A visionary and industry pioneer, Pradeep leveraged the power of networking  and e-business technologies long before they were recognized as critical business enablers, when he founded Microland in 1989. Under Pradeep’s leadership, Microland has emerged as a leading specialist IT Infrastructure Management Services Provider and is a partner of choice for many global corporations.

A serial entrepreneur, Pradeep has founded Planetasia, India’s first Internet Professional Services Company (which was acquired by a US Software Services company), Indya.com, India’s leading portal (which was acquired by News Corporation) and Net Brahma, a telecom software company (that was acquired by a US telecom equipment company in 2001). He merged his Internet Media Business, Media2india with Connecturf (India’s leading online marketing company) and also founded ITspace, India’s premier technology portal.

A member of the Technology Advisory Panel to the Government of Karnataka, Pradeep is the President of The IndUS Entrepreneurs (TiE), Bangalore Chapter, and is Founding Member of the Young Presidents Organization, Bangalore.

He is a Non-Executive Director of United Business Media plc (one of the world’s leading global business information companies headquartered in London), on the Advisory Board of Leaders Quest (an international social enterprise based in London) and also on the Advisory Board of the Bangalore Chapter of AIESEC (the world's largest student organization).

Pradeep is a frequent speaker on industry trends and has received numerous accolades and recognitions. Notable among these is the Indian Express “India Young Business Achiever Award” and the World Economic Forum’s award for the 'Global Leader for Tomorrow’. He has also been featured in Newsweek International’s ‘Stars of Asia’ and in ‘Business India’s  ‘Stars of India’.

Pradeep holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Post Graduate degree in Management.