About

If you ever lose your faith, And stumble in your stride, Remember that the dream you hold, Is your purpose n’ your pride. Piyush is a first genere entrepreneur and the co-founder at RouteGuru – mass market Internet/ Mobile startup with GIS/ LBS focus in India. RouteGuru pioneered landmark intelligent driving directions (patent pending technology),

He embraces vision, strategy, partnerships/ alliances, marketing and client relationships at RouteGuru.

Prior to RouteGuru, he helped in the seamless acquisition of a Norwegian product startup by Accenture India.

He also worked as the techno-business consultant with telecom giant TELENOR (Norway) and for BP (UK) at Accenture Services, Bangalore. Later he shifted base to Accenture R&D Labs to build an innovative product idea.

He previously co-founded Stendek R&D Kochi, an innovative product development startup while studying his Bachelor’s degree at CUSAT.

Piyush is an objective thinker, inquisitive by nature and highly enterprising. He has been an invited speaker at various colleges like NSIT, IIT-Delhi , AMITY, IIM Indore, DIT Doon, LPU etc. and continue to be associated with various other Universities/ Institutes in India. He also extended corporate training around product development, programming etc. to several batches at Accenture.

\ Other engagements
- Organises Barcamp(s) in Delhi region.
- Author at i.t. (National print magazine) as an LBS industry Analyst.
- Co-Author at Pluggd.in – Most coveted Indian blog for entrepreneurs.
- Chosen as the South Asian Steward and an expert member by IFTF (Institute For The Future, Stanford, US)
- Consulting a product startup to set up their business channels in India.
- Led University delegation to His Excellency President of India, Sh. APJ Abdul Kalam.

- Selected by the IT Mission of Kerala state as a student advisor and further promoted as an IT advisor to the IT Secretary of Kerala state.

- Estd a tie-up between IT@School project of Kerala Govt. with the IT Department of Cochin University and initiated several workshop for the 2000 master IT trainers of Kerala Govt.
This initiative was joined by several other colleges later.

\ interests?
Building a scalable consumer business. Philosophy, Writing etc.

\ other associations?

1. Barcamp Delhi – Organizer and Planner

2. TiE Delhi Chapter

3. BOYE – Band of Young Entrepreneurs, Delhi Chapter

4. Startup Lunch – Delhi Chapter

6. Proto.in – Startup showcase Event, Delhi Chapter

7. Institute For The Future (IFTF), Palo Alto, California

8. i.t. Magazine – Author

9. Co-Author at Pluggd.in

10. NASSCOM EMERGE Community

\ other initiatives?
1. Piyush led the initiative of taking IT to the masses. He knocked the door of several ministers in the Kerala Govt. and successfully forged a tie-up between the IT@School Project of Kerala Govt and the IT Department@Cochin University. Later several colleges/ universities across Kerala joined this initiative.

2. He also represented Cochin University Syndicate Panel to His Excellency, President of India, Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam at the Parliament house to welcome him to the University campus to confer a Doctorate degree to him.

3. He was the youngest person & the only student from Cochin University to get selected for ‘IT Mission‘ – a special program started by the IT ministry of the Kerala Govt. He successfully completed the program and assisted Mr. Girish Babu (Director, IT Mission) and Mrs. Aruna Sundarajan (IT Secretary, Kerala Govt.) with his insights on making IT useful for the masses across the state and amassed many appreciations from all the leading newspapers.

You may contact Piyush at gpiyush[AT]gmail[DOT]com. He usually responds immediately unless he is fallen into the trap of busy-ness and multitasking or if you rest in his SPAM folder.