Murugavel Janakiraman

Murugavel Janakiraman General Information

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Mr. Murugavel Janakiraman is the Founder of Matrimony.com and serves as its Managing Director, Chief Executive Officer & Chairman. He served as Advisor at Vaultedge. He is also an Angel Investor. He also founded and was Chairman of India Property Online. He graduated in Statistics from Presidency College, Chennai and completed his MCA from the University of Madras. For a brief while, he worked as a consultant in the US where he launched a community site for Tamil NRIs. This eventually led to the launch of TamilMatrimony and other BharatMatrimony channels. He discovered his wife Deepa through his own matchmaking site. The Asian Indian Chamber of Commerce honored him as one of the Top 5 Asian Indian Businessmen in the US below the age of 35. He was also honored by the India Today Group as the "Business Icon of the Year." Twice he was nominated by The Economic Times for the "Entrepreneur of the Year" award. Besides being awarded Digital Entrepreneur of the Year by WAT, he was also Chairman Emeritus of the IAMAI (Internet and Mobile Association of India).