2A, 3rd Floor, Kurian Towers, Banerji Road, Kochi 682 018

MONTHLY MEETING PRESENTATIONS ON

FROM A KERALA COLLEGE DORM TO MIT THE INNOZ STORY & FOSTERING ENTREPRENEURSHIP 1MILLION BY 1MILLION WAY
Date Venue Time : : : April 28, 2011 (Thursday) IMA House, Kaloor, Kochi. 06:30PM to 08:30PM

For Registration send mail to tiekerala@yahoo.com Registration Fee : Rs. 400/- for TiE Kerala Members Rs. 600/- for Non-members Rs. 300/- for Students Dear Sir/Madam, We have great pleasure to invite you for TiE Kerala Monthly Meeting on Thursday, 28th Apr 11 at IMA House, Kaloor, Kochi from 06:30PM to 08:30PM followed by Networking Dinner. The highlight of the evening will be Presentations on From a Kerala College Dorm to MIT The Innoz Story by Mr. Deepak Ravindran of M/s Innoz Technologies, Trivnadrum and Fostering Entrepreneurship 1Million by 1Million Way, Introduction to Ms. Sramana Mitras 1Million/1Million Project by Mr. Rajesh Nair of M/s Capgemini, Bangalore. ABOUT THE PRESENTATION ON INNOZ TECHNOLOGIES BY MR. DEEPAK RAVINDRAN There are very few businesses that grow from a Dorm Room into a venture poised to expand internationally. Innoz is one such business idea that has made waves in the Mobile Industry. The presentation will trace out the exciting story of Innoz Technologies one of the fastest growing mobile technology companies based in Trivandrum and of its youngest Indian Co-Founder and CEO, Mr. Deepak Ravindran. Innoz is a mobile phone and web expert company founded in August 2008 by a young team: Deepak Ravindran, Abhinav Sree, Ashwin Nath and Mohammed Hisamuddin. They met at LBS Engineering College Kerala where they did their graduation and are presently the CEO, COO, CTO and CIO respectively of Innoz Technologies. They developed their first product, SmsGYAN, from their college Dorm Room as a college final year project. SmsGYAN delivers information you ever needed, from the internet to your handset without going online. This service attracted millions of students through word of mouth empowering them with instant information be it a Q&A or a LIVE cricket score. The rest is history. Innoz now has offices at Delhi, Trivandrum and USA. It is one of 16 companies selected to participate in the finals of DFJ-CISCO Global Business Plan Competition of Indian Angel Network. They are officially the first Offshore Technology Business Incubated Company in India, at Technopark Business Incubation Centre (T-BIC), Trivandrum. Innoz recently received special recognition as a winner for Red Herrings top 100 Asia Award, a prestigious list honoring the most promising private technology ventures from the Asia business region. NASSCOM & IAMAI rated them among the top 10 mobile application developing companies in India.

ABOUT THE PRESENTATION ON 1MILLION/1MILLION PROJECT BY MR. RAJESH NAIR Mr. Rajesh Nair will speak about 1Million/1Million Project initiated by Management Expert and Forbes Columnist Ms. Sramana Mitra. The initiative is targeted to help a million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue, which would create an economic value of trillion dollars and also generate at least 10 Million Jobs around the world. Sramana Mitra is offering a series of free Online Strategy Roundtables to broader audiences of entrepreneurs to achieve the above objective. She is willing to chart out a plan for TiE Kerala Members to participate and brainstorm in each weeks roundtable. Many entrepreneurs from all over the world have already participated in these roundtables over the past year, enabling them to profile their companies in Deal Radars and Incubation Radars which are visited frequently by fund managers from world over. ABOUT THE SPEAKERS Mr. Deepak Ravindran is Co-founder and CEO of Trivandrum-based Innoz Technologies, a fast-track startup in the area of mobile and wireless. He was recently named one of the MIT Technology Review Outstanding Innovators under 35, for Innozs flagship product, SmsGYAN, an SMS-based mobile search engine. The company was founded in 2008 by Deepak and three of his college buddies. Deepak Ravindran is perhaps one of the youngest CEOs of a Kerala based company. Deepak is the recipient of several prestigious awards like mBillionth Asia Award 2010 from the mBillionth Grand Jury, Star Entrepreneurship Award 2010 at the India Innovation Summit, Dell Idea League Challenge10 and MIT-Technology Review India TR35 2011 Award. His work has appeared in Economic Times, Times of India, Bloomberg Utvi, and more than hundred other magazines, newspapers and blogs. He holds a B.tech in Computer Science from LBS College of Engineering, Kerala. Mr. Rajesh Nair is a Senior Consultant of Capgemini, based in Bangalore, working for the avionic giant Airbus Industries. A close associate of Ms. Sramana Mitra, Rajesh is an Ambassador of 1M/1M Project for entrepreneurs for South India/non Metros. Rajesh is humorous and motivational speaker, theatre personality and a management expert rolled into one. He is passionate on Entrepreneurship Development, Mentoring poor kinds and is very keen to assist Kerala entrepreneurs participating in the 1Million/1Million Project of Ms. Sramana Mitra. He is also associated with the India Century Mission sponsored by IIMB Founder and National Professor Padmabhushan NS Ramaswamy.
A FEW FACTS ABOUT TiE KERALA The Indus Entrepreneurs (T E) is a global not-for-profit organization focused on promoting entrepreneurship. T E helps budding entrepreneurs by way of advice, guidance and assistance from successful and experienced professionals and entrepreneurs from different industries. Charter Members, T E Kerala: Mr. John K Paul(President), Mr. AV George, Mr. Murali Gopalan, Mr. Shivdas B Menon, Mr. C. Balagopal, Mr. S. R. Nair, Mr. Jose Dominic, Mr. Rajiv Vasudevan, Mr. Navas M Meeran, Mr. Kochouseph Chittilappilly, Mrs. Achamma Joseph, Mr. C. J. George, Mr. Ravi. D. C., Mr. P. George Varghese, Mr. T.R. Raghulal, Mr. Damodar Avanoor, Mr. George Alexander Muthoot, Mr. Hari Krishnan Nair, Mr. K. A. Joseph, Mr. N. Radhakrishnan Nair, Mr. Alex Thomas, Mr. John Chacko Neroth, Mr. Roy I Varghese, Mr. MSA Kumar, Mr. V. K. Mathews, Mr. M. Arun Kumar, Mr. Narayan Ramachandran, Mr. NandaKumar, Mr. George Paul, Mr. G. Vijayaraghavan, Mr. Kurian Abraham, Mr. N. R. Panicker, Mr. Matthew Andrews, M. K. Koshy, Mr. Umang Patodia, Mr. Sanjaya Mariwala, Mr. Ronnie Cherian, Mr. Aju Jacob, Mr. Ajay George Varghese, Mr. C. P. Mammen, Mr. Sam Santhosh, Dr. Najeeb Zackeria, Mr. S. Gopakumar and WgCdr K. Chandrasekhar (Executive Director).

Registration for participation can be made at the venue or preferably by sending a mail to tiekerala@yahoo.com. Entrepreneurs/Professionals who are not members of TiE Kerala are also welcome. With Kind Regards WgCdr K. CHANDRASEKHAR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR MOB: +91 93886 16559/PH: +91 484 3248735