BOARD OF DIRECTORS
PRADEEP GUPTA
Chairman & Managing Director
A first generation entrepreneur, along with his family members promoted CyberMedia in 1982. He is a B.Tech. from IIT Delhi (1975) and MBA from IIM Calcutta (1977). He is the main promoter as well as Chairman & Managing Director of Cyber Media (India) Ltd. He is an industry veteran of 40 years and is highly reputed in the IT Industry.
He was conferred the “National Entrepreurship Award as the Best Mentor” by the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, Government of India as he has mentored over 150 start-ups.
He is the co-founder of Indian Angel Network. He is the Chair of the Alumni Trust, the sponsors of IvyCap Ventures Trust Funds. He is on the Board of the IIM Calcutta Innovation Park.
He was a global trustee of TiE, the world’s largest entrepreneurial ecosystem. He was also on the Board of UTI AMC and its subsidiary UTI Capital.
He has been the past President of PanIIT India and Association of Indian Magazines. He is/has been on the Boards of IIT Mandi, Indian Newspaper Society, IIT Delhi incubator, etc.
He is the recipient of the Distinguished Alumni award of IIT Delhi and the Helen Keller award for working in the disability sector.
DHAVAL GUPTA
Non-Executive DirectorDhaval Gupta is the Executive Director and heads digital initiatives at CyberMedia. As a new media advocate, Dhaval has a keen understanding of media and technology space.
Dhaval has played a pivotal role in establishing CyberMedia as a leading digital services setup. He is the architect of CyberMedia partnerships with Google, Facebook, Twitter, and oversees Cyber Media Services. By building comprehensive online brand strategies, audience profiling and big data analytics, Dhaval has built a strong team based on detailed understanding of the global digital economy.
Dhaval has also played a leadership role in driving the digital transformation for media brands including Dataquest, PC Quest, Voice&Data, CIOL.com, CyberAstro.com, among others.
His other passions also include working within the startup ecosystem. Dhaval has been actively involved as a mentor & advisor to startups in field of Media, Fintech and Technology.
Dhaval is the Founder-Director of DU Beat, India’s largest student newspaper. He is an investor and Board member of WittyFeed.com, India’s largest viral content company.
He is a Graduate of University of Wisconsin – Madison.
ROHITASAVA CHAND
Non-Executive DirectorRohit Chand has been a serial entrepreneur who has promoted highly successful ventures in the IT, ITES, Education & Financial Services domains. Rohit has over 45 years’ experience in the Indian services sector and is well versed with the regulatory framework in India.
After occupying senior positions in corporate India, Rohit ventured out on his own in 1985 and through a series of acquisitions and mergers co-founded IIS Infotech, one of India's foremost software/education companies, of which he was the Executive Chairman. IIS was bought over by the FI Group Plc. (now Steria) which is a European multinational and Rohit exited the company. Thereafter, Rohit co-founded Infinity Venture Fund with a US 40 million Dollar corpus and founded Axis-IT&T which focused on Engineering Design and contributed to its growth and diversification.
Rohit successfully took both IIS Infotech & Axis-IT&T public. IIS Infotech gave a 10x returns to its public shareholders in a period of 4 years & Infinity Venture Fund gave an IRR of 40% over a period of 5 years. Concurrently, Rohit also served on various committees of Industry Associations and served on selection committees of the Indian government’s Union Public Services Commission for staff selection.
Rohit is currently the CEO of Yukti Securities Pvt. Ltd., a Reserve Bank of India registered Non-Banking Financial Corporation which is engaged in investing in start-ups. Mentors many Companies.
Rohit has a Bachelor's Degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi and an MBA from the Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh, USA. He is a a recipient of the IIT Delhi Alumni award for “Outstanding Contribution to National Development” and has also been awarded “The Amity Global Corporate Excellence Award”
SHRAVANI DANG
Independent DirectorShravani Dang, aged 56 years is a senior Communications and CSR leader with over two decades of quantifiable achievements. Her experience base spans multinational companies across Technology, Financial, Not-for-profit and Industrial sectors, in both complex and large organizations.
