MANAGEMENT TEAM

Parag is an accomplished international management executive and a turn-around & emerging market specialist. He has 19 years of experience across Telecom, Banking, Advertising & Real Estate in different continents. Parag was conferred the Africa Brand Leadership Award for 2014 by World CSR Congress. He is also a Sam Meek leader (a global leadership congress within JWT) and an experienced and accomplished marketer. His last stint was with Visafone Communications, Nigeria as Chief Marketing Officer and Enterprise Business Head. He is counterintuitive, with proven credentials in building sustainable & profitable operations out of new business initiatives. He looks after Marketing, Investor Relations and Buyer eco-system at homepecked.com. Parag is an MBA from SCMS, Cochin and has also done an MDP from IIMA in Advance Data Analytics. Parag will look after Marketing, Credit and Seller ecosystem.

Samrat has worked for nearly twenty years across Durables, FMCG, Consulting, Advertising & Real Estate in different markets and geographies. Samrat has a strong real estate domain knowledge having spent the last ten years of his career in the sector in senior executive roles covering all of South India. His last stint was with World Trade Centre, Nigeria as Sales & Marketing Head. Samrat has a strong understanding of the dynamics of this complex industry and has a strong network of connections amongst the Real estate stakeholders like builders, suppliers, interior designers, architects, consultants, contractors etc. Samrat is an MBA in Marketing from IISWBM, Kolkata and a graduate of Hansraj College, Delhi University. Samrat will be responsible for Business Development, Buyer ecosystem and CRM.

Srinivasa is a telecom professional and brings over 30 years of experience in the areas of technology, business operations, vendor management, business transformation and mergers acquisitions across geographies and cultures. He was the MD & CEO of Visafone Communications Ltd, Nigeria before turning as an entrepreneur. He is an Electronics & Telecommunications Engineer and started his career as an Indian Telecom Service Officer of 1986 batch. He holds an MBA from MDI, Gurgaon and is an alumni of Wharton School of Business, Cornell and IIM Ahmedabad. Srinivasa is a technology geek and has built successful green field projects from startup to revenue, lead large teams for business transformation and operations in emerging markets. Srinivasa will be responsible for Technology & Operations (Platform, Finance & Compliance).

Jayprasad Hegde is a Berkeley Haas alumnus who brings an overall 19 years of experience in R&D, architecture, business strategy and overall programme execution. He has experience in areas ranging from AI, NLP, ML to geospatial technologies, mobile applications and cloud architectures. As someone with a heavy appetite for the state of the art, Jayprasad will head the Technology team that will drive the efforts to ensure homepecked.com launches an effective and scalable e-commerce platform solution.

Sandhya Manjunath has more than 12 years of experience in Construction Industry managing different roles under Procurement, Fulfilment and Finance. She has worked with organisations like Sobha Ltd., Suvilas Properties, Protect Engineers, Arge Realty and more. She manages the supplier ecosystem at Homepecked.