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Vinay Chhajlani

Founder and Director

A graduate in Electrical & Electronics Engineering, topper of the1984 batch from BITS Pilani and MS in Printing Technology from Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), New York, Mr. Vinay Chhajlani started his career in 1986 as a planning executive with Semline Inc. a leading printing company in Boston. It was these two years at Semline that gave direction to his interest in Information Technology and helped crystallize his entrepreneurial instincts. Vinay started SUVI in 1988.Vinay Chhajlani - Founder & President with Bill Gates during the Microsoft Chairman's India visit - November 2002

The World's first multilingual portal & language technology service provider Webdunia.com (India) Limited founded in 1999, is his brainchild. Its unique advantage in the Language IT Space is due to Vinay’s background of software engineering as well a good understanding of the language media.

Under his leadership, Webdunia.com pioneered in the language Internet world by providing Internet services in 11 Indian languages. His team has made e-patra (World's first free Web based multilingual e-mail), e-varta (the World's first multilingual chat), Webdunia khoj (World's first Indian language Search Engine) and e-kamna (World's first multilingual e-Greetings) a reality.

Vinay is also Director (Technical) - Naidunia News & Networks Pvt. Ltd. and responsible for setting up and managing the network based pre-press department involving editors and reporters. The first Indian Language online newspaper, www.naidunia.com was setup under his leadership.

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