Vishal Dhar

Vishal Dhar is co-founder and President Marketing of iYogi. Besides iYogi, Vishal Dhar was also the co-founder of Friday Corporation[1] and IQR [2]

Dhar was listed among Asia’s 25 Hottest People in Business in 2012 by Fortune Magazine.[3]

Dhar’s earlier professional background is in public relations with Mudra Communications and later as Managing Director of Text 100 India, a specialist PR consultancy firm for technology companies. He later co-founded Friday Corporation a content aggregation and syndication platform for corporate intranets and other clients including dotcom businesses that were booming at that time. In 2003, Vishal co-founded IQR, a business process outsourcing company focused on business media industry and in 2007 he co-founded iYogi, an India-based tech support company.

iYogi was sued by the US government, with Dhar being arrested by US authorities . iYogi lost the court case and Dhar resigned as CMO of the company, paying a fine due to unfair business practices. Internally, much was attributed to Dhar for the failings of the organisation.

The Washington State Attorney General's Office reported on April 19, 2018 that it had obtained information indicating that "iYogi India has shed most or all of its employees and is largely defunct [...] The company's U.S.-based operation appears to have shut down entirely."[4]

Born in Srinagar, Kashmir Dhar spent the early years of his life in the valley. He is now based in New York City where he lives with his wife and two children.