up a social venture -Sakha Consulting Wings Pvt. Ltd. Sakha is a unique social enterprise, launched to provide safe transport solutions for women, by women in urban India. Sakha is Delhi’s first service that provides trained women drivers and a car hire service to families, individual women and corporate Institutions. Her third and current start up is 99labels pvt Ltd. where she is a Co-founder as well as the CEO. 99labels.com is a members only e-commerce portal, hosting flash sales of premium and aspirational brands in the fashion and lifestyle space.

14.   Pearl Uppal – Founder and CEO Fashionandyou.com

Pearl has been involved very closely with shaping the Indian Internet industry and has been at the forefront of digital advertising evolution in India with experience at premier companies like Yahoo!, Rediff.com and GE. Currently she is co-founder and CEO at Fashion and You, India's leader in online private sales. Over the last one and half year Fashion And You under her leadership has become the fastest growing e-commerce company and the top online fashion retailer in India. Fashion and You has witnessed over 35% growth month on month and today is seen as changing the landscape of fashion and lifestyle retail in India. Fashion And You has been felicitated with "Star Retailer Debutant Award 2010" and is recognized amongst the” Top 20 Hottest e-commerce startups from India” by Dataquest. Prior to Fashion and You, Pearl was heading the advertising business for Yahoo! India. In her 7 years at Yahoo! she played an instrumental role in charting Yahoo!'s leadership in display advertising in India. She has a Masters degree from IIT Delhi (MBA in technology management) & a BE from Delhi College Of Engineering.

 Instructor Profile

Jaipal Anand

Jaipal specialises in designing and facilitating ‘developmental’ programmes. These programmes provide a diverse, essential range of practical, intellectual and experiential inputs — as skills or behaviours — that act as catalyse for the growth of individuals to flourish, bud, and bloom and for institutions to succeed in their quest for excellence. Each programme is designed keeping in mind requirements that allow leaders, managers and teams to become ‘successful’ through astutely managed processes of communication, change, and creative conflict. He also designs programmes which accelerate essential and prime personal changes in behaviour and attitude to create ‘personal brands’ for individual clients. The programmes are conducted in an ambience of trust, humour, and bonhomie. He uses current empirical evidence interspersed with futuristic ideation, movies based on real life incidents, biographical anecdotal evidence, psychometric and other exercises extensively as these lead to the embedding of— and a practical application of learning. He creates his programmes from knowledge acquired from the works of management ‘gurus’ of the ‘90s and the ‘00s and the thinking of others like Bacon, Doyle, Descartes, Handy, Ghosal, Kantor and Peters — amongst other contemporary thinkers. His voracious reading, research and discussion with peers allows him to keep himself updated on the current research in management and HR. He has 16 years of corporate experience encompassing HR and managerial stints in the advertising, banking, travel, BPO, and construction sectors. His last corporate assignment was as Global VP (Learning and Development) for a Fortune 1000 company. Ha has won awards in the fields of HR and OD at both, the national and international level, and honourable mentions from the UN, and Central and State Governments. He has had the experience of being educated in five countries, and has a Bachelors’ and Masters’ degrees in History from one of India’s best colleges - St. Stephen’s College - and an MBA degree from the UK. He also spent three years as a cadet at the National Defence Academy from where he gained a rare insight into how leaders manage their teams, and strategise to win. Apart from facilitating a transfer of knowledge, he owns India’s only magazine on training and development (Training & Management) and has written over 80 articles on training. My first book on management will be published later this year. He also produces a television series on personality development, teaches aspects of Human Resource Managment, Entrepreneurship and Leadership as visiting faculty at several business schools, and runs the India Office of The Gian Foundation — an organisation that provides financial aid for education to underpriveleged children. An indicative list of some of his clients for the year 2010-11 would include - l Alstom l Bank of America l Bharti Infotel Ltd. l Business Standard l The Carlson Group l Domino’s l HCL l HP India l Hero Honda l Indian Oil Corp. l Jaypee Hotels l L&T lMicrosoft l Naukri.com l Orient Fans l PL Engineering l Parle l Perfetti l Tata-AIG l Tata Steel l TERI l Unitech lWatson Wyatt (now Towers Watson) lWipro BPO l Zee Turner l Orient Fans l XL India l Ultratech Cement

 Sanjeev Bikhchandani - Cofounder and Vice Chairman, Naukri.com
Sanjeev co-founded Info Edge in 1990.
Info Edge is best known for its job site Naukri.com.  Naukri has over 25 million registered job seekers with more than 10,000 fresh job seekers registering each day.  Over 40,000 organisations use its services for hiring employees.
The company also has other well known web sites - Jeevansathi.com, 99acres.com, Brijj.com, Allcheckdeals.com, Naukrigulf.com, Shiksha.com, and Firstnaukri.com.
Starting off from a servant quarter above a garage, Info Edge attracted investment from leading venture capitalists - ICICI Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sherpalo Ventures.  It was the first Internet company to list on Indian stock exchanges. The company today employs close to 2000 people and generated revenues of Rs.340 crores approx. last year. The Market cap is around Rs. 4000 crores.
A frequent speaker on entrepreneurship at conferences and at business schools, Sanjeev is the President of The Indus Entrepreneurs in Delhi.  He is also a member of the Global Board of Trustees of The Indus Entrepreneurs.

Prior to starting Info Edge, Sanjeev had worked with Lintas India Ltd. and HMM Ltd. (now called Glaxo SmithKline). For a brief period, he was the Consulting Editor of Avenues – the careers supplement of ‘The Pioneer’ newspaper.  

Sanjeev, along with co promoter of Info Edge, Hitesh Oberoi, won the “Ernst and Young – Entrepreneur of the Year” award in 2008 for Business Transformation. Sanjeev also won the Dataquest Pathbreaker Award & the Teacher’s Achievement Award for Business in 2008.

Sanjeev is a member of the Board of Chintan - a not for profit organization that works with rag pickers in Delhi. He is an alumnus of IIM Ahmedabad, and has studied Economics at St. Stephens College. 

COURSE COORDINATOR:  MR. SANJEEV BIKHCHANDANI
Contact number: 9811020189