Mahesh Murthy, CEO of PassionFund, better known as the Net marketing guru has empowered the advisory board of Whizlabs by joining as Marketing and Strategy advisor.

Mahesh has spent 9 years in multinational ad agencies, handling renowned marketers like Microsoft, Pepsi, Intel, MTV, Unilever etc. His many significant contributions are designing and launching Yahoo's first GUI; shaping Amazon.com's first advertising strategy; launching Paul Allen's net properties; and interactive marketing for brands like MCI, Nike, Coca-cola and Microsoft's IE3 and IE4 launches.

He has worked as VP Marketing for iCat, a Seattle-based e-commerce software firm. After that he also guided Star TV (Newscorp's Asian arm, broadcasting across 300 million homes in 59 countries), and repositioned their youth vehicle i.e. Channel [v], and created a net and TV presence for it. Mahesh has been a prominent speaker at Internet World Chicago, CNET/LA and many other net conferences and has also won the world's top awards at Cannes and Promax.

Rahul Patwardhan is presently the CEO of IndiaCo, a private equity investment holding company and high-technology incubator. He joined Whizlabs as an advisor to provide long-term direction to the company.

Rahul manages the overall operations of IndiaCo and is an honorary faculty member at Bharati Vidyapeeth where he teaches entrepreneurship and a number of undergraduate courses. He has significant experience with early stage companies in business planning and strategy. He is an angel investor, in his own right and has invested, mentored and advised several companies. Rahul is also affiliated with the Angel Investors Forum, The Emerging Presidents Group and a number of other not-for-profit and charitable organizations. He is also involved with a number of community initiatives in India that include - TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) and others.