About

If you ever lose your faith, And stumble in your stride, Remember that the dream you hold Is your purpose n’ your pride! Hear a voice that’s deep inside Everytime it takes you for ride, Just look ahead and see the light Hoping that it will be alright.

Piyush is a first generation entrepreneur from India, who is crazy about  solving common man’s problems influencing the lives of billions of people in some positive way and in the process of learning.

Co-founded RouteGuru – an innovative technology product to bring GIS capabilities to Indian consumers on web/mobile. RouteGuru pioneered landmark intelligent driving directions (a patent pending technology).

Helped in the seamless acquisition of a Norwegian product startup by  Telenor and Accenture India.

Worked with Accenture R&D Labs building innovative products and served British Petroleum (UK) with Accenture Technology Solutions team at Bangalore.

Co-founded Stendek R&D, Kochi (while studying his Bachelor’s degree) -  an offshore product development startup focussed on serving the MSMEs.

Traits

Creative and objective thinker, inquisitive by nature and highly enterprising. Motivational speaker at various educational institutions like IILM, IMI, AMITY, DBS, IMT, JSS, NSIT, DCE etc.

Associations
- Volunteer for Barcamp Delhi.
- South Asian Steward with IFTF (Institute For The Future, Stanford, US)
- Co-Author at Pluggd.in – Most coveted Indian blog for entrepreneurs.
- Author at i.t. (National print magazine) as an LBS industry Analyst.
- Member NASSCOM Emerge community.
- Closely working with the National Entrepreneurship Network (NEN) Delhi team.

Initiatives
1. With a vision to take IT to the masses, he knocked the door of 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 and trained 2000 IT trainers of Kerala Govt. Several colleges joined this initiative later.

2. Led 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. Youngest person to get selected for ‘IT Mission‘ – an initiative of IT Ministry of Kerala Govt. Assisted Mr. Girish Babu (Director, IT Mission) with his insights on making IT useful for the masses and gathered many appreciations from the peers and media.

Contact Piyush at gpiyush[AT]gmail[DOT]com. He usually responds immediately unless fallen in the trap of multitasking.