Sanjeev Bikhchandani

Sanjeev Bikhchandani

The ecosystem is ready for early-stage investment, which will need smaller capital to promote and scale up technology. Once these start creating success stories, large capital will not shy away from it.

Sanjeev Bikhchandani serves as Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Naukri Internet Services Limited. Mr. Bikhchandani serves as an Advisor of Four-S Services Pvt. Ltd, MakeMyTrip (India) Private Limited and MakeMyTrip Limited. He is the Founder and Executive Vice Chairman of Naukri.doc. He worked in advertising at Lintas India Ltd., a marketing position at HMM Limited and a senior management position at CMYK Printech Private Limited and in marketing at SmithKline Beecham. He is a Co-Owner at Endeavour Holding Trust. He Co-founded Info Edge (India) Ltd., in 1990 and also has been its Executive Vice Chairman since July 26, 2010, and serves as its Whole-Time Director. He served as the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Info Edge (India) Ltd., and its subsidiary, Naukri Internet Services Pvt. Ltd. until July 26, 2010. He served as an Editor of Avenues of the careers supplement of The Pioneer.

He serves as a Director at Four-S Services Pvt. Ltd., Allcheckdeals India Private Limited, Makesense Technologies Limited, Jeevansathi Internet Services Private Limited and Naukri Internet Services Pvt. Ltd. He serves as a Member of Advisory Board at Value Edge Research Services Pvt. Ltd. He is a Member Editorial Advisory Board Encyclopaedia Britannica India, students edition. He serves as a Member of Advisory Council at Centum Learning Limited. He serves as a Member of Board of Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship. He is a Member of the Board at Chintan. He served as an Independent Director at MakeMyTrip (India) Private Limited. He won the “Ernst and Young – Entrepreneur of the Year” award in 2008 for Business Transformation. He also won the Dataquest Pathbreaker Award and the Teacher’s Achievement Award in 2008.

He is a frequent speaker on entrepreneurship at conferences and at business schools. He co-authored two books on job hunting and careers. He is visiting Faculty and Guest Lecturer at IIM Ahmedabad, IMT Ghaziabad, Times School of Marketing and Delhi School of Communication in the Marketing area. Mr. Bikhchandani earned a B.A. (Hons.) degree in Economics from St. Stephen’s College in 1984 and a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad 1989.