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Dhruv Shringi Co Founder
Dhruv returns to India after 8 years in Europe. His most recent role prior to co-founding Yatra was as Director Group Operations and Technology of the Ebookers Group where he was responsible for sales of over $850 million achieved thru multi channels including online, call centres and retail shops, 600 people and a cost budget of $70 million.
With regard to technology, he was accountable for developing the IT strategy and for leading the technology development and infrastructure teams, some 150 employees over 13 locations. He was also instrumental in leading the operational integration of a key acqusition by Ebookers. The integration achieved annualised cost savings of $20 million and 33% reduction of the UK workforce.
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 and 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.
Manish Amin Co Founder
Manish Amin is returning to India after having been based in London for the past 28 years. He is a veteran of the travel industry with over 20 years experience in the Travel and IT industry, 15 of which were with Ebookers where in his last role he was the Head of Technology Infrastructure responsible for managing 24x7 availability of the website and multi-location call centres of Ebookers. He managed setting up a new data centre for the Online and Offline applications. He also helped designed and rolled out MPLS connectivity and implemented a new
Telephone system across the ebookers Group in Europe and Delhi.
He brings with him a vast knowledge and experience with proven success in Business Strategy, Sales/Call Centre Delivery, Operations Logistics, Travel Applications, Infrastructure, Software Development and Support Process.He is commercially astute with a passion for driving organisational change to deliver core business objectives.
Sabina Chopra Co Founder
Prior to Yatra, Sabina headed India based Operations of ebookers, Europe’s largest online travel company. She was responsible for setting up, transitioning and management of Customer Service, Sales, Air Ticketing, Hotel Sales, Email and Online Departments. The Sales teams, under her leadership, doubled the targets in less than 6 months. The fulfillment teams consistently met and increased customer satisfaction for the European countries based customers.
She has also worked with Japan Airlines, a Canadian Airline and her BPO work experience includes heading Operations for RAC (Aviva Plc) and Hewitt Associates.
Sabina brings with her over 16 years of work experience, has through knowledge of all facets of the Travel BPO Industry and an extensive network within the Indian travel community. Her strengths are Operations and Delivery, Customer Care and Retention. Sabina holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Delhi University.
Bhawna Agarwal - Founding General Manager, Airlines Business Group.
Before joining Yatra, Bhawna was business head of airlines at Indiatimes.com, India's number one online eCommerce site. She was responsible for partnerships, sales and marketing. Her strong customer focus and disruptive strategy were instrumental in making the travel business unit the largest vertical revenue stream at indiatimes.com. Bhawna worked closely with all the key airlines in India, Air Deccan, Kingfisher, SpiceJet, Indian, GoAir and others.
Prior to joining Indiatimes, Bhawna worked at Rediff, India's number one internet site. Her earlier work experience includes marketing role at Netcarrots & Ranbaxy Group. Bhawna has in-depth knowledge of consumer markets and has experience in setting up new business.
Bhawna holds an MBA in Marketing Management from IMT and undergraduate degree in chemistry from Delhi University.
Mudit Khosla – Founding General Manager, Strategic Relations Group
Before joining Yatra, Mudit was category head - Shopping at Indiatimes, one of India's largest E-commerce sites. As the founding member of Indiatimes Shopping, he was responsible for formulating key strategies as well as conceptualizing and creating a series of successful eCommerce sub-verticals on fixed price & auction platforms. Mudit has worked closely with most major consumer brands in India, such as LG, Archies, Reebok, HP, Philips, Nestle, etc.
Prior to joining indiatimes.com, Mudit worked at eBaya, one of India's earliest eCommerce websites modeled on Amazon.com. Mudit’s strength lies in understanding consumer insights and has experience in successfully launching new online verticals in short durations.
Mudit holds an MBA in Marketing Management and undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering.
Nikhil Rungta - Head of Marketing
Nikhil comes to Yatra.com from McCann Erickson, one of India’s biggest
advertising agencies. At McCann he was the Client Servicing Director working on
brands like Microsoft Xbox 360, MasterCard International, HP Compaq and Dabur.
He was responsible for the launch of Xbox 360 in India and was instrumental in
the development of India specific communication strategy for MasterCard and HP
Compaq. Apart from these Nikhil has worked on the marketing and communication
strategies for a variety of brands like NIIT, ISB, Real Fruit Juices, Sony
Aiwa, LG Electronics and Revlon.
Before moving to advertising he was Product Manager with Shaw Wallace & Co.,
handling popular beer brands like Royal Challenge and Haywards 5000. Nikhil
brings with him an in-depth understanding of the Indian consumer and his
ability to formulate marketing strategies to communicate with them..
Nikhil holds an MBA in Marketing and International Business from NMIMS, Mumbai
and has done his BSc from Hindu College, Delhi University.
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