Ramesh Srivats- Marketing Guru (@rameshsrivats)

 My video chat with Ramesh Srivats, amongst the smartest people i have met... Ramesh is a "master of twitter" with +40,000 followers of his "lets put da" philosphy... I am one of them!  Here he expounds how marketing has changed  over the last couple of decades... " there is a reason why Apple and Google are the hottest brands today, as compared to the mass-media era when the Pepsis and the Cokes were the IN brands"... Ramesh has his own Media company- TenTenTen which creates cool apps that help cool brands connect with cool customers.

With an IIT/IIM (Madras, BTech Computer Science, IIT JEE all india rank #53) bluechip pedigree, Ramesh is advertising professional who’s made a fine art  of the usage of puns on Twitter, Ramesh's Twitter stream has won the Best Indi Microblog award, and he captures his original one-liners in ‘Shortputs’, an extension of his favourite phrase “Let’s put, Da”, a phrase he says helped him get through college unscathed. These ‘shortputs’ give you a glimpse at how his mind works, of how he captures the zeitgeist in just 140 characters.

Ramesh is best followed on twitter  and you can read more about him in this interview  or find him on Ramesh@linkedin

NanduMadhava- Entrepreneur Mdhil.com (@mhealthtips)

Very interesting chat with Nandu Madhava a TED Fellow and an entrepreneur who gave up a Goldman Sachs career after a Harvard MBA to set up and create a mobile based health information startup in india called MDhil

Nandu is the CEO and Founder of mDhil, a social impact start-up which provides basic health information over mobile phones. mDhil launched SMS health information over several Indian mobile carriers in 2009, and has since expanded into mobile web and original health videos geared for the emerging market consumer. Previously, he was part of the management team at OfficeTiger, a Chennai-based business process strategy firm acquired by RR Donnelley. Nandu has also worked at Goldman Sachs & UBS in asset management roles where he was part of a 3-member team that managed over $1 billion in diversified assets. He is an undergraduate of the University of Texas and received his MBA from Harvard Business School.

Mdhil has had +Million video views and is hugely focused on content distribution over the mobile network-people look to mdhil for all kinds of advice. They have a great twitter feed which you must absolutely subscribe to  @mhealthtips

Nandu also explores his definition of passion and success, and his own experiences being in a camp in central america (Yes, he speaks Spanish fluently, though he wont say where he learnt it :-) ) A great individual who wants to make a commercial success out of a social cause...

Nandu can be found on Nandu@Linkedin  and on Nandu@TED .Way to go Nandu. Wish you the best...

SunilAlagh- Doyen of Indian Industry

In this video, i chat with Sunil Alagh, (@sunilalagh) corporate doyen and the CEO of Brittania, who now serves on various corporate boards... get his insights on how the indian corporate scene has changed and what drives it today...

Sunil K Alagh (http://bit.ly/Js7S8o )serves as an Advisor at Warburg Pincus LLC. Previously, Mr. Alagh served as a Managing Director and the Chief Executive Officer at Britannia Industries Ltd. from 1989 to 2003. In addition, Mr. Alagh has also worked with ITC Limited and Jagatjit Industries Limited. He serves as the Chairman of SKA Advisors Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai. Mr. Alagh serves as an Independent Non-Executive Director of Gati Limited. Mr. Alagh serves as a Director of Tamara Capital Advisors Pvt. Ltd., and SKA Advisors Pvt. Ltd. He has been an Additional Director of United Breweries Ltd. since April 29, 2005 and a Director of IL&FS Investsmart Limited since July 25, 2006. Sunil serves as the President of All India Management Association and is on the Board of Governors of IIM, Bangalore. He was honoured with `Gold Medal Kashlkar Memorial Award 2000' for outstanding contribution to the food processing industry in India. Sunil is a graduate in Economics (hons) and holds an PGDM (M.B.A.) from IIM, Kolkata in the year 1968.

