Mr Kumar Vembu, Founder & CEO, GoFrugal Technologies

Mr Kumar Vembu is the Founder & CEO of GoFrugal Technologies since Nov. 2004. GoFrugal Technologies specializes in retail, retail distribution and supply chain management solutions. GoFrugal solutions integrate computing, Web 2.0, mobile and SMS technologies to provide comprehensive automation and collaboration among the entire trade and supply chain ecosystem including suppliers, customers, partners, service providers, franchisor, franchisee, among others.

In a short span of 6 years, GoFrugal has established itself as the leader in retail business management solutions for the micro, small and medium enterprises in India.

Mr Kumar is a co-founder of Zoho Corporation and was the President & COO of the company from its inception since end of 2004. He has more than 20 years of experience in solution architecture, software engineering, product management in embedded systems, telecom and data networking, network management, retail and supply chain management. Prior to Zoho Corporation, he co-founded Vembu Systems.

Earlier in his career, he has worked in the USA for Qualcomm & Intel Corporation and in India for HCL - Hewlett Packard and the TeNet group and at the Indian Institute of Technology (Madras).

Mr Kumar completed his B.E in Electronics and Communication from A.C. College of Engineering and Technology, Karaikudi.