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EDUCATION
Indian School of Business (ISB) | PGP in Management | Intended Major: Finance & Strategy Apr 2018 – Current
• Founding Owner & Head, Team Hurricanes - ISB Sports League; 4-team sports league spanning 6 months with 400+ participants
§ Raised a fund of INR 15 lac from students, alumni & corporate sponsorships; held fiduciary responsibilities to manage the fund
§ Built a 107 player pool by leading an 18 member team; orchestrated the player bidding process using analytical models
§ Strategized & managed a pan India player pool for 14 sports; interacted with crucial stakeholders to schedule for 75+ sport events
• Marketing and Communications Head, Senior Executive Club
§ Achieved a club ranking of top 3/14 by organizing 7 social events & 10+ speaker sessions to enhance the members’ experience
§ Played a key role in making this year’s member pitch book; Organized one-on-one mentoring with alumni for 37 club members
Christ University | Bachelors of Business Management | Major: Finance | 1st Class Jun 2005 – May 2008 // Bengaluru
• Lead Coordinator for intra and intercollegiate fests; conducted 4 events while managing a team of 7 members
• Core member of the finance club, conducted speaker sessions, assisted students participating in events with required information
• Student representative in the final year, liaised between management and student body to address key issues
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Partner and Head of Business Development, ComixWallah Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 // Hyderabad
Led a start-up effort to launch an e-commerce platform for comic books in collaboration with a growing American publisher
Business Model Development & Ideation
• Developed a market entry strategy by evaluating alternate business models to address the fragmented Indian comics market
• Integrated a 10 member transnational stakeholder network, including with Diamond Comics, world’s largest comics distributor
• Built financial models and ideated pricing strategy; developed a subscription-based revenue plan based on consumer research
Negotiated with global and local distributors and vendors, to create a supply chain from procurement to customer delivery

Senior Manager (Managing Director’s Office), Dodla Dairy Nov 2014 – Sept 2016 // Hyderabad
One of the largest dairy companies in India that procure, processes and sells 1 million liters of milk per day across 66 regions
Strategy and key initiatives
• Worked from the Managing Directors office to plan, implement and coordinate critical processes and pilot projects
• Increased cow productivity by 25% by spearheading the backward integration project for in-house cow breeding & milk production
• Played a crucial role in pilot projects initiated to improve inbound milk quality and to establish self-sustaining processes
§ Helped build the financials for producing and selling high-quality fodder to farmers through a financing scheme
§ Implemented the project to install electronic devices at all receiving centers and integrate them to the corporate office systems
• Developed the supply chain strategy to optimize the sourcing and distribution network to locate/set up new processing facilities
• Built the official website ahead of the budgeted timeline by collating and curating content from 10+ multifunctional stakeholders
• Standardized operations across 7 processing plants, implemented real-time systems and conducted interviews to hire people

Director of Sales, GreenPark Hotels Jun 2011 – Sept 2014 // Hyderabad

A leading luxury hotel chain that owns and operates five hotels with over one thousand keys across four cities in India
• Instrumental in enabling accelerated and cost-efficient expansion (12% vs.7% CAGR) of a traditional family run business
• Increased revenue by 3% while spearheading countrywide expansion of sales network by managing a 7 member sales team
• Played a key role in opening of two new luxury hotels in Hyderabad; launched a sales alliance with a standalone hotel in Bengaluru
• Improved employee retention by 10% by initiating and executing strategies to enhance employee morale and professionalism
• Designed the company’s annual employee feedback by building consensus amongst employees, HR, and management
• Conducted interviews to fill critical positions in sales for each hotel, 3 customer service centers and reception staff for Hyd hotels

Management Trainee, GreenPark Hotels Jul 2010 – May 2011 // Hyderabad

• Promoted to Director of Sales from management trainee within one year and led a team of 20+ members across 4 cities
• Increased sales team productivity by 33% by implementing Salesforce CRM that enabled better insights through customized MIS
• Increased average revenue per room by 5% by building a real-time revenue management system with a dynamic pricing algorithm

Acting Team Leader, Goldman Sachs Group Inc Dec 2008 – Mar 2010 // Bengaluru
Goldman Sachs operations headquarters for Asia Pac
• Planned and implemented the project to automate the trade matching process across all products and regions
• Created and managed a repository of financial products and terminologies, enabling independent and faster trade reconciliation
• Co-ordinated with the legal team based out of New York to review contracts and language of structured deals

Derivatives Analyst, Goldman Sachs Group Inc Jun 2008 – Nov 2008 // Bengaluru
• Promoted to acting team leader, out of a team of 14 members, within 6 months and responsible for training team members
• Performed trade reconciliation and issue resolution, handled the 4 largest counterparties for regular and structured trades
• Processed trades across Equity, Interest & Credit Derivatives for London, New York, and Hong Kong

EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
Community Outreach:
• Taught basic math and language at a local school for underprivileged children in Hyderabad on a weekly basis since 2014
• Actively engaged in conducting one-on-one mentorship programs for working women for 7 years
Interests:
• Traveled to 16 countries, Certified deep sea diver, did an 80m bungee jumping, and Grade 3 rafting in Rishikesh in North India
• Cooking – particular interest in Italian and South Indian cooking, traveled to Italy to learn pasta-making in 2015
• State and district level tennis player; played under 12 and 13 for school level tournaments