Sunil lives in Mumbai and can be found on twitter @ https://twitter.com/#!/sunilalagh

Hisham-Wikipedia India

In this video i chat with Hisham, a colleague from my Colgate (he was in Unilever) and Infosys days (we were both based out of london with Infosys) about Wikipedia's plans for india.

Hisham has since then worked with the Gates foundation on AIDS initiatives and is currently with Wikipedia. here he speaks about the worlds largest free knowledge project- with 500 Million users and one that's run entirely thro volunteers, 100,000 of them... he talks about the Foundation's aims to expand their scope in India and his efforts in doing that.

In Wikimedia's Barry Newshead's (Wikimedia's chief global development officer) own words- "India is a priority for the Wikimedia movement as it has a strong and growing community of Wikimedians building the Indic and English language projects. It is a country where the Wikimedia movement can achieve our mission and learn important lessons for achieving impact elsewhere. The
engagement of Hisham will enable the Wikimedia Foundation to pilot new
initiatives aimed at accelerating the growth of the community in India"- the entire link here:

Very interesting chat. Hisham has been written about in http://bit.ly/J7g2MO and can be found on http://linkd.in/KhrZFx and on Twitter @mundol.

Steven Lurie - Zynga

In this video, I chat with @StevenLurie from Zynga.

Steven, a law graduate from Harvard, talks about his 18 months in India expanding Zynga's india presence aggressively- making it the fastest growing part of Zynga- and also about his various passions, including his newly spawned entrepreneurial community in Bangalore- "Startup-Connect" and his Philanthrophic interests.

Zynga is a social network game development company located in San Francisco, United States.They develop browser-based games that work both stand-alone and as application widgets on social networking websites such as Facebook, Orkut, Google+ and Myspace.

As of February 2012, Zynga's games on Facebook have over 240 million monthly active users. Five of Zynga's games, CityVille, CastleVille, Zynga Poker, FarmVille, and Empires & Allies, are among the most widely used game applications on Facebook, with CityVille having over 46 million monthly active users.Zynga filed with the SEC to raise up to $1 billion in an initial public offering on July 1, 2011 and began trading on NASDAQ December 16, 2011

Steven can be found on Twitter  @StevenLurie  and on linkedin

RajSheth- Recruiterbox- HR in a Box for SMBs

In this video I chat with the Recruiterbox team about their entrepreneurial venture.


Customer Testimonial : " When Groupon entered China, Recruiterbox enabled us to manage nearly 500 interviews per week on the way to become the fastest growing country team in the fastest growing company (Forbes 2010) ever" says Fabian Kast, Head of Recruiting, Gaopeng China about Recruiterbox

Recruiterbox helps businesses manage job-applications efficiently- so you spend less time on "managing" hiring, and more time actually hiring ! It's a simple Applicant Tracking/Recruitment tool which gathers resumes into a searchable database, manages interviews,shares notes, sends auto-replies etc.. They also have a feature that auto-manages your website's "careers" page.

Founded by Girish Redekar, Raghuveer Kancherla & Raj Sheth, Recruiterbox is a story of smart indian youth with bluechip credentials choosing the entrepreneurial way...Girish and Raghu are B-Techs from IIT Madras (2005) & Raj is a Babson College graduate, who enjoys growing and marketing businesses.

You can find Recruiter box by clicking on Facebook ,  Youtube and @recruiterbox on Twitter.

Pankaj Dugar- Entrepreneur & Founder Treetle.com

Harvard MBA, McKinsey, Infosys, Cisco.... and... Entrepreneur?

Meet Pankaj Dugar - bluechip CV & 18 years in the US- he gave it all up, moved to Bangalore and started Treetle.com, which has gone Beta in Bangalore a coupla weeks ago and has been featured on VCCircle- check out the story at http://bit.ly/treetlevccircle

Pankaj talks about Treetle, which allows you to ensure that your interests are brought to life- a sort of juxtaposition of location and interest- he talks about who should use Treetle, and for what, and what are the underlying trends that make it such a cool idea.

“In the old days, villagers used to gather under trees in the evening to discuss and plan activities. We wanted to name it Tree.com but that was not available. So we hit upon Treetle,” says Pankaj

Pankaj also talks about his personal journey, what drives and motivates him, and how he sees choices and decision making...and has some good advice for those of us who want to take the leap....

