Prashanth Prakash joined Accel in 2008 and focuses on consumer internet, SaaS and marketplace investments. He led Accel’s investments in BookMyShow, HolidayIQ, PropTiger, BlueStone, QwikCilver/GiftBig and WizRocket. Prior to Accel, Prashanth co-founded Erasmic (one of India’s first early stage funds) and founded two companies.
Prashanth grew up in Bangalore and graduated from Bangalore Institute of Technology and has a Masters from the University of Delaware.
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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. He was among the top 5 nominees for the Economic Times Entrepreneur of the year 2012 Award.
His current venture, Portea Medical, provides technlogy-led home health care to the Indian consumer.
He 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 and HomeLane - India’s leading end to end, vertically integrated interior design and manufacturing provider which delivered more than 1000 projects delivered across the country. In addition, his angel investments include little eye labs (acquired by Facebook in Jan 2014), mustseeIndia.com, overcart.com delyver.com, onlineprasad.com, Pokkt, SilverPush and Oximity.
Previously, Ganesh founded of the 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.
He serves as a member of Board of Governors of Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. Krishnan is a post-graduate from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, and has a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Delhi University.
Oman Air is the flagship carrier of the Sultanate of Oman . Founded in 1993, the airline has since witnessed massive growth and has played a major role in making Muscat an important traffic hub in the Middle East, supporting the commercial, industrial and tourism sectors.
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\r\nThe airline currently connects to over 50 destinations in Gulf, Middle East, Indian Subcontinent, Europe & Africa. Oman Air flies to eleven destinations in India – Goa, Mumbai, Chennai, Kochi, Thiruvananthapuram, Hyderabad, Delhi, Lucknow, Bangalore, Kozhikode and Jaipur offering 161 flights per week.
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\r\nOman Air has launched Istanbul (Turkey) from June 1st, Casablanca (Morocco) from July 1st and Moscow (Russia) from October 28th as new destinations this year.
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\r\nOman Air fleet is a mix of wide body and narrow body aircraft which complements our business model and short regional flights. The wide body aircraft include B787- 900 & 800 Dream liners and A330-300 & 200 aircraft with the award winning seats and inflight décor and entertainment, The narrow body fleet comprises of B737 – MAX, B737-900’s, B737-800’s & E175 Embraer aircraft. The fleet size is currently at 55 aircraft which will increase to 70 aircraft in the near future.
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\r\nThe new state-of-the-art Muscat International Airport terminal commenced its operations from 20th March’18 .This world class terminal will enrich the experience of each every guest traveling to and from or transiting the Muscat international airport.
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\r\nOman Air has been awarded “World’s Leading Airline – Economy Class” and was also named the winner in the World’s Ultimate Service Award in Hospitality 2017 & was voted the best in the ‘Middle East’s Leading Airline – Business Class’ and ‘Middle East’s Leading Airline – Economy Class’ categories.
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Hotel Taj Yeshwantpur, Bengaluru
Date: May 3, 2018
Venue: Hotel Taj Yeshwantpur, Bengaluru
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