TEAM
“Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes… the ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules… You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things… they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.” – Think Different, Steve Jobs
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AKASH OP AURORA
Chief Visionary and Mentor
Akash is a Die-Hard Entrepreneur, Visionary, Executor, Dreamer, Creator, Fintech & Technology Child, budding Philanthropist.
He pursued his dream to be an entrepreneur at a young age and have founded, co-founded, mentored and sold multiple digital stratup’s.
In 1999, Akash advised the Government of Dubai on Internet and Technology and help conceptualize and execute (as part of the founding team) Dubai Internet City (Silicon Valley of the Middle East) from concept to reality.
Today, Akash leads IdeaTree (a January First Company) as its Founder, Chief Visionary, Executor & Mentor where he helps mentor future entrepreneurs and startups together the team of mentors, innovators and founders help build disruptive startup’s hands-on while questioning the 95/5 rule (95% of startup’s don’t last and out of the 5% who do, less than 1% become unicorns).
Akash has attended OPM (Owners Presidents Management Program), MNDP (Managing Negotiations & Decision Making Process) and YPO Presidents program(s) at Harvard Business School and serves on the Boards of January First, ePaisa, POSLABS, Influenc, Scoote, Global Crypto Ventures and SuperNova.
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RAMANDEEP CHADHA
entrepreneur, believer and networker
…is a Technocrat Visionary, Entrepreneur with a DNA of a Marketer and Networker.
With over 17 years of experience managing, designing, and developing software and analytics systems across multiple platforms including Oracle, PeopleSoft, SaleForce, Hadoop and OBIEE. Raman has a vast experience in Business Intelligence and Big Data projects which he has managed for many of the Fortune 500 and Government clients.
As an Entrepreneur, Raman started a offshore development software company for People soft and Oracle in 2001 and has structured a major acquisition of a technology company in North America, with an annual revenue of $250 million by a Asian major.
Today, Raman is mentoring a Big Data Platform and Social Media Mobile APP which will revolutionize the marketing industry and how people share memories through videos.
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NAVEEN KHANNA
engineer, dreamer & executor
…is born and raised in London, UK and has over 15 years of experience in the digital work.
He has extensive knowledge and experience in project execution and project delivery in the digital and mobile space as the founding member at netlinkblue, Dubai since 1998.
As a technology architect at netlinkblue, naveen has managed most of the major client accounts and executed projects using his specialization in area’s like mobile app engineering, brand and digital strategy, integrated communications, and social media and has always been a catalyst for disruptive change.
Naveen has strong experience in the online and mobile space and has catered to over 100+ clients including Emirates Airlines, Jumeirah, Godolphin, Dubai Internet City, Dubai Duty Free, Dubai Shopping Festival, Qatar Airways, Dubai Cares, DMCC to name a few.
At ideaTree, he has mentored half a dozen projects, start-up’s and continues to execute and mentor future entrepreneurs dreaming new ways of building disruptive products of the future.
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Halil Kabaca
entrepreneur, dreamer and codemaster
…is an entrepreneur-minded codemaster and project mentor from Istanbul, Turkey who recently moved to Poland and is getting used the freezing cold.
As one of the youngest Turkish PMPs, he has managed several projects for both government and fortune 500 companies. As an advantage of being a tough mathematician he can code in almost any language and his latest quest is mobile.
Halil is part of ideaTree’s team of international true believers and is the master of converting ideas from scraps of paper to rocket jet fueled apps on android and iOS. He loves mentoring and inspiring young entrepreneurs to realize their dreams by designing and building disruptive apps of tomorrow.
