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Recotap ABM

Head of Marketing

VideoForm

Wearing different hats
- CEO, Marketing setup & Product marketing
- Hiring, building team and process setups
- Fundraising

Impact
- Grew signups from 0 to 500+/month in 12 months for Videoform
- Built traffic to 55,000/month
- Figuring how to market to US (from India)

Founder

GreyMetrics (Acquired)

Built & marketed SaaS product for the 1st time. Total shit-show 🙁

Aquo Digital - Growth Hacking & Digital Marketing

Made a bunch of mistakes in my previous start-up. Started an agency to help others not make the same mistakes. Ended up making more mistakes 🤷‍♂️

Fasdeal

Totally clueless 1st time founder. What do you expect when a mid-level manager from a corporate jumps into startup out of sheer excitement and no clue how startups work 😳

Co Founder

Global Benefits Group (GBG)

•	Head of the claims department to ensure compliance to all contract requirements
•	Designed and implement various policies and procedures for claims
•	Established and maintained proper case management control procedures
•	Screened, interviewed, and hired applicants for the claims department
•	Developed staff by mentoring and training employees; monitoring, and appraising job results
•	Liaising with IT department in the development on new claims system

Operations Manager, International Claims

•	Evaluated medical necessity of claims and determine their qualification for payment
•	Adjudicated claims per processing guidelines by assigning appropriate diagnosis and procedure codes
•	Conducted Medical training sessions for the claims staff
•	Exceeded the production and quality standards
•	Identified and reported fraudulent claims

Senior International Claims Examiner

Star Health and Allied Insurance Co. Ltd

•	Evaluated medical necessity of claims and determine their qualification for payment
•	Overseeing the general and emergency pre-authorization requests
•	Trained non-medical staff on basic medical terminology and focus areas to identify key information
•	Conducted surprise checks at Network hospitals and reporting the activities to Claim Head
•	Exceeded the production and quality standards

Medical Claims Officer

Gandhi Hospital

Medical Intern

I help small marketing teams start ABM (account based marketing)

Abhishek Ekbote

Rapidious

Powering dynamic pricing by competitor data and enhancing GMV and conversions.

• Powers price optimization with real-time API
• Enables AI demand prediction accuracy
• Compiles competitors price differentiation matrix
• Reveals competitors’ cross-selling & promotions
• Customizable triggers and smart trends
• Provide substitute and alternate price updates
• Helps identify cannibalization within product portfolios
• Spotlights price sensitivity among product category

Founder and CEO

JK Tech

Transformation Leader - Analytics

NextOrbit 

NextOrbit is a SaaS platform for predictive demand planning and adaptive pricing. We apply AI and Machine Learning algorithms to enterprise sales and inventory data. A core of the solution is exogenous data (our own IP) that we utilize for enhanced predictive accuracy. 

-> For retailers, this improves inventory turns, increases basket sizes, reduces inventory, and improves same store sales.
-> For e-commerce, this improves basket sizes, sales, reduces the time stock spends in your warehouse. Improves pricing.
-> For store-pick companies, this improves loyalty, GMV.
-> For wholesalers and distributors, this improves sales by avoiding lost demand.

Founder and Member Board Of Directors

NextOrbit is a cloud platform that uses AI (Artificial Intelligence) and Machine Learning to supply chain decisions of fashion brands, retailers and any enterprises /governments that have a continuous supply chain optimization challenge.

NextOrbit works for brands and retailers where customer experience and loyalty are important. NextOrbit infuses predictive intelligence into critical planning and supply chain decisions such as product selection, demand planning, store allocation and pricing. 

NextOrbit implements AI & Data Sciences techniques in a Continuous Learning Loop 

NextOrbit uses all brand/retailer data such POS (Point-of-sale), DC Shipments, receipts at the store, store returns, customer returns, shrink, footfalls and plan-o-gram constraints and combines it with external data such as fashion trends, weather, local events, holidays, macro-economic factors, and social listening to deliver intelligent and adaptive decisions. 

NextOrbit benefits – Top Line, Bottom-Line, Enabling business scalability 

Implementing NextOrbit accelerates same-store-sales, enhances inventory turns, improves full-price-sell-through, and most of all, enhances customer experience. These KPIs are first measured before implementation, and their improvement is tracked and demonstrated on a regular basis. 

NextOrbit enhances effectiveness of your planning staff and allows your operations to scale without proportional headcount addition in your planning and execution team.

ItemMaster (now Syndigo)

Led the product development, and solutioning using analytics and Machine Learning. Built a product R&D team from scratch in Bangalore. Exciting times - ItemMaster creates and distributes accurate product attribute information. So necessary for any aspect of Retail, CPG/FMCG, Wholesalers and distributors.

Acquired by Gladson, now Syndigo in Jan 2019. Fun and fast moving stint.

Nagarro

Assisting Nagarro in setting up a Business Intelligence and Data Sciences practice.

