Vinay Gupta Co Founder & CEO
Vinay Gupta is the dynamic young visionary and founder of Via (formerly Flightraja). His persistent pursuit to create seamless travel in India led to the formation of India's largest Travel Services Company. In the very first year of its inception Via has become the topmost Travel Company with a network of 20000 agents in 1200 cities of India. Its current annual turnover is USD 500 million. With its unique B2B model and dedicated services to the travel industry Via is creating a silent revolution in the travel sector in India.
A professional turned entrepreneur, he has previously held prominent senior management positions with leading multinational companies in the United States. His previous assignments include consultancies in the Risk Management business with Credit Suisse, First Boston in New York and consultancies with Citibank NA, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley and BMW.
Vinay holds a Bachelor of Engineering Degree in Computer Science from SV University and is presently pursuing CFA from the CFA Institute of America. He is a Member of the CFA Institute of America.
Amit Aggarwal Co Founder and Head of Via Platform
Amit Aggarwal has a background from the automotive industry having worked in Ford and Daimler Chrysler. He has worked as the head of Metrics and Data analytics for their retail website. He is keen about data analytics and metric space and has extensive knowledge of front end technologies.
Amit is a Computer Science Graduate from IIT, Roorkee, where he topped his class and has been awarded the President of India Gold Medal for versatility and overall excellence.
Akash Gupta - Global CFO
Akash has over 15 years of varied and exhaustive experience banking, investment banking, financial planning and analysis. He has held many leadership positions across institutions like Barclays Capital, Credit Suisse, Net2Phone. Prior to joining Via, Akash was Vise President, Investment Banking at Barclays Capital.
Akash did his MBA from Columbia Business School.
Tonney Sharma - Head of Customer Experience
Tonney has an illustrious career in quality having worked with organizations like Anand Automotive Systems, Bharti Airtel Ltd. and Ispat. Prior to joining Via he was the DGM business excellence & engineering with GPI Textiles Limited in Himachal Pradesh. He has 17 years of varied and exhaustive experience in the areas of Quality and improvement initiatives (Six Sigma & TPM) in diverse industries.
Tonney Sharma did his schooling at St. Edwards School Shimla & also has Bachelors in Industrial Engineering from Mumbai University.
Umang Saxena - Head Strategy & New Initiatives
Umang has had an illustrious career in retail banking with Axis Bank. He has 15 years of varied and exhaustive experience in all the areas of retail banking like retail assets, liabilities and customer management. He has held many leadership positions in Axis Bank Retail and was instrumental in starting many verticals there. He was the core member of the highly rated and successful retail strategy team at Axis for 10 years. He has also been an ERP consultant in Oracle Financials.
Umang did his schooling from St. Edwards School, Shimla & has a Masters in Business Management from Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA).
Yogesh Mehta - Vice President Revenue Management
A young, vibrant and an enterprising leader with expertise in selling travel products over the last 5 years. Yogesh believes in constantly refining and executing processes, and utilizing the organization's resources optimally to achieve maximum growth. Yogesh has an in-depth knowledge in all the verticals of travel industry and its integration with ecommerce . With all these positive attributes and with an effective communication as an add-on he is on his path for paving successful horizons to fetch laurels anywhere he goes.
Manish Raj - Vice President Hotel Relationships
With a Post Graduate in Marketing Management and a graduate in Hotel Management, Manish started his career in 1998 and has worked on various levels in Hotel operations and sales. He has been associated with ITC Grand Kakatiya; CCIL, Hyderabad; Orange County Resorts, Coorg; under different roles. He has also worked as Director of Sales with Golden Palms Hotel & Spa, Bangalore; Director of Sales with VCI Hospitality Ltd, Mumbai and as Assoc. Vice President of Sales & Marketing with Best Western India. His last position prior to joining VIA was as Vice President of Marketing with VCIHOTELS.
Manish is a post graduate from St. Joseph's College of Business Administration, Bangalore and holds a graduate degree in Hotel Management from Mangalore University. He brings with him 14 years plus Sales and operation experience in Hotel and Travel Industry.
V. Swaminathan - Head Via.com
Swaminathan has been responsible for large business operations across multiple geographies which include India, Sri Lanka, Philippines, S.Korea, Nepal etc. He has extensive experience in online business, affiliate marketing, network management and new project rollouts. He has sucessfully pitched for and managed sensitive Government outsourcing initiatives for American, Australian, United Kingdom, New Zealand and Indian Government.
Swaminathan is heading Via.com and making sure we are the leading online travel website.
Ramesh Samineni - Country Manager Philippines
A graduate in commerce and accounting, Ramesh brings with him 14 years of rich experience in travel industry in India and Oman. He is proficient in mapping business requirements with proven ability in designing & implementing systems & procedures to achieve cost control & financial discipline and enhance the overall efficiency of the organization. Before joining Via, he worked with Akbar Travels, Shanfari Travels (Muscat), Mercury Travels & ETI Travel & Technologies (presently BCD) in various capacities.
He has been entrusted to run Via Philippines as Country Manager. He was instrumental in setting-up the 1st overseas operations for Via also in scaling-up the volumes in a short span of 6 months.