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The Management consists of highly qualified professionals, with extensive knowledge in diverse domains. The team members have had entrepreneurial stints and also have vast experience in management, marketing, client relationship and education.

Karthik Karunakaran "KK": Karthik is the CEO and Co-founder of Mobius. He graduated in Production Engineering from the Regional Engineering College, Trichy, one of the top engineering schools in India and went on to obtain an MBA from Xavier Labour Relations Institute (XLRI), Jamshedpur, which ranks among the top five business schools in India.

Karthik then worked for Tata Steel, India's largest integrated private sector steel company where he focused on quality improvements in the service sector. At Tata Steel, Karthik was part of the key group that worked on the quality standards that ultimately brought in the ISO 9000 certification. Karthik himself is a lead assessor for ISO 9000 certification, certified by the British Standards Institute. Later, Karthik joined the Maxworth group, where his responsibilities included consulting on Business Process Reengineering and exploring internet applications for businesses.

Before co-founding Mobius, Karthik was an entrepreneur being the country’s first franchisee of a kids computer learning and later became the Master licensee for an American company, setting up close to 100 franchises across the country.

Gautam Dalmia "GD": Gautam Dalmia is the other co-founder of Mobius and is the honorary CFO. He has a B.S. from Loyola College, Chennai and a M.S. in Electronics & Electrical Engineering from Columbia University, New York.

As part of the Dalmia business family, he is actively engaged in managing their cements and sugar businesses. He brings a ton of experience in managing new projects and business expansion. His ability to keep the focus on the financial parameters to ensure that the end goals are met is a definitive strength he brings to Mobius.


Narendra Venkatramani "Venky": Venky is the VP in charge of the Business Information profit center. Venky is a Mechanical Engineer with a Masters in International Business from IIFT, New Delhi – India's leading business school for an International Business Degree.

Venky has worked in some of India's leading engineering companies like Larsen and Toubro and Usha Martin Industries. Later, with Maxworth Orchards International, Venky was involved in international marketing and the export thrust in processed foods.

Before joining Mobius, Venky was an entrepreneur and started a processed foods company. Venky also managed the challenging cable TV market in Chennai for a world-renowned sports broadcaster.

PG Vijay "PG": Vijay is VP of our ecommerce group. He drives innovations and solutions development for clients in this area. He started his career in a public sector insurance company, before moving on to XLRI to do his MBA. Post his MBA, he worked briefly at Ramco Systems in the area of Product development.

His acquired skills in technology and business solutions helped him to move on to the World Bank, during the start-up phase of its offshore centre in India. His experience there primarily focused on offshoring a knowledge management initiative relating to accounting, budgeting and costing in the SAP platform.

Later he moved to UBS, a global wealth management and investment banking firm, where he was responsible for transitioning its Equity Research operations to its captive offshore centre in India. Interestingly, his love affair with E-commerce started during his B-School days where his dissertation was on E-commerce business models."

Umashankar S: Uma, as Director – Online Retail, heads our “productization of services” initiative aimed at delivering path breaking services to online retailers. Uma, an instrumentation Engineer, is a Mobius veteran who has worked closely with numerous clients in ecommerce landscape. During his stint as head of ecommerce operations, his knowledge of ecommerce domain and process expertise came to the fore as he successfully created new services and built versatile teams to deliver. In June 2007, he went on a one year sabbatical to fine-tune his management skills at XLRI, one of India’s top B-Schools.

Andrew Sorensen: Andrew is ‘Director – US Operations’ for Mobius. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Andrew brings a wealth of experience in the ecommerce and comparison shopping industries. He has a strong understanding of the challenges associated with content structure and is expert in bridging the gap with offshore teams. Prior to joining Mobius, Andrew led the industry-leading content operations group at Shopzilla, significantly increasing efficiency and accuracy through a combination of outsourcing and technology. Before that, he was a key member of the online retailer Organize.com, managing its fulfillment department and acting as the company's sole IT person and DBA. Andrew is an Information Systems graduate of Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo.



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