Himanshu Periwal — CEO
Himanshu is the COO & Founding Member at Oister, India's Premier Alternative Assets Manager. He has been an entrepreneur / operator for most part of his life, and his last venture Unlu (Mugafi) was backed by Nexus Venture Partners. Over the last 15 years, Himanshu has worked on various Private Equity and Fin-tech mandates with Bain & Company, was part of the team at Amazon that launched it in India and led its Product Marketing, and was the VP Growth at ixigo, one of India's top 3 travel aggregators, helping it scale from 5 Mn to 150Mn+ users. A graduate of IIM Calcutta and NSIT, he has also been a Start-up Advisor at NASSCOM, TechStars, Deshpande Foundation and has been associated with over 15 start-ups as an Advisor/Investor in the past, such as, Urban Company, Good Glamm Group, Style Theory, Emoha, Eat Better, Sateeq, Soptle, Kindly (YC W22), inVOID (YC W21), Exly (YC W19), etc. Himanshu has also been on the stage for various events at IAMAI, Google, Facebook, Branch.io, Netcore, SATTE, HiFi, Clevertap, IIM Calcutta, MDI Gurgaon, Delhi University, Nirma University, BITS Pilani, Growth Folks, Headstart, etc.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned leader in Fintech and Private Equity with extensive startup advisory experience.
Location: South Delhi, Delhi, India
Experience: 13 yrs 8 mos
Career Highlights
- Led ixigo's growth from 5M to 150M+ users.
- Co-founded Unlu backed by Nexus Venture Partners.
- Advisor to over 15 startups including Urban Company.
Work Experience
Oister Global
COO & Founding Member (3 yrs 2 mos)
unlu®
Co-Founder (2 yrs 8 mos)
Multiple Companies
Investor/Advisor (3 yrs 4 mos)
upGrad
Product Management - Faculty/Instructor (2 yrs 11 mos)
ixigo.com
Vice President - Growth (4 yrs 1 mo)
Amazon
Product Manager - Marketing (1 yr 3 mos)
Bain & Company
Senior Analyst (1 yr 10 mos)
Education
Master of Business Administration (MBA) at Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta
Bachelor of Engineering (BE) at Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology
at St. Xavier School - Jaipur