Vineet Bajpai is a first-generation entrepreneur and a national bestselling Author. By January 2020, he had seven books to his credit.

He is the Founder & Chairman of the Magnon Group, one of India’s largest advertising companies. Magnon is part of the Fortune 500 Omnicom network. Vineet has also led the global top-ten advertising agency TBWA as its India Group CEO. This made him perhaps the youngest ever CEO of a multinational advertising agency in the country.

He has won several entrepreneurship and corporate excellence awards, including the ‘Asia Pacific Entrepreneurship Award 2013’, the ‘CNBC Mercedes Benz Young Turks Award 2014’ and the ‘Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2016’. He was recently listed by Business World among the 100 Most Influential People in India’s Digital Ecosystem.

Vineet’s second company Talentrack is disrupting the Media & Entertainment industry in India. It is the fastest-growing online hiring and content-crowdsourcing platform for the US$ 23 billion sector.

He has written three bestselling management and inspirational books – Build From Scratch, The Street to the Highway and The 30 Something CEO.

His four fiction novels, ‘Harappa – Curse Of The Blood River’, ‘Pralay – The Great Deluge’, ‘Kashi – Secret of The Black Temple’ and ‘Mastaan – The Fallen Patriot of Delhi’, are all national bestsellers. The books have won rich critical and literary acclaim, and have been published by TreeShade Books. Film-rights of the Harappa Trilogy have been acquired by Reliance Entertainment in perhaps India’s biggest ever screen-adaptation deal.

The Times of India has called Vineet – ‘…India’s new literary superstar’. A leading magazine has recently listed him among the 75 greatest Indian Authors of all time.

Vineet completed his B.A. (Hons) Economics from Hansraj College, Delhi University in 1997 and his PGDBM from Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management in 1999. He is a regular speaker at the Jaipur Literature Festival and other literary events of international acclaim.

He is 42 years of age. He is a playstation enthusiast, a bonfire guitarist and a road-trip junkie.