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Naren Bakshi

CEO

San Jose, California, United States59 yrs 10 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led a global wellness movement impacting health.
  • Founder of multiple successful startups.
  • Advocate for healthy living and personal transformation.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned entrepreneur with a strong focus on health and wellness initiatives.

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Business DevelopmentBusiness PlanningBusiness StrategyE-commerceEntrepreneurshipExecutive ManagementInternational BusinessLeadershipManagementMentoringMergersMergers & AcquisitionsProduct DevelopmentProduct ManagementSocial Entrepreneurship

About

Naren Bakshi is a Chairman, Corporate Executive, Serial Entrepreneur, Community leader, Health Hero, and Speaker. Currently, Naren is leading a Global Wellness Movement: Crack the Wellness Code around the Globe. He is an inspiring Health Hero who has demonstrated that with lifestyle changes, one can, at any age, reverse chronic diseases. He lost 90 pounds and got rid of all ailments, including diabetes, Sleep Apnea, and Hiatel Hernia, at age 65, and has maintained an active lifestyle. Mr. Bakshi has an unquenchable thirst for learning, knowledge, and personal improvement. His quest to improve his health has made him an advocate for healthy living. He gives invited talks on his remarkable journey of personal health transformation. Professionally, Naren Baksh is a serial Entrepreneur and Mentor to Founders and for Social Impact Initiatives in Healthcare, Wellness, Education, Internet, and e-commerce. Founder of TiE Rajasthan and Charter Member Emeritus of Silicon Valley. Founding Trustee Board Member of India Community Center. He has a master's degree in Engineering, an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley, and a BS from BIT, Mesra, Ranchi. He has lived in the US for 59 years and maintains homes in Silicon Valley & Jaipur, India. He understands the US and India from spending four months every year in India since 2000. He was a member of the White House delegation during President Obama's visit to India and part of the TiE delegation to Indian Prime Minister Vajpayee in 2000. He is the Founder of TiE Rajasthan. Previously, as Trustee and Chairman of TiE Global's Chapter Development Group, he oversaw 57 chapters in 13 countries from 2004-2009. He is also the Chairman Emeritus of Hume Center, a Trustee and past President Emeritus of the India Community Center, Silicon Valley, CA, and Co-Chair of BITOSA Global. He is the founder and Chairman of several companies, including Versata, which he built into a $2B NASDAQ-traded company, the XPEDE, and the International Venture Group. He is the Founding Mentor of ShopClues and Poshmark, both publicly traded companies on NASDAQ and Hyrefox. He is also the adviser of The Nexus: Global Youth Summit. He brings extraordinary experience to help Founders set up organizations that can scale globally.

Experience

Hyrefox consultants

Founding Mentor

Apr 2019Mar 2025 · 5 yrs 11 mos · Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

  • HyreFox is an online marketplace that connects employers with a national network of seasoned headhunters. HyreFox also provides professional recruiting firms access to a large number of top employers as well. https://www.hyrefox.com/

Crack the wellness code

Chairman of the Board and Founding Trustee

Jul 2018Present · 7 yrs 8 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Initiated in the famed Silicon Valley across the San Francisco Bay Area, we are a bunch of medical practitioners, nutritionists, dieticians, entrepreneurs, professionals, health heroes, and wellness champions looking to crack the health code by embracing scientifically proven lifestyle, best practices, preventive care, technology, and insightful analytics.
  • Core Team and Stakeholders Entrepreneurs, business leaders, subject matter experts, proactive researchers, certified coaches, nutritionists, health heroes, and health ambassadors also support our activities. We have accomplished doctors with a focus on wellness practices and affiliations to top-notch US institutions that are doctor patrons. Our partners/associates include Kaiser Permanente, Stanford Hospital, Hume Center, Frost & Sullivan, AAPIO, TrueNorth, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, Nutrition Professor, South Asia Heart Center, and TiE, with more coming on board. We are also fortunate to have a growing team of 50+ multitalented Resource Persons and Volunteers who offer unstinting support to this Wellness movement.