A fascinating story- you can follow them on twitter @Treetleinc and on linkedin @ http://in.linkedin.com/in/pdugar

Francis Pisani- Around the World on an Innovation Tour

I chat with Francis Pisani, (http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Pisani)- yes, he rates a wikipedia entry- a writer, filmmaker, journalist, teacher and blogger who writes for Le Monde, a leading daily in France, who is in India as a part of his world Innovation tour- he is doing a Phineas Fogg with "Around the World in 80 Days", except that he is searching for nuggets of innovation from across the world.

Here he talks about his observations on the first world vs the emerging world, and on large vs small countries and the similarities and differences...Francis also talks about the innovation he has uncovered on his blog-available here 

Dr.Francis Pisani is a graduate of the Institute of Political Studies at the University of Paris in 1966, and he obtained a Master of Public Law in 1964. . In 2000, he acquired a doctorate in Latin American studies in political science at the Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris III .

He started out as a journalist in 1968 with the AFP and covered Saigon during the Tet offensive , and Prague during the Soviet intervention. As a journalist and regional correspondent for Latin America  he has written for many publications: Le Monde , Le Monde Diplomatique , Go ,The Progress , Liberation , The Unit , The Morning , The Latest News from Alsace , Montreal's La Presse , Ouest-France , Le Provençal , Le Nouvel Observateur , Journal de Geneve , Panorama , El País , Reforma ... He also has created content for radio: RFI , Radio Canada, Radio Suisse Romande , Belgian Radio and Television ...

In 1999 and 2000 he was reader in the University of California (Berkeley). In 2003, he lectured on journalism and the Internet at the Stanford University . He teaches on the same subject in 2004 at the University of California (Berkeley).

He works as a lecturer and consultant on the topic of the social impact of new information technologies and communication.

Francis Pisani writes articles on the subject in his blog  : Transnets , hosted on the website of the newspaper Le Monde . The site Wikio class in June 2007 the site Transnets as the 9 ^th most influential blog  of the blogosphere French. 

 In 2011, he launched Winch5, a world tour of innovations and social media, visiting over 30 cities between September 2011 and July 2012 . A world tour followed by several media, Francophone, Anglophone, and Hispanic9 

What happened @ MobileWorldCongress, Barcelona 2012-Anuraj Gambhir

In this video, Anuraj shares his experiences of the recently concluded- Feb27 -Mar1, 2012- Mobile World Congress, Barcelona -  - the biggest event for the Telecom and Mobile world.

Anuraj talks about the new emerging trends such as the emerging market for Appcessories , exemplified by the Nike Fuelband - - talks about his meetings with John Chambers, Eric Schmidt, Ben Verwaayen and Sunil Mittal.

He also talks about the underlying clash between the OTTs and the Operators and the intermingling of the Suits and the Jeans-this MWC included the AppUniverse and had a galaxy of developers.

Other things- the noteworthy Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 launch -  - which had a lot of artistes sketching your image on the tab all across Barcelona, the John Chambers dance on stage before the keynote and the emerging market focus that continues to drive the telecom world....

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Anuraj Gambhir has worked in the mobile telecommunications industry for over two decades across several parts of the mobile value web and devices ecosystem on four continents - Australasia, North America, Europe & Asia. He has worked from hands-on technical roles to senior executive management positions and is regarded by many as an industry visionary. Companies he has worked for include: NASA/JPL, SingTel Optus, Logica/Aethos, T-Mobile, Orange, GSM Association, Sharp, Siemens, BenQ mobile, Spice Corp & currently as Director -- Strategy & Innovation with Ericsson, based in India. He has spearheaded several innovations in the advanced as well as grassroot level mobile domain in mature and emerging markets.

Jitin Goyal-Founder CEO of Snipple Animation

In this video, i chat with Jitin Goyal, founder and CEO of Snipple Animation. I know Jitin from my Infosys days... Jitin talks about his businesses, and his personal journey "The only difference between madness and genius is success"... he claims!

