The BharatMatrimony Group, India’s leading internet group, today announced the appointment of Mr. K.B.Chandrasekhar as an Independent Director on its board. Mr. K.B Chandrasekhar (Chandra) comes with over26 years of experience in various functional areas of the IT and Internet Industry. BharatMatrimony Group also has to its credit Mr. Alok Mittal, Managing Director of Canaan Partners and Mr. George Zacharias, MD of Yahoo India as its Board of Directors.

Mr. Chandrasekhar is the co-founder, CEO & Chairman of Jamcracker, co-founder and Chairman of e4e Inc., a global technology holding company and Chairman of Aztecsoft. In his illustrious carrier, he founded Exodus Communications. Exodus went public in March of 1998 in one of the most successful IPO's of 1998. Chandra’s first entrepreneurial venture began in 1992 with Fouress, Inc., a network software design and development firm. In 1999, Chandra was honored as the Ernst & Young Northern California Entrepreneur of the Year.

Welcoming Chandrasekhar on the board Mr. Murugavel Janakiraman, Founder& CEO, Bharatmatrimony Group said, “We are happy to have Mr. K B Chandrasekhar on our Board. He brings with him a wealth of experience and his presence will add immense value to the Company.”

Chandra established the Anna University - K.B. Chandrasekhar Research Centre (AU-KBC Research Center) at the Madras Institute of Technology (MIT) campus of Anna University.

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About BharatMatrimony Group

One of India’s leading Internet companies, BharatMatrimony.com was established in 1997. The company has developed expertise and a successful business model to provide world-class matrimony services. BharatMatrimony Group has successfully launched ClickJobs.com - India’s Premium Job Portal, IndiaProperty.com - Portal for Indian Real Estate, BharatBloodBank.com - a social, non-profit initiative and recently launched IndiaList.Com – the complete classifieds portal. The Group has also launched the BharatMatrimony Centers, an offline business foray – a brick and mortar model to compliment the online dominance in the space with robust plans of having 300 centers across India & around the world by 2008. For further details please visit www.bharatmatrimony.com