Goqii
Goqii
CEO and Founder
Vishal Gondal, hailed as the father of the Indian gaming industry, is now a trailblazer in the Health Metaverse space.
His relentless passion for technology, fitness, and gaming led him to establish GOQii, a revolutionary company focused on preventive healthcare.
A strong advocate for innovation and preventive healthcare, Vishal’s work with GOQii is focused on leveraging technology to promote a healthier lifestyle.
GOQii seamlessly blends preventive healthcare with gaming and the Metaverse in a 3D environment.
Vishal believes that the Metaverse will merge the digital and physical worlds, making healthy living in the real world both enjoyable and enriching.
He sold his first entrepreneurial venture, Indiagames, to Walt Disney. His accomplishments have earned him a spot among the top 50 executives in the mobile content space by the
UK-based-Mobile Entertainment Magazine, where he was listed alongside luminaries like Steve Jobs. Beyond his business ventures,
Vishal serves on the General Council of the Tech Entrepreneurs Association of Mumbai (TEAM), a non-profit body established to advance the tech startup ecosystem in Mumbai.
TEAM represents the city's leading technology companies and fosters innovation, collaboration, and policy advocacy.
Vishal is also a member of the Academic Advisory Board at the Somaiya School of Design. This institution is dedicated to nurturing creativity
and innovation in design education in various design disciplines.
Vishal's involvement with the Somaiya School of Design highlights his commitment to fostering the next generation of designers and innovators.
His influence extends into the investment world as a notable angel investor. Vishal ventured into the world of podcasting with his series, ‘Beneath the Force: The Vishal Gondal Show’. Through this platform, he engages in conversations with personalities from various walks of life, offering listeners a glimpse into their intriguing journeys. An avid fitness enthusiast, Vishal runs marathons, goes trekking, and enjoys skydiving. His commitment to fitness and innovation continues to inspire and shape the future of health and technology.
Vishal Gondal’s multifaceted career and visionary approach continue to inspire and pave the way for the integration of health, technology, and gaming, setting new benchmarks for holistic well-being.
Co-Founder & CEO-GOQii UK
Abhishek is responsible for brand development, product marketing, PR and social media.
Abhishek is a fitness product expert with several years of experience with leading global brands like Nike in India, USA and UK, where he led diverse product as well as consumer related roles.
Abhishek is a strong believer in the principle of sustainability and social development and has collaborated with various global Non-Profits organizations on key social projects.
Abhishek is a global trooper and an ardent soccer fan. An avid travel photographer, he loves to spend his downtime taking long road trips on his motorbike.
Co-Founder & CBO - Health Store
Radical in thought, meticulous in execution. A combination of a Sound Engineer, Manufacturer and Entrepreneur, Champ is a Creative Engineer been developing, selling and delivering tech toys since many years. Being the founder of a gadget building company - HitPlay some years ago, Champ has a deep understanding of customer requirements that he uses to develop products at the most acceptable price, and is known to push industry benchmarks on delivery and service. Tennis runs in Champs blood and he's a regular warrior on court. Challenge him and take a set of him to win the GOQii Life!
Director
Srinivasan (Srini) is a Chartered Accountant with over 25 years of experience with reputed corporates. His last assignment was as the CFO of Bharti AXA Life Insurance in Mumbai. Over the years, Srini has gained in depth understanding of profitability and growth drivers and has extensively worked on Financial Planning and data analysis. During his tenure with Life Insurance industry, he was member of several committees of IRDA as well as Ministry of Finance in advising them on complex issues. Srini loves food, music and is a fitness enthusiast.
Chief Financial Officer
Rohit leads the finance and corporate development efforts at GOQii. He is a firm believer in the immense potential of new age ventures. Rohit has a long investment banking career, including various leadership roles, before joining GOQii. He pursued a career in deal making at Jefferies, JM Financial and Times Group. His investment banking career has helped him work with hundreds of companies and investors to get a deep understanding of a company's growth journey, best corporate practices and various financial markets. He is an MBA (IIM Ahmedabad) and B.Tech. (IIT BHU). Rohit's passions include sustainability and social good. Meditation and family time are his daily recharge.
Co-Founder & CTO
Sachin Janghel has 11 years of games and interactive application development experience on various mobile, online, social networking platformAs Chief Technology Officer,
Sachin is responsible for all the technology behind the GOQii Ecosystem.
