K.Ganesh

Who is K.Ganesh?

Ganesh is a serial Entrepreneur with four successful ventures in the last 23 years.

He is currently CEO and Founder of TutorVista (www.TutorVista.com ) - a

new consumer Internet company in education services space that aims to

bring twenty first century technology to education space by combining

content, scientific pedagogy and on-line teaching. Launched in November

2005, the company raised series A and Series B funding of over $15 Mn

and caters to students in US and UK and employs over 500 people across

India.

He is also non-executive Chairman, investor and advisor in a Data

Analytics BPO firm (www.marketics.com) that does high end marketing

analytics work for Fortune 100 companies in US. The company in March

2007 was acquired by NYSE listed WNS.

He is also on the board of a premier Automotive Design

prototyping services company in India. He is in the panel of Venture

Advisors of UTI Venture funds and a charter member of TiE (The Indus

Entrepreneurs).

His last venture, CustomerAsset was started in mid 2000 with funding

from SoftBank and Newscorp to address the international Call Center/BPO

Sector. The company won the STPI Karnataka's �Best Software Exporter

Award" within two years of inception for being the second largest

exporter in the SME category. In May 2002, ICICI (NYSE listed, India's

largest bank) acquired CustomerAsset for over $22 Mn. Post acquisition,

Ganesh headed the Contact Center Business as President, ICICI OneSource

handling over 4000 people and annual revenue of $ 30 Mn. The company

now renamed FirstSource, is publicly listed in India.

As his first entrepreneurial venture, in 1990 he co-promoted ITT,

which is today a publicly listed IT company. In his eight years at IT

T as Founder CEO he played a major role in making the

company one of India's top multi-vendor IT Service Support

companies and a premier Network Systems Integrator, with 400 employees

and 16 offices. ITT focused on providing Technical Support Call

Center services to clients in US UK till the business was sold to

iGate (a listed company) in 2003.

Apart from founding and successfully growing the three ventures, Ganesh

has worked as CEO of Bharti British Telecom - a British Telecom JV in

India and in HCL Ltd., where he held several key managerial positions.

Ganesh is a post-graduate from the Indian Institute of Management,

Calcutta, one of India's premier management institutions. He has a

degree in Mechanical Engineering from Delhi University. Ganesh is part

of the visiting faculty at leading management institutes and a popular

speaker on topics like Entrepreneurship, Fund Raising, Venture Capital

and Building and scaling green field ventures.