Vignesh Annamalai is the Director of Annap Interactive Solutions Pvt Ltd (AISPL), a Deep Tech & Digital Media Company, and the CEO of BrandMaxima, a global Software as a Service (SaaS) product for Social Media Intelligence and Analytics. AISPL started its work way back in 2009 and has been bootstrapped up until now. In addition to BrandMaxima, AISPL also includes Vicky.in, India's leading Auto B2C Portal. Spicyonion.com, Indian Movie Database & Cellbharat.com, consumer web portal for Mobile & Wireless Technologies.
Before his venture, Vignesh Annamalai held various positions at Zoho Corporation, Verizon Data Services and BharatMatrimony.com. Vignesh Annamalai is a long time blogger and blogs in both English and Tamil. He contributes tech columns in leading dailies and weeklies regularly.
He strongly believes in giving back to the community and is instrumental behind #TirunelveliStartups, an initiative to improve the entrepreneurial ecosystem in South Tamilnadu. He was also a founder member of "The Knowledge Foundation" (TKF), a not-for-profit organization founded by a group of passionate technologists with the objective of sharing knowledge among themselves and to the society by organizing unconferences, seminars, and workshops.
Today he spends the large majority of his free time playing with his kids, reading, writing, and binge-watching. He lives in Tirunelveli, Tamilnadu, India.