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Neetu Bhatia
Co-Founder, Chairman & CEO
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Neetu Bhatia is Co-founder, Chairman and CEO of KyaZoonga. An investment banker turned entrepreneur, Neetu is credited with creating the Web 2.0 movie-ticket aggregator market in India. Prior to co-founding KyaZoonga, she was a senior media & telecom investment banker on Wall Street. Most recently, she led Bank of Montreal’s U.S. Internet Media practice as a Director in its Media, Communications & Technology Investment Banking Group. She has over nine years of experience originating and executing several strategic advisory and financing transactions in these sectors. Neetu's transactions include over $40 billion of executed deals for Time Warner, Google, Comcast, Cablevision, Verizon, Cingular, AT&T and others.
Prior to Bank of Montreal, Neetu worked at Lehman Brothers in New York, originating and executing several lead-managed media and telecom advisory, capital raising and restructuring transactions. Before joining Lehman Brothers, Neetu also worked as a consultant with McKinsey & Company, advising senior management of Fortune 500 companies on strategic and operational issues.
Neetu has an M.S. in Management and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering from the Government College of Engineering, Pune, where she graduated as the Best Outgoing Student. A former national cricket player, Neetu serves on the Boards of several not-for-profit organizations in New York City and India, including her Godmother, Dr. Kiran Bedi’s India Vision Foundation in New Delhi. She is also a regular columnist for several leading financial publications in India. Her story was featured in a book to motivate young students that was released in 2005 by President, Dr. Abdul Kalam.
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Akash Bhatia
Co-Founder & President
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Akash Bhatia is Co-Founder and President of KyaZoonga. A software engineer turned entrepreneur, Akash conceived the original idea of KyaZoonga during one of his visits back home to India. Prior to co-founding KyaZoonga, he was a senior software engineer in Silicon Valley. Most recently, Akash led the development of one of Oracle’s next generation Fusion Enterprise Applications, and also invented a patent-pending interface for Oracle Applications. He has over seven years of experience in all aspects of software development with Oracle and PeopleSoft.
Akash has an M.S in Transportation Engineering from the University of Cincinnati and a Bachelor of Engineering in Civil Engineering from the Government College of Engineering, Pune. Akash is also a movie buff, an amateur movie maker, loves water sports and is an avid windsurfer.
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