Pranay Chulet
Pranay Chulet | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1973 |
| Citizenship | India |
| Alma mater | IIM Calcutta IIT Delhi |
| Occupation | Businessperson |
Pranay Chulet is an Indian entrepreneur and business executive. He is a co-founder and the CEO of Quikr, India's largest [citation needed] online and mobile classifieds portal.[1][2]
Background
Pranay Chulet attended the Kendriya Vidyalaya in Dariba, Rajasthan. He holds an undergraduate degree in chemical engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and an MBA from Indian Institute of Management Calcutta.[3]
Career
After graduating from IIM Calcutta, Chulet joined Procter & Gamble in a brand management position. He left P&G in 1997 to join Mitchell Madison Group as a management consultant. He later worked in a variety of roles in Walker Digital, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Booz Allen Hamilton.
Chulet started his first entrepreneurial venture, Excellere, in 2007. In 2008, he founded Kijiji India, which was later rebranded as Quikr. Quikr has raised over $150 million in funding from private equity and investment firms like Warburg Pincus, Omidyar Network, Matrix Partners, Norwest Venture Partners and Investment AB Kinnevik, and shareholders like eBay.
References
- ^ Labonita Ghosh (Feb 15, 2014). "How Quikr founder-CEO Pranay Chulet is making the best use of his office space". The Economic Times. Retrieved 12 March 2014.
{{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ Biswarup Gooptu (12 Mar 2014). "Meet Quikr CEO Pranay Chulet, IIT-IIM alumnus, who built India's largest online classifieds co". New Delhi: The Economic Times. Retrieved 12 March 2014.
{{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ Sonya Dutta Choudhury (Jan 11, 2014). "Pranay Chulet: Quicker than the competition". Mint (newspaper). Retrieved 12 March 2014.
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