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4th Annual Convention for Entrepreneurs, SME's and Start-ups
Ms. Saloni Malhotra
Founder, DesiCrew
Saloni Malhotra is the founder and CEO of DesiCrew, an IT-enabled service company that provides back-office and support services in rural areas of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. Although establishing a BPO company is not a major task, she is widely acclaimed for her work of establishing these in rural parts of the states and employing unexperienced and untrained people from small villages. Saloni did her engineering from University of Pune in state of Maharashtra. She started her career in an interactive media start up, Web Chutney based in Delhi. She somehow came into contact of Professor Jhunjhunwala of TeNet group, IIT Madras and came up with this idea. Her company DesiCrew received wide acclamation for this innovative approach and has been quite applauded. It has now four rural office Udupi,Ammapalayam, Apakoodal and Kollumangudi and employs 300-odd people from these villages. She handles the marketing and overall direction of the organization and focuses her complete attention in pursuing her dream.
14:35 - 15:35
SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Ms. Saloni Malhotra, Founder, DesiCrew
Session Chair: Shri S.N. Tripathi, Joint Secretary (SME), MSME
Session Lead: Mr. Abhijit Ray, Co-founder & Managing Director, Unitus Capital
Mr. Akshay Saxena, Co-founder & President, Avanti
Mr. Naveen Krishna, Founder & Managing Director, SMV Wheels Pvt. Ltd.