Journey in images
Some Glimpses
Krishna Pusalkar has been working with me (7 years) and GreyAtom for 4 years.
GreyAtom Office in Powai were Classroom sessions used to be conducted. We stopped Classroom business in Mid 2019.
Bengaluru on Bike
March 2020 - (L-R :: Shrikant Somani, Nishant Sharma and me) Just before the lockdown - We were super active BTL. We crisscrossed BLR on rented bikes.
Cofounders from Customer360
(L-R :: Onkar Bhosle, Mitul Thakkar and me) Ran into co-founder from previous venture at a Government of Maharashtra Startup Pitch event.
GreyAtom on CNBC
Jan 2020 - (L-R :: Ajeet Khurana, Mitul Thakkar, CNBC Host and Shweta Doshi) GreyAtom was featured on Startup Nation on CNBC. Proud moment.
DataGiri - Community
DataGiri was special. This is one of the poster that was in the GreyAtom office lobby. Was fun building it. Did lots of events. Hosted and met some really smart people along the way.
Syntel Days
2005 - (L-R :: Mitul Thakkar and me) Mitul and me met in Syntel in 2005. We were part of same training batch. Must be during one of the outings.
Turban Times @ Campus Drive
Dec 2019 - (L-R :: Shruti Kartha, Shweta Doshi, KVS Dileep and me) This was at SITCoE Ichalkaranji. Putting these turban on was a way to felicitate us. Very unique and hence memorable.
Last Day at Samruddhi Venture Park
Feb 2020 - Samruddhi was a 4800 sq.ft office that we occupied for 3 years at GreyAtom. We moved to a much swankier place. But this place is full of memories.
Campus Diaries - Student Interaction
Feb 2020 - Speaking to selected students at SKN Sinhagad Pandharpur. Good College. Great Infrastructure. Some of the best people that I met on campus here.
School of Courage by Wockhardt
(L-R :: Sunit Sinha (MD Accenture), Zahabiya Khorakiwala (MD Wockhardt Hospital), Rishabh Bindlish (MD Accenture)) "School of Courage" - A 12 Month Executive Entrepreneurship Development Program under Habil Khorakiwala in partnership with Accenture. I was selected in the top 45 amongst 2000 applicants.
Office Outing
Sep 2019 - One of the terraces for football. Wild times.
Connect. Learn. Build. Iterate.
Dec 2019 – (L-R :: Me and Prof. Sudarshan Sutar, Head TPO – DY Patil Group of Institutions – Kolhapur)
Met some really progressive people in the hinterlands of Maharashtra. For a city slicker (esp. from Mumbai) life is NOT “happening” beyond Mumbai (beyond ‘town’).
This is wrong. There is enough purchasing power for Educational products all through out. Discovered this first hand and made tons of friendships for good.
2005-07 Syntel
Annual Day Dance Practice
Sep 2005 - Was in Syntel for 2 years. Danced and won the competition for both the years.
Rainy Night out - Punctured Tyre
2006 - (L-R :: Raj Shioramwar, me, Gaurav Chiddarwar & Mitul Thakkar) Only Pic where I can be seen smoking. Took up smoking briefly in 2006 - 2007.
My Managers
2007 (L-R :: Suryaprakash Alahari, Baljeet Kaur, Amol Patil, Me)
SMART - HCA
(L-R :: Me, Amey Kambli, Vaibhav Patil, Mudit Srivastava) After one of the SIM CATS by IMS.
Interior Design
2002 - I completed a 1 year course on Residential Civil & Interior Design. Dropped out. Didn't complete the 2nd year.
T-Gang
2007 - The training Batch in Syntel. This is on terrace.
2007-09 IIT Madras
Freshers Party
L - R - Vinay Kamal, Junior Batch, Amit Tiwari, Me. Some resort on OMR
Charminar-Hyderabad
L-R Me, Kirtan Acharya and Mayank Batra - Trip to Hyderabad - Purely for eating
Placement Team Trips
L-R Me, Suryanarayanan B & Shiwani Gupta. During one of the Placement Trips from Chennai to Mumbai
2013-2017 Customer360 ININ
Manly Beach, Sydney
L-R: Me, Brett Lee and Mitul Thakkar. Met Brett Lee on the Manly Beach, Sydney Australia. I was attending the Annual Sales Conference for ININ.
Raleigh, North Carolina
L-R: Sangam Angre, Mitul Thakkar, Somnath Nabajja, Pradeep Jaiswar, Lucie DeCristofaro, Chuck Wilson and Me. Lunch outing.
San Francisco, California
L-R: Me and Mitul Thakkar. Met 33 prospective clients for a product. That we ultimately decided to sunset before building.
Going to the Office
Pic at home. With my helmet. Andheri to Powai.
ININ Wrap-up
L-R: Tech Support from ININ Hyderabad, Me, Venugopal Viswanath and Mitul Thakkar. During
ININ Team
Full ININ Customer360 Team
2017-GreyAtom
Late Nights - Deployment
L-R: Jay Trivedi, Nishant Sharma, Mitul Thakkar and me. During late night tech deployments.
Speaking with learners
L-R: Me addressing the students after an infosession.
Super Heroes
L-R: Sangam Angre and Me coincidentally dressed as super heroes.
Studio
In the GreyAtom Studio during the recording.
Golden Chippy, London
L-R: Rohit Ghosh and me at celebrated Golden Chippy - A fish and chips diner in Greenwich, London
Festive Times
Full team during Diwali's Traditional Day celebrations.
Team Party
L-R: Me, Mitul Thakkar and Shweta Doshi
Mess up
L-R: Nishant Sharma and me at Innov8, Kurla - I had over spent on this event.
New Office
FEB 2020 - Inaugurating a New Office at Innov8 Piramal, Kurla, Mumbai
2019-Campus (Rural)
On the Road
Recruitment Drive
Best Principal I met
Inspiring story from SVERI - Pandharpur
MaTPO Event
From Malegaon, Baramati
RIT, Islampur, Sangli
Asta, Sangli
