Ankur Garg
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Garg presenting at Asia Liberty Forum held in Kathmandu, Nepal - Jan 2015
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| Born |
6 April 1982 Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India |
| Residence | Mumbai, Ghaziabad, India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Alma mater | University of Pune |
| Occupation | Founder – iForIndia, Partner/Producer – Luv Films, Advisor, Digital Strategist |
| Known for | iForIndia & Luv Films |
| Website | www |
Ankur Garg (born 6 April 1982) is an Indian entrepreneur. He is the founder of iForIndia.org, a social organisation which enables citizens to rate their elected representatives on various performance metrics. He is also a partner and producer at Luv Films. Interested in Governance, Politics, Technology and Bollywood he holds views on various aspects of these areas and is often invited as a speaker and panelist to various events and discussions.
Garg was born in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, where he received his education. He did his Bachelor of Engineering (Information Technology) from the University of Pune and a management development program at IIM Ahmedabad. During college, he interned at GE Capital, Stellar Information Systems, and Perot Systems.
Garg started his professional career in 2005 with Datamatics Global Services, Mumbai and worked on one of their key projects for Inmarsat. Same year, he was offered a position at the Hyderabad campus of Microsoft India (R&D) Pvt Ltd, where he worked for almost 5 years. He graduated from a Microsoft leadership program that enabled him to work in various different roles and teams across India and the United States. Garg was also instrumental in running various different initiatives like the Microsoft Annual Giving Campaign, Technical communities etc. at Hyderabad campus.
In August 2010, Garg moved to the Microsoft India Sales Marketing & Services Group. He was offered a role of Lead – Customer & Partner Experience for Microsoft India based out of their Gurgaon office. In this role he worked with hundreds of important Microsoft India customers and partners.
Garg quit his 7-year long association with Microsoft in September 2012. As his first new commercial venture, he started a film production house known as Luv Films with Luv Ranjan. He then launched a social organisation iForIndia.org to drive accountability in Indian politics in August 2013.
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