SPRING 2005 SEMINAR SERIES
Entrepreneurship in Asian High-Tech Industries

Avnish Bajaj

Country Manager, eBay India. 

Avnish Bajaj is the 34 year old Country Manager of Baazee.com, an eBay company. Along with Suvir Sujan, the co-Country Manager for India’s leading online marketplace, Avnish is responsible for managing and growing the Indian operations for eBay.com.  

A member of the eBay Global Leadership Team, Avnish is in charge for ensuring the India team and site smoothly integrates with the Ebay ecosystem, processes and culture. He co-founded the Baazee site in January 2000 and actualised the concept of an online marketplace for person-to-person trading. Baazee.com, under his able leadership was ranked by IDC as the largest e-commerce site in India.   

Prior to establishing Baazee, Avnish was an Investment Banker in the technology practice at Goldman, Sachs and company in New York, where he advised clients like Yahoo, eBay, Intel, SAP, Phillips and Disney on IPOs and M&As. 

Avnish is a Baker Scholar from Harvard Business School and also has an MS in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He also completed a B. Tech in Computer Science from IIT, Kanpur.   

Avnish loves adventure sports, exotic holidays, gourmet cuisine and is also an avid reader.

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