• Jitendra Kohli, B.Tech. (Electrical Engg) 1976 from IIT Delhi, is the founder and Managing Director of ElectronicTender.• He has been researching in the area of e-procurement/ e-tendering with focus on public procurement for over 23-years now. Based on his pioneering work, his company, ElectronicTender has developed an innovative e-procurement/ e-tendering/ e-auction software product, Electronic-Tendering Engine® (ETE), which comprehensively addresses the requirements of ‘public-procurement’ globally.[Based on available information, the security and transparency related features of ETE are currently far ahead of any competing product in the world].• His work, ‘e-Procurement Integrity Matrix’ has been adopted and published by Transparency International India (TII). The Government of India’s guidelines for e-procurement have taken inspiration from his writings on the security and transparency related aspects of e-procurement. • In end-2011/ 2012, his services were commissioned by the Asian Development Bank for technical peer-review of the update of MDB's ‘e-Procurement Toolkit’.• In the month of August 2012, he was invited to present a paper at the ‘International Public Procurement Conference (IPPC5)’ held at Seattle (USA). The paper titled ‘Red Flags in e-Procurement/ e-Tendering for Public Procurement and some Remedial Measures’ was found to be eye-opener by delegates from many countries, including USA and EU.• In 2013, he co-authored 'Manual for the Examination of Public Procurement Process' (published by TII).• Earlier, as a Strategy & Management Consultant, he successfully handled major assignments for orgns like – Compaq, Apple, Mathys, Chase, et al; and prior to that as a senior Management Executive in the IT/ Engg Industry, he had extensive experience of Govt Tendering. • He is the General Editor of The Business Guide to India (a best-selling handbook on Foreign Investment in India, published by Butterworth Heinemann, in UK/ Singapore).