Alan D’Souza is founder and CEO at Vavia Technologies Private Limited, an organization that specializes in web strategies, development and marketing for the SMB segment. Alan strongly believes that the basis for good business is strong ethics, great product and an efficient team. In the last 3 years of operations, Vavia Technologies has worked. with several national as well as global clients across varied sectors- Education, Health, Infrastructure, Social Networking, Lifestyle, etc.. Alan started exploring the web industry at the young age of 14 as a summer activity. He gained hands-on experience of working on platforms such as PHP, Ruby, Python and more. He combined his strong design skills along with programing expertise to build wonderful web applications. He also explored the digital marketing space with extensive research in developing effective Search Engine Optimization combined with high ROI PPC Campaigns. His determination and strong will power saw him establish Vavia Technologies on 08/08/08.. A great motivator, Alan is somebody his team always looks up to. As CEO, Alan heads Vavia Technologies with new launches, idea generation and the right execution. Under his guidance Vavia has won several awards and accolades. A few them being the Red Herring Global 100 Award for the year 2010, India’s Top 25 Emerging Technology Company, TiE50 Finalist for the year 2011 and more. Alan himself has been a recipient of the “Star Entrepreneur of India†award conferred by the Indira Innovation summit in 2011. He has recently been awarded the Indian Leadership Award for Information Technology by All India Achievers Foundation.. Alan is currently working on a new venture involving the development of a social deals search engine called DiscountPandit.