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This interview first appeared on Asia Tech Daily<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ITILITE founders Mayank Kukreja and Anish Khadiya<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With a mission to make business travel a great experience and the world a better place, Mayank Kukreja got together with\u00a0Anish Khadiya<\/a>\u00a0to create\u00a0ITILITE<\/a>\u00a0in 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During his many business trips, Mayank noticed the sad state of affairs on the corporate side of travel that was very disconnected. Planning a trip was an offline and time-consuming process every single time. To him, as a traveler, the system felt broken, and that was not just in India; but also across the US, Canada, Australia, and the Middle East. At the same time, as a consultant with McKinsey, he found many clients struggling to cut down on operational costs with travel as a constant element in this fight. After participating in many client projects that tried to combat business travel challenges<\/a>, Mayank got to understand how companies think of travel as a spending item and try to control it at a deeper level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


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