Experience

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  Valt

  • Hong Kong SAR

  • Vice President Of Product Development

    • Jan 2022 - Present
    • Hong Kong SAR

    Valt, an enterprise software company, provides an integrated digital infrastructure and network for institutional private market participants. Catering primarily to small to medium sized financial institutions, asset managers, RIAs, companies seeking capital, and family offices, our mission is to increase efficiency and collaboration across the private markets community. Valt streamlines and digitizes operational workflows, while integrating the sourcing of and collaboration with partners all in one unified technology system.Our name Valt combines the foundational elements of our ecosystem, vetted organizations ‘V’ and ‘alt’ alternative assets.Managed by serial entrepreneurs and led by Soul Htite, a successful three-time founder of Lending Club, Dianrong, and Upgrade. The team brings together experience from fintech, asset management, and professional networking.

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  Assured Asset Management

  • Hong Kong
  • Financial Services
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • Vice President Of Product Development

    • Jul 2022 - Present

  • Assistant Vice President

    • Aug 2020 - Jul 2022

  • Product Associate

    • Dec 2017 - Aug 2020

    - Developed product road map and delivered MVP for Risk Analytics Dashboard helping Risk Analysis team move closer to automating repetitive tasks- Identified user needs for multiple projects to ensure that user requirements were correctly captured and prioritized- Led development and deployment of digital Know Your Customer and Onboarding product resulting in reduction of time for clients to input forms to 20 minutes by working with multidisciplinary stakeholders and achieving management buy-in- Aided in modelling viability and eventual takeover of US$ 100 million + investment fund while working with multiple stakeholders and partners- Implemented phase one of transition of offline systems to Salesforce to ensure alignment between departments

  • Summer Intern

    • Jun 2017 - Nov 2017

    - Organized FINTalks.org, a three city Fintech conference which aided the company in reaching over 800 new industry professionals- Developed and curated website content to establish digital presence to capture professional investor interest across categories- Managed co-ordination with leading U.S. marketplace lending platforms to facilitate over USD3M in initial investments

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  Art Lounge India

  • Mumbai Area, India

  • Co-Founder

    • Jun 2015 - Present
    • Mumbai Area, India

    Co-Founder Responsible for Marketing, Business Development, Website management- Brainstormed and executed growth strategies to grow monthly revenue to over Rs. 550k (~USD8k) through 20% month on month increase in overall sales over 6 Months, strategies included SEO optimization, social media marketing as well as cross selling through customer engagement- Created marketing initiatives across digital platforms, leading to extensive customer stickiness. - Generated over 1500 email leads through the use of a online contest based lead generation service to ensure customer engagement- Co-ordinated with major eCommerce marketplaces in India to get products listed and generate sales. Products amongst best-selling in respective categories- Strategized and implemented plan to work with major shipping carriers as per state to minimize delivery costs- Evaluated, selected and implemented back end platform for e-commerce website which included Analytics and Advertising

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  Tink Labs

  • Hong Kong

  • eCommerce Intern

    • Feb 2017 - May 2017
    • Hong Kong

    Provider of 'handy' smartphone solution to leading hotels worldwide- Generating Business Intelligence insights through customer data to monitor performance- Identifying potential strategic directions for handy ticketing platform to increase customer activation- Designed decision tree for customer refunds and created tool to implement the same

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  Mecord Systems and Services Pvt Ltd

  • Mumbai Area, India

  • Business Development and Technical Lead

    • Feb 2012 - Jun 2015
    • Mumbai Area, India

    Industrial Instrumentation Distributor- Identified key customers for firm’s expansion into the Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) segment and was key in securing contract worth over Rs. 10M (~USD150k) in 1st year sales- Motivated and led team of over 25 individuals across the firm in sales and operations to ensure focus remained on meeting business targets while ensuring that clear communication led to empathy across organization- Formulated business plans with inputs from three overseas principals (Finland, Japan and USA) as part of business development activities, overall value of plans was ~USD1.5M- Identified gaps in previous CRM solution to implement alternate solution, leading to better customer opportunity identification- Varied account management experience with clients in Oil and Gas, Power Grid, Automotive as well as IT- Was part of team responsible for the firm receiving appreciation at the Annual International Distributor conference

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  Accenture

  • Mumbai Area, India

  • Associate Software Engineer

    • Jun 2011 - Feb 2012
    • Mumbai Area, India

    - Project assignment involved report maintenance and generation for one of USA's largest energy companies- Responsibilities including building SQL reports and maintaining their functionality according to the service level arrangement requirements