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Nirav Mehta
Chairman / Chief Mentor |
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Ajay Shanghavi
Director
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Management Team
Magnet's team shares a vision to build a world-class organization based on strong core values to influence the future technologies and provide solutions to individual and organizational challenges across all the spheres of society.
We want to build Magnet as one of the leading companies in its area of expertise. We are strong believers in the spirit of enterprise and consider Magneteers their biggest asset. We strongly believe in fostering leadership in all key areas - business leadership, customer leadership and people leadership.
Nirav Mehta
Chairman / Chief Mentor
Nirav Mehta is the founder director of Magnet and has shaped the company's growth since May 1999. Under Nirav's exemplary leadership, the company has grown from a four people single technology unit to more than fifty people multiple technology organization. He shares responsibility for Magnet's day-to-day operations with Ashok Karania.
Nirav is gearing Magnet for the next level of growth after successfully meeting challenges over the last 5 years including Dot Com bust, September 11 backlash etc. He is primarily responsible for charting company's technology vision, research areas, strategic planning and marketing efforts. A programmer by heart and an entrepreneur by profession, Nirav brings to Magnet a explosive blend of creativity and strong analytical mind.
Nirav has special acumen to blend business objectives with tangible profitable solutions for clients. His passionate commitment and personal involvement ensure that Magnet continues to provide agile, robust and innovative solutions. He believes in the ancient Indian saying "Client Is God".
While not attending conferences or lecturing as speaker, he can be found brainstorming with customers, developers and community members for radical ideas for future. Nirav has several firsts to his credit.
Nirav has featured in magazines and publications like Indian Management, Linux For You, Living Computers and Teens Today. His high profile visit to Microsoft HQ to meet Bill Gates was extensively covered on India's leading Hindi News Channel, Aaj Tak. His work has been published in publications like Linux For You, Teens Today, JAM, The Official PHP-GTK Website etc. He has featured as a speaker at Linux Bangalore, ACM, Symbiosis Institute and Linux Users Group. He is an active think tank of community forums like Linux Users Group Mumbai and coordinator of Gujarati Localization of GNOME, KDE and OpenOffice.
Nirav graduated from Narsee Monjee College in April 2000 with specialization in Accountancy. He completed his postgraduate diploma in software technology from National Center for Software Technology, Mumbai in 2002.
Ajay Shanghavi
Director
Mr. Ajay Shanghavi is a an Engineer with Marketing Management qualification. He has more than 20 years of experience in managing businesses in Engineering Manufacturing Companies, International Trading, Media and IT Companies. Mr. Shanghavi has been working as Group Director with Comcraft Group for past 17 years. He is currently on Board of several companies in India representing Comcraft Group.
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