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Amal Mishra is the Founder and CEO of UrbanVault, a game-changing provider of managed office spaces reshaping the commercial real estate landscape with more than 25000 seats in Bangalore. His story reflects the power of bootstrapping backed by the commitment to provide exceptional services to clients.

He holds an undergrad degree in Computer Science from IIIT Hyderabad. Prior to UrbanVault, he co-founded Livospire, where he gained invaluable experience in the real estate and furniture industry. The hands-on involvement equipped him with a unique blend of expertise that contributes to the innovative solutions at both UrbanVault and Livospire.

In addition, he has served as a Product Manager at Cisco for nearly four years, further honing his skills and knowledge in the technology sector. This experience enables him to bring a strategic perspective and a deep understanding of market trends to UrbanVault.

By combining his background in real estate, furniture, and technology, he brings a comprehensive skill set that drives his ability to deliver cutting-edge solutions to the clients.

Join him and the UrbanVault team in redefining commercial real estate, driving innovation, and shaping the future of work.

#UrbanVault #CommercialRealEstate #Workspaces #Innovation

I am a practicing Chartered Accountant and partner of the firm Rasesh Shah & Co. My specialties are Internal Audit, Statutory audit, Tax audit, Taxation consultancy, Return e-filing, TDS issues, and Company Law Matters. I am actively involved with the Startup Community incapacity of mentor, advisor, community manager, etc, and have contributed to the Startup ecosystem in Surat by organizing various events and programs for the last 5 years. On the professional front, I have acted as an authorized representative for 100+ Startups for getting them recognition and eligible for benefits under the “Startup India Scheme” of the GOI and I am also a key stakeholder of iKoVerk Coworking Studios having centers at Althan and Nanpura in Surat. 

I worked in the pharmaceutical sector in various roles with a focus on business development, account management in the first part of my career between 2000 to 2015 in India and Europe. Priya and I started indiabizforsale.com together in the year 2013 as a company and launched as a platform in early 2014. 

We started indiabizforsale because we experienced and painfully learnt (at that time) that M&A for a small to medium size business is very, very challenging in India, and we decided to do something about that. 

We launched indiabizforsale.com as a discovery platform (with confidentiality so no one knows which business is looking for an exit or partial exit) for businesses and investors. 

Gradually we started building services on top as we realised that the end goal is a successful business transaction and secured discovery is only the part of the process (large though). 

Now we provide discovery, on-demand services and also advisory services with help of trusted and experienced professionals across India. 

As a Co-founder at IndiaBiz, she is committed to help SMEs and Startups to find their growth partners through quick deal-sourcing, matchmaking, and end-to-end deal management through technology platform and advisory services for transactions like M&A, Investments, Partnership, Franchising and more.

Her proficiency and experiences are invaluable in her role at IndiaBiz, where she focuses on Product, Finance and Hiring. Prior to assuming the company's leadership in 2013, she has spent more than 10 years in the UK and brings over 8 years of experience in the Finance domain from diverse industry segments in companies like Nestor Healthcare, Halcrow Group, SUEZ, BillDesk.

Priya has achieved her Masters degree in International Finance from Middlesex University (UK) and is a member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA).

Umesh, has close to 10 years of experience in IT & Real Estate Industry and defines himself as a Strategic Thinker with a flair towards Marketing and Sales, a Startup Enthusiast and a passionate ENTREPRENEUR.

As Co-founder and Chief Growth Officer of Dev Accelerator (DevX), Umesh has a strong focus on strengthening Strategic Partnerships, designing long term Growth Strategies, along with heading the Panel for curating Technology Startups/SMEs for the Accelerator program. Also acting as a Board Member (Investor) and Mentor for multiple Portfolio Ventures in the domain of SaaS, Mobility, Cloud Kitchen, Media Tech and Lending.

He takes pride in co-owning Gujarat’s largest Co-working space.

The primary focus is heading the role of Sourcing, Negotiating and on-boarding Strategic Partners and even focusing on like-minded collaborations. The ultimate goal is to ensure that Commercialization of Products/Services leads to produce high-value offerings that generate strong bottom line benefits for the DevX, Portfolio Companies and the end clients.

Prior to launching Dev Accelerator, he worked with a 100 year old Manufacturing firm, based in Barnsley, United Kingdom, wherein he donned the hat of a result driven Marketing/Sales Consultant wherein Critical thinking and Communication skills, being one of his key strengths, supported him to devise appropriate strategies and communicate the same to the management team.

