“StudioSmile” provides consultative, traditional and e-business analysis, strategic planning, development, design and implementation solutions in the internet business.

Other subsidiaries of this group include:

,a Design Studio

– An online media agency

Tyroo – An Adnetwork.

Zoomtra – A travel search engine.

InfoKarma – A mobile content portal which is yet to be launched.

Management

Harish Bahl, MD & CEO

Harish Bahl is the group CEO for Smile Interactive Technologies Group (SITG), who founded SITG in 1999 and since then has been incubating & heading the complete group portfolio. An engineer in computer sciences he brings over a decade of technical knowledge and entrepreneurial skills to the company

Manish Vij, Co-Founder & Business Lead

Manish, an MBA, is one of the youngest dotcom entrepreneurs with India’s first auction web site, kabadibazaar.com. Prior to Co-founding SITG group, he has worked with India’s largest portal Rediff.com for over 4 years.

C P Singh, Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer

C.P. Singh is an engineer in computer sciences and a PGD in Network Hardware Technologies and a graduate from the University of Karnataka. He is also the Co-founder of Smile Interactive Technologies Group.

Mahendra Swarup, Chief Mentor
An MBA from Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi, Mahendra was last the Head of Private Treaties initiative of Times of India Group. He has held positions like the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Times Internet Limited (Indiatimes.com) and Executive Director of Pepsi India. During his 30 years of business experience, he has held corporate responsibilities in blue-chip companies like ACC, Nestle India, Sun Breweries–Moscow and PepsiCo India at the senior-most functional levels.

Website: www.sitg.in

Contact Address

Smile Multimedia Private Limited
136-A, Second Floor, Vishal House,
Zamrudpur, Kailash Colony,
New Delhi, India Zip Code-110048
Land Mark : Opposite Lady shri Ram College
Phone : 011-29240251, 29240252, 29240253
Fax : 011-29240254

City: New Delhi

Additional Notes:

Yahoo recently invested in Tyroo – The Adnetwork from SITG.

Company Overview:

Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Mumbai, Connecturf is the parent company of Mediaturf. Through its operating units, Mediaturf- An interactive agency, Solutionturf – digital technology E-CRM – solutions provider and Knowledgeturf- online research and intelligence unit, Connecturf acts as a 360-degree interactive company.

Management

V. Ramani, Vice Chairman

After having years of experience in the advertising world (Lintas, Ulka, McCann Ericsson, Contract and Euro RSCG) and experience stretching across Unilever, Bajaj Auto, LML, Philips, BPL, Nestle, and Air France, Ramani conceptualized the idea of an advertising agency that specialised in Internet communication.

Abhay Palkar, CFO

Abhay Palkar: A Chartered Accountant by profession, Abhay has held prestigious posts at Magna Publishing, JWT and Group M.

Himanshu Shah, CIO

Himanshu has lent his expertise in realm of sales and marketing to India’s leading firms, Webmoney (Euro RSCG) and Cybermart (Dow Jones) and London’s Cnet Direct and Carphone Warehouse before joining Connecturf.

Raja Ray, National Creative Director

Prior to joining Mediaturf, Raja lent his expertise to renowned interactive and advertising agencies – Rediff.com and Lowe Lintas. Currently National Creative Director at Mediaturf, Raja conceptualizes effective advertising strategies for ICICI Bank, Tata Motors, ING Vysya and other industrial leaders.

Website: www.connecturf.com

Corporate Address:

Connecturf India Pvt. Ltd.2nd Flr, DTC Building,
Sitaram Mills Compound, N.M Joshi Marg,
Lower Parel (E),
Mumbai – 400011.Tel: +91-22-66424242
Fax : +91-22-66424243

City: Mumbai

Branch :Address

City: Delhi                                                
Connecturf India Pvt. Ltd.                               
E-47, First Floor,                                              
Saket,                                                         
New Delhi – 110017.                                             
Tel: +91-11-26535223/26535224/40513687                           
Fax : +91-11-26535219 

City:Chennai 
Connecturf India Pvt. Ltd.   
27 – C Krishnaswamy Avenue, 
Mylapore, 
Chennai 600004 
Tel: +91-44-42177412 / 24984717
Fax : +91-44-42177124

Investors: Mediaturf Worldwide was formed as a joint venture with investments from eVentures, Euro RSCG and Microland (Media2India).

Key Competition:

Quasar Media, Interactive Avenues, Tribal DDB, Webchutney,  MOne, Media2Win

Additional Notes:

Mediaturf has tied up with Enpocket, a global mobile media company that provides integrated entertainment and marketing services to build and retain mobile audiences. Mediaturf handles the business end of the relationship using the Enpocket engine to provide state of the art Mobile CRM to clients across operators.

