Experience

Farmley

• India
• Food and Beverage Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Core Team

  • Oct 2019 - Jul 2021



foodpanda India

• India
• Food and Beverage Services
• 200 - 300 Employee

• AVP - Planning

  • Aug 2018 - Aug 2019

  Mumbai, Maharashtra, India



Holachef Hospitality Pvt. Ltd.

• India
• Food and Beverage Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• AVP - Planning (Foodpanda)

  • Aug 2018 - Jul 2019

  Mumbai Area, India Foodpanda acquired Holachef in June’18 and is now (Own Foods) SBU of Foodpanda. With a presence in five metro cities and setting up delivery kitchens at all prominent locations, the idea is to make Own Foods, a profit-making unit for Foodpanda focusing completely on quality and perpetual growth. Wearing multiple hats like an EIR & a Problem Solver, I take up challenges/problems/Ideas as Projects and Spearhead them to successful execution. - Directional Alignment of all the Work-Streams… Show more Foodpanda acquired Holachef in June’18 and is now (Own Foods) SBU of Foodpanda. With a presence in five metro cities and setting up delivery kitchens at all prominent locations, the idea is to make Own Foods, a profit-making unit for Foodpanda focusing completely on quality and perpetual growth. Wearing multiple hats like an EIR & a Problem Solver, I take up challenges/problems/Ideas as Projects and Spearhead them to successful execution. - Directional Alignment of all the Work-Streams of Own Foods & SBU Project Management - Strategizing & Overseeing Business Expansion for Own Brands, PAN India - Planned the Launch of 40+ Temp/Permanent Kitchens across 5 cities in 3 months with shoestring budget - Established processes & operational workflow for seamless business operations at SBU level - Built Roadmaps of all the teams, Goal Setting & subsequently aligning all the verticals. - Team structuring, re-structuring, resource alignment, setting up processes/workflow & best practices across all departments at SBU level ensuring Track-ability & Measurement. - Phase wise future planning wrt Brand Presence, New Menu additions, Production Facility, Packaging Innovations and overall User Experience - Planned, strategized and piloted the project of "Own Foods" participation & launch for FLRT brand across Emerging India Tier 2 cities - New Initiatives: Scoping out, analysing & strategizing new business segments & markets FP can get into with it’s range of brands under “Own Foods” category. Offline Brand Store and Foodtruck to name a few.

• Consultant

  • Jun 2016 - Jul 2018

  Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, New Delhi, India After a full time stint, moved to Consulting role at Holachef. Also started Consulting other bootstrapping, seed & growth stage startups across domains like Consumer Internet/Marketplace Models, IOT Products & off lately Cryptocurrency. Helping them build their Overall Business Strategy, Team Structure, Setting up Business Operations, Expansion Plans, Product Market Fit, Investor Deck et.ll. Few More Startups - - weddingonclick -> Tech Enabled Wedding Management company -… Show more After a full time stint, moved to Consulting role at Holachef. Also started Consulting other bootstrapping, seed & growth stage startups across domains like Consumer Internet/Marketplace Models, IOT Products & off lately Cryptocurrency. Helping them build their Overall Business Strategy, Team Structure, Setting up Business Operations, Expansion Plans, Product Market Fit, Investor Deck et.ll. Few More Startups - - weddingonclick -> Tech Enabled Wedding Management company - spoofin -> A social networking app that lets users create & view Spoofs of their favourite videos. - Iblink® ->IOT based smart home solutions & service provider - koinknight -> A Cryptocurrency Arbitrage search engine - Tec Lookup® ->Cryptocurrency ICO Review Tech Startup - Naaptol -> A Home shopping Company. Helped them in setting up & scaling New Verticals (Sep 16-Apr 17)

