Bhavin Turakhia

Country:	India
Website:	[Bhavin's Blog Bhavin's Blog]
LinkedIn:	[Bhavin Turakhia Bhavin Turakhia]

Bhavin Turakhia is Founder, CEO and Chairman of The Directi Group. He is also CEO of ResellerClub, .pw, LogicBoxes, Answerable.com, and BigRock, which are all a part of The Directi Group.

In 1998, at the age of 19, he founded The Directi Group with his brother Divyank with a loan of $600 from their parents. Directi, an industry-leading Web Services Provider serving a growing audience of customers in 230+ countries, is currently evaluated at $300+ million.

Bhavin has been instrumental in defining Directi's Corporate Structure and Business Process automation, which enables Directi to continue growing at triple digit growth rates year after year.

He is a respected entity in the Web 2.0 landscape, and a frequent speaker at various seminars. He also serves as a technical advisor to the local CyberCrime Investigation Cell, and designed and launched CodeChef, a plaftorm for coding competitions.

ICANN Involvement

Bhavin has formerly served as chairman for the Global ICANN Accredited Registrars Constituency for two consecutive terms. He has been the youngest elected chair for this post in the history of ICANN.

Awards

He has won several awards, including the Entrepreneur of the year award in 2005.

Education

Turakhia was first exposed to computers at a young age, and dove quickly into learning basic programming, devoting much of his free time to the hobby. He began teaching teachers and other students, and by early high school had already programmed several games in Basic.

After high school, Turakhia studied science at DG Ruparel College in Mumbai, later transferring to Sydenham College, where he studied Commerce.