Hari Trivedi joins Naaptol as President

Company Brief

Mumbai, March 30, 2009

naaptol.com, India’s premier comparison based social shopping portal, has announced the appointment of Hari Trivedi as its President with immediate effect. Based in Mumbai, Trivedi will responsible for overall sales and marketing at naaptol. He would also be initializing lowest price offers and deals on naaptol for its users. Hari’s thorough experience and naaptol’s budding business enterprise would be apt to meet the need of the consumers and sellers.

Hari Trivedi who until recently spearheaded Aksh Optifibre as Head of IPTV business and prior to that Times Internet Ltd as the National Head for e-commerce, is acknowledged as an expert in managing retail, sales and software development for e-commerce. He is famously known as the Godfather of Readers offers in India which has now become an industry in itself.

Speaking on his appointment Manu Agarwal, CEO and Founder naaptol.com said, "Hari has been in the industry for over 24 years and has oodles of experience in E-commerce and E-governance platforms. We are proud to have him onboard and believe his experience will do wonders for naaptol. We are a growing company and we wanted someone like him to pace our operations and fulfill our ambitious targets."

"naaptol has well established itself as a pioneering comparison shopping portal within a year of its launch. The online business in India has a scope to quadruplicate itself in 2 years. Being with naaptol I see myself as contributing to the overall growth of the e-commerce industry. I would like to go for a more innovative approach to double the current Readers Offers industry. It currently stands at 350cr per annum but my aim is to cross 1000cr in 2 years time from now," says Hari Trivedi.

Hari has a MBA degree in Marketing from Indian Institute of Business, Chennai and has explored and touched varied areas of marketing, promotion and business development. He is an avid reader, loves listening to music, travelling and meeting new people.

For further information, please contact:

naaptol.com

Anannya Debnath

Tel: 022 – 6680 9000

Email: anannya.debnath@naaptol.com