Kiruba Shankar

Digital Marketeer, Author, Speaker and Farmer.

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Kiruba Shankar is founder CEO of Business Blogging Pvt Ltd and co-founder of F5ive Technologies. Prior to this, he was Associate Director at Sulekha.com.   Kiruba has authored four books till date. 1) Wikipedia for Beginners 2) Crowdsourcing Tweet 3) Personal Branding Tweet 4) UnConference Kiruba is currently authoring his 5th book titled 'CHARGE: 50 Powerful Life-Lessons from Commencement Speeches'. More info at http://www.Kiruba.com/books   Kiruba loves teaching and has taught at IIM Bangalore, Great Lakes Institute of Management, BIM Trichy, Madras Advertising Club and Anna University. More info at http://www.Kiruba.com/teaching   He is a professional podcaster and hosts http://www.Kiruba.TV, where he interviews global achievers from different fields. BusinessWorld Magazine ranked his blog www.Kiruba.com as one of Indiaâ€'s top blogs.   Kiruba is one of the founders of The Knowledge Foundation, the group behind successful events like BlogCamp, India’s Biggest Unconference on Blogging, Proto.in, premiere event showcasing startups, WikiCamp, an unconference focusing on the power of wikis, PodWorks, India'€™s first event on audio and video blogging. He has also helped in organizing MobileMondays and BarCamps.   Kiruba is a rowing champion and has captained the Sify Rowing Team to four championship titles. He has participated in Chennai and Bangalore marathons.

Technology Columnist at The New Indian Express

November 2007 - March 2011

The column is called 'Insight' and it appears on every Tuesday's edition.

Columnist at Business Standard

March 2008 - November 2010

The column appears every Thursday and focuses on technology with a strong local perspective and a global outlook.

Ex-Board Member at RangDe

August 2009 - October 2010

RangDe is a Peer to peer micro lending organisation supported by ICICI Foundation.

CoFounder at The Knowledge Foundation

April 2006 - January 2010

The Knowledge Foundation is a non-profit body that aims to be a watering hole for sharing knowledge in niche areas. TKF organizes many of India's leading unconferences like BlogCamp, BarCamps, WikiCamp, PodWorks, FailCamp, Mobile Mondays, Open Coffee Clubs and Proto.in, one of India's biggest entrepreneurship events.

Co-Founder at Proto.in

2006 - January 2010

Was involved right from the start, including brainstorming and finalizing the name 'Proto'. Co-ordinated the structure of this premier entrepreneurship event with core team members. Hosted an edition of Proto.in at IIT Delhi.

Associate Director at Sulekha.com

November 2005 - November 2006

I was responsible for the Social Media Division of Sulekha.com and headed a team. Closely worked with the technology team to develop better products and increase traffic to the site.

Senior Executive, Portals at Sify

1999 - 2003

Took complete ownership of the Technology portal at Sify.com. Was instrumental in signing up important deals with CNET, ZDNet, CHIP Magazine and the Jasubhai Group.

CEO at Business Blogging Pvt Ltd

September 2007

Business Blogging Pvt Ltd helps corporates leveage the power of social media through blogging, podcasting and wikis.

Founder Director at F5ive Technologies

January 2002

F5ive Technologies is a full fledged web design and development company. As the founder Director, I take care of marketing and business development.

Bangalore University

1991 – 1995

Bachelor of Engineering

Farming, Unconference, Comics, Antiques.