Colonel Ravi Gupta is an alumni of ‘National Defence Academy’ and 'Defence Services Staff College', Wellington. He has served in the Indian Army for 23 years. During his service he has been part of operations in Sri Lanka (IPKF), Kargil and UN Mission in Angola. He is also a post graduate from IIT Bombay in Power Systems. After commanding a Specialist Engineer Regiment he bit the corporate bullet in 2005. He joined, i-mint, a start up in the Loyalty domain, as head of Operations which got acquired by PAYBACK Germany and subsequently by American Express. As CEO of RuralShores he believes it is now his time to payback to society!