NewsHunt is India’s number one mobile news application, which has won several awards including ‘GSMA Best Mobile Publishing Product 2013’. Ranked number one in News on Google Play store, Only news app to be amongst Nielsen top 10 apps in India, NewsHunt partners over 100 newspapers in 11 languages and is present across all platforms like Android, iOS, Windows Phone, Symbian, J2ME, BB.

Umesh co-founded Eterno Infotech a company that built several Indian Language mobile apps and platforms. Eterno was acquired by Verse Innovation. Umesh continues to work with NewsHunt team at Verse.  Prior to Eterno Umesh was part of startup Amber Networks that was acquired by Nokia. He played a key role in early stages of NOKIA’s development center in India. Umesh started his career with Wipro, gained rich experience developing and architecting telecom/datacom products working with Global majors like Cisco, Stratacom.

Umesh holds masters degree in Electrical Communication Engineering from Indian Institute of Science. He is Alumni of IIM Bangalore’s Advanced Management Programme.