Founders of Internet Retail Project
Our founders have been delivering eCommerce since the days when selling in India never meant selling “online”. They had conceptualized and executed large number of eCommerce projects, be it managing the online brand stores or handling cross- border transactions, even managing large B2C Auctions.
However, it was realized that how much ever we advance technologically, the benefit arising out of these is reaped only for certain urban educated section. All others, continue to live their life more or less the same way they used to 10 years. The question arose as to how you connect these 1.2 billion people to evolving technology?
Assisted eCommerce was the answer and out of it emerged “iStreet Bazaar “– India First Internal Retail Store.
It got recognition from all over like ‘Start up Project of the year 2014’ by Silicon India, ‘10 Fastest Growing Company 2016’ by Silicon Review, ‘Top 30 Fastest Growing Companies 2016 to Watch’ by Silicon Review, ‘10 Fastest Growing Retail Company’ by Insight Success.
The project was selected for the Summit in Dublin in 2014 as Alpha Project.
Board of Directors and Key Persons
Akshay Sapkal
Akshay Sapkal is Master of Commerce from Mumbai University and is a Accountant by profession. He is a Finance professional with 03 years of rich global experience. He was associated as an Accountant with M/s. BOHARA SHAH & CO (CA Firm). Akshay has extensive experience in taxation, financial accounting and reporting.
Suresh Jain
Mr. Suresh Jain is a Fellow Chartered Accountant (F.C.A.) and has Post Qualification experience of over 39 years in the field of taxation and Finance. He has completed Forensic Audit Fraud Detection (FAFD) via ICAI Virtual Learning
He is Faculty for GST with ICAI, BSE Institute & other Institutes. Mr. Jain has experience of over 30 years in business of Exports Trading & CA Practice in Direct & Indirect Tax. He is also a mentor with Startups and is associated as faculty with ICAI for CA Students MCS & Orientation Training and is Conveyor for CPE Study Circle ICAI
Mr. Jain is serving as a Founder and Director of Pralika Overseas Pvt. Ltd. He is an Insolvency & Resolution Professional, Corporate & Institutions Consultant & Trainer in GST and is practicing in a firm named Suresh Alka & Co. Chartered Accountants. Mr. Jain previously was the head of the group, involved in formation of new business in collaboration with German Company, international marketing.
Ravindra Kala
Mr. Ravindra Nemichand Kala is a Fellow Chartered Accountant (F.C.A.) and has Post Qualification experience of over 39 years with a professionally managed family owned group and in listed companies having subsidiaries across the globe. He has a wide experience in managing International Operations, Transfer Pricing, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Finance operations, Accounting, Budgeting, Costing, Tax Planning and Structured Finance with a strong emphasis on enhancing overall controls and growth in profitability of the business.
Mr. Kala is practicing at R Kala & Associates, wherein he provides SME organisations comprehensive CFO services which takes care of their Accounts, Taxation, Audit, Banking and other fund-raising needs and also serves on the board of Poddar Housing and Development Limited as an Independent Director. He was associated with Reliance Chemotex Industries Ltd as Group Chief Financial Officer, Rolta India
Ltd. as Divisional Director in Finance and Parksons Group, Mumbai as Chief Financial Officer.
Sanjeev Chhajed
Sanjeev Chhajed, a Fellow Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. He has rich experience in Finance and Taxation. He is practicing in Mumbai and advices large number of mid size companies in various fields of business. He is associated with the company as an Independent director for over 12 years.
Meenu Malu
Meenu Malu holds a Bachelor of Science degree with a concentration in Biology. She has been active throughout her life in various business and social activities. She serves on the Board of several companies and as a Managing Director of Inovent Solutions Ltd. – an eCommerce services company. She has also served as a Merchandiser in past for product categories ranging from Apparel to Fashion to Jewellery to Ethnic products. She has been engaged with various NGOs and working with under priviledged children supporting them for education with respect to building samskar. She has worked on several projects with Sh Anant Pai Anant Pai, popularly known as Uncle Pai, who was an Indian educationalist and a pioneer in Indian comics. viz. Amar Chitra Katha, which retold traditional Indian folk tales, mythological stories, and biographies of historical characters; and Tinkle, a children’s anthology.
She is a Yoga practitioner since last 20 years and regularly teachers yoga in a very informal way.
Pradeep Malu
Pradeep Malu, is a Chartered Accountant and an Entrepreneur. He is the founder of iStreet Network Limited (Old name: Principal Pharmaceuticals & Chemicals Ltd.). He has huge 30+years of experience in building and running business right from scratch.
He was Managing Director of the company right from its inception to Jan 2019. He set up a trading business of Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals products in July, 1988 and then set up a medium size WHO standard “Specialty Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals Active Ingredients” manufacturing company in the year 1994. He successfully led IPO of the company in 1994.
The company was manufacturing Beta Blockers and Intermediates of ACE Inhibitors at different locations in Gujarat and Maharashtra. It had approvals/contracts for its facilities from large International companies and performed highly complex chemistry at the plant.
He has transformed the company from an API and Intermediate manufacturing company into a Network Orchestrator company since 2014.
He also acts as teacher/volunteer in Teach India, which is a Times Group initiative to teach spoken English to the youth belonging to underprivileged sections of the urban society.
Surabhi Pal
Surabhi Pal is an Associate member of Institute of Company Secretary of India. She has diverse experience in the field of legal, secretarial and corporate affair with various Private, Public and Listed Company. She has successfully conducted various audit including secretarial audit, Annual Return Audit and RTA audit She is associated with the company as Company Secretary and compliance officer and is fully committed toward adopting good corporate governance practices for maintaining the highest standard of integrity and ethics in all the company affair.