About SMS GupShup

GupShup is mobile group SMS service that allows users to create mobile communities and broadcast messages to them. GupShup is growing rapidly with thousands of groups on topics such as finance, entertainment, lifestyle, health, sports and technology.

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Beerud is a co-founder of Webaroo. Prior to Webaroo, Beerud founded Elance, the pioneer of the world's largest online services marketplace. He played various leadership roles at different stages of the company's growth, including developing product and business strategies, product management, marketing & business development, and remains on the board of directors. Prior to founding Elance, Beerud worked in the financial services industry; modeling, structuring, and trading fixed income securities and derivatives at Merrill Lynch and before that at Citicorp Securities. His graduate research, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, involved developing autonomous learning software agents for personalized news filtering.

Beerud earned an M.S. in computer science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology & a B.Tech in Computer Science IIT Bombay, where he was awarded the Institute Silver Medal.

Rakesh is a co-founder of Webaroo. He has been a founder of three technology start up companies in the past 10 years and also an early stage investor in several other companies. He was a founder and CEO of Junglee, whose virtual database technology led to the creation of comparison shopping on the Internet. Junglee was acquired by Amazon.com in 1998. He founded Armedia, which was one of the first companies with chip designs for the video component of the DVD standard. Armedia was acquired by Broadcom in 1999. He also founded PurpleYogi, now Stratify which provides enterprise solutions to the management of unstructured data. Rakesh is a board member of Geodesic, a BSE listed company whose Mundu Instant Messenger is used by millions of people.

Rakesh was recognized as a member of the 1998 Upside 100, the 2001 India Today Global 100 and Junglee technology was given the Computerworld - Smithsonian award as one of the top five technologies of 1998. Rakesh received his MS from the University of Texas at Arlington and his B.Tech from IIT Bombay.

Vishy leads the development, testing and deployment of Webaroo's software products and services. Prior to Webaroo, he worked in various engineering and management roles at Netscape, Siebel and Digeo. Vishy has a Masters and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Brown University and a Bachelors degree in Computer Science from IIT, Bombay. His Ph.D. research has been published in international journals and conferences and his prior work in the industry has been granted patents.

Milind heads the Communities business at Webaroo, where he manages development and monetization of communities on the mobile social networking platform www.smsgupshup.com. In his earlier role at Webaroo, he built the Sales organization for Corporate and SMEs (small- & medium- sized enterprises) customers in India. Prior to Webaroo, he managed a logistics and supply chain business for 10 years. Milind has a Bachelor's degree in Electronics & Communication from Manipal University, MBA in Logistics and Procurement from Michigan State University and is currently pursuing PhD in Indian Philosophy and Management from Mumbai University. Milind is a visiting and guest faculty at various management institutes. He has co-authored a book on "Doing Business in Emerging Markets: Entry and Negotiation Strategies", with 2 renowned international faculty from US and UK, published by Sage Publications in 2002.

Chirag is an alumnus of Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi with nearly two decades of experience with both US and Indian companies. Most recently Chirag was the Vice President and General Manager - India operations for a US based enterprise software company firstRain Inc. For firstRain Chirag first built the engineering and then the professional services organization to support an enviable list of Fortune 500 live-customers

Ravi leads all Sales and marketing activities at SMS GupShup(Webaroo) including Corporate and SME direct sales, channel sales, channel marketing, consumer marketing, branding, corporate communications, product marketing and management. Prior to Webaroo, he founded a cloud analytics startup and also held various senior executive roles at Symantec including leading product management, product development and sales and marketing for Symantec's Cloud data management and Information security solutions. Before that he was General Manager of Enterprise Content Delivery and Cloud Services at Akamai, Vice President at Palm-Handspring and Engagement Manager at McKinsey. He started his career at Sun Microsystems where he was a key member of design team that built Sun's first 64-bit server system Ultra-1 for the Internet data center market. Ravi earned his MS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from State University of New York at Stony Brook and his MBA from Harvard Business School.

Amit leads the Finance, Legal & Secretarial Function at Webaroo. He brings with him around 20 years of rich work experience in the fields of Corporate Finance, Business Planning and Strategy, Capital Markets, Compliance & Financial Control, Accounting & Audit functions. He has worked across sectors as varied as Consulting, BFSI, Automobile, IT & ITES, having worked in leadership positions with companies such as Fortis, American Express, Citigroup, Tata AIG, Daewoo Motors & CSC.

Amit is a Chartered Accountant and Company Secretary and holds an All India Merit in Cost Accountancy.

Dylan leads the design, deployment and growth of Webaroo's systems and network infrastructure. Dylan brings in over 16 years of experience in heterogeneous systems engineering with senior and management roles at Alldata, Autozone, 3Path and Hewlett-Packard Co. As a consultant, he designed and implemented Internet architectures for many, large and small, financial and medical firms in New York. Dylan studied aerospace engineering before pursuing career opportunities in IT. He is an active supporter of open source software and protocols. He has been a direct contributor to Linux and FreeBSD operating systems since the 1990s.

Samir Parekh is a Chartered Accountant with more than 20 years of experience. He started as an auditor,moved on to Accounts and then Finance. He took up IT sales as a career and headed a listed company as a CEO. He also ran his own mutual fund distribution company. In 2001 , he sold his distribution company and became a full time trainer. He worked with Kotak Life Insurance till 2009 and resigned when he was the head of Learning & Development there. From 2009 to date, Samir was working as afree-lance consultant in HR as well as L&D and had a large list of clients.