Abhishek Biswal

CEO

Gurgaon, Haryana, India20 yrs 7 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led product strategies for Airtel Digital across multiple verticals.
  • Scaled Housing.com from 300 to over 18,500 properties.
  • Successfully executed construction projects worth US$ 55 million.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a strategic leader in Telecommunications and Real Estate sectors with a strong focus on product management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Business StrategyProduct ManagementDigital StrategyInnovation StrategySales StrategyMonetization StrategyStrategy DevelopmentBusiness DevelopmentEntrepreneurshipConstruction Management

Other Skills

B2C AcquisitionsBroadband GrowthConstruction TechniquesCross-functional Team LeadershipDigital ChannelsGTM StrategyInvestment RaisingLeadershipMarket AnalysisProduct AnalyticsProduct DesignProduct DevelopmentProduct InnovationProduct StrategyProject Control

About

Experienced product and business strategy leader with a demonstrated history of working in the Indian internet space taking products from concept to scale.

Experience

Airtel digital

4 roles

EVP & CBO - Digital Services

Promoted

Apr 2024Present · 1 yr 11 mos

SVP & Business Head

Promoted

Apr 2022Mar 2024 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Led product and business strategies for Airtel Digital across various verticals including Entertainment, Advertising, CPaaS, IOT, Cloud, and Security.
  • Implemented innovative and industry first solutions to drive revenue growth and enhance customer experience.
  • Spearheaded cross-functional teams to launch successful products and services, contributing to the company's market leadership.
Product StrategyBusiness StrategyCross-functional Team LeadershipProduct Management

SVP Product

Promoted

Jun 2021Mar 2022 · 9 mos

  • Heading Product for B2C Acquisitions, Digital Channels (Thanks App, airtel.in) and Offline Channels (D2C and Retail).
  • Heading Product for Airtel Digital investments in Advertisements, Payments & Financial Services.
Product ManagementB2C AcquisitionsDigital ChannelsDigital Strategy

VP Product

Sep 2018Jun 2021 · 2 yrs 9 mos

  • Leading category product and innovation for DTH and Broadband business at Airtel.
  • Built one of the largest cross business programs - Airtel Black leading to a simplification of GTM for home connectivity needs.
  • Conceptualised and launched products for growth of prepaid Broadband category through an unique franchise model across local cable operators in over 500 Tier 2/3 towns.
Product InnovationGTM StrategyBroadband GrowthProduct ManagementInnovation Strategy

Housing.com

2 roles

VP Product

Promoted

Jan 2017Aug 2018 · 1 yr 7 mos · Mumbai Area, India

  • Created Subscription Ad Products for the Classified Business setting up complete sales operations, pricing, product packaging and delivery.
  • Conceptualised and launched first of it's kind Coupon Service for Home Buying.
  • Spearheaded the Product Management function for Housing.com including Design, Product Analytics and overall Product Roadmap across Search & Discovery, Supply and Monetisation Product verticals.
Product ManagementSales OperationsProduct AnalyticsSales Strategy

Head Monetisation Products

Jan 2015Dec 2016 · 1 yr 11 mos · Mumbai Area, India

  • Designed and built new product lines to kick-start monetisation efforts in secondary markets, managing multi-functional teams across sales, operations, product analytics and marketing.
  • Launched first of its kind android app for real estate agents to empower Housing with offline transaction ability. Built the revenue model for various product lines, implementing across 800 FOS in a 3 tiered structure to achieve sales targets.
Product DesignRevenue Model DevelopmentMarket AnalysisProduct ManagementMonetization Strategy

Tripvillas

2 roles

VP Affiliate

Jan 2014Nov 2014 · 10 mos

  • Executed several affiliate partnerships to distribute the Tripvillas inventory with both Indian and Global OTAs including deal negotiation/ execution, integration with partners, on-boarding and revenue management.

India CEO

Mar 2012Nov 2014 · 2 yrs 8 mos

  • Scaled the APAC business from 300 properties to over 18,500 properties in a span of 18 months with over 10% penetration in paid listings.
  • Setup the company's global back-end team in Bangalore housing customer service and technology development.

Indman consultants

Director Strategy

Mar 2010Jan 2013 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Mumbai Area, India

  • Re-structured a family business to form verticals in Construction, Real Estate and Human Resources. Launched and setup the Construction Arm (Indman Infra Projects) overseeing business development and project control.
  • Won successful bids and executed construction projects worth US$ 55 million in Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan. Setup internal products for various verticals to drive accountability and efficiency.
Business DevelopmentProject ControlConstruction ManagementStrategy Development

Thinklabs technosolutions pvt. ltd.

CEO & Co Founder

Feb 2007Mar 2010 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Mumbai Area, India

  • Scaled from a humble beginning of incubation at SINE, IIT Bombay to over 100 member strong team with 350 education institutes client base PAN India hitting a turnover of US$ 3.5 million in 3 years.
  • Launched new product lines in STEM training for professionals, colleges and schools, with a flagship GUI based programming tool for early learning.
  • During this period raised equity investment of US$ 1 million from Seedfund. Exited the venture with successful secondary sale.
Product DevelopmentTeam ManagementInvestment RaisingEntrepreneurshipProduct Management

Midmac contracting w.l.l.

2 roles

Planning & Construction Optimisation

Promoted

Nov 2005Feb 2007 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • Lead the innovation team for the project to design and implement optimised construction techniques leading to significant cost and time saving.

Estimation & Planning

Feb 2005Nov 2005 · 9 mos

  • Part of a successful US$ 500 million bid team for a design and build project in New Doha International Airport, Qatar.
Construction TechniquesProject ManagementConstruction ManagementInnovation Strategy

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

Jan 2000Jan 2004

MES Indian School

Apr 1992Mar 2000

Earthinators Climate School

Apr 1986Mar 1992

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