He is a technologist with broad experience in several fields, PC-online, mobile, embedded, Network, System, Platform and software development and various other technologies.
Sachin has led many development projects and large team of game developers as Technology Director of IndiaGames Ltd, India's no. 1 gaming company, which was later acquired by Disney UTV.
As Director of Interactive TV of Disney UTV, Sachin focused on building business and technologies for Interactive TV platforms like Satellite, Digital Cable, HITS and IPTV.
He enjoys exploring new technologies and loves playing video games. Sachin is a football and hockey player and has represented his home state in national level sport tournaments.
Chief Marketing Officer
Mr Himava Nath is an alumnus of IIM Calcutta and has over 18 years of extensive experience in the FMCG & Healthcare industry in India & SE Asia. He was the Chief Marketing Officer, Cipla Health, the new vertical of Cipla with the mandate of establishing the consumer healthcare business of Cipla and he established new brands like Nicotex, Cofsils etc. Before joining Cipla Health he was Marketing Head - Novartis Consumer Healthcare Business managing teams in India and SE Asia, building Otrivin into No. 1 brand in nasal decongestants, launching Voltaren World’s No. 1 pain expert and driving brands like Calcium Sandoz & Timinic. Himava started his career with Gillette where he launched innovative brands like Mach3 Turbo, Vector Plus, Gillette Shave Gel etc. Then he joined YUM! Restaurants and was responsible for successfully launching the KFC brand in India. He likes to spend his leisure listening to rock music & reading autobiographies of inspirational leaders and is passionate about squash and HIIT.
Master Coach & Head Nutritionist
Leading nutritionist, motivational speaker, published Author of 'Eat Smart, Move More, Sleep Right - Your personal health coach', sold globally,
Luke has been involved in nutrition and fitness even since he graduated from IHM with specialization in food science and nutrition. Luke is an 'International Collaborator 'with the University of Yale,
Griffin - Prevention research center, CT, U.S.A and practices in the field of nutrition, health, preventive and alternative treatment.
Luke facilitates sessions for various clubs, forums, YPO's, WPO's, EO's, Rotary clubs and people groups across the country and globally as well.
He speaks on topics related to health, nutrition, lifestyle and disease. Luke partners with Yale, Griffin - Prevention research center, CT, U.S.A and conducts
educational programs for children and adults in the field of nutrition, health and lifestyle. He has exclusive rights to deliver this program across India and Asia.
He encourages and helps people steer away from conventional medicine and uses natural foods.
He believes in a lifestyle change and helps and coaches people to make 'shifts in their lifestyles to achieve their health goals.
Head-People Practices
Human Capital Specialist, Culture Custodian, Engagement Catalyst At GOQii, Suzaina is working on creating an unmatched culture of delivering WOW and excellence. Aiding this is the blend of her inherit trait of being a peoples-person, post graduation in HR from IIM and practicing HR experience with multinational and indigenous organizations across diverse industries. A techno-commercial HR and a strong believer in creating motivated forces, she brings in demonstrated expertise to build the people capacity and capability at GOQii. She has the experience in devising people directives aligning to business strategy, designing global engagement programs and building high-performing teams. Outside of GOQii, in her endeavor to create a better league of HR professionals, she runs interactive programs for students to bridge academic knowledge and their application in a corporate environment. What keeps her lifestyle pepped up is yoga, swimming, dance and most importantly a positive attitude.
Head of US Business
Jon Binder has more than 20 years of marketing and business development experience in the health, fitness and technology industries.
He works with early-stage companies in the digital health space to develop and execute product and marketing strategies.
Jon has held a number of leadership roles including WellnessFX, a digital health tracking and consulting service where he launched their first consumer offering;
and TRX, where he built and led the e-commerce, media, digital marketing and business development teams helping it become one of the fastest growing fitness companies in the U.S.
Jon has a BA in Business Economics from UC Santa Barbara and earned an MBA from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley.
For fun, Jon enjoys mountain biking, trail running, skiing and being active with his family.
Chief Customer Officer
Marketing Strategy & Consumer Engagement
A passion for brands, mountains & startups is what drives KK. At GOQii, KK is the Chief Customer Officer & also responsible for overall marketing strategy/consumer engagement.