Currently, she serves as the Vice President and Global Group Head Corporate Communications and Public Relations at the Avantha Group, one of India’s largest and broad-based industrial conglomerate. Previously, she was Head & Associate Director Corporate Communications at Fidelity and has worked with internationally reputed brands like IT giants CSC ($17b billion) and HCL, as well as international relief and development organization CARE India. Shravani headed the CSR portfolio at Fidelity, CSC and HCL. Shravani also serves as a Member of the Board of Trustees of international NGO – Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) in India and a co-founder of Asia Pacific Association of Communication Directors (APACD) and is a frequent jury member of SABRE awards, APACD awards, IPRCC and many other Indian and international communications and CSR awards.
Reputation Today magazine recently ranked Shravani as among the top ten corporate communications professionals in the country.
K.K. TULSHAN
Independent Director
He has over 24 years of wide and varied professional experience. Tulshan is a Fellow member of
the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.
AMLAN GHOSE
Independent DirectorAmlan Ghose graduated in engineering from IIT Delhi in 1975 and completed his post-graduation in management from XLRI Jamshedpur in 1979. Prior his assignments in the hospitality IT industry, Amlan worked in professional audio technology with Philips India and in IT sales for 7 years.
Amlan Ghose started his career in hospitality IT in 1986 managing systems for Oberoi Hotels (EIH Limited) in Iraq while concurrently rendering honorary consulting services to the Iraqi ministry of tourism. Subsequently, Amlan was head of IT for Oberoi Hotels internationally and also the head of a software profit centre promoted by Oberoi Hotels to develop and internationally market software solutions.
In 1994 Amlan left Oberoi Hotels to start his own consulting practice. His primary client was Prologic SA, France – the West European leader in hospitality IT systems at the time. Amlan was responsible for reengineering Prologic SA products to the latest in technology and was instrumental in setting up a development centre in India. In 1998 Amlan took over ownership of the development centre – named Prologic First India. Prologic First is, today, an employee owned company in which Amlan has major equity.
In 2009 Amlan relocated to Dubai where he has, since, promoted a company in the UK and bought into the company contracted to market Prologic First software in the Middle East & Africa and was resident in Dubai till 2012. In addition to marketing Prologic First’s hospitality software solutions, these new companies offer systems integration services to the attractions & theme park industries.
Prologic First is a technology leader in the hospitality sector and has achieved considerable international success. The company's latest success is in cloud services and contactless apps for hospitality businesses.
Specialties: Extensive domain knowledge in the hospitality vertical; packaged software product development; branding and international marketing of software products.
VARUN JAIN
Independent DirectorVarun Jain (aged 39 years) has a diverse background in real estate development, technology, and finance. Varun co-founded Usnatek, a firm that identified new technologies and brought them to India. The firm was a pioneer in the drone services industry in India, having used drones for surveying and mapping as early as 2017. The firm currently supplied security manpower software to companies across India and is working on new initiatives in software related to the management of Drone-data.
He has previously worked as an investment banker responsible for M&A and private equity transactions in technology, real estate and other industries. One of his previous ventures was a business process outsourcing and call-centre technology integration company which he exited through a sale to an investor. He plays an active role in his family's business of real estate development, where he manages the land acquisition, planning and project management for various projects - townships, hotel construction, commercial property construction, and builder floors.
Varun holds an Electronics & Computer Systems Engineering degree from the University of York, UK and an MBA (Finance) from the University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA. He is active in a number of industry forums, particularly in CII - Young Indians (youth wing of CII), where he was the chapter chair for Yi Delhi and is currently heading the Innovation Vertical for Young Indians nationally. He is an active startup investor, having invested in AI, Edtech, Vertical SaaS and Fintech companies.