Crack the wellness code india

Founder & Chairman

Jun 2018Present · 7 yrs 9 mos · United States · On-site

  • As the name suggests, our focus is on wellness in its various dimensions providing insights through a credible and centralized source of knowledge in text, audio, and video format. We have decided to focus on ten wellness areas such as physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, social, environmental, occupational, financial, technological, and legal. The pandemic highlighted the need for us to be as healthy as possible and with good immunity to live a long and fulfilling life. We aim to educate, inspire, empower, and impact our community and make a positive difference in their lives.

Mahaveer high school

Convenor Global Alumni Project

Dec 2017Mar 2023 · 5 yrs 3 mos · Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

  • Our objective is to connect 30,000 Alumni across the globe with Alma Mater and with each other. Many of these Alumni are on top position in industry, government, and in social organizations. We want to grow Alumni chapters from current two chapters ( Bangkok, Mumbai) to 12 chapters by 2021!

Indibni

Mentor

Feb 2017Apr 2025 · 8 yrs 2 mos · Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

  • Indibni® is a leading Indian Indigenous Content Production Company, with a mission to enable billions to express their love. Three 'I' in their name, stands for India, Innovation & Individual.
  • www.indibni.com

Quikfynd, inc.

Founding Mentor/Advisor

Jul 2014Mar 2023 · 8 yrs 8 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • QuikFynd is a platform to organize and search your private data across all platforms from one location with ease.
  • Your data is everywhere and growing fast. Whether it's your kids photos on your iPhone, your work documents in Google Drive, or the music that you share with your friends on Dropbox, it's hard to keep track of it all.
  • You want to access your data where ever you are. QuikFynd helps you navigate through all your data with ease. So you don't have to remember where you saved your last happy hour photo or your latest sales presentation. Just QuikFynd it!

Let's make a movie

Founding Mentor

Apr 2014Apr 2018 · 4 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

  • LMAM is a dedicated platform for the global film fraternity. Media and entertainment industries with former team heads for Disney and Dreamworks for over 20 years. LMAM has 2 objectives - the first is to CREATE CONTENT, to engage and encourage the global 'Creative Community' and the second, which has gone way beyond our expectations… is to To CONNECT TALENT - to build a dedicated platform (just like a LinkedIn or aiming even higher, a Facebook) for the entire global film/creative community. The BIG picture - To Connect the $1.9 Trillion market.

Wellnessmate

Founding Mentor/Advisor

Jan 2014Jan 2019 · 5 yrs

  • WellnessMate is the world’s first outcome based digital cardiac therapeutics- transforming patient’s smartphone into an effective treatment modality for secondary prevention and self-care management. WellnessMate’s unique mobile, sensors and cloud based solution delivers the same proven care protocols in a much more engaging, accessible and connected way. It brings all the care stakeholders such as patient’s spouse, social support network, and healthcare providers onto a single platform. In this way, our technology will support the patient and his or her family through the cardiac care continuum, as a lower cost but more effective and profitable solution.

Birla institute of technology, mesra

Patron BITOSA Global and Chief Mentor Silicon Valley and Rajasthan Chapters

Nov 2013Present · 12 yrs 4 mos · Silicon Valley

  • Led the BIT Global Alumni Association with over 50 thousand members, overseeing ten chapters worldwide.
  • Served as Chief Mentor for the Silicon Valley and Rajasthan chapters, guiding alumni to add value to their institution.
  • Collaborated with alumni to foster a strong network and support the growth of the Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra.

