{"id":18747,"date":"2014-06-04T22:03:18","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T16:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=18747"},"modified":"2014-06-30T13:11:17","modified_gmt":"2014-06-30T07:41:17","slug":"startup-village-gets-new-ceo-huge-development-schemes-planned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/startup-village-gets-new-ceo-huge-development-schemes-planned\/","title":{"rendered":"Startup Village gets new CEO, Huge development schemes planned!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>#Kochi:<\/strong><\/em> Startup Village Kochi, India\u2019s first mobile-internet business incubator will see a pivotal role change with Chief Operating Officer Pranav Kumar Suresh set to take over as the new CEO of Startup Village. Sijo Kuruvilla George, the current CEO of Startup Village will move to Board of Directors as of July this year.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I am glad to have had an opportunity to help Startup Village navigate through its nascent stages&#8221;, said Sijo, the founding CEO of the incubator. &#8220;The role change will give me a chance to focus on the larger ecosystem challenges and issues faced by the organisation&#8221;, he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Pranav Kumar Suresh, a graduate from IIM, Calcutta (IIM-C), had joined Startup Village as Chief Operating Officer 14 months ago. Before joining Startup Village, he was working with the accelerated leadership programme at the Hinduja Group Company, Ashok Leyland.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am glad to bring the operational skills that I have gained in my career so far to Startup Village,\u201d Pranav said. \u201cI am looking forward to the successful implementation our key operational targets for 2016. He added.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kris_Gopalakrishnan\" target=\"_blank\">Kris Gopalakrishhan<\/a>, Chief Mentor of Startup Village said Pranav&#8217;s operational blueprint for the incubator had been approved by the Board for implementation and he will be given full freedom to execute them.<\/p>\n<p>The objective is to make Startup Village one of the world\u2019s top 10 destinations for start-ups. In the next two years, Startup Village will witness huge developments such as setting up the Fab Labs in participation with the MIT Centre for Bits and Atoms, Boston; implementing the Raspberry Pi programme for schoolchildren, bringing in new people on board, executing the seed fund programme, rolling out the Startup Village App, setting up Boot camps in 500 colleges etc. The infrastructure facility will be increased to 3,00,000 sq ft from the existing 15,000 sq ft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#Kochi: Startup Village Kochi, India\u2019s first mobile-internet business incubator will see a pivotal role change with Chief Operating Officer Pranav Kumar Suresh set to take over as the new CEO of Startup Village. Sijo Kuruvilla George, the current CEO of Startup Village will move to Board of Directors as of July this year. &#8220;I am [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":18752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163,5],"tags":[464,395],"class_list":["post-18747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-startups-technology","category-technology","tag-ernakulam","tag-startup-village"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18747"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}