Bhavin Turakhia

Bhavin Turakhia is a serial tech entrepreneur, billionaire, and CEO and co-founder of Directi. He is also the founder and CEO of Flock, Radix, CodeChef, and Ringo, as well as the co-founder of Media.net and Zeta. In 2016, Bhavin was ranked as the 95th richest person in India, with a net worth of $1.3 billion, along with his brother Divyank Turakhia, according to Forbes magazine. He has been honored as a 2011 Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. In 2013, Bhavin sold four of his web presence companies - BigRock, LogicBoxes, ResellerClub, and Webhosting.info - to Nasdaq-listed, U.S.-based web-hosting firm Endurance International Group, for $160 million. In August 2016, Bhavin and his brother, Divyank Turakhia, sold off their Dubai and New York-based ad-technology company Media.net, founded in 2010, to Chinese investors for $900 million. This is the third largest ad-tech deal in history and amongst the largest bootstrapped cash exits worldwide. Bhavin has received numerous awards and global recognition. In 2016, he was recognised as Serial Entrepreneur of the Year and Entrepreneur of the Year in Innovation and Technology by Entrepreneur magazine. He was also awarded the ETPanache Trendsetter Award by The Economic Times, in the same year. He was also recognised as Bharti Entrepreneur of the Year by the Bharti Foundation & the Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India, in 2005. He has served as chairperson of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)'s Registrar Constituency for two terms.