Rajesh Sawhney

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Mr. Rajesh Sawhney is the Founder & serves as General Partner at GSF India. Mr. Sawhney serves as Board Member at IndiaMART. He is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer and Board Member at InnerChef. He served as an Advisor at Chizel. He serves as an Advisor at HackerEarth. He serves as an Advisor at Zimyo. He is the founder of GSF Superangels Academy. He previously served as a Board Member at Microland. He served as an Advisor at Silversparro. He serves as a Board Member at DailyRounds and ixigo. He is a Co-Founder at Gastrotope. He has made over 20 investments as an active and engaged angel investor, which include Viki (acquired by Rakuten for USD 225M), Little Eye Labs (acquired by Facebook), Mobstac, Pokkt, Silverpush, HackerEarth, Browntape, Overcart, Flinto, and Timesaverz. He hosts and curates the two leading Tech/Startup conferences in Asia: WhereDoWeGoNow in Bangalore and Global Superangels Forum in New Delhi. His journey has been a continuum of re-invention waves. He brought private radio (Times FM) to India in the early nineties, redefining Indian youth culture. He was at the cusp of early Internet culture in India in early 2000, building Indiatimes.com, the most valuable Internet business in India in 2005 (funded by Sequoia). Subsequently, as the founding President of Reliance Entertainment, he was at the center of a massive transformation of the Indian film industry, where he oversaw the corporatization of mom-and-pop Bollywood businesses into a multi-billion dollar industry. He oversaw the biggest investment deal (Dreamworks) between Hollywood and Bollywood. He serves on Neilsoft, Indiamart, Reliance Broadcast Network, Live Media, and Autowale boards. He also advises Trident Capital, a prominent venture firm based in Palo Alto, California. He served as a Board Member at Tushky. He holds an MBA (Master of Business Administration) from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He holds a Degree in Engineering from Delhi University, India & also holds a Degree from Harvard Business School.