Company Overview:

Quasar Media Pvt Ltd is an Interactive media agency providing e-commerce business solutions.. It is head-quartered in Delhi with branch office in Mumbai and a large business interest in Bangalore. Its a subsidiary of Smile Interactive Technologies Group (SITG).

Management

Manish Vij, Co-Founder & Business Lead

Manish is the co-founder of this Smile Interactive Technology Group unit. Manish has earlier worked with organizations like Rediff.com for 5 years before incubating his own set of ideas to form a digital and e-commerce solutions company Studio Smile and an ad network of publishers, tyroo.co.in.

Sandeep Singh, Business Lead

Sandeep Singh has earlier worked with Rediff.com in their Media Sales team. He was also the Business Head and the founder of Yankeedelhi.com. Sandeep has done his business management from Symbiosis Institute of Business Management.

Personal links: sandeeps@quasar.co.in

Website: www.quasar.co.in

Competitors: Interactive Avenues, Connecturf , Webchutney, Starcom Worldwide,

Corporate Address,

QUASAR MEDIA PVT LTD
Vishal House, 136-A, 2nd Floor,
Kailash Colony,
Zamrudpur, New Delhi

City:New Delhi

Additional Notes: Quasar is a group of more than 100 ebusiness professional providing Creative, Paid media and other e business solutions in India.

Company Overview:

Media2win is a full service interactive agency. They provide complete solutions – from strategy to creative ideas to media planning and buying to the final implementation. Media2Win was considered as a thought extension to their parent company www.Contest2Win.com

Management:

Name: Krishna Kumar
Position: CEO

Krishna Kumar, popularly known as KK, is a media veteran of 10 years’ standing with wide experience in media planning and buying. He was Business Director with GroupM’s Mindshare.

Website: www.media2win.com

Additional Notes: They develop online and wireless campaigns with the support of their established partners – Contests2win.com, Games2Win and Mobile2win.

Address: 42, Filmcenter, Tardeo, Mumbai 400 034

Company Overview:

Starcom is a media communication agency specializing in making connections between consumers and brands. Starcom USA is a full-service media division within Starcom MediaVest Group. SMG’s global organization offers services in media management, response media, internet and digital communications, as well as multicultural, entertainment, sports sponsorship and event marketing and media.

Management

Pranay Anthwal, General Manager India

Pranay Anthwal has a diverse range of experience prior to his association with Starcom. From Zee Interactive in Partnerships to Star Interactive in Partnership and Marketing to finally Times of India for Strategy and Brand Head Filmfare, and now Heads Starcom Digital. Pranay’s ryze profile

Ashish Tewari, Group Head (Internet) Starcom

Ashish Tewari leads the Internet business for Starcom India. Previously Ashish has also worked with Hutch as an Account manager & Asst. Manager at Bazee (Ebay India). He has done his graduation from Goa Institute of Management. Ashish Tewari also blogs.

Websites: www.starcomworldwide.com

Key Competition: www.minsdhareworld.com ,www.carat.com , quasar

Corporate Address:

Starcom Worldwide
C-36, Dr. Shirodhkar Road, Parel

City: Mumbai

Additional Notes:

In addition, Starcom offers specialized media services through units such as Starcom IP (Interactive media) and Tapestry (Multicultural Media). Starcom MediaVest is a subsidiary of Paris-based advertising conglomerate Publicis.

Company Overview:

Regalix Inc is an integrated Marketing & Technology solutions providing company, services include search-engine and data-mining, emerging new media such as blogs, podcasts and social network marketing to create real leads and results for their diverse group of clients.

Management:

Vikas Sharan, CEO, Regalix Inc.

Vikas Sharan is a serial entrepreneur and has spent more than 15 yrs in digital marketing. Vikas has done his Masters in Industrial Design from IIT Mumbai. Prior to Regalix Inc, Vikas has also worked with companies like Verizon & AT&T.

Gunjan Sinha, Investor & Board Member.

Gunjan provides vision and strategic directions to Regalix and has also been the prime investor in Regalix Inc. Gunjan has spent over 15 years in various entrepreneurial, board and executive positions developing, marketing and selling software and Internet services. As an internet pioneer, he was the co-founder and President of WhoWhere? Inc., a leading Internet directory services company acquired by Lycos in 1998. Gunjan writes about entrepreneurship

Gurudev Karanth, CTO Regalix Inc.

Gurudev Karanth is the Chief Technology Officer at Regalix Inc at Redwood Shores – CA, USA. Gurudev is also the driving force behind Regalix’s “Next Generation Customer Activation Engine”. He has completed his BE (Comp Sc) from Pune, University of Pune.

