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Nikhil Rudrappa

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India16 yrs experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Scaled a startup to a top customer engagement platform.
  • Developed India's first sustainable deodorant product.
  • Designed a disruptive marketing program recognized by Gartner.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Ecommerce expert with strong entrepreneurial and sales capabilities.

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Skills

Core Skills

Saas SalesSales StrategyBusiness DevelopmentEntrepreneurshipBusiness-to-business (b2b)SalesSoftware As A Service (saas)Team Leadership

Other Skills

Account ManagementBusiness ModelingBusiness StrategyCRMCompetitive AnalysisContent WritingContract NegotiationCorporate CommunicationsDecision SciencesDevelopment of Sales ToolsDigital MarketingDirect MarketingEnterprise Software SalesEnterprise Technology SalesGoogle Adwords

Experience

Superagi

Vice President of Global Sales

Nov 2024Present · 1 yr 4 mos · Palo Alto, California, United States · Remote

SaaS SalesBusiness-to-Business (B2B)Account ManagementSales StrategySalesSoftware Sales+6

Contlo

Founding Member - Head of Sales

Jan 2022Present · 4 yrs 2 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

  • Rebranded as SuperAGI
  • Joined pre-revenue.
  • Scaled it to one of the top customer engagement platforms in our vertical in less than 2 years.
  • Personally closing more than 50% of the deals.
  • Built an A+ team of reps and AEs.
  • Scaled partnerships to contribute 35% of our revenue.
  • Maintained 30% conversion rate in a hyper competitive space while selling at a 50-100% premium on our competition.
SaaS SalesBusiness-to-Business (B2B)Account ManagementSales StrategySalesSoftware Sales+6

Multiple mvps in ecommerce

Co-Founder

Jan 2021Dec 2021 · 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Beekle - A voice shopping assistant for alexa, googlehome.
  • Hemp herbals - A multi category consumer brand in food and nutrition space with hemp as the hero ingredient. Folded it in 8 months due to regulatory challenges in manufacturing and restrictions on online advertising.
Entrepreneurship

Hiveminds

Head of Ecommerce

Oct 2018Jan 2021 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Built the marketplace business for Hiveminds from 0-1
  • Got first 20 customers including Wipro, Stanley and P&G
  • Built the consulting practice around the early clients. Media buying, cataloguing, and other professional services.
  • Became Amazon and Flipkart priority partner with all the perks.
  • Built a tight partnership with category and ads team at key publishers.
  • Became one of the top agency in India in terms of media managed on Amazon and Flipkart by 2021
  • My division now is the largest revenue vertical in Hiveminds as of 2024
Business-to-Business (B2B)Account ManagementSalesTeam LeadershipSales Planning

Aroha nature products

Founder & Guinea Pig

Sep 2015Oct 2018 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Developed India's first sustainably packaged natural deodorant product which reached top 3 in the best seller category on Amazon.
  • Onboarded Aroha onto all major ecommerce platforms - Amazon, Nykaa, Bigbasket and 50 offline stores across the country, including a pilot launch with health & glow.
Entrepreneurship

Aura cloud

Marketing Lead

Sep 2013Jun 2015 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Digital, PR, Corp coms, Lead gen.
  • Key achievements in this role
  • Designed a marketing program called as the ‘Model Bank’ experience which was written about by Gartner in their cool vendor reports as a disruptive initiative. Model bank offered prospects a simulation of an integrated banking experience powered by our core banking platform within 10 minutes of registration. The program gave business a pipeline of kr 30M.
  • Got our product featured in 3 Gartner reports and 1 Forrester report for the FY 2014-2015.
Business-to-Business (B2B)Software as a Service (SaaS)

Hivos

Consultant

Jul 2013Aug 2013 · 1 mo · Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

  • Hivos is a Dutch non-profit that works with Indonesian Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources to create bio-digesters to generate domestic bio-gas in Indonesia as a local sustainable energy source.
  • Prepared a detailed financial model to help Hivos better target customers with their product mix of biogas digesters. The model showed ROI on digesters of different sizes.
  • Rabobank, Nestle that were funding the project found our report "surprisingly" :) useful in structuring their lending products for the farmers.

Cytec

GTM Consultant

Apr 2013Jun 2013 · 2 mos · Brussels Metropolitan Area

  • Cytec, an american chemicals company had significant market share in post harvest grain preservation chemicals in the US. The project was to understand market size and entry strategy into the EU.
  • We validated Cytecs initial estimate of a total market size. Interviewed farmers, traders, commodities giants in 20+ EU countries to understand incumbent storage systems and their potential to spend on a newer technology.
  • We recommended Cytec to acquire a competitor working with similar technology and had 10% of the market in EU as a faster go-to-market strategy. Our research concluded that EU regulations had a 5 year wait in procuring licenses.

Aura cloud

Founder's office

Oct 2010Aug 2012 · 1 yr 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Had my hands in everything around partnerships, product marketing, lead gen, corp comms, martech, internal comms.

Support direct india pvt. ltd.

Sales rep

Feb 2010Oct 2010 · 8 mos · Mumbai

  • On field fundraising. The skills i learnt here serve me to this day.
  • Was raising 20L/ month for Oxfam, save the children, helpage India.
Team LeadershipSales Planning

Mastek ltd

Software Engineer

Oct 2008Feb 2010 · 1 yr 4 mos · Seepz Mumbai

Education

BiMBA at Peking University

Certificate program — Business in China

Jan 2013Jan 2013

Vlerick Business School

Master of Business Administration (MBA) — Full time MBA

Jan 2012Jan 2013

University of Mumbai

Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) — Computer Engineering

Jan 2004Jan 2008

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