Management Team

The Team Vriti is a mix of brilliant minds from the education & technology sectors. Founded by a team of IIT-Delhi & Bombay Alumni, the company forms its core nucleus around the 'stay hungry, stay foolish' motto. If you are seeking a structured 9 to 5 template job, we are not the guys for you. If you are restless enough to dump the mundane, talented enough to make a difference, and brave enough to questions the very fundamentals, Vriti is just the place for you. Vriti brings together more than 40 years of combined online advertising & education experience between the management / founding team alone. Our technology team handles some of the heaviest traffics in the education sector in India and builds some of the most challenging product lines in the country today. Vriti is the 2nd Venture for the founding team, the first having gone through a successful acquisition in the United States.


Team Members

Anil Pande, Chief Executive Officer

An Alum of IIT Delhi, Anil Pande has over 33 years of experience in IT, Telecom and Convergence Experience. He spent the early years of his career with leading IT players such as Wipro and Pertech Computers in roles spanning B2B solution sales and product management. He later worked in the telecom sector, holding senior leadership positions in value added services (VAS) and convergence with the mobile telephony pioneers BPL and Reliance Communications. His tenures in functions such as product management, profit center head and business head have led to an impressive track record of innovative product launches and ultimately, revenue and profit growth.

Yogesh Seth, Co-founder, CTO

He is a B.Tech/M.Tech from IIT Delhi. Yogesh earlier worked with Tribal Fusion as the Director of Engineering for its business unit LeadGenuity. Prior to that he Co-founded Seeknet Technologies.
He was elected as Jt. Secretary of IIT Delhi Alumni Association and is currently leading its initiative - Center of Inno-Ventures.

Vikram Mehtani, CFO

Vikram is a qualified C.A. of '98 batch. Before joining Vriti, he has held leadership positions in Finance with fortune 500 cos. like Huawei, GE, Fidelity & Ericsson and is a recipient of various management awards from them.
He likes to read anything on the earth.

   

Board Members

Murli Ravi, Non-Executive Nominee Board Director

Murli is Head (South Asia Investments), JAFCO Asia, based in the Singapore office and is responsible for investments in South Asia and Australia.

Prior to joining JAFCO Asia, Murli worked in investments, consulting and research at Temasek Holdings, RedPill Solutions and INSEAD, during the course of which he acquired knowledge of industries such as mining, telecom/media, consumer goods, agriculture and alternative fuels. Transactions he has worked on have spanned a wide range of sizes, ranging from early-stage venture deals to significant minority stakes in large-cap public companies. Murli obtained the CFA charter in 2006, holds an MSc in Financial Engineering from Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) and received a Certificate in Computational Finance from Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, USA). He was awarded the SIA-NOL undergraduate scholarship to study engineering at the National University of Singapore.

   

The Investors

Intel Capital, Intel's global investment organization, makes equity investments in innovative technology start-ups and companies worldwide. Intel Capital invests in a broad range of companies offering hardware, software, and services targeting enterprise, home, mobility, health, consumer Internet, semiconductor manufacturing and cleantech. Since 1991, Intel Capital has invested more than USD 9.5 billion in over 1,050 companies in 47 countries. For more information on Intel Capital and its differentiated advantages, visit www.intelcapital.com.



JAFCO Asia is one of the leading brands in the venture capital industry in the Asia-Pacific region. Its primary focus is to invest in promising technology enterprises with high growth potential. Headquartered in Singapore, and with entities in Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong, Taipei and Seoul, JAFCO Asia has around USD 650M in aggregate funds under management. It is an operating subsidiary of JAFCO Co. Ltd, which is part of the Nomura group of companies and is one of the largest private equity firms in Japan. JAFCO Co. Ltd has over USD 5B under management and is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. More information is available on www.jafcoasia.com.