Ganesh Krishnan — CEO
Serial Entrepreneur and Promoter - Consumer Internet , Healthcare, Education and Tech companies Promoter director - BigBasket.com, Portea Medical, HomeLane, HouseJoy , Hygiene BigBytes, Bluestone, FreshMenu, HungerBox , ClearOut.io, Verloop.io, Bahaar Foundation and others. Adjunct Professor - Indian Institute of Management , Bangalore Ex Member Board of Governors , Indian Institute of Management , Calcutta Till February 2013 , Founder and CEO of TutorVista In January 2011 , Pearson , World's largest education services company acquired TutorVista for $ 213 MM. Bahaar Foundation - NGO focussed on micro entrepreneurship as a means to empower poor. Four successful entrepreneurship experiences - starting with raising money, putting together a team, scaling and growing across multiple countries and finally successfully monetising through IPO and trade sale. - IT&T ( acquired by iGate) , CustomerAsset ( Acquitred by ICICI) , Marketics ( Acquired by WNS ) and TutorVista ( acquired by Pearson) Also worked in corporate sector for some time including CEO position at British Telecom joint venture. Angel investor - select startups in Internet and tech sector - Oto Capital, Vogo, Dealshare, silverpush, littleyelabs, Browntape, HackerEarth, Delyver etc
Stackforce AI infers this person is a serial entrepreneur with expertise in Consumer Internet and Education sectors.
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Experience: 27 yrs 11 mos
Career Highlights
- Founder of TutorVista, acquired by Pearson for $213 million.
- Promoter of multiple successful startups in various sectors.
- Adjunct Professor at prestigious Indian business schools.
Work Experience
Indian School of Business
Visiting Professor (3 yrs 2 mos)
Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
Adjunct Professor (4 yrs 6 mos)
BahaarFoundation.org
Trustee - Bahaar Foundation (6 yrs)
Growthstory
Partner - Growthstory.in (13 yrs 1 mo)
Growthstory.in - Venture Builder Platform
Promoter -BigBasket, Portea Medical, HomeLane, Verloop.io, Bluestone, FreshMenu ,HungerBox, Housejoy (14 yrs 8 mos)
TutorVista Global Pvt. Ltd
Founder and CEO (7 yrs 1 mo)
Marketics
Advisor & Board member (3 yrs 6 mos)
FIRSTSOURCE / ICICI ONESOURCE / CUSTOMERASSET
Founder & CEO/ PRESIDENT (3 yrs 6 mos)
BHARTI BRITISH TELECOM
CEO (2 yrs 2 mos)
Education
MBA at Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta
B.Tech at Delhi College of Engineering , Delhi University