Mr. Pradeep Jain, the Managing Director of Jaina Group and Karbonn Mobiles, is a first generation entrepreneur. Mr. Jain started Jaina Group – a distribution house – in 1995, a time when, the then fledgling mobile telephony had just started in India. The growth of this first generation entrepreneur is almost simultaneous to the growth of mobile telephony in India. His is a case, where incubation of experience has led to the growth of a formidable entity.

Mr. Pradeep Jain & his organisation Jaina Group are synonymous with mobile telephony distribution business in India for over 15 years. His distribution house had interests in telecom and consumer durables and slowly grew from strength to strength creating the most diversified mobile phones business portfolio and engaging as national distributors of HTC in India & South Asia and Samsung, Motorola and LG Mobile Phones in India.

In March 2009, Mr. Jain laid the foundation of Karbonn Mobiles at a time when India was fast emerging as the one of the largest markets for mobile handsets and the determining destination for mobile manufacturers of the world. Within 6 months of its launch Karbonn Mobiles had emerged as one of the fastest growing mobile phone brands in India. Mr. Jain, as the Managing Director of Karbonn Mobiles, has taken it to a position today where it rubs shoulders with the top national and international telecom distribution houses and mobile handset companies operating in India. Under Mr. Jain’s able leadership, Karbonn Mobiles is today one of the leading mobile phone brands in the country and has been at the forefront of ushering in the revolution of Indian mobile phone handset brands challenging the established players in the business.

It is his ingenuity & strong market sense that Karbonn Mobiles boasts of one of the fastest & highest rate of model launches in India. Mr. Jain as Managing Director of Karbonn Mobiles has relentlessly worked on establishing Karbonn Mobiles amongst top Indian mobile phone brands. Achieving a distribution footprint of over 90% coverage of the districts for Karbonn Mobiles & more than 10 million devices sold in a very short span endorses Mr. Jain’s business acumen in mobile telephony.

Mr. Anurag Singhal, one of the board members and the Director of Jaina Group, is a first generation entrepreneur. Starting his career in 1994 at a tender age of 21 with the Fast Moving Consumer Goods sector, Mr. Anurag grew highly proficient and knowledgeable about the industry, and started understanding all the finest details of the retail trade while handling the distribution of Nestle and Hindustan Leaver Limited (HLL) goods.

With growth in business stature, Mr. Anurag joined the Jaina Group in 2000 and started out with handling the distribution of Home Appliances, mainly the white goods like television, refrigerators, Air-conditioners etc. and Mobile handsets of eminent brands like Samsung, Motorola and HTC. Around the same time, he got the opportunity to prove his mettle by handling the distribution for Philips LCD & Plasma TVs, for which, Jaina was the national distributor.

Being an initiator and a thorough professional, Mr, Anurag has helped Jaina, as an organization, to grow by leaps and bounds in various avenues. At present, he is handling domestic sales, finance, operations and logistics functions of the Jaina group.

Mr. Ashish Agarwal, the Director of Jaina Group, is a second generation entrepreneur.

Joining his father’s business in 1999, Mr. Agarwal started his career with retail business, following the footsteps of his father. There he was responsible for handling the challenging verticals of retail marketing and high end mobile accessories. While handling the verticals for an enriching 8 years, Mr. Agarwal understood the nuances of retail distribution which helped him further in his close association with Nokia and Samsung’s retail distribution.

The year 2007 brought a new vista of opportunity and growth for him in form of being the board member of the Jaina group, wherein he was initially in charge of taking care of the distribution business of HTC and Motorola. Gradually easing into his current role of handling international retailing, Mr. Agarwal is also in charge of domestic sales, Human Resources and Administration functions of the group which has under its umbrella the flourishing Karbonn Mobiles brand.

Mr. Shashin Devsare, Executive Director of Karbonn Mobiles, is one of the most seasoned IT & telecom professionals in India today, with a rich experience of close to two decades. Over the years, Mr. Devsare has garnered tremendous expertise in the areas of Strategic Business Planning, Brand Equity Development, Channel Management, P/L Management, and Strategic Account Management via his associations with companies like Samsung India Electronics and Philips Consumer Communications in the past.

Mr. Devsare is an MBA in Marketing & graduated with Economics Honors. He started his career with advertising agency, Ogilvy & Mather in 1994 and has worked for Philips Consumer Communications & Samsung India Electronics. He has over 17 years of work experience & has been in leading roles in sales & marketing of mobile phones since its inception in India for over 15 years. He laid the foundation for Samsung’s GSM & CDMA mobile phones business in India & was instrumental in driving leading market share for those phones in India.

He has also led the exports division at Samsung for CE & IT Product categories. Till 2008 Mr. Devsare was working as National Sales Manager for Samsung’s IT business in India wherein he successfully achieved No.1 market share in LCD Monitors category.

Mr. Devsare has been trained in advanced selling, negotiating & account management techniques in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur & Bangkok by trainers from world’s leading business development organization (P2K, Johannesburg, SA). He has attended a course in “Finance & Accounting for Marketers & Entrepreneurs” conducted through Business School of University of Singapore.

As Executive Director of Karbonn Mobiles, Mr. Devsare heads Corporate Strategy, Marketing, International Business and Brand License Business functions.