Oct 2018 – Jun 2020 · 1 yr 8 mos · Gurgaon, India

• I led the team @ Lokll to build a hugely loved platform to discover sights and experiences from all corners of India for travellers who want to discover and book genuine experiences on the go, when they travel. Our Experience provider platform helps bring local suppliers online, enables increase in business and allows seamless business management.
• Lokll is a full stack experiential travel company with a vision to make travel more efficient, participative and inclusive for the local community members and for the travellers, thus providing real and authentic local travel experiences to travellers and promote travel as a means of alternative livelihood for the locals while removing the in-efficiencies from the travel eco-system.
• Some of the work that we did at Lokll in a span of 1.5 years, and are proud of:
• Grew from 1 city to 20+ cities providing in-destination Activities and concierge in these cities
• Researched and created a solid backend architecture to handle the variations and complexities between the multiple in-destination categories, each having discrete bookability and variation patterns
• Developed and ramped up relevant categories in the in-destination space including Short duration Intra-day activities, Multi day activities, Last mile transfers, Rentals, Tours & Sightseeing, Experiential stays and Activity Combos
• Onboarded over 400+ suppliers across these categories and 20 cities
• Developed our Mobile first strategy and launched a mobile first customer and partner product in Jan 2020
• Achieved a MAU of 10,000 within 4 months of launching
• Achieved a High Customer Satisfaction rating of 4.9 on Google
• Achieved a repeat rate of 15%
• Partnered with leading global and Indian travel brands - MakemyTrip - GoIbibo, Tripadvisor and Expedia to bring local experiences online to travellers across the world
• Lokll was growing at ~ 3X Like for Like monthly revenue with healthy unit economics (pre COVID)

Feb 2018 – Oct 2018 · 8 mos · Gurgaon, India

• I headed Marketing and Operations at Tapp-Me supporting the idea of development of tier 2 cities by establishing the concept of On-Demand home and office repair services. I was responsible for managing the P&L of the B2C Operations of the company and ensuring smooth running of the entire business cycle including lead generation, channel management & activation, lead conversion, call-center, city operations, management of Service provider lifecycle of Skill Development, increasing employ-ability, providing them opportunities to earn more and ensuring that Customer needs are met through analytically driven in-house products. Tapp-Me can proudly boast of thoughtfully developed products, support system and a lean central and on-ground team ready to execute the Tapp-Me promise of Reliability, Predictability and Quality at the click of a button. In 2 years, Tapp-Me saw tremendous 3 digit growth in customers, bookings and revenue through the dedicated efforts of a committed team of hustlers.

Aug 2016 – Feb 2018 · 1 yr 6 mos · Gurgaon, India

May 2016 – Aug 2016 · 3 mos

Dec 2015 – May 2016 · 5 mos

• Launched OYO Room’s B2B E-Commerce vertical in the Hospitality Sector under a Marketplace model. Responsible for managing the P&L and the entire Supply Chain for OYO’s network of 5,500+ hotels for catering to on-demand hotel requirements. Responsible for supplier onboarding, business product design, supplier negotiation, driving marketplace price competitiveness, logistics optimization, reconciliation and managing the Call Center operations. OYO Bazar has been successful in creating a support mechanism for the OYO network of hotels to fulfil their supplies requirements from trusted and quality focused vendors ensuring Hotel Stickiness with OYO Rooms.
• Press coverage:
• http://yourstory.com/2016/05/oyo-rooms-profitable/
• http://trak.in/tags/business/2016/06/17/oyo-rooms-bazar-hotel-essentials-marketplace/
• http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/small-biz/startups/oyo-rooms-sets-up-oyo-bazar-a-one-stop-shop-for-hotels-to-procure-daily-essentials/articleshow/52755588.cms
• http://bwdisrupt.businessworld.in/article/OYO-Launches-OYO-Bazar-Self-serve-Platform-For-Partners/18-06-2016-99331/

Aug 2013 – Mar 2016 · 2 yrs 7 mos · New Delhi Area, India

• Current state: Exited the company.
• I Co-founded GrowthStreet to work in the MSME – Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises – sector of industries in India. Launched GrowthStreet as an Industrial Process Consulting organization helping industries to improve their manufacturing processes by focusing on eliminating process embedded wastes.
• In the early 2014, I led the transformation of GrowthStreet, first into a full-fledged Energy Consulting Business focused primarily on Solar Energy and then into a company providing Concept-to-Commissioning EPC (Engineering, Procurement and Construction) services for constructing solar power plants generating distributed power – this included the entire Solar lifecycle including Site Survey, Design, Engineering, Procurement, Installation, Maintenance and Monitoring of the plant.
• GrowthStreet has executed several industrial scale (less than 1MW) and large scale (1 MW+) Solar Power projects the most recent one being a 5 MW Solar Energy Park project under the Government PPA model in Karnataka. GrowthStreet has also been a preferred Consulting partner for several marquee institutions like Braithwaite & Co. (Indian Railway PSU), AMU Aligarh, IRILMM (Indian Railways Institute of Logistics and Material Management), NIESBUD (National Institute for Entrepreneurship and Business Development) and various industrial clusters.
• In 2015, I Conceptualized SunSure, a Solar business Marketplace product which would connect the interested Solar developers with EPC companies, Component suppliers and Solar Investors. Worked on the design and features of the product which would cater to procurement, project planning, execution and monitoring of solar power plant of any scale.

Dec 2012 – Mar 2013 · 3 mos · Gurgaon, India

Dec 2011 – Dec 2012 · 1 yr

Dec 2008 – Dec 2011 · 3 yrs

Jun 2011 – Aug 2013 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Gurgaon, India

• I created The Green Locus to design unique outdoor experiences for travellers which encourage responsible living and development of life skills by learning from nature and the Himalayas.
• A major focus of The Green Locus was to create a sustainable model of tourism in the Himalayan regions of India so that the real stakeholders i.e. the local community, the local people and the local culture benefit from it.
• The Green Locus has delivered various indoor and outdoor trainings to corporate and schools. Some of our programs like disaster management, search and rescue program, learning sustainability, responsible leadership, root connect program, outdoor adventure and cultural sojourns have provided valuable life learning to organizations.
• My responsibilities:
• Design products and outdoor experiences for travellers, students and corporate - Focus on responsible living and development of life skills by learning from nature
• Lead operations for on-ground team to deliver measurable trainings and outdoor experiences
• Business development through research and meetings: Scouting properties with potential to operate as Home Stays, Create eco-circuits with a network of Home Stays, Heritage properties and Eco-resorts, Develop business infrastructure via tie-ups; ensure mutually profitable business engagements
• Deliver training, workshops and lectures in institutes and corporate firms
• Conduct initiatives for community development in the rural Himalayan villages
• Develop and connect local to global volunteering programs in rural Himalayan villages
• Conceptualized and developed a concept eco-resort in Uttarakhand - The Green Village
• Press coverage references:
• o Economic Times
• o Friday Gurgaon

Jun 2007 – Sep 2008 · 1 yr 3 mos

May 2005 – Jul 2005 · 2 mos · Pune Area, India

• Design bench-marking study of Tata Motor's first Multi Purpose Vehicle (MPV)
• Recommended the chassis and body design for the vehicle based on study of Indian driving and road conditions