Leadership
Zaki Ansari
Founder Partner
Over 29 years of building world-class internet products.
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Served as CPO, CTO, CEO, MD, across Rediff.com, UTV Bloomberg, WoNoBo, and Cinestaan Digital.
EXPERTISE
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A blockchain driven offline OTT for rural and semi-urban India
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India’s only web enabled 'street view' data set across top 54 cities
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Face recognition stacks for Indian cinema personalities over 100 years
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Image recognition for identifying locations in cinema
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Crawling and clustering systems for powering editorial content
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Auto categorisation and tagging systems using topic maps
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Crawling for news, airfare, hotel rates, and such dynamic data
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Natural language processing
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Recommendation engine
Bhaskar Sharma
Partner
Over 20 years of internet engineering, and building technologies across several industries.
Interests range from decentralisation and data science to ML and AI.
Has a special focus on delivering innovations at the bleeding edge.
EXPERTISE
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Cloud architect
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Systems engineer
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Project manager
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Delivering technical solutions for
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Telemedicine
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E-Commerce
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OTT
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Finance – Stock Market
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Geospatial engineering | Location Based Services
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News & Media
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Zaheer Merchant
COO
Over 20 years of internet product work, programme management, and business consulting. His expertise found expression across domains like finance, ecommerce, geospatial engineering, entertainment, and healthcare.
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Zaheer is deeply involved in planning, design, and development of internet services on all form factors with a high premium on scalability and experience.
He works with cross-functional and cross-organisational teams at almost the speed of thought.
EXPERTISE
Hands-on experience in full development life cycle of an internet service using...
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Agile methodologies;
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Product planning,
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Wire-framing and UI design;
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Writing engineering specifications;
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Coordinating with technical teams for final development;
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Owning the product road map;
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Understanding and analysing metrics to ensure optimum efficiency; and...
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Working with stakeholders to achieve business goals.
Mahesh Kothurkar
Investor & Advisor
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Associated with capital firms from India, Australia, Qatar, and London.
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Part of multiple advisory boards globally
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Worked with Tata Communications for over 8 years in various global and leadership roles with extensive experience in South Africa and North America.
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Before joining Industry, was part of the coveted navigation and air combat branch in the Indian Navy as Commander. Mahesh served on various frontline ships and aircraft carriers for 20 years, also participated in the three international campaigns including UN peace keeping force at Somalia and Indian peace keeping force at Sri Lanka.
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Mahesh has BSc (Hons) degree in physics from the Royal Institute of Science, Mumbai, and is alumni of the Harvard Business School, through the General Management Program.