Vishnu Swaminathan

Vishnu Swaminathan

Fairfax, Virginia, United States
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Experience

  • Seeds of Peace Graphic

    Seeds of Peace

    New York, United States

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    Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

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    Pune, Maharashtra, India

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    Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

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    Virginia, United States

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    India

Education

Licenses & Certifications

Volunteer Experience

  • Board Member

    Saath Livelihood Services

    - 7 years 3 months

    Economic Empowerment

    Saath Livelihood Services is a for-profit driven organisation working on empowerment of the base of the pyramind customers using services which they can afford for. Its about providing the right livelihood options for such customers as well.

Publications

  • Pyramid within the Base of the Pyramid

    Nextbillion

    After working closely with our partners in BoP communities, we identified three types of solutions for three groups, based upon their income level, employment and capacity to establish themselves in new, urban environments. We developed a model based largely on household income (see figure 1), and adding indicators such as whether income was occasional and insecure, or steady but informal and undocumented; whether there were savings; family size and health; etc.

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Patents

  • Digital Assistants

    Issued SG 200305452-5

    A method to use animated characters as digital assistants.

    Other inventors
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  • Electronic transactions and payments system

    Issued US 20030130958

    Secure electronic transaction system is provided between a plurality of computer systems and other electronic terminals wholly or partly over a public communication system such as the internet, a closed communication system such as a banking network or point-to-point communications such as dial-up connections and leased lines. Secure transmission of transaction information instructions and payment instructions is provided from a customer's computer system to the customer's bank's computer…

    Secure electronic transaction system is provided between a plurality of computer systems and other electronic terminals wholly or partly over a public communication system such as the internet, a closed communication system such as a banking network or point-to-point communications such as dial-up connections and leased lines. Secure transmission of transaction information instructions and payment instructions is provided from a customer's computer system to the customer's bank's computer system. The bank's computer system processes and evaluates the instructions and transmits by way of secure transmissions the transaction instructions and payment instructions to the merchant's computer system.

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Courses

  • Business Data Analytics - Wharton Business School

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  • Strategic Perspectives in Non-Profit Management

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Honors & Awards

  • Best Entrepreneur of the Year 2012

    Indira Group of Institutions Pune

Languages

  • English

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • Tamil

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • Telugu

    Full professional proficiency

  • Hindi

    Professional working proficiency

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