YJA Convention 2010 07 New Brunswick NJ Ninth

Author(s): Young Jains of America (YJA)
Publisher: Young Jains of America YJA USA

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Risky Business: Running Your Own Company
Gagan Palrecha has over 12 years of experience leading technology and entertainment companies (music & television), both domestically and abroad. He's also an avid record collector, musician, and all around loudmouth. Currently, Mr. Palrecha is the CEO of Chirply, a new and burgeoning payment platform for the Web. Previously, Gagan was CEO and President at The First Time Records, an independent record label distributed by Universal Music Group. He has held various leadership positions in product, engineering, and business development with Zattoo (VP, Business Development), Sennari (Director, Products), Oracle, Loudcloud/Opsware (acquired by Hewlett-Packard for $1.6B), and Vontu (acquired by Symantec for $400M). Gagan holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan.
Nimit Maru is a technologist and entrepreneur from the Silicon Valley in California. He is currently a co-founder at Bloom Spot, a venture-backed online startup that sends you ridiculously great local offers and helps small-business owners find new customers. Prior to Bloom Spot, he co-founded a popular blog widgets company and spent three years at Yahoo! where he invented and built Yahoo! MapMixer, an innovative new maps product. Nimit has also entertained over 5 million users worldwide with his educational games on social networks. When he is not cooking up his next project, Nimit enjoys playing tennis, guitar, morning yoga, reading, movies, following Indian cricket and finding poetic peace in seeing life unfold around him. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and has been admitted to the MBA Class of 2012 at The Wharton School at UPenn in Philly.
Tirusha Dave - Tirusha Dave is the editor-in-chief of Bravura Artist Magazine. She began her magazine two years ago and since then it's grown into one of the leading South Asian fashion, entertainment & music magazines online! Through her magazine she's had the opportunity to sit down and interview personalities such as Shahrukh Khan to Sean Kingston. Not only is she the Editor of Bravura Artist, but she also works as a publicist in the South Asian music industry. Some of the clients she represents are RDB, Nindy Kaur, Lomaticc, Sunny Brown & Baba Kahn! She lives by the tagline of her magazine: Be Yourself! Be Exceptional! Be Bravura! Her message to all those attending YJA Convention 2010 is to believe in yourself & your dreams and to pursue what it is that you're most passionate about!
Rushabh Kapashi is a management consultant with McKinsey & Company in New York. He has previously worked with Goldman Sachs and Oliver Wyman. In 2006, Rushabh was awarded the William J. Clinton Fellowship from the American India Foundation. During his fellowship year, he assisted underprivileged artisan groups across India in developing business plans and raising capital. He has also taught business and finance to high school students at the University of Cambridge (UK). Rushabh holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School, an MPhil from the University of Cambridge, a BAS from the University of Pennsylvania and a BSc from The Wharton School, where he was a Joseph Wharton Scholar. He has also completed all three levels of the Chartered Financial Analyst examination. His hobbies include international affairs, cricket, tennis and traveling.
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