Kavin Bharti Mittal heads Strategy & New Product Development at BSB, a JV between Bharti Enterprises and SoftBank Corp, focused on mobile internet. Kavin is an extreme tech enthusiast and has been actively involved in the start-up community having founded one of his own.

At the age of 20, Kavin founded a start-up named AppSpark to explore the possibilities in the mobile applications space. In 2009, AppSpark launched ‘Movies Now’ in partnership with movietickets.com, a mobile app that would go on to change the way consumers bought movie tickets on the go. Kavin's determination to build services with a great user experience and immense focus on design led Movies Now to be recognised by Apple as 'One of the 10 Essential Movie Goer Apps' for the iPhone.

In December 2012, Kavin launched BSBs first mobile app named hike, a free messaging app. Hike acquired 5M users in just a short 5 months making it one of the fastest growing apps globally. Hike is now seeing close to 1 Billion messages exchanged on its platform every month.

Kavin completed his Masters in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and Management (MEng) from Imperial College, London. While at Imperial College Kavin interned at a few of the world’s top companies such as McLaren Racing, Google & Goldman Sachs.