Shekhar Gaonkar & Nilendu Maiti – Petcart – Fireside Ventures

Founder Shekhar Gaonkar pitching Petcart – a startup aiming to organize the Indian Pet Industry through excellence in operations, service and technology Innovations.

website:www.petcart.com
fb:https://www.facebook.com/petcartin/

“In our journey towards better life for Pets, we aim to create happy moments for pets and pet parents in our every interaction,” says Shekhar.” Our vision is to organise, be a leader in providing all-round state of the art Petcare thereby fostering a healthy and happy Pet world. We aspire to become the Petsmart of India as the Indian Pet Industry is currently at a similar stage as the US Pet Industry in the early 2000’s.”

Founders:
Shekhar Gaonkar
18+ years Corporate experience
Telecom & FMCG. Former VP – sales operations, Airtel. Launch member of Hutch, worked in different geographies in leadership roles with Nokia, Airtel, Docomo and Gillette. Core competency – sales /marketing /operations/team management.

Nilendu Maiti – Pet lover and proud parent of birds
MBA graduate with 10+ years of experience in technology and digital marketing. Former digital marketing head with Adecco India. Founded city info start up GoBangalore back in 2010. Core competency – Technology and Digital Marketing.