Tie

Global Ambassador

May 2013Apr 2015 · 1 yr 11 mos · Silicon Valley & Rajasthan

  • Appointed as TiE Silicon Valley's Global Ambassador. In this role I will also be Chairing the Host Committee that also includes Mr. Bakul Joshi and Adhitya Padala for the Global Charter Members attending the Tie Silicon Valley's TiEcon from May 16-19th in Santa Clara Convention Center. Over 400 Charter Members representing many of the TiE's 60 chapters around the globe will be attending this event with over 3000+ attendees. This event has become the World's largest gathering of highly successful entrepreneurs who will be here to speak, mentor, educate, connect and inspire our budding entrepreneurs. Encourage you to consider coming to this exciting event https://www.facebook.com/tiecon

Nexus: global youth summit

Member of the Board

Mar 2013Apr 2025 · 12 yrs 1 mo

  • About Nexus: Global Youth Summit
  • The world is at a crossroad. Social and environmental tensions are growing. Technology has made the global village increasingly inter-connected and inter-dependent. People everywhere are seeking transformative ideas, new resources and new leadership to ensure a peaceful and sustainable future. And, younger generations are rising to meet the challenge.
  • To put the hope and promise of young people on the world stage, leaders are coming together in New York City this summer, from July 26th to 29th, 2011, for The Nexus: Global Youth Summit on Innovative Philanthropy and Social Entrepreneurship. It will be convened by Search for Common Ground and the Young Donor Network as follow up to the first meeting on Young Philanthropy held at the United Nations.
  • On July 27th, participants will be invited to join a meeting at the UN called “Giving it Back, Passing it On: Corporate Engagement and Youth Philanthropy as Pathways to Development.” It will be convened by the UN Programme on Youth in partnership with Search for Common Ground and the NGO Restless Development.

Living greens organics pvt. ltd.

Chairman and Chief Mentor

Mar 2013Jan 2018 · 4 yrs 10 mos · Jaipur Area, India

  • The Living Greens Organics Private Limited is a leading supplier & dealer of rooftop farming, rooftop farming kit, living green walls, rooftop gardening kit, Organic inputs for farm houses and providing training thru a Master Gardener Program. www.thelivinggreens.com

Ivg infratech, ultima jaipur

Founding Partner

Jan 2013Mar 2023 · 10 yrs 2 mos · Jaipur Area, India

  • IVG Group is leading builders and promoters in Jaipur. Doing construction business since 2003. We have done so many projects in Jaipur only and one leading project in Hyderabad. Our current project is going on rather to say almost on the end point naming Harbinger Heights. Harbinger Heights is a ground plus 9 structure multistory residential apartments, near Mansarovar and easy approach from Ajmer Road. The project consists of 120 apartments comprising of two blocks or towers.

Poshmark

Advisor

Jan 2011Apr 2025 · 14 yrs 3 mos · Silicon Valley

  • Great mobile e-commerce company focused on women's fashion with societal positive impact on environment and help create jobs for women. Now a successful venture with $40.5M in funding from investors including Mayfield Fund, Menlo Ventures, Shera Ventures and SV Angels.

Liqvid elearning services pvt ltd

Director

Jan 2011Mar 2023 · 12 yrs 2 mos · Noida Area, India

  • Largest company focused on English education in India. Liqvid provides world class infrastructure that delivers quality learning services for Corporations, Academic Institutions and Government Organizations around the world.

Shopclues

Founding Mentor/Advisor

Jan 2011Oct 2018 · 7 yrs 9 mos · Noida Area, India

  • Helped Founding couple to decide when to leave a top job in USA and take chance to move to India with families along with two other co-Founders. Very courageous move that worked well due to preparations before leaving US. ShopClues is the leading e-Commerce company in India and recently raised USD100M from Tiger Global, Helion Venture Partners and Nexus Venture Partners

Career launcher

Advisor to Chairman

Jan 2011Jun 2012 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • Integrated large education services company in India.

Harbinger real estate pvt ltd, jaipur, india

Chairman

Jan 2009Nov 2014 · 5 yrs 10 mos · Jaipur Area, India

  • Got involved in this real estate project only because Sanjay Yadav who was member of TiE Rajasthan wanted to provided innovative solutions that included Life Easy technology solutions for the middle class and other high quality practices in this project to be role model in city and he had sought me as mentor. Even though it was only 120 apartment complex it did provide many modern amenities including a good club house even when it required higher level of investment and did take much longer to complete due mostly to Government in spite of good connections with higher levels in Governement.

