Faisal Farooqui
Faisal Farooqui is an Indian activist, writer and business executive.[1][2] He is an advocate of time zone reforms in India.[3][4]
He is also a member of a start angels network, Lead Angels.[5]
Early life and family[edit]
Farooqui was born in Mumbai, India. He was educated at the St. Stanislaus High School in Bandra, Mumbai.[6] For higher studies, he moved to the United States where he received his bachelor’s degree from the Binghamton University in Information Systems and Finance.[7]
At the age of 24, he married a British woman of Indian origin, Aabeda, and both currently live in India.[6]
Career[edit]
After graduation, he started working at American Management Systems as a telecommunication consultant.[6]
In 2000, he left the United States and moved to India to establish MouthShut.com.[6][8] He is known for introducing web 2.0 in India.[9]
He is also known for popularizing the concept of advertising on rickshaws for marketing purposes.[10][11]
Recently, he became spokesperson for Indian actor, Dilip Kumar, because of their long-standing family relationship.[12][13]
References[edit]
- ↑ Menon, Rashmi (January 8, 2020). "Why some CEOs don't care about MBAs". mint.
- ↑ "Mouthshut.com has built a robust technology infrastructure: Faisal Farooqui, Founder and CEO, MouthShut.com". November 15, 2019.
- ↑ Kanti, Anurit. "Shifting India's Time-Zone By 30 Minutes Will Have Economic, Social, Health And Environmental Benefits: Faisal Farooqui". BW Businessworld.
- ↑ "Let there be more light: Advance India's clocks by half an hour for big economic, social and health benefits". Times of India Blog. June 30, 2017.
- ↑ Saraswathy, M. (November 11, 2013). "Former IIT Bombay team members start angel network" – via Business Standard.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Naik, Sushma (3 October 2009). "Swades, the dotcom way". Express Computer. Archived from the original on 29 October 2005. Retrieved 2020-04-16. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Alumnus credits Binghamton for inspiring his award-winning review website". Alumni Connect- Binghamton University. September 2014. Archived from the original on 4 February 2015. Retrieved 17 April 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Surabhi Agarwal (26 March 2015). "Newsmaker: Faisal Farooqui". Business Standard.
- ↑ Adgully Bureau (2012-07-31). "Opinion, that matters: MouthShut's Faisal Farooqui". Adgully.com. Retrieved 2017-03-08.
- ↑ Mitra, Moinak (23 March 2007). "Chunnu, Munnu left out as autos load dotcom ads". Economic Times. Retrieved 2017-03-08.
- ↑ Seetha (2006-09-25). "Dotcoms discover a new marketing vehicle". DNA India. Retrieved 2020-04-16.
- ↑ Hindi, TV9 (July 7, 2021). "Dilip Kumar Social Media : कौन हैं फैसल फारूकी जो हर पल देते थे दिलीप कुमार की हेल्थ से जुड़ी जानकारी, जानिए क्या है एक्टर से रिश्ता". TV9 Hindi.
- ↑ "कौन हैं फैसल फारुकी जो देते थे दिलीप कुमार का हेल्थ अपडेट?". Prabhasakshi. July 7, 2021.
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