Entrepreneurs
Founder and CCO of DealShare, Sourjyendu Medda
Sourjyendu Medda is the Founder and Chief Commercial Officer of DealShare, a social e-commerce firm that provides an online shopping platform for a variety of consumer goods.
Sourjyendu has extensive experience in the consumer goods industry. He spent 15 years working for major retail and FMCG companies. Sourjyendu previously worked as the Head of Sales at Metro Cash & Carry and Raymonds FMCG in India. He was also the head of Metro Cash & Carry’s Reseller business and CRM and Pricing activities in India. He started his career with Citibank and then moved on to BritanniaIndustries Ltd. He earned his MBA from NITIE, Mumbai, India’s supply chain metropolis, and was the Gold Medalist of his class. He graduated from Jamshedpur’s National Institute of Technology with a degree in Computer Science Engineering.
Sourjyendu is deeply committed to bringing small and medium-sized manufacturers closer to the country’s middle-income people, thereby providing enormous value for both customers and manufacturers.
Dealshare is a fast-growing social e-commerce firm that provides an online shopping platform for a wide range of consumer goods, with an emphasis on the emerging ‘WhatsApp first’ India.
DealShare makes it simple for these people to purchase in just a few clicks. It also enables users to purchase and share discounts with their peers. They provide discounts based on the number of people who purchase the items. It’s a new retail strategy in which buyers pay less than wholesale prices.
Sourjyendu’s goal with DealShare is to reach the new 500 million consumers in non-metro and rural regions who haven’t done enough shopping online and are still hesitant to use other platforms.Mobile and social media users make up the majority of this group.