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Wednesday - May 16, 2007 |
Televisionpoint.com Correspondent
The Governing Council of the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) has appointed Murugavel Janakiraman [Muruga], Founder and CEO of Bharatmatrimony.com as the Chairman of the association for 2007/08. Muruga, among the early tech entrepreneurs, is also the founder of such popular online brands as Clickjobs.com, Indiaproperty.com, Indiaautomobile.com among others. He takes over from Anupam Mittal, Chairman, People Group. IAMAI also announced the appointment of Jaspreet Bindra, Country Manager, MSN and Windows Live as the Vice Chairman of the association. Jaspreet takes over from Avnish Bajaj, Founder of baazee.com and currently Founding Managing Partner, Matrix Partners. Upen Roop Rai, Director, Times Internet, is the new Treasurer of the association. Sharing the association's plans for the year ahead, Murugavel said, "Building on the achievements of last year, we would like to focus on four areas. First, making the association more broad based and representative; second reaching out to government and other stakeholders to ensure a smooth growth of the industry; thirdly training programme to encourage the younger generation to join this industry and lastly encouraging and supporting new entrepreneurs." Commenting on his appointment as the Vice Chairman of the association, Jaspreet Bindra said, "Representing the fastest growing industry segments like Internet and Mobile value added services was a great challenge and IAMAI was well prepared to take up the challenge." The association also announced that Dr. Subho Ray would continue to be the President of the association. |
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