·       Greg Moran
Founder & CEO, Zoomcar

An entrepreneur with experience in investment banking, business development, international energy and infrastructure sector. Greg Moran was a finance student at USC’s Marshall School of Business, prior to which he studied International Relations at University of Pennsylvania.  He was the founder and president of the USC Energy Club and member of many entrepreneurship associations during his post-graduation years. In 2013, Moran dropped out of his course and launched Zoomcar in Bangalore with David Back (also a drop out, from Cambridge University). Zoomcar is currently present in Bengaluru, Pune and the NCR, logs more than 20,000 bookings per month.



·       Vivek Prabhakar
Founder & CEO, Chumbak

Vivek Prabhakar was an Economics student from Naval Public School. The 35-year-old entrepreneur worked in retail and marketing field before he started his theme-based collection store in Bangalore in 2010. Having worked in a travelling job for companies like Titan Industries, Sun Microsystems, Platinum Guild International and Motorola, he realized that tourist in India had very little options for things to carry as souvenirs from their trips. Thus, he started Chumbak with the trademark auto-rickshaw printed handiwork. In five years, the company has expanded itself to 30 categories, started an online brand store in Amazon and opened flagship stores in Bangalore.



·       Ritesh Agarwal
Founder, OYO Rooms

Ritesh Agarwal hails from a business family in Odisha. He joined Indian School of Business and Finance after completing his schooling, but dropped out of college to start his own business at the age of 18. He founded Ovarel Stays, an Indian version of AirBnB in 2012, and a year later, pivoted it to OYO Rooms. Agarwal was the first resident Asian to win Thiel Fellowship in 2013, a two –year program for people under the age of 20. At 21, he is the youngest CEO in India, owning the largest budget hotel chain across 120 cities in the country.



·       Vipul Parekh
Founder, BigBasket.com

Vipul Parekh is one of the six founders of BigBasket.com in 2011. Prior to starting his own entrepreneurial ventures, he worked as a Marketing Manager at TVS Electronics after completing his post-graduation from IIM Bangalore in 1988. He also worked as a business developer at Wipro Limited till 1999. In that year, Parekh, along with the same five friends, developed Fabmart.com, an online business. Following its success, they opened chain of stores named Fabmall in South India, which was sold to Aditya Birla Group in 2006 (renamed as More). BigBasket.com operates in 7 cities in India and serves to 200,000 regular customers.


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