Sanjeev Bikhchandani Founder & Ex. VC, Info Edge India

Sanjeev is the Founder of Naukri.com - India's leading job site. He graduated from IIM Ahmedabad in 1989 and quit his job for entrepreneurship eighteen months later. Starting off from a servant quarter above a garage and seed capital of Rs two thousand, the company grew to become the first Internet company to list on Indian stock exchanges. Today the company employs over 3500 people and has a market capitalization of over $2 billion. Sanjeev is also a founding trustee of Ashoka University.

The company also runs Jeevansathi.com, 99acres.com, and Shiksha.com. In addition it has made strategic investments in promising online start-ups such as Zomato, Policybazaar, Meritnation, Mydala, Canvera, and Happily Unmarried.

Sanjeev is a member of the Board of the Centre for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship at IIM Ahmedabad. He has served as the President of the Delhi chapter of TiE [The Indus Entrepreneurs] and member of the Global Board of Trustees of TiE. He has also been the Chair of the Internet Council of NASSCOM.

Prior to starting Naukri, Sanjeev had worked in advertising market with Lintas and in consumer marketing at Glaxo SmithKline.

He studied Economics at St. Stephens College.

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