Jitin is the Founder, Managing Director and CEO of Snipple Animation. Jitin has more than 16 years of experience in industries ranging from banking, IT Services & online social media to animation & filmmaking. He has worked in India, UK, Europe, Middle-East & Africa and the United States. Apart from Snipple, he is also the Founder & CEO of Elpis, a vertical social network focused on environment, sustainability & community development, and Occam Technologies , a mobile applications and gaming company.

Earlier, Jitin was  a Vice-President at Infosys Technologies, a leading IT Consulting & Services company, where he was the driving force behind the company’s expansion in EMEA. Further back in the 90’s, Jitin was an FX derivatives trader at Citibank N.A.

Jitin is an avid art collector, a keen movie buff, a voracious reader and a fitness enthusiast. He owns an extensive film and music collection. John Lasseter, Hayayo Miyazaki, Akira Kurosawa and David Lean are some of his favorite filmmakers. Jitin is a die-hard fan of Pink Floyd & Led Zeppelin. His favorite food is the Mongolian barbecue. Jitin is also an aspiring writer and is working on various scripts and a collection of short stories.

Jitin lives with his family in London, and travels extensively- he is on linkedin ( http://linkd.in/H9rbLH ) and his handle on twitter is @jitin001

Muthuraman-Riverbridge Financial Advisory

"Most SMB Entrepreneurs are unaware of the wide range of financial options available to them"- says Muthu, co-founder of Riverbridge Investment Advisors in this video chat with me. Muthu and Satheesh, cofounders of Riverbridge, are my batchmates from IIMB. They have started 2012 with a bang, and have closed 4 deals...and counting!

Muthuraman served as Director – Ratings at CRISIL Limited, a subsidiary of Standard & Poor’s, until September 2008.  He is presently the co-founder of RiverBridge Investment Advisors Private Limited, a boutique financial advisory firm that he founded with Satheesh, another classmate from the batch of '96 of the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.

RiverBridge assists mid-size corporates in raising capital, largely private equity, venture capital and mezzanine funds.  RiverBridge also works with several reputed global Private Equity funds as their buy-side advisors in sectoral research and identification of suitable private equity investment opportunities.

Muthuraman has long experience in the credit rating industry, having worked in CRISIL for over 12 years.  During this period, he was largely responsible for new product development, criteria research, interaction with key regulators and strategy.  He also played a key role in feasibility study and subsequent establishment of a successful new regional credit rating agency in the Caribbean, headquartered at Trinidad & Tobago.

Muthuraman continues to provide training and investment advisory services in the Credit Rating Industry to RiverBridge’s clients.

Muthu lives in Chennai with his wife and son. He can be found on Linkedin (http://www.linkedin.com/in/nmuthuraman )

DrBobbyJohn- State of World Health

Dr. Bobby John is one of the four principal partners of Global Health Advocates (formerly called Massive Effort Campaign). Global Health Advocates is a global non-profit organization that has been established to advocate for and catalyze the emergence of a social movement against AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and other diseases of poverty.

Dr. John originally trained in India as a physician with the Indian Armed Forces Medical College. He opted out of his Army commission and joined a small village hospital near Pune in Maharashtra State in western India. Dr. John worked for five years in the village as a combination surgeon and obstetrician. During these years, he was exposed to the hard realities of poverty, ill health, and the disasters of AIDS and TB.

Subsequently, Dr. John set up and headed World Vision India’s countrywide AIDS program. In 2002, he joined the Swiss-based Massive Effort Campaign as its Southeast Asia director, and subsequently became its president. He works closely with the numerous national governments and non governmental agencies in the region to establish, fund, and manage transparent, comprehensive, national health and education programs aimed at eradicating AIDS, TB, and Malaria.

Dr. John serves as the high-burden country advocacy advisor for the Gates ACTION grant managed by RESULTS.

