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Founders in Vadodara worth knowing. Tap a card for the full profile, bio, what they're hoping for, links to reach out.

Kaival Mehta
Vadodara
Kaival Mehta
Operations Lead & Specialty Coffee Roaster · Specialty Coffee Entity

Operator and Engineer / builder, Bootstrapped and Profitable, in Foodtech / F&B.

Building Building systems to optimize specialty coffee production and roasting workflows, with a focus on scalable retail operations in Tier-2 Indian markets.
Hoping to meet
  • Bootstrapped, profitable founders
  • Founders & operators in my city
  • Engaging with growth-stage investors and operators to discuss the future of specialty coffee retail in India, operational scalability, and emerging trends in roastery tech.
  • Strategic Networking
  • Scaling Insights
Siddharth Bhalsod
Vadodara
Siddharth Bhalsod
Founder & CEO · Ritamlabs

Founder, Pre-revenue / pre-PMF, in B2B / enterprise.

Building Ritam Labs: an AI-native growth platform helping SMEs optimize their visibility in AI-generated search responses and become AI-native through website intelligence, content engines, and growth automation.
Hoping to meet
  • Growth & marketing leaders
  • Founder
  • Marketing Head
  • SEO Executive
  • CMO
  • CTO
Nirmal Parmar
Vadodara
Nirmal Parmar
Co-Founder · Helix Digital

Co-founder and Agency, Seed and Profitable, in D2C / consumer.

Hoping to meet
  • Senior hires for my team
  • Founders with US / global reach
  • Bootstrapped, profitable founders
  • Engineering leaders / CTOs
  • Product leaders
  • Growth & marketing leaders
  • People obsessed with AI workflows
  • Others in my exact role to swap notes with
Ashish Bhavsar
Vadodara
Ashish Bhavsar
Founder, Wave Visions
Building

Owner of "Wave Visions", Director of "Inmed Equipments Pvt Ltd"

Developed more than 100 different products including Medical, Industrial Automation, and others. Most of them are under production either at our own group companies or at our OEM customers places.

Specialties: Medical Devices Manufacturing

Mayank Rai
Vadodara
Mayank Rai
CEO, Diosa Forever
Building

C.E.O.-Diosa Forever | ArctikCircle Chief | Go-to-Market strategist | Speaker | MBA, IBS Hyderabad

I am constantly working for sensitising customers with the brands more effectively and generate a holistic business environment.

Diosa - A cruelty-free handbag company striving to redefine the definition of luxury for handbags. Specifically made to cater to the fashion needs of the women diligently working to achieve their dreams.

Amol Chougule
Vadodara
Amol Chougule
Sales Director
Building

Product Management, Marketing, Sales professional with experience across all industrial segments including MNC's, Private, PSU, and Defense in high value industrial capital, consumables & service businesses. My experience spans every aspect of B2B sales and business decision making including Business Planning, Key Account Management, Market and Business development, Market Research, Multi Functional Team coordination, Channel Management.

Work Experience Summary:

12+ years of experience. 
Proven track record of customer relationship management & budget achievement. 
Strong forte in driving business via direct as well as distribution channel.

Specialties: • Strategic- 
 Business Model Implementation
 Business Development
 Key Account Management, 
 Channel Management- Appointment & Motivation,
 
• Commercials
 STP analysis,
 Application & Value selling, 
 Contract negotiations

• Techno- Commercials
 Cost benefit analysis,
 Product / service campaigns 
 Market & Competition Intelligence 

• Technical 
 Product Management
 Technical Proposals 
 Product & Sales Trainer.

Milin Desai
Vadodara
Milin Desai
Founder, ConfabPro
Building

I have experience in diverse industries and people processes, having worked with best-in-class Indian and multinational companies and matured organisations, spanning Export houses, IT Product, Services, ITes companies.

I am an experienced Principal Cofounder with a demonstrated history of working in the human resources industry. I am a strong Human Resources professional with a Master's Degree focused in Human Resources Management and Services from XLRI Jamshedpur.

My expertise include Strategic Business HR partnering, Operations, Cultural Transformation, Organisation Building, Implementation and re-engineering of People Processes, Organisation Design and restructuring, Business Goal Setting and KRAs cascading, Leadership Mentoring, Internal Competency Building, HR Digitisation, Compensation Restructuring, designing PMS module, OD initiatives etc.

I provide Business HR Advisory services to client companies and their Boards. In particular, I offer a unique 'Director HR on Hire, Transformational HR and Business Consulting services.

I work with Start Ups, SMEs and CXOs to help design and deliver the HR Strategy.

A passionate business transformer who identifies and works on grass root issues. Working on verity of the complex issues and finding out innovative/simple solutions, keeping human factor at prime importance. 

After seeing the industry closely, I strongly feel that there is a dying need of professionals who have faced the challenges of HR and Business both and take them together to create a win-win situation and to mentor and give directions to the SMEs and corporations which are not limited to solving the HR problem but to understand the global business psyche and play balancing role.

Haituk Patel
Vadodara
Haituk Patel
Chief Strategist, KreativeLion
Building

Haituk is a serial intrapreneur having more than 12 years’ experience in management consulting and design thinking. He is a Certified Blue Ocean Strategist and Design Thinking. He is a registered Mentor with GTU Innovation Council, Parul University’s Vadodara Startup Studio, ADPList and Micro Mentor (Global communities for world-class mentors.) 

He is a relentless advocate for Blue Ocean Strategy and Business Model Design, and is constantly researching, testing, and identifying ways in which to make strategies as simple and easy-to-use as possible. He has created many frameworks based on various management concepts and uses them in his consulting and training assignments.

Currently, he is mainly involved in the formulating branding strategies for corporate and startups. His past portfolio covers various roles across Business Improvement Strategy, Marketing Communication, Management Information System, ISO 9001:2015 and Human Resource (General). He has taken many strategic initiatives related to Intellectual Properties, ERP implementation, Mobile and Web based application for improving business operations. 

He is associated with various startups and related associations. He has been jury for Business Model Competition in events organized by Baroda Management Association and other programs by Parul University, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda and Gujarat Technological University. He has conducted many workshops on Business Model and Ideation for the startups and enterprises. He has trained 100+ management trainees for their Summer Internship Program from institutes like IIM Ahmedabad, IMT Ghaziabad, Nirma Universtiy, Som-Lalit, Amity University, BK School of Management, to name a few. 

He is an expert in Blue Ocean Strategy, Business Model Design (Business Model Canvas), Value Proposition Design, Design Thinking and Strategy Execution.

Deval Dave Joshi
Vadodara
Deval Dave Joshi
Founder, Deval The Coach
Building

About "Deval the coach "- training and consulting firm 

We are providing all type of training solutions that are specifically tailored to each 
and every institute/industry specific need. We ensure in understanding the business as if it were our 
own. We identify the challenges and create a strategy that turns every problem to an opportunity. 

We make it sure that the strategies we make are secure and without interruption to our client’s 
business. 

In just 4 years of market presence, we have reached from one city to 34 cities, one state to globe and from sole handling 
to automation. This journey has taught us many strategies and ideas to become successful in 
business. 

We are continuously growing in our business by having pool of experts and brand consultants with 
advance knowledge in their field. We apply our systematic and analytic approach that works. 
With  data driven analysis and community-based research, we make sure that our solution should not just 
business centric but also acceptable to community standard. 

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