Vishwas Patel

As the Founder-CEO of Avenues India Private Limited, Vishwas has guided the company to become South Asia's No. 1 eCommerce service provider within two years of its launch. He oversees the strategic planning, execution, financial management and marketing tie-ups at Avenues. The company’s first initiative, CCAvenue® was launched in September 2001 and it today provides payment gateway services to thousands of eMerchants across the world. More than 85% of India's Web Merchants are using the CCAvenue payment gateway solution. The solution is India's largest direct debit engine, which connects to more than 30 Indian banks in real time and processes all types of internationally recognized credit cards. ResAvenue®, the second initiative is the fastest growing Hospitality solution in the Indian Sub-continent. Launched in 2004, more than 1000 hotel properties in Asia are using ResAvenue's state-of-the-art booking engine and payment gateway services on their hotel websites. EventAvenue®, the third Initiative has been launched in 2006 to help the Event Management industry to automate their work processes and make the maximum out of the internet. It is a cutting edge web application for organizers to accept ticketing/ registrations and issue bar-coded entry passes for attendees of their conferences/events. HotelsAvenue®, is a solution for the travel agent that has been just launched. It addresses the travel agents, online intermediaries, portals etc. aspirations of having live feeds of instantly `bookable room inventory’ of over a hundred thousand global hotels on their own websites. HotelsAvenue will also have live feeds of hundreds of hotel properties based in India, Indonesia, Malaysia, UAE and Egypt that are using the Avenues ’ ResAvenue.com’ Solution on their branded website. Working together in tandem, this combination of solutions will create immense value for the travel industry. The next few solutions, MembersAvenue®, and TrustAvenue® are some of the new initiatives in the pipeline. Prior to founding Avenues, Vishwas was a practicing counsel on the Original Side of the Bombay High Court. He also co-founded the SEASONS Group of Companies, which owns the fashion brand 'SEASONS' (www.SeasonsIndia.com), which today is the top name in the branded Indian ethnic garments industry and is retailed at over 1500 top outlets in over a 100 cities around the globe. Vishwas is also involved in his family's construction business, which has constructed several landmark struct