Gaurav Mishra
Gaurav Mishra is a thought leader on social innovation and crowdsourcing. He is Founder and CEO of FutureCrafting, an innovation lab that explores how early adopters are using technologies like quantification, gamification and augmentation for health and wellness. He has helped create a crowdsourcing, social analytics and social curation software as well as several crowdsourcing-driven social platforms for organisations worldwide.
Gaurav studied at IIM Bangalore. He held senior marketing roles at Tata Group and taught Social Media at Georgetown University. He also launched the crowd-sourced election monitoring platform Vote Report India, co-founded the social business consulting firm 2020 Social (acquired by Publicis), and created global insights and innovation offerings for organisations around the globe. He was a 2008-09 Yahoo! Fellow, a 2009 SNCR Fellow, a 2009 TED Fellow and a 2013-14 THNK Research Fellow. Gaurav has written reports, op-eds, a weekly newspaper column, a quarterly magazine and an award-winning blog.
Gaurav Mishra is a thought leader on social innovation and crowdsourcing. He is Founder and CEO of FutureCrafting, an innovation lab that explores how early adopters are using technologies like quantification, gamification and augmentation for health and wellness. He has helped create a crowdsourcing, social analytics and social curation software as well as several crowdsourcing-driven social platforms for organisations worldwide.
Gaurav studied at IIM Bangalore. He held senior marketing roles at Tata Group and taught Social Media at Georgetown University. He also launched the crowd-sourced election monitoring platform Vote Report India, co-founded the social business consulting firm 2020 Social (acquired by Publicis), and created global insights and innovation offerings for organisations around the globe. He was a 2008-09 Yahoo! Fellow, a 2009 SNCR Fellow, a 2009 TED Fellow and a 2013-14 THNK Research Fellow. Gaurav has written reports, op-eds, a weekly newspaper column, a quarterly magazine and an award-winning blog.