A strong believer in the essence of brand building, KK pursued his first passion for advertising working across agency networks like Publicis, Leo Burnett & WPP.
He subsequently moved into digital marketing to set-up an independent full service agency. Media2win was ranked amongst the top digital agencies of India & has won multiple industry awards.
Besides his love for brands, KK is an avid mountaineer & distance runner. Each year he visits the Himalayas to scale 6000+ meter peaks.
He also runs multiple marathons which help him in training for his mountain sojourns. During his free time, he shares his knowledge across management institutes as a visiting faculty for brand & marketing communication.
As Vice President of Strategy and Operations at MBK Healthcare Management ("MHM"), Christine manages new business strategy and HCIT opportunities at the company, which is the dedicated investment and operations management platform for the healthcare business of Mitsui & CO., Ltd.
A physician by training, Christine has been in healthcare for her whole career. She was part of Parkway Pantai's Strategic Planning and Business Development division and the operations team at Mount Elizabeth Orchard Hospital. Christine holds an MBBS from the National University of Singapore, and an MBA from Harvard Business School
Bala C Deshpande is the Senior Managing Partner at MegaDelta Capital Advisors. Bala has nearly two decades of experience in investment advisory, having started her investing career with ICICI Venture in 2001. In 2008 she joined NEA to set up their India platform where she headed the practice for 10 years and helped NEA US in investing and backing disruptive companies in the mid-market space. Prior to her investing experience, Bala had deep operational experience having worked for about 10 years with well-regarded multi-national corporations in India such as ICI, Cadbury’s and Best Foods.
Her investment advisory career spans both early stage and growth investing experience across multiple sectors. She has played an instrumental role in many innovative plays and entrepreneurial journeys including the first Internet IPO, first 24-hour news channel, first Payments Tech company, several consumer companies that redefined the sector etc. She is an Independent Board member of two deeply disruptive companies viz. Info Edge Ltd and Future Enterprise Limited. During her Board Tenure these companies have grown exponentially, emerged as category leaders and created immense shareholder value with multi-billion-dollar market caps.
She is passionate about Technology and its far-reaching implications on markets, businesses and consumers. She seeks to back and help build disruptive businesses and entrepreneurs who redefine markets and create lasting economic value.
Pravin Gandhi has over 40 years of operational and entrepreneurial & investment experience in the IT industry in India, having promoted Hinditron in 1972 and Digital India in 1988.
He co-founded Infinity Ventures in 2000 and is currently founding partner at Seedfund.
With over 15 years of investing experience, he is extensively networked in the Indian investment and entrepreneurial scene and is an active early stage equity investor.
Pravin holds a BS in Industrial Engineering from Cornell University, and serves on the board of several private corporations in India.
Pravin is a former President of the Manufacturers Association of Information Technology (an IT manufacturers association in India) and was formerly a member of the NASSCOM Executive Council.
He was the President TiE Mumbai as well Global Trustee of TiE. He also serves on SINE, the IIT (Bombay) incubator.
Amit brings more than 20 years of invaluable consumer and business expertise to the GOQii board and will help guide its expansion into new global markets, the first of which will be the U.S.
Amit is widely respected in the tech industry for the groundbreaking advancements he made during his time at Google and other companies.
Amit’s 15 year career at Google began when he rewrote the search engine’s ‘ranking algorithm’, helping engineer the formulas that decide how web pages respond to user input.
He led a team responsible for creating Google Search as well as the core search quality department. Prior to Google, Amit worked at AT&T Labs, where he conducted extensive research in
IR and database programming. Amit is a highly cited researcher, with his work being published numerous times in distinguished journals. Amit is widely-recognized in the industry as a pioneer and for
his research. Fortune magazine named him “one of the smartest people in the tech industry"
Founder of Inclov- Dating app for the differently abled people (Gurgaon)
Inclov is the world’s first match making app for people with disability, and with health disorders to find love. Kalyani Khona graduated from H.R College of Commerce & Economics, Mumbai in 2013. She is an AIESEC alum who is a wanderer at heart. In 2014, she started Wanted Umbrella which is now Inclov. Last year, she raised funds for project loveability on Wishberry.in which was backed by 143 backers. She was also a consultant with the Government of India for their Accessible India Campaign. Inclov is accessible to people with visual impairment and cerebral palsy amongst others. The app matches people on the basis of cure availability, medical condition, level of independence and lifestyle choices. With only 5 per cent people getting married out of the 80 million disabled people in India, according to the United Nations, this app comes as quite the boon. Today, Inclov has 2000 matches and Kalyani has demonstrated early success with two Inclov users getting married in May 2016.
