{"id":1643,"date":"2018-03-11T17:57:26","date_gmt":"2018-03-11T17:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.icf.org.in\/?page_id=1643"},"modified":"2018-03-11T17:57:26","modified_gmt":"2018-03-11T17:57:26","slug":"santosh-panda-founder-and-ceo-explara","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.binastre.in\/theindianetwork\/santosh-panda-founder-and-ceo-explara\/","title":{"rendered":"Santosh Panda &#8211; Founder and CEO, Explara"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-1643\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-1643-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-1643-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-1643-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_media_image panel-first-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"251\" height=\"251\" src=\"http:\/\/www.binastre.in\/theindianetwork\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/santosh-panda.jpg\" class=\"image wp-image-1082  attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"santosh-panda\" style=\"max-width: 100%; height: auto;\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.binastre.in\/theindianetwork\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/santosh-panda.jpg 251w, http:\/\/www.binastre.in\/theindianetwork\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/santosh-panda-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 251px) 100vw, 251px\" \/><\/div><div id=\"panel-1643-0-0-1\" class=\"widget_text so-panel widget widget_custom_html panel-last-child\" data-index=\"1\" ><div class=\"textwidget custom-html-widget\"><div class=\"mentor-name\">SANTOSH PANDA<\/div>\n<div class=\"mentor-designation\">Founder and CEO, Explara<\/div>\n<p class=\"mentor-popup-description\">After an initial attempt to study medical and being unsuccessful, Santosh did an engineering in Industrial & Production. Always willing to do something different and think differently, he picked up a career in software engineering soon after completing Industrial engineering degree. The dot-com boom gave a flying start to the career and later on, he got opportunity to develop\/lead mostly B2B products for FTSE 100 companies and startup in London, Helsinki, Los Angeles and Bangalore. <\/p>\n<p class=\"mentor-popup-description\">The opportunity to live globally and work for global products\/companies further influenced the passion to entrepreneurship. That passion is what drives him today in building a world class 'Event Platform : ticketing-registration, event communities and event apps in one place'. <\/p>\n<p class=\"mentor-popup-description\">The dream to live hard, work hard but build a startup kept Santosh motivated to try this 'third attempt' to launch a startup \"Explara.com\". With 3 years of bootstrapping and then securing fund from renowned angel investors, Explara.com has served customers from 21 countries in 2013.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"pg-1643-1\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-1643-1-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell panel-grid-cell-empty\" ><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SANTOSH PANDA Founder and CEO, Explara After an initial attempt to study medical and being unsuccessful, Santosh did an engineering in Industrial &#038; Production. Always willing to do something different and think differently, he picked up a career in software engineering soon after completing Industrial engineering degree. The dot-com boom&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1643","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.binastre.in\/theindianetwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.binastre.in\/theindianetwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.binastre.in\/theindianetwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.binastre.in\/theindianetwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.binastre.in\/theindianetwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1643"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.binastre.in\/theindianetwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1645,"href":"http:\/\/www.binastre.in\/theindianetwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1643\/revisions\/1645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.binastre.in\/theindianetwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}