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MANAGEMENT TEAM
The SportzVillage team consists of people with a passion for sports, with backgrounds from IIT/IIM/IRMA/Clemson/INSEAD and significant corporate experience across KPMG, Wipro, Schlumberger & HCL. It has a presence in 6 cities across India, 2000 corporate relationships, 500 school relationships and a large network of sports lovers, sports sponsors and sports infrastructure providers.

SportzVillage Team:

Saumil Majmudar – IIT Bombay - IIM Bangalore. Professional experience across India & US with Wipro, Founder-CEO at Learn@Home, Founder-CEO at Qsupport and Product Business Manager at FutureSoft (San Jose). Represented Maharashtra in Badminton and part of the IIT Bombay and IIM Bangalore institute Football and Badminton Teams.

Jitendra Joshi – Engineer-MBA (from Clemson University, USA). Professional experience across India & US with HCL and KPMG (in San Francisco). Founder-CEO of Rustic Creations. Represented Mumbai District in Football and was a champion long-distance athlete.

B. Jayashankar – B. Sc from Loyola College, Chennai and then MBA from IRMA (Anand, Gujarat). Professional experience as Account Manager at Mudra, Grey Worldwide and Chief Operating Officer at QSupport. Champion Javelin thrower at College.

Balwant Joshi – Country Head for BSport (Corporate Sport Services). He brings 15 years of experience spanning Sales, Marketing & Operations and was founder Partner of Arena Computer Solutions & Services (Service Provider for HCL Frontline, Patni and NCR). Balwant is a football & quiz fanatic and has represented his school and college in football.

Salim Bharmal – Business Head of Dream Sports Tours (Sports Tourism). Event Management expert brings 5 years of experience in events marketing and execution. Cricket, Football and Golf fanatic represented school and collage in Cricket and Football.

Tapan Siwach - has played Junior Nationals in Yoga, high-school (DAV) nationals in Basketball, & junior state level in Athletics. Both his parents worked in Sports sector for last three decades. Tapan's professional experience before SportzVillage was in the wireline division of Schlumberger, where he was involved in a technology / operations role across UAE, Yemen, China & India. He has done his B-Tech from IIT-Delhi and an MBA from INSEAD.

Sorabh Sodhani - graduated from IIT Bombay in 2003 with a B. Tech and M. Tech in Metallurgical Process Engineering following which he worked on VoIP and speech recognition technologies as a Systems Software Engineer at Phonologies (India) Pvt. Ltd (2003-2005). He then received an MBA degree in Sport Management from the Coventry Business School, UK (2006) specializing in change management and professionalization within sports organizations. Since then, he has been working as the International Business Head of SportzVillage. Sorabh worked as an administrative volunteer during the World Cup of Field Hockey in Monchengladbach, Germany in September 2006. He functioned as an intern at the world renowned Sports Business Group, London for a period of 4 weeks. During college, he served as the Sports Nominee and the General Secretary of Sports in consecutive years.

Meer Waqiruddin Khaleeq - Business Head - Infrastructure Management Services - Meer brings 11 years of experience spanning Sales, Marketing & Operations. Meer was the Founder -Director of Mericomp Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Meer is an avid adventure sports freak and has also volunteered for the 3rd West Asian Games held in Doha, Qatar in 2005 & also in the 15th Asian Games held in Doha, Qatar in 2006.

 
ADVISORY BOARD

DR. GEORGE SELLECK
Dr. George Selleck, Ph.D. [Fallbrook, CA] is a consultant and advisor to SportzVillage. He spent significant time in Bangalore meeting 100's of children and parents. He has helped SportzVillage formulate the Sportz4kidz program. Dr. Selleck has more than forty years of experience as a counselor, educator, author, coach, referee, and athlete. He is the cofounder of Parents for Good Sports, a nonprofit organization created to help parents raise good sports. He is also the founder of Sports for Life, Inc., an organization dedicated to enhancing youth development through positive participation in sports.

PASCAL WATTIAUX
Pascal is currently an independent consultant.

Until recently he was the interim Director of Technology at the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games where he was responsible for defining a technology strategy, launching the first critical initiatives as well as recruiting an elite Technology Team. Pascal is still consulting for London2012.

His Olympic experience stretches back to 1988 when working for Andersen Consulting where he was director of a project for the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville. As Director of Technology for the International Olympic Committee (1996-1999) Pascal was responsible for the co-ordination of the technology departments of summer and winter Games, starting just after the Atlanta 1996 Games.

As Senior Vice-President of digital media company, Quokka, Pascal worked on optimising real time publishing of live events such as the Americas Cup and the Sydney Olympics on the internet, broadband platforms, wireless platforms and interactive TV.

In his previous roles Pascal has been Group CIO at Pinault-Printemps-Redoute, a senior manager at Price Waterhouse and Director for International Operations at Reebok International. He has been located in his native France, Switzerland, USA and in London.

Pascal has a Masters degree with majors in telecommunications, computer science and electronics from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications in Paris.

 
 
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