Gireendra Kasmalkar is the Founder and CMD of Ideas to Impacts Innovations Pvt. Ltd.,
Founder and Managing Partner at Pentathlon Ventures and Owner of the Ideas to Impacts Hub
promoting innovative ideas that can create significant positive impacts for both customers and
the small towns of India.
India’s leading software testing entrepreneur, Gireendra, exited from his earlier venture, VeriSoft
(now Expleo) after being in global and Indian leadership positions, where the India operations
grew to over 2000 people. Before that, he worked in the CAD-CAM space with Tata
Consultancy Services and then independently. Gireendra is active on industry forums with
leadership roles as a Founder member and President at the Inter-Institutional Inclusive
Innovation Centre and previously at SPIN-Pune, CSI-Pune, TiE Pune and MCCIA. He is a
Mechanical engineer from IIT Mumbai and the University of South Carolina, USA, with
management programs at IMD and Columbia University.