Umesh, has been an active Investor and Mentor in many Startups wherein his role was to ensure that they get a boost whilst moving from Ideation Stage to Growth stage.

Entigrity is a leading offshore staffing solutions provider to more than 600+ accounting and tax firms situated across North America (US and CA). The company helps small and mid-sized accounting firms hire qualified and experienced offshore staff that work from our offices in India. 

Shawn founded Entigrity in 2014 and today it works with 600+ Accounting firms in the United States and Canada. And have staffed 1200+ associates for them offshore. Entigrity has helped accounting firms in overcoming staffing challenges and building offshore teams.

Entigrity is an ISO 27001:2013 certified organization for information security, along with ISO 9001:2013 certification for Quality Management. Entigrity is also approved by NASBA, as an education partner of continuing education of CPAs.

Shawn Parikh is the Founder and CEO of Entigrity and myCPE Group. In his role, he is spearheading the company operations, cementing the foundations of Entigrity that works closely and exclusively with the accounting community globally. Shawn also oversees service conceptualization, strategy creation, administration, and finance, at the organization.

With over 15+ years of experience he spearheaded the company operations, forging the foundations of Entigrity that works closely and exclusively with the accounting community.  Shawn’s strategic vision and leadership lead to the expansion and diversification of Entigrity in several areas over the years. Shawn understood numerous staffing related challenges plaguing the accounting community.

Over the time, he has provided consultation/advice to 3000+ accountants and helped them convert some of their core challenges into opportunities. 

Shawn’s is a big advocate of small businesses, He says “Small Businesses are backbone for global economy”and that’s where his focus area was always to help small and mid-size accounting firms. 

In Fact the Idea of Entigrity was born out of the fact that Shawn wanted to help small and mid-size firms by providing them access to global staffing and help them compete with Big 4 and larger firms. Shawn really admires businesses that create or facilitate the creation of micro entrepreneurs like UBER, AIRBNB, Urban Company etc.

These Small and Mid-Size firms cannot come to India and build their own offices as they don't have the deep pockets as of Big 4 firms. And also it would be difficult for them to handle local challenges and attract the talent pool. So they need a trusted partner, a partner who can hire the right people for them, understand their requirements and also can handle the data security confidentiality. 

Shawn has been actively involved in many accounting community events and forums and voicing his thoughts on various subjects in accounting industry, some of them are

Shawn is also a co-founder of myCPE. myCPE is Online Continuing Education Platform. Today this platform has 250,000+ members and is a rapidly developing CPE platform in the United States.

myCPE began its eventful journey in June 2019. Since then, it has never looked back! The first ever webinar held by myCPE gathered 12 attendees, a number which has swollen exponentially over the last 2 years to make myCPE the fastest growing e-learning platform in the USA.

Today, myCPE offers over 5000 hours of content covering practically all topics related to accounting, tax and finance. It is also the only online platform that provides Continuing Education for 50+ titles globally. 30+ live webinars are held daily. 

All the content on myCPE is approved by American regulatory bodies such as the IRS, ASBA, CFP Board, NYSED, TSBPA, SHRM, ACFE, APA and many more. myCPE offers the perfect place for Educators, Speakers, Influencers & Content Creators to build credibility and establish themselves as Subject Matter Experts. 

Realizing and owning up the responsibility to make the world a better place, myCPE has come up with an ingenious and path-breaking concept of 1 credit=1 meal. Under the 1 Credit= 1 Meal program, myCPE provides a free meal to an underserved person for each credit earned on this platform. myCPE has donated 500,000+ meals so far.

Entigrity Foundation is a purpose led company where one of core focus areas is to have a positive impact on the society and community around us. Entigrity Foundation is principally engaged in two initiatives - Food Kit Distribution and Children Education.

Entigrity Foundation started Food Kit Distribution initiative in Feb 2019. Since Pandemic they have multiplied their efforts and they are distributing 250 Food Kits a week to underserved and less fortunate. They have distributed more than 10000+ food kits and we are still continuing our efforts.

In the area of Children Education they have taken a pledge that for every remote staff getting hired, they will adopt education of 1 Child. They started this last year in May 2019 and so far they are supporting 300+ underprivileged children in their fees and education.

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