Surendra Varma - Surendra is an HR Porfessional with 20 plus years experience. He has vast exposure in the area of Talent Acquisition, Talent Management, Employee Engagement, Change Management and Organization development. He has started his enterpreneurship journey in 2012 and have been into HR Services and from 2017 onwards in HR Tech industry where their platform helps startups and SME's to steamline and simplify Human Resource Management.

Surendra Varma

Surendra is an HR Porfessional with 20 plus years experience. He has vast exposure in the area of Talent Acquisition, Talent Management, Employee Engagement, Change Management and Organization development. He has started his enterpreneurship journey in 2012 and have been into HR Services and from 2017 onwards in HR Tech industry where their platform helps startups and SME's to steamline and simplify Human Resource Management.

Surendra Varma is an accomplished human resources leader with over 20 years of experience helping organizations Small and medium size to build their talent and culture.

He spent his first decade managing HR functions for growing corporate companies before founding two successful ventures over the last 10 years focused on recruitment and HR solutions platform for MSMEs and SMEs.

At Emgage, we help small businesses to simplify and streamline their people management practices through our virtual HR service delivery platform. We are looking to empower 50,000 MSMEs in next 5 years through our HR tech platfrom to set them up for high growth and in turn they help India to achieve their goal of becoming world's third largest economy.

Beyond his entrepreneurial pursuits, Surendra is passionate about fitness and testing his endurance through long distance running. He has completed numerous marathons, half-marathons and ultra marathons across India, including the grueling 72km Khardung La Challenge in Ladakh this September.

Surendra loves networking with people and helping founders overcome their people management and HR challenges as they build their organizations.

At Emgage we are creating an HR ecosystem through an HR tech platform to manage employee lifecycle and employee benefits and create a differentiation to attract and retain top talent for MSMEs and SMEs.

