Ganesh is a successful serial entrepreneur with four successful green field ventures and exits. His last venture, TutorVista was acquired by US and UK listed education leader Pearson for $ 213 MM.

His current venture, Portea Medical, which he serves as Chairman, provides technology-led home health care to the Indian consumer. The company brings in-home to patients, the full range of geriatric, chronic, post-operative care as well as allied healthcare services that are affordable and convenient to access. The company has emerged as India’s largest and fastest growing home healthcare company with 4000+ employees and operations across 16 cities in India. Portea was named ‘Startup of the Year’ in the 2016 NDTV Unicorn Awards in the Health-Tech category, and ‘Emerging Health Brand of the Year’ at the India Health Summit & Awards.

Ganesh actively mentors, incubates and funds start-ups and is promoter of several Indian consumer Internet and ecommerce companies including Bigbasket.com – India’s largest eGrocery company, Bluestone.com – leading online jewelry company, Avagmah.com – India’s fastest growing online education company, Food tech company, FreshMenu and HomeLane – India’s leading end to end, vertically integrated interior design and manufacturing provider which has delivered more than 1000 projects delivered across the country. In addition, his angel investments include little eye labs (acquired by Facebook in Jan 2014), overcart.com, delyver.com (acquired by BigBasket in 2015), onlineprasad.com, Pokkt, SilverPush, DogSpot and Oximity.

Previously, Ganesh founded and was the chairman of data analytics BPO firm Marketics until March 2007, when the company was acquired by NYSE-listed WNS for $ 63 MM.

His previous venture, CustomerAsset, was started in mid-2000 and later acquired by ICICI (NYSE listed, India’s largest bank) and is now publicly listed in India as First Source Solutions.

In 1990, he founded his first company – IT&T, one of India’s top multi-vendor IT service and support company. The business was acquired by iGate (a listed company) in 2003.

Ganesh has also worked as the CEO of Wipro/Bharti British Telecom – a British Telecom JV in India, and held a senior management position in HCL Ltd.

He is also a popular speaker in entrepreneurship, start-up and technology events. He has been recognized as one of the “Iconic Entrepreneurs of India” in a document published by National Knowledge Commission, Government of India. Ganesh is a post-graduate from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, and has a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Delhi University.

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