Sep 2024 – Present · 1 yr 6 mos

• The Prognosis is a healthcare-focused podcast series that delves into the journeys of India’s most impactful healthcare entrepreneurs and operators.
• Catch up on previous episodes:
• ⁠ ⁠Ep 01: Prashant Tandon – Founder & CEO, Tata 1mg
• ⁠ ⁠Ep 02: Harsimarbir Singh – Founder, Pristyn Care
• ⁠ ⁠Ep 03: Vishal Bali – Executive Chairman, Asia Healthcare Holdings
• ⁠ ⁠Ep 04: Dr. Upasana Arora – MD, Yashoda Healthcare
• ⁠ ⁠Ep 05: Rohit MA – Founder, Cloud Nine Hospitals
• ⁠ ⁠Ep 06: Viren Shetty – Executive Vice Chairman, Narayana Health
• ⁠ ⁠Ep 07: Amarinder Singh – Founder & CEO, Clove Dental
• ⁠ ⁠Ep 08: Dr. Harsh Mahajan – Founder & CEO, Mahajan Imaging
• ⁠ ⁠Ep 09: Dilip Jose - CEO & MD, Manipal Hospitals
• ⁠ ⁠Ep 10: Ameera Shah - Promoter, Metropolis Healthcare
• ⁠ ⁠Ep 11: Tarun Bhambra - Founder, Orange Health
• ⁠ ⁠Ep 12: Dr. Arjun Dang - CEO, Dr. Dang's Lab
• Ep 13: Dr. Pruthvinath Kancherla, Co-founder, Affordplan
• Ep 14: Shashank ND, Founder & CEO, Practo
• Ep 15: Kamal Shah, CoFounder, NephroPlus
• Ep 16: Dr. Reema Nadiq, CoFounder, KITES Senior Care (to be aired)
• Ep 16: Dr. Dileep Raman, CoFounder, CloudPhysician
• Ep 17: Vivek Srivastava, CEO, HCAH
• Ep 18: Tara Singh Vachani, Chairperson, Antara Senior Living
• Ep 19: Dr Suchin Bajaj, Founder Director, Ujala Cygnus
• Ep 20: Dilip Sahni, Founder & CEO, Healthians
• Ep 21: Sanjeev Vashishta, MD & CEO Pathkind Lab
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Oct 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Emversity is an 'Employability-led', technology-enabled, higher education platform that recruits, trains, certifies, and deploys candidates for grey-collar job roles in nation-building industries like healthcare, education, construction, and hospitality. The platform brings employers from across the globe on the ‘demand’ side and then matches the demand with talent ‘supply’ from India. The programs are accredited with top-rated universities in India. Emversity also owns state-of-the-art skill labs / physical campuses with high-fidelity manikins and equipment, smart classrooms, and virtual reality simulation labs
• Our lead investors are Z47 (fka Matrix Partners India) and Lightspeed Venture Partners.
• Other Angel investors include Sumer Juneja (SoftBank Managing Partner), Ritesh Agarwal (Founder, OYO), Gaurav Munjal (Founder, Unacademy), Sameer Brij Verma (ex MD, Nexus Venture Partners), Ramakant Sharma (Founder, Livspace), Abhishek Goyal (Founder, Tracxn), Puneet Kumar (SteadView Capital)

Aug 2020 – Sep 2023 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Vivek served as the Chief Operating Officer for Unacademy, a $3.4 Billion Ed-Tech company backed by Temasek, SoftBank, Tiger Global, Sequoia, General Atlantic, and Facebook.
• During his stint, he managed the full-stack P&L of the following businesses: (a) Online Education for Test Prep and Government Exams, (b) Offline/Hybrid Education for Test Prep and Government Exams (c) K12 (School tuitions segment) (d) Upskilling for Core Engineering segment (e) 'PrepLadder' in Post Graduate Medical entrance segment) and (f) CodeChef in Coding & Competitive Programming segment (for a short while)
• The teams that Vivek built and directly managed include Growth & Performance Marketing, Content Marketing, Business Development/ Supply, Channel Sales, Inside Sales, Feet-on-Street, Content & Pedagogy, Academic Ops, Business Ops, Learner Success and Outcomes, and Real Estate Acquisition & Transformation. His team, during the peak-2021 period, had over 6,000 people (including ~3,000 educators). His DRs included CBO (Chief Business officer) of Offline Education, CBO of Online Education Business, CBO of US Test Prep, CBO for Offline Stores Sales, Chief Academic Officer for UG, SVP of Inside Sales, SVP of User Growth, VP of Performance Marketing, SVP of Content & Academics, SVP of Upskilling (Core Engineering), VP & Chief of Staff.
• He took the Online Education business to ~800 Cr topline, and took the Offline/ Hybrid Education Business from zero to ~70 physical centers across the country and 320 Cr Topline in 18 months.

Apr 2018 – Sep 2020 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Gurgaon, Haryana, India

• Established and managed a SBU (Separate Business Unit) for operating Luxury Hotels owned by OYO:Softbank JV. The JV entity is one of India's most well-capitalised real estate platform.
• As overall business leader, I was responsible for:
• The JV had 375 people across corporate and acquired entities. My DRs included a Chief Revenue Officer, a VP for F&B, an AVP for HR, an AVP for Finance, an AVP for Operations, an AVP for Training and Audit, and a VP for Project Management

Nov 2016 – Apr 2018 · 1 yr 5 mos · Gurgaon, India

• I was hired immediately after demonetisation to build the offline payments business from scratch. Categories that I built and managed included grocery, fashion, consumer durables, consumer electronics, Food & Dining, Healthcare, Fitness & Wellness, Automobile, Oil & Gas, Taxi and Cabs
• Took the merchant on-boarding run-rate to 10,000 new retailers per day by June 2017. Built a mammoth team of 2,000 people (including FoS and inside sales). My direct reports where 4 Regional Heads, 2 business heads/ category heads and 1 operations head. Dotted line - BTL, marketing, Product and Compliance

Jan 2015 – Dec 2016 · 1 yr 11 mos · Gurgaon, Haryana, India

• Scale : Raised USD 4 million in series A funding for India's first construction-tech startup, achieved $17 million ARR, Exited in December 2016
• Product : Built the home construction cost calculator ‘Beztimate’ (patent pending) that helped in developing a pipeline of 36,000 under construction homes with their BOQ, construction stage and budget. Also built a full stack ecommerce product company with 50K SKUs and GMV run rate of INR 30 million a month
• Team : built and managed a sales team of 100 across product team, UX/UI, Category Management, Sales, Ops & SCM, Seller onboarding etc.

May 2012 – Apr 2015 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• Procurement & supply chain : managed spend worth Rs 500 Cr per annum, handled complex supply chain scenarios involving demand-supply matchmaking involving 2,000 SKUs, 60 demand locations, 800 supplier locations
• Contract management - Pre qualification to RFP to award, post award monitoring and dispute resolution, tax optimization through deal structuring

Jun 2008 – May 2012 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Noida Area, India

• Strategy group was analogous to a global internal consulting outfit in peers. Worked on projects under sponsorship from ADAG group Chairman.
• Assignments included AOPs and 5 year plans, IM for investments in new opportunities including construction machinery fleet business, coal-to-gasoline liquidation business, etc., bidding for ultra mega projects etc.