Sijo Kuruvilla George

Sijo Kuruvilla George is the Founding CEO of Startup Village,[1][2][3] India’s first Public-Private-Partnership model Technology Business Incubator,[4] directly promoted by the Dept. of Science and Technology,[5] Govt. of India; Technopark, Trivandrum and MobME Wireless Solutions. Started in April 2012, the organisation's aim is to launch 1,000 technology startups over the next 10 years and start the search for the next billion-dollar Indian company.[6]

Study

Sijo did his MBA in Marketing and Strategy from Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai. He is also a Mechanical Engineer from College of Engineering, Trivandrum.

Career

After his engineering, he had brief stints at BOC (British Oxygen Company) and Infosys. He quit his job and along with 5 of his friends started MobME. MobMe was featured in NASSCOM Emerge 50 [7] list of startup companies and also received the NASSCOM Most Innovative IT Startup of the year[8] award.

He then moved out of MobME and pursued his MBA. Subsequently, he served as a consultant for Pricewaterhouse Coopers and Deloitte. In his consulting tenure, Sijo worked with organizations like ADB, Tamil Nadu State Government, Orissa Tourism Department, Madhya Pradesh Finance Ministry, DFID, Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation (TIDCO).

Entrepreneurship promotion

Sijo serves as mentor and business consultant to several startup firms like iTraveller,[9] Flip Technology, Thingout, and Wedogood. He also serves on the board of directors of a few of those companies. Sijo is also a panelist and judge of some of the entrepreneurial events in India namely Times of India Power of Ideas and BITS Pilani event Conquest. Sijo also interacts with the student community to promote student entrepreneurship initiatives.[10][11] In 2014, he was invited to U.S. Department of State's prestigious International Visitor Leadership Program[12]

References

  1. ↑ Byte by byte, in God’s own country, The Hindu, retrieved October 29, 2013
  2. ↑ Cool, calm and oh so young, Deccan Chronicle, retrieved October 29, 2013
  3. ↑ Megamind behind the treasure trove in Kochi, Malayala Manorama, retrieved October 29, 2013
  4. ↑ Seaside 'village' in Kochi to nurture India's start-ups, Reuters, retrieved October 29, 2013
  5. ↑ A Catch-Them-Young Experiment in Kerala, The Economic Times(Mobile), retrieved October 29, 2013
  6. ↑ Searching for India's billion-dollar start-up, BBC, retrieved October 29, 2013
  7. ↑ Technopark firms among NASSCOM Top 50, The Hindu, retrieved October 29, 2013
  8. ↑ Mobme, Light Logics bag Nasscom, IBA awards, The Financial Express, retrieved October 29, 2013
  9. ↑ Advisors — iTraveller.com, iTraveller, retrieved June 11, 2015
  10. ↑ Student entrepreneurs to visit Silicon Valley, The Hindu, retrieved October 29, 2013
  11. ↑ After literacy, kerala now tackles student entrepreneurship, The Smart CEO, retrieved October 29, 2013
  12. ↑ "Kochi's Startup Village CEO invited to US IVLP leadership program". IANS. news.biharprabha.com. Retrieved 2 May 2014.

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