Vikram Upadhyaya

Current

Founding Director at TiE Japan-Tokyo Chapter
Member at Indian Angel Network
Board Member at TurboLinux India

Co-Founder at Merinews.com
President&CTO at I.A.P.

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Past

Chief Mentor at Voice Of India
Board Member at Team Pasona
Consultant at NTTDATA Corporation

Education

The University of Tokyo
Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya
Boys High School

Recommended

5 people have recommended Vikram

Connections

210 connections

Industry

Internet

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Vikram Upadhyaya’s Summary

Vikram is having diversified experience in IT & Consulting Industry: from Japanese Projects Offshoring to Global Corporate Strategy and New Ventures Turnaround for the Japan-India Cross Border space .

The future Internet Business Modelling.

Vikram Upadhyaya’s Specialties:

New Venture Turnaround, Venture Catalyst, Start-up Mentor,
Indo-Japanese Business Operations and Building best ROI by leveraging on growing Indian Economy.
Internet Business Modelling.
Japanese Project Offshoring.
Brandbuilding for Indian/Japanese Market.

Vikram Upadhyaya’s Experience

Founding Director

TiE Japan-Tokyo Chapter

(Information Services industry)

July 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)

Heading the Mentoring Group & Focusing on the Cross Border Entrepreneurship.
TiE Japan-Tokyo Chapter(TJTC): is a representation of TiE Global in Japan Kanto Area.TJTC will Provide positive leadership role models & Emphasize value-creation through transparent entrepreneurs ecosystem.
TiE is worlds biggest Not-For-Profit Entrepreneurs Organization.
Member

Indian Angel Network

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Financial Services industry)

September 2007 — Present (1 year 11 months)

Active Member of Indian Angel Network.
IAN is a group of Angel investors interested in investing in early stage businesses, which have a potential to create disproportionate value. The members of the band have prior entrepreneurial and/or strong operational experience that they wish to bring to early stage businesses. They share a passion to enable more early stage businesses to create scale and value.
Band of Angels is open to investing in diverse range of businesses including IT products and services, Retail, Specialized BPO, Healthcare, Media and entertainment, etc. The focus will be on seed stage investments.
Board Member

TurboLinux India

(Partnership; 11-50 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)

March 2006 — Present (3 years 5 months)

Corporate Governance,Building RoadMap for TurboLinux Products in the Indian Market. Strategy Guidelines for Market Entry,Brand Building, PAN India Sales as well as business plan
Co-Founder

Merinews.com

(Internet industry)

December 2005 — Present (3 years 8 months)

Merinews.com is India's Premiere News Portal based on the concept of Citizen Journalism. The common citizens who want to share the happenings around them with the rest of the world report the News. The viewers comment on the news articles, rate the articles, and interact with the Citizen Journalist on the same platform.
President&CTO

I.A.P.

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2000 — Present (9 years 7 months)

Heading I.A.P.'s Japan Operations as President & CTO. I.A.P. is a Japanese Software Development, Consulting and IT solutions Company focused for the Indo-Japanese market.