Manas Ranjan Hota is the Co-founder and COO at DrinkPrime, India’s leading drinking water solution provider. 50% of India does not have access to safe drinking water and DrinkPrime is focused on solving this problem. Under his leadership, DrinkPrime has been recognised as a part of Fast Company’s ‘The 10 most innovative Asia-Pacific companies of 2021’ and in Forbes Asia 100 To Watch list.

Manas is responsible for growing DrinkPrime’s subscriber base by 500% over the last 2 years with the current subscriber count exceeding 30,000. He leads high-performance teams - sales, marketing, operations and customer experience - at DrinkPrime and oversees the company’s day-to-day activities. He has played a pivotal role in building the 125+ strong DrinkPrime team from scratch.

Before starting DrinkPrime, Manas built and led the inside sales team at Sonata Software. He is a Master of Business Administration (MBA) graduate from Pondicherry University.