Sanjeev Bikhchandani is an Indian businessman, who is the founder and executive vice chairman of
Info Edge which owns
Naukri.com, a job portal,
as well as the co-founder of
Ashoka University. He was given the
Padma Shri Award, the fourth Highest civilian award in India, in January 2020.
He attended
St. Columba's School, Delhi
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and finished schooling from there in 1981. There after, he obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from
St. Stephen's College, Delhi
St. Stephen's College is a constituent college of the University of Delhi, widely regarded as one of the oldest and most prestigious colleges for arts and sciences in India. It was established in 1881 by the Cambridge Mission to Delhi. The college ...
in 1984. He completed his MBA from
IIMA in 1989.
He is ranked #68 in
Forbes India
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History and profile
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Rich List 2020 with a net worth of $2.1 Billion.
Career
Sanjeev after his PG left a job marketing Horlicks at Hindustan Milkfood Manufacturers (after series of multinational mergers-and-acquisitions, now known as
GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare India) in 1990 to pursue entrepreneurship.
Sanjeev founded
Info Edge in 1995. In 1997, Bikhchandani set up ''
Naukri.com'', jobs portal located on a server in India, and later ''Quadrangle.in'', an offline executive search business. In 2005, ''Naukri.com'' was reported as being India's largest web-based employment site.
Building up in the websites business, Info Edge later launched other classified sites like ''99acres.com'' in real estate, ''
'' in matrimony and ''Shiksha.com'' in education.
He is also an astute investor, having invested in
unicorns like ''
PolicyBazaar'' and ''
Zomato''. Additionally, he is a part of the 'Vision Circle' of FYI (Foundation for Young Innovators) - a shark tank for social initiatives exclusively open to high school students.
He won the
Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2008.
References
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Living people
St. Stephen's College, Delhi alumni
Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad alumni
Businesspeople from Uttar Pradesh
St. Columba's School, Delhi alumni
People from Noida
Year of birth missing (living people)
Recipients of the Padma Shri in trade and industry