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Sanjeev Bikhchandani

Indian businessman

Sanjeev Bikhchandani is an Indian businessman, who is the founder and executive vice chairman of Info Edge which owns Naukri.com, a job portal, as well as the co-founder of Ashoka University. He was honored with the Padma Shri, India's fourth-highest civilian award, in January 2020.2

From Wikipedia’s article on Sanjeev Bikhchandani (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Born 1963.1

Companies

Early life and education

  • Date not recordedIndian Institute of Management Ahmedabad3
  • Date not recordedSt. Columba's School, Delhi3
  • Date not recordedSt. Stephen's College3

He was born in 1963 to a Sindhi family in Delhi.He attended St. Columba's School, Delhi and finished schooling from there in 1981. Thereafter, he obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from St. Stephen's College, Delhi in 1984. He completed his MBA from IIM Ahmedabad in 1989.

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Career

  • Date not recordedFounded naukri.com4
  • Date not recordedFounded 99acres.com5
  • Date not recordedFounded jeevansathi.com6
  • Date not recordedFounded Info Edge7

After his post graduation, Sanjeev did a job marketing Horlicks at Hindustan Milkfood Manufacturers (after series of multinational mergers-and-acquisitions, now known as GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare India) and left in 1990 to pursue entrepreneurship. In 1993, he and his partner decided to go separate ways. Sanjeev founded Info Edge in 1995. In 1997, Bikhchandani set up Naukri.com, jobs portal located on a server in India, and later Quadrangle.in, an offline executive search business. In 2005, Naukri.com was reported as being India's largest web-based employment site.

Info Edge later launched other classified sites like 99acres.com in real estate, Jeevansathi.com in matrimony and Shiksha.com in education.

He is also a member of the Vision Circle of the Foundation for Young Innovators (FYI), an initiative that supports social entrepreneurship among high school students.

From Wikipedia’s article on Sanjeev Bikhchandani (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Awards

  • 2020Padma Shri in trade and industry8 9

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