Dr.John is on Linkedin ( http://in.linkedin.com/in/drbobbyjohn )

Nurturing Entrepreneurs- SanjaySwamy

In this video, I chat with Sanjay Swamy, Serial Entrepreneur and Angel Investor about his views on Investing, Entrepreneurship, India and his Personal Journey.

Best known for his leadership role at mChek, the path breaking startup in secure payments, Sanjay has trodden the tough and demanding path of an entrepreneur all through his career.

After completing his bachelor's degree in engineering, Sanjay headed to Paris where he learned to cuss fluently in French, while getting a Master's degree, one of which proved to be more invaluable than the other over time. A stint at Xerox PARC in Palo Alto provided a moment of epiphany and it's fair to say that things have never been to same since. Bitten by the desire to create, Sanjay embarked on a journey to build world beating teams and products that took him through startups like Ketera and Portal Software, mChek and Zipdial, which he co-founded in 2010.

An active member of the community, Sanjay is a Rotarian and a charter member of TiE. Sanjay also played a prominent role on the UIDAI project under the leadership of Mr. Nandan Nilekani. He is a frequent speaker and evangelist in the entrepreneurship and payments circuits in the country. His life-changing app for 'how to win an argument with your wife' sadly continues remain in slide-ware and unready for field trials. He lives in his hometown, Bangalore with wife, Tulsi, and son.

Sanjay is on linkedin (http://linkd.in/sanjayS) and on Twitter @TheSwamy

Saket Singh- Head of Operations, Delhi Airport

In this video, I  chat with Saket Singh, who is the GM, Operations, Delhi Airport, recently ranked 2nd on ASQ's Customer satisfaction surveys of airports, up from 130 in 2007- a great leap in customer satisfaction...

Saket talks about this transformation in Delhi airport, the morph from a PSU mindset to a service orientation, and also speaks about what he feels about the Indian Economy,sitting as he is, on the pulse point of the fastest growing emerging economy-India.

He also talks about his personal journey- he is from a military family, an NDA graduate with a 23 year career in the Indian Navy- he was a Commander in a Destroyer last-  and he switched to the private sector...

Saket is on linkedin at http://linkd.in/saketsingh

Valerie-Zipdial CEO &Founder

I chat with Valerie Rozycki Wagoner- the founder and CEO of ZipDial, which has 280 Million Zipdials to its credit and counting.... Valerie, from California, and with a bluechip background (graduation and post-graduation from Stanford) , has chosen to make India home for the past 4 1/2 years. In this video she discusses Zipdial's business success, as well as her personal journey and why she finds India exciting...

ZipDial is a Bangalore-based company, has impeccable bluechip credentials- its founders have degrees from top global universities and graduate schools as well as extensive professional leadership experience in both India and the US, including companies like mChek, Zapak.com, eBay, Ketera and Xerox.

ZipDial has been tested and proven through past campaigns with large customers such as KFC & Pepsi and Sanofi-Aventis as well as for small and medium businesses such as individual celebrities, NGOs and live event managers.ZipDial's technology is patent pending and available internationally.

You can follow Valerie on Twitter @Valrozycki and on Linkedin

Navneet Gosal- India Venture Partners Founder

In this video, i chat with Navneet Gosal, Entrepreneur, Angel investor and Venture Capitalist.

Navneet is a seasoned technology entrepreneur turned angel investor & venture capitalist. He relocated to India from US in 2010 to manage portfolio companies for the venture capital fund, India Venture Partners (IVP) that he co-founded in 2009. Navneet currently manages two portfolio companies for IVP – Gensol Consultants, a clean energy solutions provider located in Ahmedabad and Your Kids R Our Kids, a corporate day-care provider located in Bangalore.

Navneet is an active angel investor with various investments both in the US and India. He is also on the board of Appmobi, a mobile application development platform company based out of Lancaster, PA and RelayStrategy LLC, a mobile technology services consulting company based in Washington DC with a delivery center located in Chandigarh, India. Navneet is also a member of the Indian Angel Network (IAN).

