Mr. Mahesh Murthy
Founder Seedfund & Co-Founder Pinstorm

Add to Calendar 18-07-2014 12:30:00 19-07-2014 13:15:00 68 FORWARD THINKERS: EMPOWERING INNOVATION Session Chair: Mr. Mahesh Murthy, Founder Seedfund & Co-Founder Pinstorm Vivanta by Taj, Surajkund, Delhi Franchise India Holdings Limited true DD/MM/YYYY

Mahesh Murthy is a founding partner at Seedfund and has over 26 years of marketing and communications experience, of which 15 years are in the online marketing. After dropping out of college, Mahesh sold vacuum cleaners from door to door, worked with Grey in India and Ogilvy in Hong Kong, where he won notoriety and awards as a creative director on HP, The Economist, Pepsi and MTV � for whom he wrote and directed a spot voted "Asia's best commercial of the decade".

He then moved to a Silicon Valley firm, CKS Partners (later, USWeb/CKS) as Creative Director, GM and Partner � where he helped launch the first commercial version of Yahoo in 1995 and the Earth's Biggest Bookstore campaign for Amazon.com in 1997. After a successful NASDAQ IPO, Mahesh moved to head marketing at iCat, an e-commerce firm in Seattle subsequently acquired by Intel.

Mahesh then returned to India to run Channel V, a rival to MTV, till its sale to Newscorp in 2000 and then founded Passionfund to invest in and guide start-ups. While running search marketing campaigns for his favourite charity in 2003, Mahesh believed there was a need for a pay-for-performance digital brand management firm � and set up Pinstorm in Bombay. With over 120 people across six offices in India, Singapore, Malaysia, Europe and the US, Pinstorm is today among the world�s leading digital marketing firms.

Mahesh has also won the world�s top awards at Cannes and Promax.