Sam Sancheti

Co-Founder

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India14 yrs 2 mos experience

Key Highlights

Founded South India's largest Pickleball/Padel community.
Led global growth for Cuemath's K-8 business.
Established Visa Europe's cross-border payments function.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a strategic leader in EdTech and Fintech with a strong background in consulting.

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Acquisition IntegrationBusiness DevelopmentBusiness TransformationDue DiligenceFinancial ModelingGeneral ManagementGrowth StrategiesLeadershipManagement ConsultingMarket EntryMarketing StrategyOperations ManagementPerformance ImprovementProject ManagementSales

About

Phase 1 of my career was diagnosing & delivering things (Bain), phase 2 was growing & running things (Visa, Cuemath). Now entering phase 3: building in sport in India, a life-long passion. Envision a few more phases to come :)

Experience

Gorally

Co-Founder

Dec 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Mission: Get Indians to play sport regularly, as a means to better fitness & wholesome social experiences.
A year and a bit-in, we're South India's largest Pickleball / Padel player with 7 centres in Bangalore, a thriving community, an MVP platform, top coaches on board and some of India's best tournament IPs.
Long way to go yet.
https://gorally.in/
https://www.instagram.com/gorally.play/

Cuemath

2 roles

Chief Business Officer

May 2023 – Nov 2023 · 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Led P&L and Growth for our core K-8 business globally (US, India + 70 other markets).
Learnt a tonne: Growing sustainably is the hardest thing, but also the most fulfilling. And as the famous saying goes, to take care of people, product & profits - in that order :)

Head of Strategy, Investor Relations and Chief of Staff

Jul 2022 – May 2023 · 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Joined Cuemath (Series C Edtech backed by Google, Sequoia, Alphawave & others) as Head of Strategy & Chief of Staff to build the world's best math learning experience for students, teachers and parents.
Immersed myself into Edtech and the Indian startup ecosystem.

Career Break

Feb 2022 – Jun 2022 · 4 mos

Travelled. Spent time with my 2yr old. Soaked in London. Reflected. And played tonnes of sport.
The calm before the storm of transitioning back to India after 9 yrs in London...best thing I did in a while.

Visa

2 roles

Head of Cross-Border Payments, Europe

Promoted

Jul 2018 – Jan 2022 · 3 yrs 6 mos

Instituted Visa Europe’s multi-disciplinary & multi-country Cross-border payments function, responsible for growing international payments @~20% YoY (single largest contributor to Visa revenues).
Basically, line leadership in a global & matrixed $500B org. Easy peasy.

Sr. Director, Corporate Strategy, Europe

Jun 2017 – Jun 2018 · 1 yr

Joined Visa Europe at the start of it's $21B reintegration back into the global parent (Visa Inc).
Established Europe's 5-pronged regional strategy and Visa's global GTM in account to account payments.
Learnt (and marvelled at!) the complexity of payments, and yet the pace of change.

Bain & company

2 roles

Case Team Leader

Promoted

Sep 2015 – Jun 2017 · 1 yr 9 mos · London, United Kingdom

Joined the London office post MBA, leading teams advising financial services and technology clients.
Education in how to lead people smarter than me.

Associate Consultant / Consultant

Sep 2009 – Aug 2013 · 3 yrs 11 mos · New Delhi / San Francisco

Ripe out of undergrad, learnt the ropes at the best business institution possible.
Specialised in tech, telecom and PE clients looking to grow in India. Did a 6 month stint in the Valley too.