Gaurav Bubna

Co-Founder

Singapore, Singapore16 yrs 5 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led product teams at Grab and Ola.
Developed innovative routing platform at NextBillion.ai.
Scaled teams from 10 to over 300 members.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product Management expert with a strong focus on SaaS and Fintech solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementProduct DevelopmentData Science

Other Skills

Algorithmic TradingAlgorithmsBig DataBusiness EfficiencyConnected Car PlatformConnected Car TechnologyConsumer GrowthCorporate DevelopmentCost OptimizationFinancial ModelingFundraisingIntegrationInvestment PartnershipsM&A SupportMachine Learning

About

At NextBillion.ai, we are building a comprehensive routing platform that is specifically designed for enterprises. We're backed by some of the top VCs, and have teams and customers spread throughout the globe. We serve customers of all sizes from series A startups, high tech companies, Fortune 500 enterprises as well as Government agencies. Previously, I led product teams at fast growing organisations such as Grab and Ola.

Experience

Nextbillion.ai

Co-Founder

Feb 2020 – Present · 6 yrs 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area

Nextbillion.ai provides advanced Routing APIs and SDKs for businesses in transportation, supply chain, and field services. We enable businesses to achieve more optimised routes, better asset utilisation, and reduced operating costs. Our platform can handle all kinds of complexity in your operations, is more cost effective and integrates easily with your existing tools and applications.
Acquired by Velocitor.

Routing APIsSDKsCost OptimizationIntegrationProduct ManagementProduct Development

Grab

Head of Product, ETAs and Navigation

Apr 2017 – Feb 2020 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Singapore

Founding member of the Maps product team @ Grab. Helped scale the team from a 10 member cross functional team to 300+ in a span of ~2.5 years
Led a 7 member PM team across ETAs, Map Data and Navigation.
Helped drive significant business and operational efficiency through better maps and location based services (of the tune of $X00 M / year)
My broader team filed for >15 papers and patents, winning a couple of best paper awards at renowned conferences
Also initiated and led key corp dev initiatives
Led the JV deal structuring and negotiations with SK Telecom. Was later the Head of Product for the entity. Drove alignment across Grab and SKT, ran everything from product, board meetings, budgeting, business operations
Led the OpenTerra acquisition from Telenav, which led to the opening of Grab's first European R&D center in Romania
Led strategic partnership discussions with a Russian internet conglomerate leading to an investment proposal of $X00 M USD into Grab

Maps Product DevelopmentTeam ScalingBusiness EfficiencyPatentsCorporate DevelopmentProduct Management+1

Ola (ani technologies pvt. ltd)

Associate Director, Product Management

Jan 2016 – Apr 2017 · 1 yr 3 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

Marketplace Fulfilment and Growth Initiatives
Led product teams across various initiatives in marketplace fulfilment and consumer growth. Helped drive >$20M USD / year in top-line growth
Ola Play
Founding member and product head of Ola Play, which was the world's first connected car platform tailored for ride sharing. The team filed 5+ patents for this work
Ola Play helped Ola raise a round of investment from Microsoft and form a global go to market partnership

Marketplace FulfillmentConsumer GrowthConnected Car PlatformInvestment PartnershipsProduct Management

Zlemma (acquired by hired.com)

Founding Member, Head of Product

Jul 2012 – Jan 2016 · 3 yrs 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Co-developed ZLemma's proprietary search engine for recruitment of STEM candidates. Filed 7 US Patents for this work.
Initiated and helped drive fundraising conversations, leading to closing of our Series A
Provided extensive support for our M&A conversations leading to two term sheets

Search Engine DevelopmentFundraisingM&A SupportProduct Management

Morgan stanley

Quantitative Analyst

Sep 2009 – May 2012 · 2 yrs 8 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area

Worked on Quant projects across financial products. Most work was state of the art, many appearing in academic publications years later
Some projects
Structuring and pricing of a >$1B USD Convertible Bonds portfolio
Multi Dimensional partial differential equations based pricing engine for exotic derivatives
Led a 3 member team responsible for developing algorithmic trading strategies for US Equity ETFs

Quantitative AnalysisAlgorithmic TradingFinancial ModelingData Science