Business Advisor & Coach

CrowdANALYTIX

CrowdANALYTIX has been founded by seasoned analytics, strategy and marketing professionals from the IIT and INSEAD.

We optimize our clients' business & operations using the predictive wisdom of a community of analytics experts, data scientists and consultants.

CrowdANALYTIX converts business challenges into analytics competitions; and addresses the need for analytical solutions requiring predictive analytics, descriptive analytics, estimations, and business hypothesis validation.

Instead of having one team looking at your data and operations, 20 or more teams compete and collaborate to arrive at an optimum solution. We thus help crank up every business process to its maximum effectiveness.

Co-founder, Chief Executive, President

Capgemini Financial Services

Capgemini FS - A highly consultative and business focused BI and analytics practice. Senior folks with deep understanding of risk, fraud, customer analytics. 

-Leadership of BIM India – consulting, solutioning, presales support and delivery. 
-Growing offshore capability and capacity. 
-Development and enhancement of solutions such as Fraud Detection, Cross-Sell, BI strategy.

Vice President - Business Information Management, Financial Services

HCL Technologies

Responsible for Global Leadership of Business Intelligence & Analytics – P&L, Sales, solutioning, consulting and delivery, growth strategies, CSAT, building the practice and repositioning it from a staff-augmentation status to a consultative positioning.


•	Vision - Created a powerful vision focused on business outcome for clients
•	Business Model - Created a revenue stream based on a consultative approach – value driven as opposed to only scale driven
•	Talent - Attracted and engaged a world-class team of architects, consultants and program managers. Hired and engaged a team of around 20 senior consultants, thought leaders and architects in the US
•	Revenue and downstream – Increased head-count from 400 at the beginning of the my stint to 1000+; revenues by 50%  to 50m. Enabled industry units around solutioning.
•	Enabling - Envisioned and delivered training to team members to develop next generation BI, DW, Analytics and social intelligence competency
•	Analyst impact – had Gartner and Ovum recommending HCL on strategic BI conversations
•	Solutions - Created a set of solutions around BI – especially around social intelligence
•	Complex Program Execution – personally intervened and brought on track a challenged $6m program

Vice President and Global Head of Business Intelligence

Infosys Technologies

This was a most fulfilling journey – to cause and experience the transformation of a company from an efficient order taker to a technology consultant and advisor.  

Role- Leadership of the Technology Consulting practice for the Retail, Consumer Goods and Logistics industries throughout the US and Europe.


Snapshot:

•	Vision – created and evangelized the role of an architect and technology consultant
•	Business Model - Demonstrated a thought leadership led consultative method of demand creation 
•	Strategy Consulting engagements – created demand for advisory services; personally consulted on IT strategy, Enterprise Architecture, e-commerce strategy, assessments and technology evaluations
•	Talent - Built a high caliber team of 75 members in technology consulting and architecture
•	Revenue and downstream - $8m of consulting revenues and $40m of downstream revenue
•	Enabling – enabled delivery of larger and highly complex/performance critical programs. Created and personally conducted 3-day workshops on e-commerce and technology consulting 
•	Analyst impact – put Infosys on the map for technology consulting services
•	Solutions – created solutions around MDM, CPG Analytics, Shelf Space optimization, e-commerce

-> Oversaw multiple IT and analytics consulting engagements enabling clients to accomplish strategic objectives such as – growth through acquisitions, enhanced visibility of inventory, reduced back-haul, reduced stock-out, better markdowns, optimal pricing, reduced trade promotions.
-> Led the conceptualization of solutions using analytics, mobility, MDM – such as a smart cabinet solution to enable a distributor of expensive medical consumables to optimize inventory, track expiry dates and replenish stock;   Point of Sale analytics; Trade promotion optimization solution

Associate Vice President and Head of Technology Consulting - Retail, Consumer Products and Logistics

Novell

•	Delivered Server Management utilities, such as Time Synchronization, Remote Console and NetWare Monitor for NetWare 5.
•	As Java Evangelist, developed a Java competency program resulting in 100% of employee certification. 
•	Enhanced Time Synchronization in NetWare to work with UNIX NTP (Network Time Protocol).
•	Conceptualized and performed usability engineering (design, testing and analysis) of the client for Novell Replication Services
•	Authored paper on performance profiling of a Java application that was accepted at Sun’s JavaOne Conference in 1999.

Manager - Software Engineering

As the founder and CEO of Rapidious, I leverage my 15+ years of experience in business analytics, IT strategy, and board advisory services to deliver game-changing dynamic pricing and price intelligence solutions for auto, retail, CPG, and eCommerce. Rapidious powers price optimization with real-time API, enables AI demand prediction accuracy, compiles competitors' price differentiation matrix, and reveals competitors' cross-selling and promotions.

I balance my career with my spiritual journey, as I teach yoga and meditation to bring peace and tap into our inner potential.

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