Tie

Chairman; Chapter Support & Development Group

Jan 2004Dec 2009 · 5 yrs 11 mos

  • Served as the Chairman of the Chapter Support and Development Group of the TiE Global for 5 years that worked with over 50 chapters around the world and many of them have become very successful chapters in TiE eco-system. This led me to also continue to support TiE as the Founder and Champion of TiE Rajasthan and Global Ambassador of TiE Silicon Valley. Had an opportunity to serve with stalwarts like Kanwal Rekhi, Narayan Murthy, Prof. C.K. Prahalad, Desh Deshpande, Apurv Bagri. These experiences also helped me to be a good mentor and advisor as in this role I had to learn to mentor very successful President's and their teams in all chapters.

India community center

President Emeritus and Trustee

Jan 2003Present · 23 yrs 2 mos

  • As President led the organization's Board of Directors and Executive team to deliver services to the San Francisco Bay area community.

Ceo jumpstart

Founder

Jan 2003Dec 2009 · 6 yrs 11 mos

  • This was a group fo CEO's in Silicon Valley from very diverse fields to learn from each other while helping each other. This group was offshoot of very successful network the Allinace of CEO's led by Paul Witkay. It also led me find my co-Founder Jim Novack for XPEDE.

The indus entrepreneurs tie- rajasthan

Founder/Champion

Jan 2002Present · 24 yrs 2 mos

  • TiE was founded on the belief that nurturing entrepreneurs will lead to the virtuous cycle of wealth creation, and encapsulates the true spirit of giving back to the community. It was late C.K. Prahalad, Chief Mentor of TiE who said, Mentoring is an essential part of building an entrepreneurial culture. More importantly, it is a true reflection of the spirit of giving by charter members. There are several Mentoring programs at TiE Chapters – both Group mentoring and Personal one-to-one sessions with seasoned entrepreneurs. These include “TiE Institute”, “My Story Sessions”, “Business Builder Breakfast”, Mentoring at “Business Plan Competitions” and many more. Please contact your local TiE Chapter for more information

Xpede

Founder & Chairman

Aug 1998Jun 2002 · 3 yrs 10 mos

  • Founded company and served as Chairman

Versata

Co-Founder/Chairman/CEO

Aug 1992Jun 1998 · 5 yrs 10 mos

  • Founded company, served as Chairman & CEO

Trw credit services

Business Development Director

Jul 1982Jun 1992 · 9 yrs 11 mos

  • Managed acquisition of information technology businesses including TRW Financial Systems from Teknekron

Ameritrust

Vice President

Sep 1978Jun 1982 · 3 yrs 9 mos

  • Managed information systems

India community center

Chairman

Jan 1978Jan 1988 · 10 yrs · Cleveland, Ohio Area

  • The Indian Community Center is the first Indian Community center in any major city in the US.

Bp

Director, Management Science

Sep 1969Aug 1978 · 8 yrs 11 mos

  • Managed internal consulting for refining, marketing, and corporate management systems

National engineering industries

Executive Engineer

Jul 1964Sep 1966 · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • Managed grinding department of ball bearing plant in Jaipur, India

Hindustan motors

Manufacturing Engineer

Jan 1963Jun 1964 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • Managed assembly operations for Ambassador automobiles

Education

University of California, Berkeley

Master’s Degree — Industrial Engineering and Business

Jan 1967Jan 1969

University of California, Berkeley

Master of Science (MS) — Industrial Engineering

Jan 1966Jan 1969

BIT Mesra Student-Industry Relations Cell

BS — Mechanical Engineering

Jan 1959Jan 1963

Mahaveer Digambar Jain High School, Jaipur

High School — Science

Jan 1950Jan 1956

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