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| About Us |
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| Gandhi City will create a eco-system to foster
the right collaboration between the industry, institutions and the research
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| Management Team |
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| Giri is a successful serial entrepreneur. He founded Ivega
Corporation in 1997 which was later merged with TCG in 2004. Giri is a computer
engineer from the University of Mysore and has over 16 years of experience in
information technology industry. Giri has attended an executive training
program in MIT on "Building and growing an Innovative Organization".
He is also an investor and serves on the board of multiple companies He has
steered many companies since their inception. He was directly responsible for
planning and execution of corporate strategy, fund raising, sales, investor
relations, client servicing and inorganic growth. He has managed the
development and maintenance of trading systems for Bank of America Securities
LLC. He has also been associated with different organizations like Lerros Gmbh,
Mexx International, and Manhattan Associates and worked in Germany, Holland,
USA and India.
He firmly believes in a family legacy that of educating and empowering people.
An entrepreneur with a clear vision of his personal contribution to society,
Giri aims to not only carry-on this legacy but also to build upon it by
facilitating the creation and sharing of wealth.
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Manohara Nagaraja (also known as Manny) served as the Chief Operating Officer of
TCGIvega prior to joining Gandhi City. Tcgivega is a software services company
with three centers in Bangalore, Mumbai and Kolkata.
Manohara has worked for Infosys for 15 years in various capacities. He was
involved deeply in building Infosys foray into various avenues. He was
responsible for project execution, program management, Domain Consulting,
Technology Consulting, Account Management, Customer Management, Country
development, Mergers & Acquisition, Presales among other things at various
times. He has worked with a lot of Fortune 100 companies in various capacities
including GE, Staples, Nordstrom, Apple Computers, J C Penney, British
Petroleum, Telstra, Hewitt, Belgacom Mobile, Southern California Edison,
Daimler-Chrysler, Orix, Shlumberger, to name a few.
Manohara started his career with L&T where he joined out of the campus as a
graduate trainee. He worked on different systems including Payroll, Product
management and inventory management. He then worked with their embedded systems
group in creating Automated Analysis of Cardiograms by interfacing computers
and ECG Machines with some of the most precision cardiogram wave analysis
algorithms.
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Arjun has more than 16 years of experience in Information
Technology Services. Arjun served as the Founder, Chairman, President and Chief
Executive Officer of Intelligroup, Inc, and was responsible for the growth of
Intelligroup from
Rs. 4.5 Crores
in 1993 to over
Rs. 837 Crores
in 1999.
Through the years, Arjun had received various awards such as:
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New Jersey Fast 50 Awards in the years 1995, 1996, 1997
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New Jersey Fast 500 Award in 1999
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New Jersey Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist in the years 1995, 1996, 1997
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New Jersey Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 2001
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Var Business 500 Awards in 2000, 2001, 2002, USA
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Young Presidents' Organization, Inc. in 2003, USA
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Recipient of Ronald Reagan Technology Award from the World Business Forum, 2004
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Sunil holds an MBA from IIM, Ahmedabad, specializing in Agri
management. Sunil has worked in the food and agribusiness sector in India for
more than 11years starting with 5 years at the Godrej group which are the
largest feed millers in India. He then went into commodity trading with
Cargill. In the year 2000, Sunil conceptualized and set up Indian Agribusiness
Systems Pvt. Ltd., which runs www.agriwatch.com, which uses Internet, Email,
SMS, Video and print media for delivery of information and knowledge to all its
clients besides events and consulting work with bilaterals, multi laterals,
Govt. of India, Banks and others. He also founded Indian Society of
Agribusiness Professionals (www.isapindia.org) and Indian Rural Market Products
Pvt., Ltd.
He has been involved in founding Credibility Alliance and Rural Marketing
Agencies Association of India. He also held the Chairmanship of Academy India
for a year between July 2004 and June 2005. He is also on the
CII National Committee on Agriculture,
Advisory Board
for
Krishi Darshan of Doordarshan. Sunil currently
holds a very prestigious fellowship from Ashoka Foundation, Washington, USA,
which is given to only 10 people all over the world for doing unique service to
the society.
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| Arvind, is a Civil Engineering graduate from the Indian
Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi . Ater graduating in 1991, Arvind went on
to complete his postgraduate studies in management at the coveted Indian
Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad in 1993.
