Richie Khandelwal

Co-Founder

Pune, Maharashtra, India17 yrs 1 mo experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Co-founded a successful revenue management platform.
Led MindTickle's growth from 40 to 400 employees.
Managed multi-billion dollar engineering projects globally.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Consulting expert with a strong engineering background.

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Skills

Core Skills

Business StrategyOperationsStrategyConsultingFinanceEngineering

Other Skills

AutomationBusiness OperationsChange ManagementCompetitive AnalysisCorrosion EngineeringCost AnalysisCost EstimationCost ManagementData AnalysisDue DiligenceEnergyEnergy AnalysisGrowth StrategyInvestment AnalysisLeadership

About

Richie is a co-founder at PriceLabs, a cloud-based revenue management platform for Airbnb and vacation rental owners and property managers. PriceLabs has customers in over 100+ countries and prices over 500K units. At PriceLabs, Richie oversees GTM and Operations. Journey before PriceLabs - VP of Business Operations and Finance at MindTickle (now a Unicorn as of 2021) - raised >$80 Million in funding, led employee growth from 40 to 400 and worked closely with board to chart growth plans. - Management consultant with Bain & Company (Boston, Houston, and Toronto offices). He worked on various strategy projects, including full potential strategy, due diligence, and performance improvement. - Engineer with Shell - Before diving into the tech world, Richie worked in the physical world, working on Megaprojects (billions of dollars) and Megastructures across Asia, Europe, and North America. Richie has an engineering degree from IIT Madras and an MBA from Kellogg School of Management

Experience

Mindtickle

2 roles

VP Finance and Business Operations

Promoted

Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 · 2 yrs

Business OperationsFinanceGrowth StrategyBusiness StrategyOperations

Director, Business Operations and Chief of staff

Aug 2016 – Jan 2018 · 1 yr 5 mos

Business OperationsStrategic PlanningBusiness StrategyOperations

Bain & company

Consultant

Oct 2014 – Aug 2016 · 1 yr 10 mos · Greater Boston Area; Toronto, Canada Area

Key projects:
+ Led program management office to change operating model from geographic to business unit oriented organizational structure for a Medtech device client
+ Conducted due diligence on a food service equipment distributor in the US and Canada
+ Developed full potential strategy for a private equity portfolio company in Industrial goods space
+ Built strategies and models to capture cost savings from performance improvement initiatives for a large food services client

Program ManagementDue DiligencePerformance ImprovementStrategyConsulting

Pricelabs

Co-Founder

Mar 2014 – Present · 12 yrs

PriceLabs is an innovative and easy to use revenue management tool for vacation and short term rental industry. A data-driven approach, automation rules, and customizations to manage pricing and stay restrictions help vacation rentals increase revenues and save them hours in the process. With integrations to a growing list of channels and property management systems, automated revenue management is a few clicks away!

Revenue ManagementData AnalysisAutomationBusiness StrategyOperations

Bain & company

Consultant (intern)

Jun 2013 – Aug 2013 · 2 mos · Greater Houston

Key projects:
+ Analyzed assets of a large energy client against a range of scenarios due to changing energy landscape to determine threats and opportunities
+ Created short-term signposts to identify plausible long-term outcomes for oil and gas prices

Energy AnalysisScenario PlanningConsulting

Siemens venture capital (svc)

Associate

Dec 2012 – Mar 2013 · 3 mos · Greater Boston

SVC is venture capital arm of Siemens that invests in innovative technology companies. I worked with energy vertical looking at growth stage investments.

Venture CapitalInvestment AnalysisFinance

Shell

Project services engineer

Aug 2007 – Aug 2012 · 5 yrs · Asia, Europe, and North America

Title: Project services engineer (Stavanger Area, Norway)
Time period: February 2012 – August 2012
Responsibilities: Provide support to Shell major projects in Norway, particularly offshore and deep water. Managed cost estimates for a multi-billion dollar project under execution in Norway.
Title: Project services engineer (Bengaluru Area, India)
Time period: June 2011 – February 2012
Responsibilities: Provide support to Shell major projects across upstream and downstream businesses. Prepare conceptual cost estimates, and conduct project cost risk assessment involving technical, commercial, economical, organizational and political factors.
Title: Engineering Consultant – Corrosion (Bengaluru Area, India)
Time period: December 2010 – June 2011
Responsibilities: Engaged with Shell group of operating companies in Asia-pacific region enabling them to achieve top quartile asset reliability and availability.
Title: Plant Engineer - Corrosion and integrity (Convent Refinery, Louisiana, US)
Time period: August 2008 – November 2010
Responsibilities: Motiva is a Shell and Saudi Aramco joint venture. Here, I worked as lead corrosion engineer providing support to operations, maintenance and projects to improve site safety, reliability and margins. Additionally, I was a member on the Diversity and Inclusiveness Council of the refinery.
Title: Associate engineer (India, Malaysia, and Netherlands)
Time period: August 2007 – July 2008
Responsibilities: Organized Shell’s knowledge base on corrosion and provided technical services to clients.