• Sr Vice President - Operations & Strategy

  • Sep 2015 - May 2016

  Mumbai Area, India Holachef.com is a Mumbai based online curated food delivery start-up and marketplace for home chefs and master chefs; a platform serving home-quality regional Indian food to world cuisines, prepared by some of the best select chefs which connects these people to hundreds and thousands of end customers, who crave for a good meal right at their doorsteps. - Optimising costs at all levels to work out the business economics making the model operationally viable - Expanding & setting up… Show more Holachef.com is a Mumbai based online curated food delivery start-up and marketplace for home chefs and master chefs; a platform serving home-quality regional Indian food to world cuisines, prepared by some of the best select chefs which connects these people to hundreds and thousands of end customers, who crave for a good meal right at their doorsteps. - Optimising costs at all levels to work out the business economics making the model operationally viable - Expanding & setting up processes, team and distribution centres across cities - Leveraging technology for efficient clubbing of orders and identify optimal routing for last mile delivery - Automating routine processes keeping fixed costs to as low as possible. This also created a robust foundation for expansion to new localities and to new cities as well. - Strategic Alliances: Identifying various distribution channels, B2B brand alliances to increase awareness, reach and better distribution in Zero Budget Marketing. - Alliances & Co-branded promotion activities with brands like Freecharge, CredR, Happay, Zimmber, CashKaro, Four Fountain, MyDentist to name a few. - New Initiatives: Partnered with Startup Events, StanC Marathon, Colleges, Bollywood Movies and Music Festivals, Celebrity Endorsement



Housing.com

• India
• Real Estate
• 700 & Above Employee

• Head - Tier 2 Operations & Strategic Partnerships

  • Dec 2014 - Aug 2015

  Mumbai - Spearheading Entire Tier 2 Operations Expansion across India from ground Zero - Building, expanding, launching & scaling Businesses - Devising strategy, setting up structure and processes for Tier 2 operations - Launched 42+ New Cities in < 3 months; Scaled T2 operations from scratch to 250 member team in these 42 cities across hierarchies comprising 200 field force, 34 Team Leads and 16 Managers - Heading day-to-day Ops and scaled verified collections/listings from 300 per… Show more - Spearheading Entire Tier 2 Operations Expansion across India from ground Zero - Building, expanding, launching & scaling Businesses - Devising strategy, setting up structure and processes for Tier 2 operations - Launched 42+ New Cities in < 3 months; Scaled T2 operations from scratch to 250 member team in these 42 cities across hierarchies comprising 200 field force, 34 Team Leads and 16 Managers - Heading day-to-day Ops and scaled verified collections/listings from 300 per day to 2100 a day (700% Growth) - Conceptualized and Monetized IPC business model which eventually started generating revenues on every transactions made by the IPCs via Housing.com - Strategic Partnership with 10+ leading IPCs (International Property Consultants) across country with REMax India, Colliers International, SquareYards, CBRE, Coldwell Bankers to name a few - Partnering with prestigious Real Estate Associations like NAR India (National Association of Realtors) and APP-Delhi (a part of NAR) Show less



Tushky Events and Entertainment

• India
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co Founder & COO

  • Mar 2012 - Aug 2015

  Mumbai Area, India Tushky is a marketplace of activities, workshops, events, travel and things to do. It gives a platform for experience providers to list their activities/workshops and monetize their skills through a seamless booking and payment engine. Headed Operations/Product development, B2B alliances, business development, new initiatives; scaled from 2 to 20 member team, expanded business operations from 3 to 100+ cities & raised two rounds of funds from Indian investors as well as investors from… Show more Tushky is a marketplace of activities, workshops, events, travel and things to do. It gives a platform for experience providers to list their activities/workshops and monetize their skills through a seamless booking and payment engine. Headed Operations/Product development, B2B alliances, business development, new initiatives; scaled from 2 to 20 member team, expanded business operations from 3 to 100+ cities & raised two rounds of funds from Indian investors as well as investors from Silicon Valley. Strategic Alliances: Identifying various distribution channels, B2B alliances, Increase brand awareness, reach and better distribution. Leveraging partner’s network & market capitalization Partnering with top-notch experience providers for exclusivity rights New Initiatives: “WandeReach” Event (India’s first Event for Activity Providers), “WandeReach Tales” Tushky’s Blog initiative, Designing & rolling out Subscription plan model, B2B alliances. Operations & Product: Expanding and Scaling Operations. Streamlining and managing entire operations, Heading product development, aggregation, Demand analysis, Mapping cities/categories, Manpower estimation, Recruitment & Training, Cross functional team, Overseeing engagement, Category Management Active participant and speaker in various HR Events/seminars/conferences, Business networking; Creating Zero Budget marketing. Driving top line sales and ensuring GMV. On boarding corporate entities for their array of employee engagement activities, outbound tour/travel and all kind of small and big events. - Overseeing Digital Marketing (SEO, SEM, SMM, Content Marketing), Cross promotion - Establishing network with startup/Lifestyle/Travel journalist for media coverage - Participating in various HR/Startup/travel events, seminars and conferences. - Fund Raising Activities - Overseeing Legal/Finance/Accounts and other statutory compliances Show less



