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CoCubes is a venture funded firm based out of Gurgaon. The word CoCubes derives its origin from the first two alphabets of the three words, connecting . colleges . companies. And we are working relentlessly to bring online the 17000+ colleges of India at one single place for campus recruitment and engagement. Our vision is to ensure that each student in every corner of India gets equal opportunity and we believe this is only possible by taking him online and creating a community of authenticated users

CoCubes helps companies reduce cost, increase reach and student engagement. We help colleges in Tier II cities differentiate themselves, get online and be visible to companies, thus increasing placements. At the same time our portal help premier colleges save 1000's of hours of TPO and student time by streamlining internal communication by providing them with mailing, calendar and SMS utilities. Students of registered colleges gain by getting access to quality material and information and being able to showcase themselves using their global homepage link and online video profile.

We are the visionaries of this space and an exciting and growing firm. Would you like to be a part? Check current openings here


Management Team
Harpreet S. Grover
Co-Founder and CEO
Harpreet envisions bringing a paradigm shift in the Indian campus recruitment scenario by using technology to drive efficiency. He believes that companies should engage more with students who should be more aware to make a conscious career choice. He has previously worked with Inductis, a management consulting firm, advising Fortune 500 clients in the financial services domain by using data analytics. Previously, he founded an NGO called BePrepared, which looks at bridging the existing information gap among students by creating an online interactive resource of interview, job and career experiences. Harpreet graduated from IIT Bombay with a dual degree. Beyond work he is a published photographer, poet and an amateur mountaineer.
Vibhore Goyal
Co-Founder and CTO
Vibhore worked at Microsoft Research Centre where he gathered a lot of insight into the vast business opportunities which have come up in emerging markets, filing six patents in his brief stint of 18 months. Post that he was founding member at Babajob, a highly popular web 2.0 based platform which helps low-skilled people get jobs. A hard core geek his areas of interest include security, networking and occasional long drives. He completed his Dual Degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT Bombay.
Manish Mirchandani
Director - Technology
Manish graduated from IIT Bombay with a Dual Degree in Computer Science and Engineering. Post this he worked with Rediff.com for three years on Data Mining & Information Retrieval related research projects. He was the principal architect behind various vertical search engines at Rediff. Manish is a long distance runner who regularly enjoys an under 2 hour half marathon run.
Sanjay Arora
Chief Marketing Officer
Sanjay comes from a multi-disciplined background of over 20 years in Sales & Marketing spanning across Advertising & Direct Marketing, Information Technology and Risk Management industries. During a decade in advertising, Sanjay has worked with Interpub, Mudra Group, Venture Direct & Contract Advertising and has managed brands like Aqua Guard, Anacin, Forhans, Listerine, UTI, Lloyds Group amongst others. In his last engagement at CRP, Sanjay grew Background Screening business ground up to around 100 large & mid-sized companies in a little over 3 years. ‘Out-of-the-Box' thinking has been Sanjay's key differentiator to success and as a serious hobby he likes to collect Ganesha idols in different forms, shapes and colours.
Gurpreet Singh
Director - Institutions
In his 12 years of experience, Gurpreet has been an entrepreneur for half of them. In 2002 he joined the corporate world spending the next 6 years with Wipro BPO. Handling operations initially, he was later responsible for campus recruitment, driving a relatively untapped area which helped the organization optimize recruitment costs besides opening up a new channel for the industry. Penetration up to tier 4 cities has lead Gurpreet to believe that there is abundant untapped talent in this country waiting to be developed. Gurpreet is a Delhi University graduate and is currently pursuing his MBA from XLRI. In his spare time he likes to read fiction, write poetry and listen to music. He also loves to travel and explore new places and cuisines.

