Our People
Our people are our most valuable asset. Everything about mydala is a reflection of the interests and enthusiasm of its high energy folks.
Management Team
Anisha Singh
Anisha is Founder and CEO of mydala.com. Prior to that, she was Founder and CEO of Kinis (Software) Solutions. Since its inception in 2004, Anisha led Kinis´s strategic operations, transforming it from a startup enterprise into a trusted partner in providing customized e-learning solutions to clients across United States and India. Under Anisha´s solid leadership and direction, Kinis has achieved double-digit growth over the past years.
Apart from successfully planning and directing initiatives for Kinis, Anisha is also an active participant in various conferences across US and India. Most recently, Anisha successfully presented a paper on "Training and Workforce Planning in Construction Industry Through E-learning and IT Management Systems,"at INCITE - ITCSED 2006, World Conference on IT in Design & Construction held at New Delhi, India. She is currently on the board of Indus Women Entrepreneurs, a platform for South Asian women leaders in the US.
Anisha has a Masters degree in political communication, as well as an MBA in Information Systems from American University in Washington DC.
Arjun Basu
Prior to joining mydala.com in July 2009, Arjun was a Director at Capital Fusion Partners, where he focused on promoting new businesses and raising capital. Prior to that, Arjun was a Senior Portfolio Manager, Investments for Capital One Bank where he managed a $6+ billion portion of a $24+ billion multi strategy investments portfolio since 2004. His investment focus was primarily on commercial real estate bonds (CMBS), ABS, and direct investments in commercial real estate and financial technology businesses.
From 2000 to 2003, Arjun was a Senior Associate at Capital One, where he was part of a team responsible for raising funding for the various lines of businesses in the asset backed and unsecured markets. He also worked on due diligence and funding of new business ventures using a combination of asset backed funding and private equity.
In 1999-2000, Arjun co-founded and raised venture capital funding for a South Asia centric financial services business, (nominated by McKinsey as top Indian business startup). While at business school, Arjun interned as a summer associate at Merrill Lynch where he was focused on technology equity research. From 1993 to 1997, Arjun was Director, BAPL (holding company of Engineers Combined/Build India Construction Limited), a South Asia centric engineering consulting, infrastructure/real estate development and construction management firm.
Arjun received an MBA in Finance from Northeastern University and a Bachelor in Engineering from Mangalore University.
Ashish Bhatnagar
Prior to joining mydala.com, Ashish was Director Engineering for ibibo.com where he was one of the founding members. He was responsible for the product architecture and was a core team member in defining the overall vision and strategy for the business. Prior to ibibo, Ashish worked as Head of procurement Automation for Bechtel, the world's leading EPC Company. While at Bechtel, he headed large complex procurement automation over web environment and on client server technology.
From 2002-2005, he was a Senior Project Manager with IIS , where he was heading large size complex Government projects. Prior to that, Ashish worked with HCL Technologies and was involved in building and architecting customized product solution for various clients in the field of Web and Client server. From 1997-2000 Ashish worked with Venture Infotek where he designed solution for Credit Card Manufacturing system and implemented it for various clients.
Ashish did his Bachelors in Engineering (Electronics) from Delhi College of Engineering and has also done his Master in Computer Applications and Business Administration . He has also done various certifications as Microsoft Solution Provider, Six Sigma Yellow Belt Certification and training from Harvard Business School.
Our team includes:
Rahul Basu (Adviser)
Rahul is consultant to and angel investor in startups and small companies. An alumni of IIM Ahmedabad, Rahul Basu has many years of experience in starting new businesses and in structuring deals for investment, acquisition and divestment; he has worked in a variety of sectors including banking & financial services, energy, telecoms and outsourcing. Rahul was one of the initial management team of Firstsource Solutions Limited and was its CFO and headed its consumer debt collections business unit. Rahul was the CEO of Broadband Solutions Private Limited, an internet data center startup.
Public Relations: Gutenberg Communications PR
Lawyers: PHA, Advocates (Formed by the merger of the practices of Paras Kuhad & Associates (PKA) and Hemant Sahai Associates (HSA)
Investors: Several prominent players in business, internet commerce and venture capital