Arvind started his career as Manager with the Venture Strategy Consulting
division of Feedback Ventures in New Delhi. He was part of a team which helped
clients to develop entry strategies into new businesses. From October 1994 to
October 2001, he worked for SSKI Corporate Finance Ltd in Mumbai, one of
India's leading Investment Banks and Broking Houses. During this time, Arvind
successfully completed assignments such as:
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Financial closure of an Indian 355 MW Power Company
Rs. 1,215 Crores.
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Successful closure of private placement of
Rs. 877.5 Crores.
equity of Sony Entertainment TV business in India/Singapore.
In November 2001, Arvind started Skyzen Capital Advisors Pty Ltd, a boutique
Investment Bank specialising in financial institutional equity (VC and private)
funding, strategic equity sourcing and Mergers and Acquisition activities. Some
of the notable deals he has worked on include the merger of TCG Software and
Ivega software, strategic equity investment in Delhi based Smart Chip Limited
by Orga Kartensysteme GmBH and Sale of an IT services company, Momentum India
to Newell & Budge Holdings Limited.
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Shiv is the founder and Managing Director of Langham Capital.
Shiv has a Bachelor degree in Economics from the University of Sussex, a
Masters degree in Development Economics from the University of East Anglia and
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MBA from London Business School. Shiv is a member
of the European Technology Forum and The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE).
Shiv is responsible for managing all aspects of the firm's activities including
origination and executing transactions, client relationship management and
financial management. He is also Chairman of F1F9 (India) Private Ltd.
Immediately prior to founding Langham Capital, Shiv managed two technology
ventures in Europe. Prior to this, Shiv worked in the Mergers &
Acquisitions groups at JPMorgan and Dresdner Kleinwort Benson in London and New
York. He managed merger, acquisition, sale, privatisation, equity raising and
private equity transactions for global clients in a number of markets and
jurisdictions including the UK, Europe, US, India, South Korea, Russia,
Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, UAE and Brazil. Shiv has also advised investors on
stretching a venture capital fund to invest in the Indian IT sector.
He began his career with the Tata Group of Companies in India. As a member of
the Tata Administrative Service, he worked on a number of projects in areas
such as hotels, luxury goods, telecoms and soft drink bottling and
distribution.
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Sanjeev Rao is the Founder and CEO of Gateway to India, (G2i) a venture which
helps accelerate success in Euro Indian partnerships. G2i, based in has worked
on numerous projects in supporting Continental European Companies enter the
Indian market and has supported them both in their operations and investments.
Previous to G2i, which Sanjeev started two years ago, Sanjeev was with The
Boston Consulting Group in Paris for three and a half years. He worked on many
strategic, business development and change management assignments for major
European Multinationals.
After his Telecoms Engineering from Mangalore University, Sanjeev spent nine
years with Alstom in the UK and France. Having started initially in the
advanced research space, he quickly moved soon to International Business
Development within one of the business units. During this time he also managed
many transverse corporate projects in the areas of Quality and Customer Focus.
He was also very active in supporting the transfer of technology and R&D
exchange with India.
Sanjeev has an MBA from INSEAD and is on the board of many Euro Indian Ventures.
After 15 years in Europe, Sanjeev has now moved back to India and is based in
Bangalore.
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Madhura Nath has over 26 years of experience in Building Construction and
Project Management. He has led a number of projects in commissioning of
factories and industrial plants; surveying, designing and constructions of
highways; Construction of Office complexes and urban residential area
development. Madhura Nath has substantial consulting experience in the areas of
large project conceptualization, Project design, cost planning and
implementation processes.
For the last 11 years, Madhura Nath has been responsible for developing entire
Infocity complex for Infosys technologies ltd in Bangalore and
actively managed development at Mysore, Pune and Hyderabad Campuses.
Madhura Nath has worked at large corporations like national Building
Construction Corporation, Raichur Thermal Power Plant, Ramagundam Thermal Power
Corporation, Nikhil Constructions and Infosys among others.
Madhura Nath holds a bachelors diploma in Civil Engineering and post graduate
Diploma in materials management from Delhi productivity council. Madhura Nath
has training in PMI course at INFOSYS Madhura Nath has extensive experience in
large scale project management, office and residential complex constructions,
Factory and Industrial complex construction, Highway and road construction and
urban land development.
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