Management Team

On December 1,

Nandini & Yasmina

received an early

Christmas present by

welcoming our full

management team

on board. They are

proving invaluable as

they take on the day

-to-day challenges

facing GreenMango

and are quickly

working Nandini and Yasmina out of a job! Please

join us in welcoming (L to R) Aniruddh Vaidya, Opera-

tions Manager, Naveen Kumar, Assistant Marketing

Manger, Prachi Kulkarni, Accounts & HR Manager

and M. Khadeer Ahamed, Sales Manager.

Less than a year ago, we decided we had better stop talking about GreenMango and get

started. On February 5, we signed up our first client and GreenMango was officially

launched. What a year 2008 has been! Today, we have an amazing team now 25 strong,

16,000 low-income businesses on our platform, a loyal and enthusiastic customer base,

and a beautiful office in Hyderabad, India. It has been an exhilarating journey – filled

with ups and downs, excitement and frustration, opportunities and challenges. And as

we look to 2009 and our ambitious plans to expand throughout India, we wouldn’t have

it any other way!

Happy Holidays from all of us at GreenMango. And thank you so much for your contin-

ued support. We couldn’t have done it without you!

New Office

We spent quite a

few months in

Banjara Hills shar-

ing offices with

Spectrum Coal &

Power. Thanks

again to A. V.

Mohan Rao and

Srikant Akula for

making us feel so

welcome! As the

team grew, we had

to find more

space. We have been very fortunate to move into

the perfect office in Somajiguda. Please come visit

us – we would love to welcome you to our new

home!

www.GreenMango.co.in

December 2008

Hyderabad 10K On November 30, our team got together at 5 am on a Sunday morning to participate in Hyderabad’s 10K run

and get the word out about GreenMango. Looking great in their GreenMango shirts and caps, they got inter-

viewed by two local news channels. Nandini & Yasmina were home asleep having eaten too much turkey at

Thanksgiving. Doh! Thank goodness we have such a great team!

Thanks to Our Mangoteers

Over the past few months we have had two full-time interns on staff, who

were our first official Mangoteers. Adrienne Peirce is a recent MBA gradu-

ate from Minnesota who helped us develop our intern program, internal

website, and communications strategy. (See her blog www.lifeof80.com)

Suman Chennamaneni is a recent law graduate from Hyderabad who as-

sisted us with several key marketing and operations projects and was criti-

cal in getting the new office up and running. They both have a strong en-

trepreneurial streak and we can’t wait to see what they do next! Thank

you both!

Meet Our Employee of the Month — T. Renuka

T. Renuka was GreenMango's second employee when she joined us back in March. She quickly

made her way up the ladder to Area Manager in the Sales team. In both October and Novem-

ber, she was our top performer in signing up more small businesses for the GreenMango plat-

form than any other member of the Sales Team. She is famous in the office these days for her

sales numbers and the distance she walks each day to meet her clients. Don’t join her in the

field unless you can manage 8km!

Q: Why did you join GreenMango?

A: I joined GreenMango because I was inspired by their idea. It gives me an opportunity to bring more customers for small

vendors and I can help them.

Q: You have been the Employee of the month for 2 months continuously. What is the secret behind it?

A: I start early at 8 am and work in the field until 4 pm. I also contact vendors on Sunday because that is when most of them

are available.

Q: Will you continue working for GreenMango?

A: Yes. GreenMango has given me a lot of confidence which I lacked earlier. I like my job and I want to grow further.

About GreenMango

GreenMango is an affordable, accessible, marketing platform designed to help small en-

trepreneurs in developing countries grow their businesses. It gives them access to new

sales channels, enables them to market their businesses to new customers, and vali-

dates their work through the reviews of their past customers. By bringing these small

businesses online and giving them the power to market and promote themselves,

GreenMango levels the playing field for poor entrepreneurs to compete with other local

businesses.

www.GreenMango.co.in

December 2008

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