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Vinay Chhajlani, Founder & CEO
Vinay Chhajlani
Founder & CEO

Mr. Vinay Chhajlani is the strategist behind Webdunia’s worldwide standing today. His vision is to empower every Indian with IT. The motto behind the foundation of nine languages portals 'Webdunia' is to spread computer awareness in every part of country in their own mother tongue. Mr. Chhajlani also holds Top positions in the other group companies SUVI & Diaspark. He is Managing Director of SUVI Information Systems Pvt. Ltd. and President of its fully owned subsidiary Diaspark Inc. New Jersey.

He also working as CEO of Naidunia News & Network Pvt. Ltd. and shaping the well known Hindi daily 'Naidunia'. Mr. Chhajlani is a Graduate in Electrical & Electronics Engineering, topper of 1984 batch from BITS Pilani and MS in Printing Technology from Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), New York.

He started his career in 1986 as a Planning Executive with Semline Inc. a leading printing company in Boston. It was these two years at Semline that gave direction to his interest in Information Technology and helped crystallize his entrepreneurial capabilities.

 

Pankaj Jain, President & COO

Pankaj Jain
President & COO

Mr. Pankaj Jain was instrumental in creation of world's largest property of its kind www.webdunia.com that now excels in providing localization and language technology solution on PC, wireless & web platforms. He is one of the highly experienced software professional with 17 years of experience in this field.

Under his focused guideline, Webdunia keeps abreast with the latest development in technology and also implements them in the ongoing projects. He is a perfectionist when it comes to the client deliveries and quality. Webdunia is marching ahead to write new success stories under his skillful leadership and sharp vision.

Mr. Jain is a Masters in Computer Science. He has consulted leading companies like Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse First Boston, Sotheby's, ASB Meditest etc.

 

Rajiv Singhi, Chief Financial Officer
Rajiv Singhi
Chief Financial Officer

Mr. Singhi is a Chartered Accountant with a vast experience of 20 years as he has overseen the finance function of various large and mid-size corporate for a long period.

Providing the right financial acumen and strategic input, he is guiding all finacial operations for Webdunia, Suvi and Diaspark family.

Prior to joining, he worked as CFO for a listed pharmaceutical company in India. He was instrumental in arranging various types of finances for the company. He looks after the group's corporate activities including investor relations, M & A and other business alliances. He has got wide exposure in financing, legal and accounting areas.

 

Jaideep Karnik, Head - Content & Localization
Jaideep Karnik
Head - Content & Localization

Mr. Jaideep Karnik is successfully heading all content and localization related operations for the organisation. He joined Naidunia (renowned newspaper of Madhya Pradesh & Chhattisgarh) in 1998 and worked as Editor in Features.

Jaideep comes with a unique mix of strong knowledge of journalism, passion for languages and experience of global management skills.

He has 15 years of immense experience in this field. He also represented India in International Youth Festival, Germany in 1995. His enormous potential and vast experience helps the organisation to deliver the best in both content and localization.

 

Prashanth Rao, General Manager - Ad Sales
Arpan Chatterjee
Chief Sales & Marketing Officer

Mr. Arpan Chatterjee has joined back the organization in March 2008. In his current portfolio he drives the Sales & Marketing operations both in Webdunia & Naidunia.

Arpan brings in vast experience in both Online & Print Media working across building sales organization and sales & marketing processes in businesses targeted to domestic & international markets.

A post graduate Diploma in Business Management, Arpan is a specialist in Sales process development & Sales and marketing management. He also brings in expertise in areas of Customer Support & Product management while heading these functions in his career.

Arpan’s area of interest has always been people development, with his exposure of motivating & handling large Sales team towards target orientation.

Arpan started his media career with the Times of India Group & has capped responsibilities as Sales Director with International Online business. He was with CyberMedia prior to joining us.

Prashanth Rao, General Manager - Ad Sales
Prashanth Rao
General Manager - Ad Sales

Mr. Prashanth Rao has been the backbone of Webdunia ad sales initiatives. He is with the organisation for more than 5 years now and is instrumental in bringing key clients on board for advertising with Webdunia.

Prashanth is efficiently leading the all India sales team of Webdunia and networking them with clients. He is the face of Webdunia with advertising agencies and marketeres. For all ad sales related queries with Webdunia, Prashanth needs to be contacted.

Prashanth holds MBA in Marketing Mangement Degree from bangalore university and has10+ years of industry experience. He has worked with organisations like Zee Telefilms, Blue Dart and The Hindu.

 

Prashanth Rao, General Manager - Ad Sales
Mr. Anil Jain
Senior Manager (Technology)

Mr. Anil Jain, a B Tech from IIT Bombay has had an entrepreneurial experience of over 15 years in the field of IT. He heads the Dot Net Technology Team at Webdunia which spear heads the technology initiatives for the flagship property of Webdunia i.e. the Portal in 9 Indian Languages www.webdunia.com. He also heads enterprise development projects for various overseas and domestic customers.

He has a huge experience of architecting, designing, developing, implementing and replicating at several locations of software products in the domain of Banking, Finance and Education.

 

Prashanth Rao, General Manager - Ad Sales
Babita Jain
Senior Manager (Technology)

Ms Babita Jain has a long and successful track record in managing, architecting, designing, implementing, and delivering cutting edge products,services and application frameworks. She has been working on Client-Server Based, Wireless and Web platforms throughout her career. She has worked on a variety of technology initiatives with Webdunia.

Having joined Webdunia in the year 1996, she has been responsible for handling offshore and domestic clients. Babita has been major contributor in defining the language technology roadmap of the organization. She also kicked off the Webdunia foray in to Wireless application development.

Babita has also made significant contributions in defining and institutionalizing processes @ Webdunia, leading to CMMI Level 3 assessment. Babita holds a Post Graduate degree in Computer science. Presently she is heading the product division of Webdunia.

 

Prashanth Rao, General Manager - Ad Sales
Swapnil Jain
General Manager Human Resource

Mr. Swapnil Jain joined the group recently as General Manager-Human Resource and brings with him entrepreneurial experience of more than 15 years. During his career he has worked with various IT companies like InfoTech Resourcing - London, Eonglobal - USA, LCC Infotech Ltd – India, Pollmine.com USA.

He founded and successfully managed 100% Export oriented IT Company for more than 10 years and served clients from UK, USA, Finland, Mexico Australia and Japan.

He is also a strategist and relies a lot on the development of human resources which he feels is the backbone of any knowledge based organization. He firmly believes in knowledge sharing and promoting communication and collaboration.

Mr. Swapnil Jain holds Bachelors of Engineering Degree in Electronics from University of Pune.