John Kuruvilla https://in.linkedin.com/in/joh...

is Co-founder & CRO of Kalpnik technologies Pvt ltd. The world’s 1st VR/AR company that is leveraging technology to help Devotees engagedeeper with their faith. He is also Chief Mentor @ Brigade REAP, Asia’s 1st Proptech Accelerator.

He comes with over 3 decades of diverse experience covering Marketing,Sales, Brand building, Customer Relations, Revenue Management,Pricing, P&L responsibility, Entrepreneurship, Mentorship & Investing.

John comes with a rich background in advertising, having spent close to 14 years in some of the biggest agencies in India - J Walter Thomson, Lintas (now Lowe) & Leo Burnett. John has been instrumental in the creation & launch of several successful brands in the country including award winning & memorable campaigns like Hamara Bajaj, Maruti Omni, Maruti Gypsy, Kawasaki Cheetah, Toyota Qualis, Hitachi air conditioners among others. He hung up his boots in advertising after winning a Lion @Cannes in 2000.

As Chief Revenue Officer at Air Deccan - India's pioneer in the Low Cost Airline business, John led a team that revolutionized almost every aspect in the aviation space -be it in Marketing, Sales,

Pricing, Distribution, Route planning, Yield management, PR and brand building. Air Deccan with modest Investments of US $ 1 million became the No 2 player in the Indian civil aviation market in just 3 years and then onto an IPO thereafter.

As Executive Vice President, John was responsible for Marketing for Oberoi Hotels and Resorts worldwide helping deliver record profits for the company in 2008.

Propmart & Taggle were John's solo entrepreneurial ventures. Propmart which he started in 2000 became a leading provider of real estate solutions both online and offline with presence across

India and the Middle East. Taggle however shut down - his first failure which he exited after 18 months. 3 rd time unlucky as he refers to this adventure. John has helped turned around several loss making companies Contract Advertising, Leo Burnett, Barefoot at Havelock, US Pizza & has mentored several start-ups- Oravel (now OYO), Snaptrude,Bookyourtable, WEGOT, ECOSTP, Loginext, Piron, Light App, Treetins to name a few.

As Managing Director of GenNext Ventures, a Reliance Industries sponsored venture fund he led investments in IP rich start-ups in India and overseas. He was instrumental in setting up GenNext Innovation Hub, the Accelerator program and was also part of the Jio team helping set up Jio Virtual classrooms in Rural India.

He helped Brigade Enterprise Ltd, conceptualise and launch India’s 1st Real estate focused Proptech accelerator program and was an advisor to Cisco for their accelerator program. In his spare time John is a visiting faculty at IIM Bangalore, Symbiosis Institute of Management & IMT Nagpur. He is an avid reader of biographies, loves a good game of Chess and on weekends follows his heart and goes motorcycling.