Navneet has +17 years experience in building mission critical software systems for healthcare, aerospace and telecom industries. He was part of the founding team of Care Fusion as its CTO. Based in Reston, Virginia, Care Fusion is a leading provider of healthcare software aiming at enhancing efficiency and improving patient safety. After the acquisition by Cardinal Health Inc., he became the head of the R&D group (over 350 people) for the Clinical Services business unit of Cardinal Health.

Navneet most recently has served as Principal of SGH Holdings, an angel investment fund whose investments include Flycast (www.flycast.fm) and Goomzee (www.goomzee.com), and majority ownership in an India IT services firm, Relay Strategy (www.relaystrategy.com).

Navneet is a graduate of Virginia Tech with a BS in Computer Engineering. He is fluent in English, Hindi and Punjabi.

Sarah Khatri Cofounder of 360Living

In this video I chat with Sarah, co founder of 360 living- Sarah is originally from Charlotte, North Carolina, and has shifted to live in Bangalore and started-up as an entrepreneur. Her startup is a community/ experience platform that enables you to achieve your spiritual, emotional and physical goals.

In this video, she speaks about the startup, why she started this in India, and why she sees the future as bright. She believes passionately in spirituality , health and wellness, and holistic living and is living out her passion in Bangalore

Sarah is also a great photographer and has her collections up on www.agapefineart.com Her profile on linkedin is @ http://linkd.in/sarahkhatri

Siddharth Mangharam - Founder & CEO of Floh.in

In this video, i chat with Siddharth, the Founder and CEO of Floh.in, where the coolest singles in India meet up and find relationships. He talks about Floh, how it's different from the mainstream dating websites out there, and about its bright future as urban India gets more experience focused and prosperous.

Siddharth Mangharam is the Founder and CEO of Floh, a platform that brings single people together at awesome events with the objective of meeting like minded people. They also have very cool blog called singleinthecity.in Whilst Floh engages via the social networks and the web, the key focus is to enable members to have real, in person interactions at great events. In terms of the gender mix, Siddharth claims there are more women that are members of Floh than there are men.

Prior to founding Floh, Siddharth was Founder and CEO of Peek India, a venture-backed, mobile email startup. Before his entrepreneurial ventures, Siddharth spent many years in India and in the US working for McKinsey, Microsoft and Coca-Cola.

Siddharth has an MMS degree from Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies and an MBA from The Ross School of Business at The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is based out of Bangalore.

Ashish Sinha - Pluggd.in Founder & CEO

In this video, i speak to Ashish Sinha, the founder and CEO of Pluggd.in, a very different kind of media company, and THE channel to use if you want to reach the techno-savvy and the entrepreneurs of India.

I'm sure you have heard of Pluggd.in- they are mentioned by TechCrunch as the TechCrunch of india. Plugged.in has a full-fledged portal with channels on funding, strategy, jobs and an exhaustive start-up directory. This blog turned portal based in Jayanagar, Bangalore has monthly page-views of over 3.5 million and about 1.3 million visitors, ranking them as the third largest online business readership service. With Alexa India rank under 500 and global Alexa rank under 8,000 Pluggd.in is among the top 5 Business Media sites of India with significant presence in South East Asia.They even rate a wikipedia entry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluggd.in) .

Ashish talks about how he sees the media business- taking sides is essential to his viewpoint of a media game- and he talks about the past, present and future of pluggd.in.Very interesting conversation with Ashish who is an IIT/IIM product

Dr.Madanmohan Rao On Innovation

In this video, i speak to Dr.Madanmohan an evangelist and a community leader on innovation, who advises organisations on creating an innovation culture. A multifaceted personality, Dr Rao is a prolific author, a prolific tweeter and a prolific music enthusiast. In this interview he explores all of his passions and about his creation of K community and Mobile Monday.

Dr. Madanmohan Rao, a consultant and author from Bangalore, is research advisor at the Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC). He is also the research Director of Mobile Monday, a global network of mobile and wireless communication professionals, and co-founder of the Bangalore K-Community, a network of knowledge management professionals.

Dr Rao's books are available on : http://bit.ly/TU12l

Dr Rao's twitter handle is @madanrao