16 Indian Engineers without an MBA who are Great Entrepreneurs


15. Avlesh Singh and Ankit Utreja | Co-founders, Webengage

Avlesh Singh and Ankit Utreja are the cofounders of Webengage, a customer engagement tool for websites. Avlesh did his graduation in Metallurgy at Indian School of Mines (ISM). Prior to Webengage, he was a member of the founding team behind burrp.com, which was acquired by Infomedia18 in 2009. He led the engineering team at burrp. Prior to this, He worked for an IIT-Delhi incubated startup called onyomo.com.

Ankit is a design critic, developer, tester and architect of webengage.com. Before starting up, he was engineering team lead at burrp. Earlier he worked with TCS in big enterprise projects. He has more than 9 years of technical experience.

14. Pallav Nadhani | CEO and Founder, FusionCharts

Pallav Nadhani, an MS in computer science who graduated from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, founded FusionCharts in 2002 when he was still a teenager and was looking for a way to make more pocket money. The enterprise, a leading provider of visual web applications and solutions, specialises in making data visualisation components like charts, gauges and maps, and caters to customers worldwide. They have more than 20,000 customers and 450,000 users including a many Fortune 500 companies. Pallav also holds the position of Chief Gardener at Seeders, an angel fund which he co-founded for seed funding technology companies in India.