Technology entrepreneur and community organizer
Bangalore Area, India
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- Co-founder and Director at HeadStart Network Foundation
- Executive committee member at Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Bangalore
- Director at Aumega Networks
- Past
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- Consultant at Reliance Industries
- Education
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- London School of Economics and Political Science
- Cotton College
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Kallol Borah’s Experience
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Co-founder and Director
HeadStart Network Foundation
(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
November 2007 — Present (1 year)
HeadStart is a not-for-profit organization that promotes entrepreneurship. HeadStart's stated objective is to bring entrepreneurs and startups and new product companies, prospective investors and customers together. I assist with interfacing with investors, prospective customers, sponsors and media for HeadStart which organizes a yearly conference, monthly meetups across 4 cities in India and is launching an online collaboration platform.
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Executive committee member
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Bangalore
(Computer Software industry)
March 2007 — Present (1 year 8 months)
The Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) is one of the most prestigious and well cited resources for research in computer science. I have been instrumental in setting up and operating the Bangalore chapter of ACM which organizes 'Compute', the annual international conference, monthly talks and technology tutorials. ACM Bangalore has relationships with all the prestigious technical institutes in India including the IITs, IISc, TIFR, NITs and state universities.
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Director
Aumega Networks
(Computer Software industry)
May 2000 — Present (8 years 6 months)
I am leading a new venture in Aumega Networks that is implementing an advertising platform which makes user engagement with advertisements possible and connects advertisements to users' social and IM networks. Prior to this product management role, I set up the UK and Japan operations for the company and have been involved in sales and business development roles for its enterprise product and solutions portfolio on sensor, RFID and NFC based applications in the high-tech, transport and logistics verticals.
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Consultant
Reliance Industries
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; RIL; Oil & Energy industry)
July 1998 — September 1999 (1 year 3 months)
I used to work in the Vice Chairman's office and report to the top management for Infrastructure, Gas and Finance. My work was primarily in planning the LNG business that RIL was planning to undertake and associated projects for liquefying, transporting and using gas in India.
Kallol Borah’s Education
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London School of Economics and Political Science
Graduate, Economics, 1997 — 1998
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Cotton College
Undergraduate, Economics, 1994 — 1997
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Kallol Borah’s Interests:
Travelling, Music, New technology
Kallol Borah’s Groups:
ACM, IEEE, HeadStart
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HeadStart-Compute
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