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Chandramouli Venkataraman, President and CEO
A veteran of online and digital media, Chandramouli Venkataraman provides AutoIndia.com
Online Pvt Ltd. with an exceptional balance of leadership experience, broad operational
and marketing skills, and extensive domain expertise in Search, Local, Classifieds,
and eCommerce. As President and CEO, Chandramouli’s mission is to further evolve
AutoIndia’s mandate to provide cost-efficient and effective marketing services to
the automotive industry by extending its innovations in automotive Search, digital
media, Internet broadcasting, and advertising, as well as by leveraging his deep
technological expertise to support AutoIndia’s continued emergence as a leading
provider of solutions for automotive dealers. An integral part of this mission is
to further expand AutoIndia’s popularity with vehicle shoppers and buyers by building
on its pro-consumer legacy of creating and distributing innovative products that
improve the automotive shopping, purchasing and ownership experience.
Chandramouli’s career spans over nineteen years including six years in a leadership
role as the head of a Business Unit where he played a key role in strategic planning
and new business initiatives and was instrumental in driving sales from start to
Rs.100+ Crores (Approx US$ 22 Million) in less than five years. In his various assignments
he has led businesses to market leadership status in a short span.
Chandramouli was most recently at Sify.com, the India’s first and leading online
portal where he was heading content for the various channels in News, Finance, Sports,
Mobile Entertainment & others. Before heading Sify.com Chandramouli spent over
fifteen years at NIIT in India and USA, one of Asia’s leading Software, Training,
Consultancy and IT Services Companies. Chandramouli started his career as a Management
executive with The Murugappa Group, headquartered in Chennai, India, a USD 2 billion
(Rs. 8,500 crore) conglomerate.
A recognized authority in digital media, marketing and Search, Chandramouli is a
frequent speaker at media industry events. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical
Technology from the Osmania University, Hyderabad and an MBA from IRMA, Anand.
Satish Ramakrishnan, Co-Founder and Director
Satish has over 18 years of experience building companies and growing technology
teams.
He has worked at large companies like Wipro and BEA and has helped build companies
from the ground floor, including PointCast (acquired by AOL), KnowNow Inc., Good
Technologies (acquired by Motorola) and Women.com (acquired by iVillage) – the last
of which he helped take public. He has successfully raised capital, been instrumental
in key sales and partnership opportunities, and built large and small teams from
scratch both in the U.S. and off-shore.
Satish was the head of Weblogic Integration at BEA and also the original VP of Engineering
at KnowNow Inc. where he launched the company, championed new product development,
acted as the primary contact for prominent clients such as Morgan Stanley, PeopleSoft,
and others and managed the release of five cutting-edge products.
Satish has been at the helm of pioneering internet consumer companies including
PointCast which introduced media and personalization to the Web and Women.com -
the first true portal targeted at the female demographics online.
Binu, Co-Founder and Director
Binu is an accomplished information systems professional with more than 12 years
of experience in the areas of ERP/CRM/SCM’s, Databases, software development and
design. He has worked with fortune 200 companies like Computer Sciences Corporation,
Paramount Technologies and DSQ Software.
Binu was the Sr. EIS Consultant at Computer Sciences Corporation(CSC) where he championed
new products planning, acted as the primary contact for prominent clients such as
AutoTrader.com, DuPont and SC Johnson.
Patrick Stanton, Advisor
Patrick has over 12 years experience as a consultant, entrepreneur, and executive
to a variety of established and start-up high technology companies in the Internet,
clean technology, life science and transportation industries. Patrick is an expert
in developing and executing strategic plans with a particular focus on revenue growth
and strategic account management.
Patrick served as vice president, business development for Dealix Corporation (acquired
by The Cobalt Group), where he was part of the early executive team that built Dealix
into one of the web's most successful automotive Internet marketing organizations.
A prolific dealmaker, Patrick built strategic alliances with some of the industry’s
most well known brands including, Yahoo!, Microsoft, AOL, General Motors, and Ford.
Prior to Dealix, Patrick enjoyed similar success while running enterprise sales
and affiliate marketing for Autoweb.com (acquired by Autobytel) as vice president,
business development.
Patrick is a founder and the corporate development chair of the California Clean
Tech Open, the world’s largest business plan competition to promote the commercialization
of clean technologies. Additionally, Patrick recently founded angel investment and
advisory group, Chobe Group, LLC, to bring best practices in automobile retailing
to emerging markets, notably in India and China.
Patrick began his career as a consultant with Accenture. Patrick holds a BA in geography
from the University of Colorado, Boulder and an MBA in finance and economics from
Columbia Business School.
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