Rupesh Jain, raised in a family of retail jewellers; is an IT engineer from Mumbai. He served as Company President at Ornet Technology and as a software engineer at L&T Infotech. His fascination in integrating retail jewellery with technology piqued his interest in creating this online portal which led to his collaboration with Ashish Bajaj, the then Vice President at Miles Software Solutions, to form Candere. Ashish exited the company in 2016.