Ganesh Krishnan

Ganesh Krishnan General Information

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Mr. Ganesh Krishnan serves as a Board Member at OnlinePrasad. He is a Co-Founder and serves as a Board Member at Portea. He is a Co-Founder of BlueStone. He is a Co-Founder and serves as a Board Member at FreshMenu. He also serves as a Member of the Board of Advisors at the Wadhwani Foundation. He serves as a Board Member at HungerBox, Verloop.io, and Spark. Live, Browntape, and GrowFit. He actively mentors, incubates, and funds start-ups and is a promoter of several Indian consumer Internet and e-commerce companies including Bigbasket.com - India's largest grocery 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, He 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 companies. The business was acquired by iGate (a listed company) in 2003. He has also worked as the CEO of Wipro/Bharti British Telecom - a British Telecom JV in India and held a senior management position at HCL Ltd. He is also a popular speaker in entrepreneurship, start-ups, and technology events. He has been recognized as one of the "Iconic Entrepreneurs of India" in a document published by the National Knowledge Commission, Government of India. He is a Co-Founder and serves as a Partner of Growth Story. He has also co-founded and served as Chairman of TutorVista.com.