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Board of Directors
Promod Haque
Promod has more than 15 years of experience in the venture capital industry and currently serves as managing partner at Norwest Venture Partners. He joined Norwest Venture Partners in 1990. He has been ranked as a top dealmaker on the annual Forbes Midas List for the past five years, and in 2004, Forbes named him as the #1 venture capitalist based on performance over the last decade. In 2006, Promod was presented with a Global Leadership award from NASSCOM.
Promod has more than 15 years of experience in the venture capital industry and currently serves as managing partner at Norwest Venture Partners. He joined Norwest Venture Partners in 1990. He has been ranked as a top dealmaker on the annual Forbes Midas List for the past five years, and in 2004, Forbes named him as the #1 venture capitalist based on performance over the last decade. In 2006, Promod was presented with a Global Leadership award from NASSCOM.
Promod focuses on investments in semiconductor and components, systems, software and services. He was an early investor and a board member of Cerent (acquired by Cisco), Siara Systems (acquired by Redback Networks), OnDisplay (acquired by Vignette), Winphoria Networks (acquired by Motorola) and Extreme Networks.
Prior to Norwest Venture Partners, Promod spent 18 years in various operational roles ranging from product development, marketing, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Executive Officer at various public and private companies - Siemens International, Thorn EMI, Emergent Technologies and Dimensional Medicine, Inc.
He received a bachelor of science in electrical engineering from the University of Delhi, India. He holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Northwestern University and an MBA from Northwestern's Kellogg Graduate School of Management, where he serves on the advisory board.
Dhruv Shringi, Co Founder & CEO - Yatra
Dhruv Shringi is the Co-Founder & CEO Yatra Online Pvt. Ltd. Dhruv leads the company’s business initiatives across continents.
Dhruv in a very short span of time, by making innovations in the field of travel and tourism, has made his unique identity in the online travel industry. He has contributed actively in rejuvenating the methods of the industry. Since its successful launch in January 2006, Dhruv, has lead Yatra.com to grow from a 3 member organisation to a 700 people strong organisation - thus making Yatra.com the leading travel brand in the country.
His most recent role prior to Yatra.com was as Director Group Operations and Technology of the Ebookers Group, where he was responsible for sales of over $850 million achieved thru multiple channels including online, call centers and retail shops, 600 people and a cost budget of $70 million.
Prior to his stint at Ebookers, he worked with Ford Motor Company in their Business Strategy team based in London, where he was part of the European Business Turnaround team. He also has significant work experience in India having spent over 6 years with Arthur Andersen based in their office in Delhi. Dhruv holds an MBA from INSEAD and is also a qualified Chartered Accountant.
Dhruv is an avid reader and enjoys playing golf in his leisure time.
Harshal J. Shah
Harshal J. Shah is the CEO of Reliance Technology Ventures Ltd. (www.rtvl.co.in), the corporate venture arm of the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group. Harshal also sits on the Boards of Reliance Venture Asset Management Ltd.; BSE-listed, Setco Automotive Ltd.; and Telsima Corporationin the US.
Prior to joining Reliance, Harshal had more than more than 14 years of experience in various strategy, private equity and entrepreneurial roles at IBM Global Strategy (USA), Northstar Global Partners (USA and Switzerland), Infostakes, Inc. (USA and India), and Accenture (USA, Singapore, Hong Kong).
At IBM, he led a team reporting to the CEO, to realign the operations so as to become solutions driven across various verticals, instead of being product-focused. At Infostakes, where he was founder and CEO, he grew the net worth of the company by 90 times in three years, and applied with Fidelity to join NASDAQ.
Harshal has an MBA from the Wharton School of Business and is also a Truman Gray Scholar from MIT where he earned dual BS degrees in Management, and in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science. He is an alumnus of Phillips Academy, Andover.
Haresh Chawla
Haresh Chawla, age 39 years, is Group CEO of the TV18 Group. He has been in this position since December 1999, when he joined the TV18 Group. Under his leadership and guidance, the TV18 Group has been transformed from a production house to India's No.1 News Network , has grown from a 180 strong team to a 2000+ team and has attained leadership positions in all its ventures in the news broadcasting space - CNBC TV18, Awaaz, CNN IBN and Channel 7. Haresh’s previous assignments have all been with start-ups including the HCL Group - where he headed- business development for HCL Comnet, ABCL - where he set up the Film Distribution Business and at the Times of India Group where he launched their music label - Times Music.
Haresh's varied experience of 16 years in media and technology has also enabled the Group to identify Internet spaces that have now achieved leadership positions - moneycontrol.com (Asia's leading financial portal), commoditiescontrol.com (India's leading source for commodity information and research), ibnlive.com (No. 1 site for general news), poweryourtrade.com (Subscription based equity site). Recently the Group also acquired the Indian arm of jobstreet.com (Malaysia-based job portal) and set up Yatra.in (a travel portal) along with Reliance Capital & Norwest Venture Partners.
Under his leadership, TV18 continues to identify new ventures - greenfield and acquired and hopes to maintain the exponential growth trajectory that it has seen in the last 6 years.
Haresh holds a degree in Business Management from IIM - Calcutta and is also an alumnus of IIT-Mumbai.
