Management Team
Valerie Rozycki Wagoner
Founder & CEO
Valerie Rozycki Wagoner
Founder & CEO, is focused on building a dynamic organization dedicated to innovation and excellence
for customers and end users. That means finding the best people possible to join the team and getting out of their way!
Valerie most recently served as Head – Strategic Initiatives at mChek, a mobile payments startup in Bangalore, and before
that she worked at eBay in California. Valerie earned both her Bachelors and Masters degrees from Stanford University.
Sanjay Swamy
Founder & Chairman
Sanjay Swamy
Founder & Chairman, is the king of idea generation and an ideal active mentor to keep ZipDial pushing toward its potential.
Sanjay was most recently CEO of mChek, prior to which he started and ran Ketera India as well as various other leadership
roles at companies in India and the US. Sanjay started his education in India and completed graduate school at University
of Washington.
Amiya Pathak
Founder & COO
Amiya Pathak
Founder & COO, built the first version of the ZipDial platform single-handedly (literally, he did it with one broken arm!)
Amiya is a graduate of both IIT – Kanpur and IIM – Calcutta education and has helped build startups such as Ketera and
Zapak.com where he most recently served as Director leading all of engineering out of Bangalore.
About Us
ZipDial is the pioneering marketing + analytics platform for mobile marketing via missed calls. Marketers and advertisers love ZipDial to transform their brand campaigns into highly interactive and viral, while building a loyal customer base.
ZipDial’s toll free numbers act as call to actions in ads. Simple interfaces like a missed call to ZipDial numbers, ensures interactions from 100% of the customers -smart or feature phone users, kids or adults, urban or rural dwellers. ZipDial platform then provides a very in-depth and actionable analytics around these interactions, which otherwise is not available for any offline media.
ZipDial increases response rates to advertisements as much as 50 times. Additionally the viral nature of ZipDial applications has proven to increase the reach of campaigns by 30-75%.
ZipDial’s mobile marketing and analytics platform is used by global consumer brands such as Procter & Gamble, Cadbury, Kingfisher, Unilever, Colgate, Nerolac Paints, Sanofi-Aventis; large media brands like Disney, UTV, Times Group, Mumbai Indians; major Retail brands like Puma, KFC, Cafe Coffee Day, MakeMyTrip; International NGOs like Greenpeace, Amnesty International, Action Aid; and large financial services brands like ICICI Bank and Kotak Bank. The ZipDial platform has introductory products too, for the smallest of advertisers starting at Rs 1,000 (or USD $20) per month for which they pay and sign up online.
ZipDial has two patents pending on different innovations in the platform, and Founder and CEO Valerie Wagoner is an inventor for both.
Founded in 2010 by Valerie Wagoner (Stanford) and Amiya Pathak (IIT, IIM), ZipDial is now backed by leading US and India based investors like 500Startups, Angel Prime, Times Internet and Jungle Ventures. Before founding ZipDial, founders have worked at senior levels at companies such as Zapak.com, eBay, Xerox, mChek and Ketera.
The ~30-member, growing ZipTeam has all been hand -picked for their commitment to innovation, hard work, and fun! Just like founders, team members have studied in leading national and international technology and management institutes and have worked in leading organisations like Microsoft, Intuit, Yahoo, Boston Consulting to name a few.
ZipDial is committed to empower advertisers and brand managers to execute analytics-driven, large scale engagements.
After serving clients in Caribbean, in April 2013 ZipDial got launched in Sri Lanka. For our India customers who have global customers, ZipDial works internationally as well (with India or country specific numbers). ZipDial is headquartered in Bangalore with business development offices in Mumbai and Delhi.
