Vaitheeswaran Kothandaraman

Bangalore, India

Founder & CEO

I am enjoying my stint as an entrepreneur and a pioneer. I feel really happy that my pioneering efforts in e-commerce since 1999 have helped create a fast growing internet retail industry today in India. After spending 14 years in the Murugappa Group and Wipro Infotech in various business development roles, I was bitten by the internet bug and co-founded Fabmart.com in 1999 - India's first pure-play online retail company. In 2002 I co-founded Fabmall - India's first integrated online and offline retail company. Fabmall went on to become one of India's largest grocery retail chains and was subsequently acquired by the Aditya Birla Group and the Fabmall stores in various cities in South