Key Members

• Adarsh Kulshreshta – CFO Regalix Inc
• Shivraj Asthana – VP of Client Services, Regalix Inc
• Nimish Vora – India head, Regalix Inc.
• Alok Ramsisaria – VP Operations, Regalix Inc
• Sonu Agarwal – Sr Director Client Services.

Website: www.regalix-inc.com

Contact Address:

Regalix Inc 

Bangalore, Karnataka, India
26, Second Floor,
Zam Zam Center,
Infantry Road,
Bangalore, Karnataka – 560001
Phone: +91 80-22861869
Fax: +91 80-22861869

or Email to info@regalix-inc.com

Additional Information:

Regalix Inc was founded in 2005 and is a California based company with operations in India, Bangalore.

Company Overview:

Pinstorm is an Internet marketing company, offering search engine related services like SEM & SEO. It is based out of Mumbai with offices in New Delhi, Singapore and Malaysia.

Management

Mahesh Murthy, Founder & CEO, Pinstorm

Mahesh Murthy is the founder and CEO of Pinstorm and has played some pivotal roles in advertising agencies like Grey in India and O&M in Hongkong to name some. He founded Pinstorm in the year 2004, prior to which he was an investor and is responsible of start-ups like Webdunia, Careerlauncher, and Indiaproperties to name a few. Mahesh also runs SeedFund an early stage investment fund.

Dr. V Vinay, Chief Technology Advisor.

A Ph.D. in computer science with operations research as his focus and the co-inventor of the Simputer. Vinay was one of the first winners of India’s top informatics prizes, the Dewang Mehta award for innovation in information technology and also took home the Sir C. V. Raman award for excellence in science and engineering.

Ratan Kanth K, Director – Delivery

Ratan Kanth K leads multiple delivery teams, which have SEM and Branding capabilities, to provide marketing solutions for their diverse sets of clients. He is a Mechanical Engineer from Osmania University, Hyderabad, India and a PGDM from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India.

Additional Information: Pinstorm was named as the hottest companies for the year 2005, among their top 100 list of companies in Asia.

In the same year Business Today rated them as one of the coolest companies in India.
Website: www.pinstorm.com

Corporate Services

Bombay Office
Swati Bldg,
North Avenue,
Santa Cruz (W)
Bombay 400 054
India

Press and Media Contacts: (+91 22) 2648 0520

Or Email to media@pinstorm.com

Company Overview:

Group M is a Media Buying and Planning arm of the WPP group. Group M- Interaction is the online division in India.

The focus of GroupM is the intelligent application of physical and intellectual scale to benefit trading, innovation, and new communication services.

Mindshare is their flagship brand for services in Digital Media. It was created in 1997 as the full service media company headquartered in Singapore with an employee strength of more than 5800 people in 67 countries around the world.

Mindshare, Asia Pacific is Headquartered in Mumbai, has 6 offices that spans across India.

Management

Vikram Sakhuja COO

Key Competitors:

www.connecturf.com

www.interactiveavenues.com Website: www.groupm.com

Additional Information: Mindshare is the digital wing of Group M Companies. It was integrated into WPP communications India to be a part of Group M Media India Pvt. Ltd. This Global media managment company has a billing excess than $ 2.5 billion.

Group M Media: Headquarter

201 Peninsula Chambers, 2nd Floor
Ganpatrao Kadam Marg
Lower Parel, Mumbai 400 013,
India

Tel: +91 22 4095 8888
Fax: +91 22 4095 8600

Company Overview:

Started in 1997 Communicate2 is an Internet Marketing agency offering Search Engine related services like SEM and SEO to their clients. Communicate 2 is a team of Certified Google Adwords, Pay Per Click Professionals based out of Mumbai , India.

Management:

Founder & CEO
Vivek Bhargava

Vivek Bhargava is the founder and the CEO of Communicate2.

His linked in profile can be viewed here

CTO:

Brijesh Pandey:

Brijesh Pandey heads the Paid Search application division at C2. With more than 8 yrs of industry knowledge, he has also worked in companies like Rolta India before joining Communicate2.

Website: www.communicate2.com

Competitors:

Pinstorm

Yahoo

MSN

Corporate Office:

202, Sumer Kendra,
Pandurang Budhkar Marg,
Worli, Mumbai – 400018.

Tel. No. : +91 22 24968339 / 24930950 / 24942517.
Fax : +91 22 249309499

Branch Office:

H-11 & H-12, 4th Floor,
Sunflower Commercials,
Survey No. – 77/1,
Baner Road, Baner,
Pune – 411 045.

Landmark – Besides The Prim Rose Mall.