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Rahul Garg

CEO and Founder, Moglix

A tech enthusiast with extensive experience in strategy, product management and operations in the technology industry, Rahul Garg found Moglix in April 2015. Moglix is India's largest and fastest-growing B2B Commerce company specializing in B2B procurement of industrial products. The company extends its expertise in the supply chain design, consulting and technology to solve problems related to digitization as well as GST compliance. Under his stewardship, the company has been growing at 300% year on year by continuously innovating to impact India's $300 BN Manufacturing Sector. The company has worked with more than 400+ leading organizations and 500,000+ SMEs across India, to name a few are GSK, Havells, Yamaha, Lumax, Tata Chemicals and is backed by trusted investors like Mr. Ratan Tata, World Bank, Accel Partners, and Jungle Ventures. Moglix's Board of Advisors has manufacturing and technology stalwarts like Tata Group Chairman Emeritus Ratan Tata, Jim Baum, Ex- CEO Netezza, Shailesh Rao, Ex-VP, Twitter, Ex-Google, Anurag Srivastava, Founding and Managing Partner of Jungle Ventures, Jeff Epstein, Operating Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners and former CFO of Oracle. Till date, Moglix has received a funding of USD 100 MN. Moglix is a part of the first cohort of startups incubated by SAP Startup Studio and supported by Bernd Leukert, Member of the Executive Board, SAP.

Prior to this, he was the Head of Advertising & Strategy at Google Asia. He has also served as Chairperson of the Marketing and AdTech committee at IAB, Singapore and has worked with companies like Conexant Systems, Freescale Semiconductor, and Ittiam Systems in the technology industry.

An alumnus of IIT Kanpur and of India School of Business (ISB) Hyderabad, where he was awarded the prestigious Scholar of Excellence, Rahul is a thought leader in the space of digital transformation and bringing procurement and supply chain efficiencies in the manufacturing industry. He has recently been listed in Fortune's 40 under 40 and won the BW Young Entrepreneur Award 2018 and WCRC Leaders of the year 2018 awards. Rahul has actively been a part of the "Mentor of Change with Niti - Ayog's Atal Innovation Mission" & one of the core team members at the 2016 CII Smart Manufacturing Council. Rahul is also an investor having invested in more than seven startup ventures that have a global presence. He also holds 16 US patents in the domain of product management and technology.