Sanjeev Arora has been instrumental in crafting Pipal’s growth strategy, bringing in blue-chip investors and developing new clients via innovative products like PipalAnswers. Sanjeev joined Pipal when Agility Research, a company founded by him, was acquired by Pipal. Sanjeev has formerly been a senior consultant with McKinsey & Co., where he served a broad range of clients, focusing on corporate strategy, M&A, business building and operational assessment areas. Prior to this, Sanjeev founded AirClic, where he raised more than US $70 million, and created the industry’s most innovative platform to enable mobile workforce productivity enhancement. Sanjeev also founded Nirvana Software, a content filtering and caching company, which was later acquired by a private investor group. Sanjeev has earlier worked with EDS where he focused on IT strategy, outsourcing, portfolio structure (PMO) and large scale integration and delivery for several fortune 100 clients, and with the prestigious TATA group in India.

A national merit scholarship winner, Sanjeev holds an undergraduate degree in engineering from IIT, India, and has completed an MMBA program at McKinsey, conducted by faculty from Harvard and Wharton business schools. As a speaker, Sanjeev has shared his views on innovation, strategy, globalization and business building at the Harvard, Wharton and Kellogg business schools.

Chris was formerly a research manager at McKinsey & Co. During his more than five years with McKinsey, Chris has led teams in North America to deliver high quality, value-added research services, and directed global knowledge management and training initiatives. Chris has also held management and analyst positions with Moore Corporation and Kohler Company, where he was actively involved in providing market analysis and planning, market research, competitive intelligence and forecasting. He has also worked with the U.S. Department of Defense.

Chris earned a Master of Management degree, with distinction, from the J.L. Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. He holds an undergraduate degree in Economics and Political Science and a postgraduate degree in Applied Economics from Marquette University.

Purva has earlier worked in Structured Finance at ICICI Limited, a leading Indian wholesale bank with $20 billion in assets, managing deals from pitch to execution, including product design, cash flow modeling and term sheet negotiation. Formerly she was a consultant with McKinsey & Company, where she served clients in the healthcare, retail and consumer goods sectors covering strategic, operational and organizational projects.

Purva holds a post graduate diploma in Business Administration, with specialization in Finance, from IIM, India, and an undergraduate degree in Commerce, with accounting and economics, from University of Bombay, India.

Nitin was formerly Centre Manager at McKinsey Knowledge Centre, where he led teams based in India to deliver high quality, value-added research services to McKinsey consultants and practices across the world.  Prior to that, Nitin was an Engagement Manager with McKinsey & Company, where he served clients across Asia, Australia and Europe in the technology, telecom’s and public policy sectors on strategic and operational issues.  He has also worked as a Senior Consultant and Practice Leader with The Hay Group, the leading management consulting firm focused on organizational issues. 

A national talent scholar, Nitin holds a post graduate diploma in Business Administration from IIM, India, and an undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT, India.

As Director of Advanced Analytics, Ravi leads analytical services group for Pipal. Ravi brings more then a decade of experience in both corporate and academic sectors with deep experience in data mining, Marketing research, consulting and teaching. He has led and executed strategic plans to drive revenue and profitability using innovative marketing and customer analytics approaches for several fortune 100 customers. Prior to joining Pipal Research, Ravi served Blackstone Group as Director Analytics where he set up the research infrastructure, people, and processes relating to statistical analysis and modeling.

Ravi obtained a B.S. in Life Sciences and M.S. in Economics from the University of Agricultural Sciences in Bangalore, India, as well as a PhD in Econometrics from the Indian Agricultural Research Institute in Delhi, India.

Ramesh Jain has been one of the first few employees and is considered a foundation pillar at Pipal. As the Director of Indian operations, Ramesh has been instrumental in managing all aspects of the business in India from strategy implementation to business development to funds raising and people management. Ramesh manages finance,IT and administration for Pipal’s Indian operations. Prior to Pipal, Ramesh founded Marks Marketing and successfully launched pan India medical diagnostic equipment representing an American Company on an exclusive basis and computer equipment distribution business. Ramesh has also worked as a stock analyst and trader in Delhi Stock Exchange for nearly a decade. Ramesh is a fellow member of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and completed his CA (1986)from AF Ferguson & Co., a chartered accounting firm representing KPMG, Delloite, Coopers, in New Delhi and his B.Com (Hons.) from Shri Ram College of Commerce, University of Delhi, India.