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Chandramouli Venkataraman, President and CEO
A veteran of online and digital media, Chandramouli Venkataraman provides
AutoIndia.com Online Pvt Ltd. with an exceptional balance of leadership
experience, broad operational and marketing skills, and extensive domain
expertise in Search, Local, Classifieds, and eCommerce. As President and CEO,
Chandramouli’s mission is to further evolve AutoIndia’s mandate to provide
cost-efficient and effective marketing services to the automotive industry by
extending its innovations in automotive Search, digital media, Internet
broadcasting, and advertising, as well as by leveraging his deep technological
expertise to support AutoIndia’s continued emergence as a leading provider of
solutions for automotive dealers. An integral part of this mission is to
further expand AutoIndia’s popularity with vehicle shoppers and buyers by
building on its pro-consumer legacy of creating and distributing innovative
products that improve the automotive shopping, purchasing and ownership
experience.
Chandramouli’s career spans over nineteen years including six years in a
leadership role as the head of a Business Unit where he played a key role in
strategic planning and new business initiatives and was instrumental in driving
sales from start to Rs.100+ Crores (Approx US$ 22 Million) in less than five
years. In his various assignments he has led businesses to market leadership
status in a short span.
Chandramouli was most recently at Sify.com, the India’s first and leading
online portal where he was heading content for the various channels in News,
Finance, Sports, Mobile Entertainment & others. Before heading Sify.com
Chandramouli spent over fifteen years at NIIT in India and USA, one of Asia’s
leading Software, Training, Consultancy and IT Services Companies. Chandramouli
started his career as a Management executive with The Murugappa Group,
headquartered in Chennai, India, a USD 2 billion (Rs. 8,500 crore)
conglomerate.
A recognized authority in digital media, marketing and Search, Chandramouli is
a frequent speaker at media industry events. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in
Chemical Technology from the Osmania University, Hyderabad and an MBA from
IRMA, Anand.
Satish Ramakrishnan, Co-Founder and Director
Satish has over 18 years of experience building companies and growing
technology teams.
He has worked at large companies like Wipro and BEA and has helped build
companies from the ground floor, including PointCast (acquired by AOL), KnowNow
Inc., Good Technologies (acquired by Motorola) and Women.com (acquired by
iVillage) – the last of which he helped take public. He has successfully raised
capital, been instrumental in key sales and partnership opportunities, and
built large and small teams from scratch both in the U.S. and off-shore.
Satish was the head of Weblogic Integration at BEA and also the original VP of
Engineering at KnowNow Inc. where he launched the company, championed new
product development, acted as the primary contact for prominent clients such as
Morgan Stanley, PeopleSoft, and others and managed the release of five
cutting-edge products.
Satish has been at the helm of pioneering internet consumer companies including
PointCast which introduced media and personalization to the Web and Women.com -
the first true portal targeted at the female demographics online.
Binu, Co-Founder and Director
Binu is an accomplished information systems professional with more than 12
years of experience in the areas of ERP/CRM/SCM’s, Databases, software
development and design. He has worked with fortune 200 companies like Computer
Sciences Corporation, Paramount Technologies and DSQ Software.
Binu was the Sr. EIS Consultant at Computer Sciences Corporation(CSC) where he
championed new products planning, acted as the primary contact for prominent
clients such as AutoTrader.com, DuPont and SC Johnson.
Babu Sivadasan, Director
Babu Sivadasan, who was the founding Chief Technology Officer for few startup
companies including stamps.com (Nasdaq:STMP) and is currently serving as the
EVP of Engg, responsible for firm-wide engineering activities at Envestnet Asset Management,
the leading, independent wealth management platform provider for the financial advisory marketplace.
Babu has a distinguished career as an entrepreneur and executive, having been involved
in successful technology start-up companies in the internet, infrastructure and financial
services sectors. He has a distinguished record working with entrepreneurs turning their
ideas into innovative companies, and delivering solutions for Fortune 500 companies.
He has extensive experience in global software delivery models and coordinating engineering
activities across geographically distributed groups. He has delivered technology solutions
to leading financial services organizations like AIG, ING, Northwestern Mutual, Russell, S&P, Discover etc.
Patrick Stanton, Advisor
Patrick has over 12 years experience as a consultant, entrepreneur, and
executive to a variety of established and start-up high technology companies in
the Internet, clean technology, life science and transportation industries.
Patrick is an expert in developing and executing strategic plans with a
particular focus on revenue growth and strategic account management.
Patrick served as vice president, business development for Dealix Corporation
(acquired by The Cobalt Group), where he was part of the early executive team
that built Dealix into one of the web's most successful automotive Internet
marketing organizations. A prolific dealmaker, Patrick built strategic
alliances with some of the industry’s most well known brands including, Yahoo!,
Microsoft, AOL, General Motors, and Ford. Prior to Dealix, Patrick enjoyed
similar success while running enterprise sales and affiliate marketing for
Autoweb.com (acquired by Autobytel) as vice president, business development.
Patrick is a founder and the corporate development chair of the California
Clean Tech Open, the world’s largest business plan competition to promote the
commercialization of clean technologies. Additionally, Patrick recently founded
angel investment and advisory group, Chobe Group, LLC, to bring best practices
in automobile retailing to emerging markets, notably in India and China.
Patrick began his career as a consultant with Accenture. Patrick holds a BA in
geography from the University of Colorado, Boulder and an MBA in finance and
economics from Columbia Business School.
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