Manav is the Group CMO and Head Digital Strategy, Askme. He is also Business Head for ASKME Classified & Deals. ASKME.COM & ASKMEBAZAAR.COM has been launched recently as disruptive mobile first consumer experience across local search, classified, deals and commerce. It has already become category leader within 3 months of launch in India. He is now working on formally launching a similar product in Malaysia as FINDIT. Both ASKME & FINDIT are brands owned by Getit Infoservices which is majority owned by Astro Group of Malaysia.

Prior to this Manav was an entrepreneur where he worked on an IP that helped telecom towers save energy costs. In his earlier corporate role he was founder of BIGMAPS (Reliance ADAG investment) which grew to be then India's largest online local search play and received investment interests from Navteq (Nokia) and acquisition interest from JUSTDIAL. He was also part of corporate strategy team at Reliance BIG Entertainment (Anil Ambani Group) that launched several businesses across FM Radio, Online Gaming & Movie rental, Motion Pictures, Music and a JV with DreamWorks Animations.