Why Mobius

Our ability to crawl the Internet

Mobius is one of the world leaders in Internet crawling. Our capability to understand website structures comes from our experience in monitoring close to 100,000 web pages at any given point of time. Mobius employs automated programs aided by manual intervention to provide unmatched quality.

Technology

Our ability to map product-to-product is a cornerstone of our success. Mobius has internally developed solutions like Aigner, Pollyanna which solves "is_this_that_product?” scenarios. Mobius also has more than 100 member software team that exclusively work on solving back-end data related problems of ecommerce companies

Deep Domain Knowledge

Mobius has been working with ecommerce companies for more than half a decade. Our domain knowledge in ecommerce is one of the best in the industry. We understand the nuances of an ecommerce site and so, our clients need not spell out everything when they hire our services.

Offshore advantage

We are a solutions company based in India. Our core-competency lies in solution’ing and not in throwing bodies to processes. As we are located offshore, we enjoy tremendous cost advantage that we pass on to our clients.

Overview

Since 2001, Mobius has worked with leading industry players like top comparison shopping engines and retailers of all sizes. Mobius combines technology and off-shore human skills to offer services that provide the best returns in regards to sales and operation dollars.

Our services are focused on driving traffic, improving conversion, and optimizing the operational expenses. Our proprietary technologies, which focus on content aggregation and processing, combined with our accumulated knowledge on product categories and industry operations, help our clients get the advantage of global best practices at prices that bring a smile to their faces. Adding to that, nearly all our services are customizable to fit your specific needs and provide flexibility in terms of both time and volume fluctuations.

Having been in the business for over half a decade, we have more than 300 man-years of experience in serving top marketplaces and online retail companies. What sets us apart from others is our approach towards business. For all practical purposes, there is only one side of our business. YOURS. And that’s what we stand for.

This approach dictates our solutions and services too. We identify ourselves as a solution provider whose goal it is to solve business problems that have anything to do with gathering and handling information.

Management

The Management consists of highly qualified professionals, with extensive knowledge in diverse domains. The team members have had entrepreneurial stints and also have vast experience in management, marketing, client relationship and education.

Karthik Karunakaran "KK":

Karthik is the CEO and Co-founder of Mobius. He graduated in Production Engineering from the Regional Engineering College, Trichy, one of the top engineering schools in India and went on to obtain an MBA from Xavier Labour Relations Institute (XLRI), Jamshedpur, which ranks among the top five business schools in India.

Karthik then worked for Tata Steel, India's largest integrated private sector steel company where he focused on quality improvements in the service sector. At Tata Steel, Karthik was part of the key group that worked on the quality standards that ultimately brought in the ISO 9000 certification. Karthik himself is a lead assessor for ISO 9000 certification, certified by the British Standards Institute. Later, Karthik joined the Maxworth group, where his responsibilities included consulting on Business Process Reengineering and exploring internet applications for businesses. Before co-founding Mobius, Karthik was an entrepreneur being the country’s first franchisee of a kids computer learning and later became the Master licensee for an American company, setting up close to 100 franchises across the country.

Gautam Dalmia "GD":

Gautam Dalmia is the other co-founder of Mobius and is the honorary CFO. He has a B.S. from Loyola College, Chennai and a M.S. in Electronics & Electrical Engineering from Columbia University, New York.

As part of the Dalmia business family, he is actively engaged in managing their cements and sugar businesses. He brings a ton of experience in managing new projects and business expansion. His ability to keep the focus on the financial parameters to ensure that the end goals are met is a definitive strength he brings to Mobius.

Narendra Venkatramani "Venky":

Venky is the VP in charge of the Business Information profit center. Venky is a Mechanical Engineer with a Masters in International Business from IIFT, New Delhi – India's leading business school for an International Business Degree.

Venky has worked in some of India's leading engineering companies like Larsen and Toubro and Usha Martin Industries. Later, with Maxworth Orchards International, Venky was involved in international marketing and the export thrust in processed foods. Before joining Mobius, Venky was an entrepreneur and started a processed foods company. Venky also managed the challenging cable TV market in Chennai for a world-renowned sports broadcaster.

Umashankar S:

Uma, as Director – Online Retail, heads our “productization of services” initiative aimed at delivering path breaking services to online retailers. Uma, an instrumentation Engineer, is a Mobius veteran who has worked closely with numerous clients in ecommerce landscape. During his stint as head of ecommerce operations, his knowledge of ecommerce domain and process expertise came to the fore as he successfully created new services and built versatile teams to deliver. In June 2007, he went on a one year sabbatical to fine-tune his management skills at XLRI, one of India’s top B-Schools.

Andrew Sorensen:

Andrew is ‘Director – US Operations’ for Mobius. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Andrew brings a wealth of experience in the ecommerce and comparison shopping industries. He has a strong understanding of the challenges associated with content structure and is expert in bridging the gap with offshore teams. Prior to joining Mobius, Andrew led the industry-leading content operations group at Shopzilla, significantly increasing efficiency and accuracy through a combination of outsourcing and technology. Before that, he was a key member of the online retailer Organize.com, managing its fulfillment department and acting as the company's sole IT person and DBA. Andrew is an Information Systems graduate of Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo.