9+ years experienced professional in strategy & consulting, operations & product development across leading financial institutions, insurers, automobile players. Proficiency in managing & aligning C suite stakeholders across companies in 0-1 & 1-100 journeys
2.5+ years focused primarily on strategy, post-merger integrations (PMI), tech transformation, (Gen)AI & PMO for top 5 APAC & SEA Financial institutions & Insurers. Key outcomes delivered:
· Strategy: Developed e2e 5-yr strategy to enable SEA insurer to deliver 2.5x topline & 8x bottomline growth & become the most valued insurer in 5 years
· Post-merger integrations: Led integration team for 2 PMI projects with 0-day delays in critical milestones (i) 2 Global wealth mangement banks (ii) 1 Global & 1 SEA insurer; devised playbook across legal, functional & technical integrations
· Tech transformation: Drove planning, biz case developement & day-to-day execution of core tech replacement for the biggest SEA composite insurer to unlock $100M (~10%) savings in 3years, 3x reduction in new product launch time & mitigating tech obsolescence
· (Gen)AI: On-track to deliver $2-4B incremental AUM & $200-250M revenue for leading SEA Private Bank from 7 mature GenAI use cases across content creation, curation & digital marketing; Piloted tech build of 12 GenAI use cases across claims, agent enablement & UW for global insurer to drive additional $40-50M profit
· PMO: Ensured 0-day delay for a large regulatory tech transformation project ($100+ M; 300+ FTEs; 18 months timeline) for a Singapore insurer – avoiding $500M+ fines
2+ years scaling startup from pre-revenue & raising investment across 3 key roles of Chief of Staff, Operations & product
Strategy:
· Designed the go-to-market strategy of cargo electric three-wheelers across both and B2C channels across 6 cities in 8 months.
· Raised INR 34 Cr across 2 rounds (1 equity & 1 debt) round from HNI & large banks driving creation of 5-year biz growth plan, Information memorandum & term sheet alongside CEO and CFO
· Led the Joint Venture Agreement with a legacy diesel automobile manufacturer followed by its acquisition
· Improved operational efficiencies of cross-department interaction by 40% by hiring key human resources across roles above, parallel & below organogram to drive the growth of the organization from initial 5-member team to a size of 56
Operations:
· Achieved first movers’ advantage by driving regulatory certification of 10 models of 3 & 4 -wheelers within 2-3 months vs industry benchmark of 6-9 months per model
· Setup the analytics team of 3 members for exploratory data analysis and predictive modeling to build in-house tracking application for B2B partners to drive additional $1M revenue
Product:
· Pivoted the existing product strategy from passenger to cargo vehicles to target high growth e-commerce market leading to key B2B customer acquisitions including Amazon, BigBasket, Delhivery, etc. with an order pipeline of up to $10M in revenue
· Led product development (design conception to launch) time reduction from 9 months to 5 months by adopting agile methodology for automobile research & development
· Successfully transitioned 3 new RnD projects from concept to production with increased product validation accuracy by 8% and achieved 100% timeline compliance, an improvement of 15% on existing production project deliveries
· Saved up to $13M by implementing LSTM driven model for root caue analysis of textual fault logs at the client’s location to ensure product downtime reduction by 48 hours
· Successfully set up the department from RnD stages to production within the target time of 12 months to managing estimated annual aero-acoustic noise projects of 10 Cr and achieved team size growth from 2 to 7
· Reduced RnD budget costs by INR 7 Cr by reducing computational manhours by implementing a decision-tree learning
· Saved costs up to INR 80 lakhs per future project by engineering an automation module which reduced the product validation timeline by 75% in RnD and 5% in production.
Strategy Consulting
(Gen)AI build
Post-merger integrations
Fund raise
Financial products
Insurance
Project management
Product management
AIR 95 in 9th National Science Olympiad (2007)
AIR 34 in GATE exams in Mechanical engineering (2012)
Employee of the quarter (2016) & Young Achiever of quarter (2015) at Tata Motors Ltd
Strategy of Content Marketing