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Sep
20
Sat
Ahmedabad Startup Day — Where the City’s Entrepreneurial Spirit Comes Alive : September Edition
Ahmedabad
iHub Gujarat
5:00pm — 09:00pm
40 slots booked
Jatin Chaudhary - Co-Founder, eChai Ventures Kunjan Thakkar (Atara) - Founder @ Keroluxe (Design beyond boundaries) Ashutosh raval - Cyber Security Professional & Founder RedHacks1 IT Security Ghanshyam S. Vachhani - Solution Architect Ishani Upadhyay Dave - CEO & Co Founder, Shaadivibe sujal raval - Software Developer, Freelancer Kavan Patel - Founder, TerraBloom By KVN Brijesh RavaL. - Founder and CEO Beyond Cure pvt ltd Jay Bhandari - Operations, SM Enterprise HARSHIL PATEL - Founder @theimagineindia Travel Community Hitesh Bhagat - SnagFixr Jaimin Patel - Founder of Atri Energy, delivering end-to-end solar EPC solutions to power India’s clean energy future. Meet Vyas - Electronics and communication engineer Jignesh Thakkar - Cofounder at LoudRevel Ashish Vaghela - Software Crafter Harsh Mer - AI Data Engineer at Exillar Infotech
Sep
25
Thu
eChai Startup Demo Day in Ahmedabad: September Edition
Ahmedabad
GVFL Ahmedabad
6:30pm — 08:30pm
34 slots booked
Jignesh Thakkar - Cofounder at LoudRevel Jay Bhavsar - Founder Er. Pranav Veerani - FSIDM.in and Unity Sangam, Founder Harsh Vasoya - Agriculture import Advisor - Agriculture Import Adviser At Golokam Group Sumit Kasardekar - Business Manager - SAP Sales at SAR Digital India Jinal Soni - Founder,Webcrux Technology Yash - Senior Software Engineer Ajaykumar Vannal - VP of Sales, Dinjan Infotech Mohit Adlakha - Sales Director At Superworks.com Devarshan Patel - Founder, BuildwithDEV. Ex Koru Global Inc (Acquired) Urvish Suthar - Founder & CEO at UVTech Global | ERPNext | Odoo | Custom Software Development Piyush Patel - Executive MD at Dropit | Director of Business Operations at HK Infosoft Nitin Sonal Acharya - Co-Founder, Induxion Infra LLP anubhav pohekar - Founder, ulanpo India Nitin Sonal Acharya - Co-Founder, Induxion Infra LLP
Oct
04
Sat
eChai Women Founders Initiative in Ahmedabad: October Edition
Ahmedabad
iHub Gujarat
6:00pm — 08:00pm
9 slots booked
Preksha Shah - Senior Full Stack Engineer/ Tech Lead Jignesh Thakkar - Cofounder at LoudRevel Shyam sudani - Cord4 technologies Harsh Vasoya - Agriculture import Advisor - Agriculture Import Adviser At Golokam Group Jinal Soni - Founder,Webcrux Technology Sumit Kasardekar - Business Manager - SAP Sales at SAR Digital India
Oct
30
Thu
eChai Startup Demo Day in Ahmedabad: October Edition
Ahmedabad
GVFL Ahmedabad
6:30pm — 08:30pm
9 slots booked
Jignesh Thakkar - Cofounder at LoudRevel Jay Bhavsar - Founder Er. Pranav Veerani - FSIDM.in and Unity Sangam, Founder Harsh Vasoya - Agriculture import Advisor - Agriculture Import Adviser At Golokam Group Sumit Kasardekar - Business Manager - SAP Sales at SAR Digital India Romil Monpara - Student, Co-owner of Yamuna Industries Hitesh Bhagat - SnagFixr
Nov
01
Sat
eChai Women Founders Initiative in Ahmedabad: November Edition
Ahmedabad
iHub Gujarat
6:00pm — 08:00pm
6 slots booked
Preksha Shah - Senior Full Stack Engineer/ Tech Lead - Enspirit Technologies Jignesh Thakkar - Cofounder at LoudRevel Shyam sudani - Cord4 technologies Er. Pranav Veerani - FSIDM.in and Unity Sangam, Founder Harsh Vasoya - Agriculture import Advisor - Agriculture Import Adviser At Golokam Group
Nov
27
Thu
eChai Startup Demo Day in Ahmedabad: November Edition
Ahmedabad
GVFL Ahmedabad
6:30pm — 08:30pm
8 slots booked
Jignesh Thakkar - Cofounder at LoudRevel Jay Bhavsar - Founder Er. Pranav Veerani - FSIDM.in and Unity Sangam, Founder Sumit Kasardekar - Business Manager - SAP Sales at SAR Digital India Jinal Soni - Founder,Webcrux Technology Romil Monpara - Student, Co-owner of Yamuna Industries Hitesh Bhagat - SnagFixr
Dec
06
Sat
eChai Women Founders Initiative in Ahmedabad: December Edition
Ahmedabad
iHub Gujarat
6:00pm — 08:00pm
7 slots booked
Preksha Shah - Senior Full Stack Engineer/ Tech Lead - Enspirit Technologies Jignesh Thakkar - Cofounder at LoudRevel Shyam sudani - Cord4 technologies Er. Pranav Veerani - FSIDM.in and Unity Sangam, Founder Jinal Soni - Founder,Webcrux Technology
Dec
25
Thu
eChai Startup Demo Day in Ahmedabad: December Edition
Ahmedabad
GVFL Ahmedabad
6:30pm — 08:30pm
8 slots booked
Jignesh Thakkar - Cofounder at LoudRevel Jay Bhavsar - Founder Er. Pranav Veerani - FSIDM.in and Unity Sangam, Founder KARNATAKAM SREENIVAS - Assistant Manager Sumit Kasardekar - Business Manager - SAP Sales at SAR Digital India Jinal Soni - Founder,Webcrux Technology Romil Monpara - Student, Co-owner of Yamuna Industries
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