founder Chief Executive Officer
Ankur completed his schooling at Don Bosco School, New Delhi, later he joined Hindu College (Bachelor of Science, Physics) in the year 1998 – 2001. He thereafter went for his Masters at Michigan State University (Mississippi, Physics, Statistics) for the year 2002 – 2004. Post coming back from the United States, he pursued his Master of Business Administration in Finance from The Indian School of Business in the year 2005 – 2006.
He is currently the Chief Executive Officer of nearbuy (formerly Groupon India). He has been at the helm since April 2011, which is when Groupon entered India through an acquisition. From the period of 15 months, till December 2015, Warikoo was managing the India, Indonesia, Thailand and Philippines from the Groupon portfolio.
In August 2015, Groupon India went through a management buyout, where the India management team (led by Ankur) bought out the majority shareholding of Groupon, partnering with Sequoia Capital Prior to Groupon, Warikoo was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence for Rocket Internet Gmbh (owners of CityDeal - which got sold to Groupon).
Warikoo was part of the Rocket Internet India Founding Team and set the foundation for Jabong.com, before moving to help set up Groupon India. Post ISB, Ankur joined A.T. Kearney in their consulting practice in India.
While at Kearney, Warikoo worked in the Real Estate and Media & Entertainment Sector - in Dubai, New York and India. Accentium was founded in 2007, while he was still at Kearney (and continued to work until 2009 and assist Accentium in a part-time capacity).
He moved full-time to Accentium in May 2009.
