Naveen Tewari is the Founder and CEO of InMobi. It is the world's leading marketing cloud, driving a real connection between brands and customers. He is from Karnataka, India.
InMobi:- https://www.inmobi.com/
EDUCATION
Naveen earned his high school education from the Kendriya Vidyalaya. After that, he joined IIT Kanpur for Mechanical Engineering studies. After 3 years of completing Mechanical Engineering, he completed MBA from Harvard Business School.
AWARDS AND HONORS
- 2nd Most important person by Business Insider in 2012
- Listed in Mobile Top 50 in the Drum in 2013
- 7th Most important person by the Business insider in 2013
- Pathbreaker of the Year award by President Narendra Modi in 2013 and 2014
- Distinguished Alumnus Award for excellence in entrepreneurship by IIT, Kanpur in 2013
- 100 Most creative people across the world in 2014
- Forbes India leadership Award for Outstanding startup in 2014
- Fortune 40 under 40 most powerful, influential, and important people in business in 2015
- Future Leaders award by PMO India Narendra Modi in 2015
- His venture InMobi listed as a 2019 CNBC Disrupted 50 company
- InMobi also featured as fast company's 2018 Most innovative companies
ENTREPRENEURIAL STORY
After completing Mechanical engineering, Naveen worked with McKinsey and Company as a business analyst. His work was to develop Go-to-market strategies. After working in this company and remained associated with them until the year 2003. He decided to move to Harvard Business School for pursuing his MBA studies.
Naveen joined as an Associate at Charles River Ventures. Charles River Ventures is one of the top venture capital firms. It is focused on early-stage investigating in communications and software. His work was to develop an investment strategy for India along with Technology investments across the US.
At this time, Naveen was diverted his complete focus towards his MBA. he has also founded U.S. based India Schoolhouse Fund, a non-profit organization in 2005 that sets up schools in rural India with the help of funds. he facilitated with the Dean's Award, for exceptional leadership and contribution. He is also the chairman of the India Schoolhouse fund organization.
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Along with IDG ventures, He invested 1.2 million dollars in NestAway. It is an Indian startup in 2015 which is spread over major cities in the nation, like Bengaluru, Mumbai, Gurugram, Delhi, Pune, and more. He was also the Board of Director of Paytm for 2 years. Naveen also started an SMS search engine called mKhoj like Guruji and AskLaila which failed in a short time. mKhoj startup was started with an angel funding of 500,000 dollars.
Naveen started InMobi in 2007. Currently, this startup is considered India's largest advertising and technology platform with Amit Gupta, Mohit Saxena, and Abhay Singhal, and moved their base to Bangaluru.
If we talk about his personal life so, Naveen has a huge interest in cricket. He is also very enthusiastic about fitness. He wakes up in the early morning and goes on a long run and a cycling trip around the less crowded parts of the city.
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