{"id":34,"date":"2006-09-21T15:07:08","date_gmt":"2006-09-21T15:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/radio\/?p=34"},"modified":"2012-08-16T12:02:57","modified_gmt":"2012-08-16T12:02:57","slug":"the-kiruba-show-xerago-ceo-ganesh-mandalam-on-success-secrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/radio\/2006\/09\/21\/the-kiruba-show-xerago-ceo-ganesh-mandalam-on-success-secrets\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kiruba Show: Xerago CEO Ganesh Mandalam on Success Secrets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Xerago CEO Ganesh Mandalam reveals success secrets. Ever wonder if all successful CEOs come with MBAs in hand? Do successful CEOs even have time to fall in love or do they spend every waking hour working or thinking about work? What does it take to make it in the competitive world of online advertising and marketing business? Listen to this episode as we get upclose and personal with Ganesh Mandalam, founder and CEO of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xerago.com\">Xerago<\/a>, and get his to answer all these questions and more.<\/p>\n<p>Xerago is a pioneering digital marketing solutions and customer management consultancy that offers business and technology solutions to companies interested in improving their customer acquisition and retention.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ganesh began his career in advertising at TakeWings Advertising agency and, briefly, with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ogilvy.com\/\">Ogilvy &amp; Mather<\/a> before turning to entrepreneur with 3<sup>rd<\/sup> Agenda, one of India\u2019s pioneers in web commerce (way back in 1997). Two years later, he sold 3<sup>rd<\/sup> Agenda to SSI Technologies (which has changed its name twice since then: First to Scandent, and now Cambridge Solutions Ltd.) and continued being its CEO till 2001.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the interim, he also co-founded BrideOverTW, a pureplay online advertising agency that still continues to function. In 2002, SSI decided to shut down 3<sup>rd<\/sup> agenda as part of its restructuring, and that\u2019s when Ganesh founded Xerago, which rightly means \u2018Second coming\u2019. Since then, there\u2019s been no looking back as Xerago has attracted big ticket clients. Currently, the company is 100 people strong.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In this freewheeling interview, Ganesh talks about his company, his business model and his interests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xerago CEO Ganesh Mandalam reveals success secrets. Ever wonder if all successful CEOs come with MBAs in hand? Do successful CEOs even have time to fall in love or do they spend every waking hour working or thinking about work? What does it take to make it in the competitive world of online advertising and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ceo","category-cxo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}