User:Pankaj Dube/sandbox

Pankaj Dube -Pankaj Dubey is a board member and Cofounder of Power Global PBS. He is also CEO and Managing Director India for Power Global.

Pankaj was born in Varanasi on 3rd November 1967

He is a TEDx speaker and a well-established name in the Indian industry having contributed significantly to Yamaha, Intex, Hero and Polaris. In his last position as Managing Director of Polaris India (2011-2020, Mr Dubey established the Indian startup operation of the 100% subsidiary of a Fortune 500 company, Polaris Inc. He was the first employee and now they have 200+ employees and a profitable business in India by creating a luxury brand which is considered utility brand internationally. His primary focus in the South Asian market was India, his secondary focus being Tajikistan and Kazakhstan. He is credited with the introduction of Indian Motorcycles, All Terrain Vehicles (ATVs) &amp; snow scooters in India. He was also instrumental in the turnaround of Yamaha India (2007-2010) and introduction of Yamaha motorcycles R15,FZ,SZ, Fazer, R1, FZ1 as the National Business Head. He is also a venture partner at Guidant LLP. He started the mobile business of Intex Technologies (2005-2007) as Business Head, besides handling Sales &amp; Marketing for IT hardware peripherals and electronics business. He has led 3 startup operations, Polaris India (ATVs, snow scooters and motorcycles), Eicher Polaris (Small rural car) and Intex mobile (Handset). He was also the CEO of joint venture of Eicher &amp; Polaris (2016-2020) where an innovative product, a car cum pick-up van cum generator named Multix was launched. He has rich experience of working closely with American, Japanese, Chinese &amp; German stakeholders and he has been board of Director for nearly 4 1/2 years at the joint venture of leading Indian automobile Eicher Motors (Royal Enfield motorcycle) and Polaris Inc. And for 9+ Years as board of Director and Managing Director at Polaris India, a 100% subsidiary of Polaris Inc., a Fortune 500 company.

He is a management graduate from Monirba, University of Allahabad and an alumnus of IIM Kolkata (one-year Program on Leading &amp; Managing). He has also completed a Global Leadership course from Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, US.

He has a considerable following on social media including LinkedIn with 30+K followers, verified on Instagram (verified) with 34+K followers, Twitter 5K+ and FB with 5k (verified) friends. He is a key opinion leader amongst the youth of the country due to motivational and business talks that he delivers in premium engineering and management colleges across the country. He has spoken at various top forums including CIIs, PHD Chamber of Commerce, Assocham,

He is considered to be a key opinion leader amongst the youth of the country due to the guest lectures &a motivational talks that he delivers in engineering and management colleges across the country including IIT’s and IIM’s. He is on the advisory board of various Universities in India. He believes that India can progress and achieve its economic growth only through motivating and challenging the youth of the country.

He is well connected with top bureaucrats, leading industrialists, channel partners, industry leaders, media, Bollywood stars and celebrities. Many Indian celebrities follow