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Investors
Raghu Batta
Partner - Ojas Venture Capital Partners
Raghu joined Ojas Ventures in June 2008, after a five year stint at VantagePoint Venture Partners (San Bruno, CA), with an investment focus on wireline/wireless infrastructure-applications and digital media infrastructure. At VPVP, he was a key member of team that led investments in Spatial Wireless (sold for $275M to Alcatel), Widevine, Entrisphere (sold to Ericsson for $290M), LiveScribe, ProtoStar and Land Innopath. He also sold two companies (Kagoor Networks to Juniper and Alopa Networks to C-Cor), as a board member representing VantagePoint. Prior to VantagePoint, he worked for over 11 years at various Data Comm and Telecoms companies in the San Francisco Bay Area in Prod Mgmt, Business Development and M&A at various companies that include Madge Networks, Bay Networks, Assured Access, Alcatel, and CopperCom. Raghu has an MBA from Baruch College, New York and B.E from Manipal Institute of Technology.
Gautam Balijepalli
Partner - Ojas Venture Capital Partners
Gautam has more than 12 years of experience in the technology sector in venture investing, business development and software development. Prior to Ojas, he was with the venture capital team at Nomura (NYSE: NMR), Japan's largest investment bank, based in London. During his time at Nomura, he has syndicated investments of around $60m. He led and managed investments in Compellent (NYSE: CML), Revivio (Symantec) and NetForensics, as part of a team. Prior to Nomura, he gained experience in Business Development at Sun Microsystems and had significant senior management exposure while working on marketing initiatives for Sun's software products. Gautam has experience in creating sales & marketing strategies targeted at CIOs as well as consulting to them on strategic IT initiatives. He has also held roles in consulting at PricewaterhouseCoopers (IBM) and software development at Infosys. Gautam has a Bachelor's degree in Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai and an MBA from London Business School.
Amanjeet Saluja
Vice President - Ocwen Financial Solutions
Amanjeet leads the Quantitative Analytics practice at Ocwen Asset Management. He is responsible for building advanced analytical modelling capabilities for improving servicing and investment funds performance. Prior to this, he was one of the founding members of Analytics Services practice at Inductis where he was responsible for strategic direction setting and business planning of the group as well as building and running analytics operations. Prior to Inductis, he was a management consultant at Arthur Andersen Business Consulting and KPMG. He is a TIE Member and regular writer / speaker in Analytics forums. He is an Engineer from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT KGP) and an MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA)
Nikesh Shah
Business Manager, Europe - Infosys BPO
Nikesh has been with Infosys for more than 3 years now and was heading the Banking and Capital Markets Solution Design team before moving to London to be the Business Manager for Knowledge Services. He is responsible for growing the Knowledge Services practice in Europe and providing strategic direction to offerings that Infosys should develop and sell in this market. Prior to Infosys, he was a Senior management consultant at Accenture India. He is an Electronics Engineer from Mumbai University and an MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIMB)
Rajiv Raghunandan
Practise Lead - Infosys
Rajiv Raghunandan leads the sales & fulfillment operations outsourcing practice at Infosys BPO. He is responsible for driving creation new service offerings in this space and enhancing the domain orientation of the 3000+ people in the practice. As part of this role he mentors a team of business managers, solution consultants and operations managers in driving growth and ensuring delivery predictability of the practice. He has been with the company since its very beginning (6+ years) and has played a variety of roles across the outsourcing lifecycle namely sales, transition, solutions, operations and transformation while being part of an exciting growth journey from what was a small start-up to what is today a large global major in process outsourcing. Prior to Infosys, Rajiv was a management consultant at Arthur Andersen business consulting. He is a managing accountant and a post graduate in management from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIMB)

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Advisors
Vivek Agarwal
CEO, Liqvid
Vivek is committed to exploring how technology can be used to make high quality education and training, available to the billions of people at a cost that they can afford and at a place they can reach. He has had a keen interest and passion for education & training throughout his professional career, and is committed to making LIQVID a world class organization in the area of eLearning. Vivek has done his MBA in 1995 from the prestigious Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, where he majored in Finance and Business Strategy. He is a visiting faculty to the International Management Institute, New Delhi. Towards the end of 1998, he saw a huge opportunity to make a difference in the area of education by leveraging the newly emerging technologies to provide high quality education to the masses in India and eGurucool was thus born. eGurucool raised over US$11 million in venture capital financing and emerged as the pioneer in the field of eLearning in India, combining a unique learning methodology and a huge infrastructure of technology and content creation processes. The business has now been acquired by India's leading education company, NIIT.
Srikanth N R
Head - Human Resources & Business Planning, Altran Technologies India
Srikanth leads the Human Resources and Business Planning function for Altran Technologies in India. His responsibilities include strategic alignment of various human resources and organizational policies and operational structures to support the business plan of the organization. Prior to Altran, Srikanth was responsible for Workforce Management & Global Learning and Development for MphasiS, an EDS company. In a career spanning over 17 years, Srikanth has worked with companies like Infosys and IBM in key contributory roles helping achieve their growth targets. He is a post graduate in Social Sciences from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai.

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Mentors
Dr. Abhijit Mukherjee
Director, Thapar University
Professor Abhijit Mukherjee graduated in Civil Engineering from Bengal Engineering College in 1980. Thereafter he was associated with the Development Consultants where he designed the nuclear power stations for the Department of Atomic Energy and rocket launching stations for Indian Space Research Organisation. He earned Ph D from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 1987. Professor Mukherjee joined Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in 1988 as a lecturer. He has taken over the Directorship of the Thapar University, Patiala since July 2006. His research interests are mechanics of composites, structural rehabilitation and retrofitting, structural health monitoring, and inverse problems of structural engineering. He has supervised twelve Ph D students and fifty-two masters students. Professor Mukherjee has more than 130 publications in archival international journals, and conferences.

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