Phanindra Sama
Phanindra Sama or ‘Phani' is co-founder and CEO of redBus.in, India's largest bus ticketing company. He is the CEO of the Bangalore-based Pilani Soft Labs Pvt Ltd, a company that was set up by three friends who studied in BITS, Pilani. He was chosen as a Global Shaper 2011 for the World Economic Forum. He was also awarded Entrepreneur of the Year award under IT, ITES category by ET NOW and the BITSAA 30 under-30 award. He is also selected as a high-impact Endeavor Entrepreneur (www. endeavor.org) and TiE Entrepreneur (www.tie.org).
redBus was amongst Forbes top five startups to watch in 2010 and was ranked first amongst the fastest growing companies in India in a survey done by All World Network. It was awarded India's best Internet start-up, 2010, by IMAI.
