Shikha Pandey
Shikha Pandey is the Founder of BECK Friends and Co-Founder of BECK Technologies, a peer-peer international delivery network. They offer a single platform to users to send anything anywhere in the world. Previously, Shikha served on the Marketing Communications team at Bharti Airtel Limited and as a brand manager at Hindustan Unilever. She studied Organizational Design at the Indian Institute of Management (Bangalore) and received her BA in Communications from SNDT University (Mumbai).
Her Company:
BECK Friends is a network of senders and travellers that connects people who want to send packages with travellers on that route. As an alternative to traditional courier services, the company monetizes on excess luggage space. The end objective is to enable logistics through technology to cater to diverse shipment requirements all over the world. Further, an additional feature, BECKInstant, enables users to send anything, anywhere in the city on the same day. The company has been featured in various publications including The Economic Times, Entrepreneur, Business Insider and The Times of India.
Her Journey:
After seven years of building brands like Hindustan Unilever and Airtel, Shikha spent almost nine years working on her personal ventures - Gemini New Media and BECK Technology Ventures. Through this experience, she became well-acquainted with the microscopic functioning of various industries such as FMCG, logistics, travel and telecom. Her first venture, Gemini New Media, was a 200-person coworking space for startups. Capitalizing on her experience, she wanted to disrupt the travel and logistics space which resulted in the founding of BECK Friends. Today, BECK Friends is one of the first movers in the space of peer-to-peer logistics and is bringing together two of the largest global sectors by enabling travel to power logistics.
Website: https://www.beckfriends.com
Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/beckfriends/