Mexus Education Pvt Ltd

• India
• Education Administration Programs
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Zonal Manager

  • Jan 2010 - Feb 2012

  Mumbai Area, India Mexus Education is a $100 Mn venture in the growing Education Technology Space from a diversified billion-dollar group based out of Vapi. As a part of the strategy, business development and project management for Maharashtra and Goa region, following were executed - Instrumental in partnering with educational institutions across K12 segment for technology-enabled solutions - Scaled and managed business operations from Mumbai to other parts of Maharashtra and Goa. - Scaled team size… Show more Mexus Education is a $100 Mn venture in the growing Education Technology Space from a diversified billion-dollar group based out of Vapi. As a part of the strategy, business development and project management for Maharashtra and Goa region, following were executed - Instrumental in partnering with educational institutions across K12 segment for technology-enabled solutions - Scaled and managed business operations from Mumbai to other parts of Maharashtra and Goa. - Scaled team size from 2 to a team of 5 + direct and 15 indirect reports and managed 3 cross-functional teams. - On-boarded elite schools- Bombay Scottish, Bombay Cambridge, Children’s Academy, Don Bosco - Headed the planning & execution team for hosting various press conferences at Goa & Navi Mumbai. - Official spokesperson for media address; generated coverage for the brand in leading publications. - Recognized by TOI, HT & others talking about “Digital and Experiential Learning “ - Spearheaded various implementation projects; coordination with stakeholders like school authorities and heads of internal departments (Purchase, Logistics, Content Development, Mapping, Training and Implementation) Show less



FACT Software Group

• Singapore
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Branch Head

  • Apr 2008 - Jan 2010

  Mumbai Area, India FACT Solutions is headquartered at Kolkata and Singapore, having operations in 6 + counties. Company deals in promoting packaged as well as customized software application and ERP solutions for SME’s having accounting, finance, inventory and payroll modules as core domain. Was heading its Mumbai Branch and looking after business expansion in Western Region. Core areas include business development & growth, Operations and Support Administration. - Instrumental in leading the Branch from… Show more FACT Solutions is headquartered at Kolkata and Singapore, having operations in 6 + counties. Company deals in promoting packaged as well as customized software application and ERP solutions for SME’s having accounting, finance, inventory and payroll modules as core domain. Was heading its Mumbai Branch and looking after business expansion in Western Region. Core areas include business development & growth, Operations and Support Administration. - Instrumental in leading the Branch from a loss making entity to a profit centre - Scaled business operations from Mumbai to rest of Maharashtra and Gujarat. - Successfully managed cross functional team of sales, support, operations and administration - Scaled team size from 2 to 18 across departments of sales and support - On boarded Glenmark, Sharekhan, Mahanagar Gas, Hawkins, Datamatics along with few SME’s - Customer retention increased by 30% thus contributing in revenues Show less



Mediaware Infotech Pvt Ltd

• Project Manager/ Business Analyst/ Business Development Manager

  • Nov 2006 - Jan 2008

  Mumbai Area, India Mediaware has been providing software solutions for the advertising and media industry since ages. Pioneer in packaged/customised software application for Advertising Agencies, TV Channels, Production Houses and Corporate Advertisers. As a Project & Business Manager, was playing key role in business expansion and Project Management. Was instrumental in driving sales of new projects for Production houses and TV Channels. - Stakeholder Management - Managing System Development Life Cycle… Show more Mediaware has been providing software solutions for the advertising and media industry since ages. Pioneer in packaged/customised software application for Advertising Agencies, TV Channels, Production Houses and Corporate Advertisers. As a Project & Business Manager, was playing key role in business expansion and Project Management. Was instrumental in driving sales of new projects for Production houses and TV Channels. - Stakeholder Management - Managing System Development Life Cycle for customised software projects - Spearheading team and driving revenues via sales of media related software & services to TV channels, Production Houses, Media Agencies & Corporate Advertisers - Team Management, Business Presentation, Product Training, New Initiatives Show less