Startup Leadership Program

Hitesh Oberoi is the COO and Founder of Naukri.com, India’s top job site. As a copromoter Hitesh today leads the operations at Info Edge, a company he helped cocreate for the last 11 years with his partners, Sanjeev Bikhchandani and Ambarish Raghuvanshi. Apart from the country’s leading job site – Naukri.com, Info Edge also owns Jeevansathi.com, 99acres.com, naukrigulf.com and the recently launched Shiksha.com. It is the only Internet Company listed on the NSE.With 11 years of experience in the internet industry, he is part of various industry forums. He currently chairs the Classifieds’ Committee for IAMAI and is also a charter member of the TiE, New Delhi. Prior to Info Edge, Hitesh worked for almost four years as the Regional Planning and Distribution Manager (North India) for the Ice Cream Division of Hindustan UniLever Limited, the Indian arm of Unilever Plc. An alumnus of IIT Delhi and IIM Bangalore, he won the Prestigious Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year award along with his Partner Sanjeev Bikhchandani for Business Transformation in 2008. He will be at SLP Delhi, talking to the startup CEOs in end February 2011.

Shantanu Prakash founded Educomp Solutions Limited in 1995, a few years after acquiring an MBA degree from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. His vision has been to transform the teaching-learning process through the use of technology and best practices.  The company employs over  10000  people across 27  offices worldwide including an office in Canada, 20 in India, two in Singapore, one in Sri Lanka, and three in the United State.  Educomp is the leader in education content, professional development, online learning and the first company to set up high quality schools across the country Educomp works with over 26,000 schools and 15 million students across India, USA and Singapore and has joint ventures with Pearson PLC and Raffles Education Corporation for vocational and higher education respectively. Under Shantanu’s leadership, many awards and accolades have come Educomp’s way. Educomp was ranked number one in Education & Training in the study, “India’s Best Companies to Work for-2009. This study was conducted by ‘The Economic Times’ in collaboration with ‘The Great Place to Work® Institute’. Educomp won top honours in the for-profit category, winning the NASSCOM Foundation Social Innovation Honours-2010. Educomp was also named in the 200 “Best under a Billion” for the Asia-Pacific region by Forbes magazine Sept 29, 2008 issue. Similarly BT 500, 2009 featured Educomp in its list of most valuable private companies in India in its November 2009 issue. It was chosen as the “FUTURE TITAN”- one of the 10 hottest companies in India by Outlook Business Magazine in November 2006. Educomp is a publicly traded company on National Stock Exchange (NSE) in India. Shantanu was conferred the pathbreaker Award for 2010 by the leading IT publication Dataquest. Shantanu is also the founder and Managing Trustee of the Learning Leadership Foundation (LLF) an organization dedicated to bringing best practices in education to under-resourced schools. As an investor Shantanu has made several investments in innovative early stage and mid stage companies focusing on the internet, education, media, gaming, finance and infrastructure. Shantanu is a charter member of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) an organization that connects entrepreneurs. He is a frequent speaker in education and business conferences worldwide.