Carer Programme - Cancer Recovery and Rehabilitation –(Bangalore)
Having lost her mother to Cancer and being left alone to make her choices and take her decisions, Samara’s eyes opened to a lot of brutal realities during her mother’s long journey of struggle with Cancer. The oncology ward of numerous hospitals became her home where she witnessed extreme cases and dire situations that were unimaginable. She watched blank refusals of curable stage cancer treatment to those who didn’t have the funding and children who saw hospital wards before a classroom. Consequently, she decided not to settle. She knew exactly which door she wanted to unlock and how many steps she wished to take. That was the beginning of Carer Program. The CARER Program is an integrative cancer recovery program that helps a patient recover from the side effects of treatment and the cancer itself. CARER provides a holistic approach to healing through complementary therapies that target nutrition, movement and mind-body healing for patients post treatment.
Fitness Expert and Youtube Sensation- 'Beer Biceps'(Mumbai)
From being a fat boy where his life was full of 'One more beer' and 'one more cheesecake', no clear goal and more importantly, NO PURPOSE, Ranveer Allahbadia has come a long way. He realized there was no short cut to fat loss and the solution was only through proper diet, exercise and discipline. Today, having a fit lifestyle has literally created a career for him. He is a full time weight loss and strength coach who also has his own YouTube channel called BeerBiceps(www.youtube.com/c/beerbicepsofficial). He is also the present trainer of Tanmay Bhat of the AIB fame who purely by following diet and exercise under the guidance of Ranveer has been able to lose 100+ kgs. Ranveer says that fitness has given him something much bigger than just a career. "As much as fitness has trained my body, it's trained my mind even more" he adds. His mantra is ‘fitness should be a permanent change in one's lifestyle. Not a temporary activity to get to your physical goals’. His advice to one and all is embrace a fit lifestyle 'JUST' to develop as a person.
Vegan Everester Mountaineer (Mumbai)
Kuntal Joisher, a software engineer by profession stood on top of the world (Mt Everest) as the first Vegan. Joisher stood proudly on top of Everest after close to 12 hours of grueling climb. Joisher has dispelled all myths. With no altitude sickness and fit throughout his 60 days’ climb, he has shown and inspired the world that mountaineering can be done on a healthy whole foods vegan diet. He wanted to prove to the world that Vegans and Vegetarians are not weak and that if you have any dreams, including partaking in some of the toughest sport on the planet, it’s very possible to do it on a Vegan Lifestyle. Kuntal is also the only second Indian civilian to have summit Mt Manaslu, the 8th highest mountain in the world prior to his Everest summit. Josher was initially a vegetarian born into a Gujarati family. He would then eat even cakes that had eggs and even had dairy products. The change to a complete vegan came 13 years ago when he moved to LA to study and work. He turned a vegan to take a stand for animal rights. Being Vegan is now a way of life for him. He feels very strongly about this cause and this is not going to waver anytime soon for him.
Adventure Beyond Barriers (Pune)
He lost his sight to Glucoma when he was just 19 but, that did not deter him from living his life. Lively and a happy person, he accepted blindness as a gift of life. For this 39-year-old Clinical Psychologist, life is as normal as it can get for any able bodied person. So much so that he is such an adventure sport enthusiast from trekking to scuba diving to paragliding he does them all. In fact, he took a nearly two-minute flight in the skies as a solo paraglider, becoming the first visually challenged person in India to do so. This achievement of his in the field of Paragliding has reinforced Divyanshu's belief that any disability is insignificant if one has the right perspective towards looking at challenges in life. Apart from Paragliding he has to his credit a successful expedition to Milam Glacier in the Kumaon hills’ of Uttarakhand in the Himalayas among few others. Divyanshu, is now working towards promoting adventure sports among persons with disabilities through his social initiative 'Adventure Beyond Barriers'. He has certified trainers to train many disabled individuals in mountaineering and trekking, paragliding and scuba diving.
