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Bhavin Turakhia

- Founder & CEO, Directi
- CEO, ResellerClub / .pw / LogicBoxes / Answerable.com

Bhavin was Directi's founding CEO, and is responsible for the exponential growth of Directi from a startup in 1998 to a global web products company with over 6 businesses, 20+ products, 500+ employees and millions of global customers. Under his leadership, ResellerClub and LogicBoxes have become industry leaders in their respective verticals, and Directi has consistently featured amongst the fastest growing tech companies in Asia by Deloitte and Touche. He continues to manage the Vision, Strategy, Engineering and Operations of ResellerClub, LogicBoxes, .pw, Answerable.com and WebHosting.Info.

Bhavin is the chief architect of the .pw social communication platform, OrderBox, and various other products and services provided through ResellerClub and LogicBoxes. He has authored several technology patents. He concieved and launched CodeChef - a leading coding competition platform. He is also responsible for Directi's community evangelism efforts such as TechCamp.

In 1998, at the age of 18, while in college, he founded Directi, with a focus to develop volume based Web Products and Services for a global audience. Having spent his school and college years in developing software, building web applications, and consulting companies, he brings to Directi, a deep understanding of the Web Services Industry, a strong technical background, a keen business sense, and most importantly, an unquenchable ambition for growth.

Bhavin is a respected entity in the Web 2.0 landscape, and a frequent speaker at various seminars, tech conferences and colleges. He also serves as a technical advisor to the local CyberCrime Investigation Cell. He has won several awards, including the Entrepreneur of the year award in 2005. Bhavin was former chairman for the Global ICANN Accredited Registrars Constituency for two consecutive terms.


Divyank Turakhia

- Co-founder & President, Directi
- CEO, Skenzo / BigJumbo

Divyank Turakhia

Divyank co-founded Directi and oversees the day-to-day global operations and vision of Directi's traffic monetization business. He has been chiefly responsible for transforming Skenzo from startup mode to one of the world's leading traffic monetization companies within a short span of 2 years. He also setup Directi's China presence.

Divyank has a very strong technology background. He is respected as an innovator in the field of web services, and has contributed articles to both technical journals and industry magazines. He is a frequent speaker at various industry conferences and workshops and has been invited to speak on entreprenurship at well known universities in USA, India and China.

In his role, Divyank has been instrumental in engineering advanced products and solutions in the field of traffic monetization, context analysis, semantic mapping and data security. His patent-pending traffic optimization algorithms power the Skenzo platform, and were responsible for making Skenzo the #1 fastest growing domain parking company worldwide for 2006 & 2007.

Divyank started his career at the age of 14 through internet consulting for large businesses. In 1998, at the age of 16, he co-founded Directi. In 2008, Financial Express featured Divyank as one of India's “New Business Leaders". In 2007, he was featured in the Young Achievers List by Society Magazine. In 2006, Divyank featured in the list of Asia's Top Young Entrepreneurs for 2006 by BusinessWeek Magazine. Over the years he and Bhavin have been featured in several global and regional publications such as CNBC, Business Standard, Money Today, DD Metro, Economic Times, Times of India, India Today, Education Times, Indian Express, Rediff.com, Express Computers etc.