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
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 & 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.
Co-Founder & CTO
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!
Chief Customer Officer
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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"
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.
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.
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.