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As the Founder-CEO of Avenues India Private Limited, Vishwas has guided the company to become South Asia's No. 1 eCommerce service provider within two years of its launch. He oversees the strategic planning, execution, financial management and marketing tie-ups at Avenues. The company’s first initiative, CCAvenue® was launched in September 2001 and it today provides payment gateway services to thousands of eMerchants across the world. More than 75% of India's Web Merchants are using the CCAvenue payment gateway solution. The solution is India's largest direct debit engine, which connects to more than 20 Indian banks in real time and processes all types of internationally recognized credit cards. ResAvenue®, the second initiative is the fastest growing Hospitality solution in the Indian Sub-continent. Launched in 2004, more than 1000 hotel properties in Asia are using ResAvenue's state-of-the-art booking engine and payment gateway services on their hotel websites. EventAvenue®, the third Initiative has been launched in 2006 to help the Event Management industry to automate their work processes and make the maximum out of the internet. It is a cutting edge web application for organizers to accept registrations and issue bar-coded entry passes for attendees of their conferences. It also enables them to publish floor plans online and accept real time payments for the sale of the stalls from prospective exhibitors, right from their own website. The next few solutions, HotelsAvenue®, MembersAvenue®, and TrustAvenue® are some of the new initiatives in the pipeline.
Prior to founding Avenues, Vishwas was a practicing counsel on the Original Side of the Bombay High Court. He also co-founded the SEASONS Group of Companies, which owns the fashion brand 'SEASONS' (www.SeasonsIndia.com), which today is the top name in the branded Indian ethnic garments industry and is retailed at over 1500 top outlets in over a 100 cities around the globe. Vishwas is a Commerce graduate and holds a Degree of Law from the Mumbai University.
In July 2007, Vishwas Patel was awarded the Asia-Pacific Information Security Leadership Award by (ISC)2 the non-profit gobal leader in educating and certifying information security professionals.
Vishwas is also the Chairman of the Payments Committee of the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) and is an active speaker at many Internet related forums. |
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