Jul 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• We help organizations and individuals thrive and grow in the midst of a rapidly changing Digital and AI landscape.
• Our expertise lies in Consulting for Organizations in the Field of Digital/Omnichannel Commerce and in helping them navigate their way in a field of ever evolving Smart Tech.
• We also work with Mid to Senior Leaders in these Organizations and coach them to their highest level of Self Potential. We help them look inward and to feel confident in managing their journey from Potential to Performance.
• Our portfolio extends from large corporations and funded startups to sports teams/ leagues and from individual performers to CEO’s spread across the Middle East, Europe, Japan and India.
• (Website in progress).

Jan 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Banquet18 is a part of The Flavours Culinary Solutions Family. Conceived in 2015, Banquet 18 is among India's leading Food Solutions Company for Weddings, Corporate Events and Social Events.
• We are an award winning bespoke and personalized Food Provider that showcases and curates the best of Indian and global cuisines for our consumers.
• We are a bunch of culinary enthusiasts that enjoy creating unique experiences that are a combination of culinary research combined with exceptional hospitality service.
• Based out of Bangalore, India we have had the privilege of serving more than 2000 + events across the country spreading across the Wedding Industry, Sporting Events, Cultural Events, Corporate Launches and Industry Conclaves.
• https://www.instagram.com/banquet18_official
• www.banquet18.com

Aug 2022 – Aug 2022 · 0 mo

• TEDX Speaker at Indian Institute of Management, Sambalpur.
• Spoke on how to thrive while dealing with Imposter's Syndrome.

Jul 2022 – Dec 2022 · 5 mos · India

Feb 2022 – Aug 2022 · 6 mos

• From February 2022, I took on an additional area of responsibility in turbocharging our Ecom business for the entire Emerging Markets region- India, MENA, Turkey, Israel and South Africa (including the Rest of Africa).
• Alongside my India role, my additional charter includes managing and trading the website and App for all regions by ensuring that we strive to high standards when it comes to meeting our Consumers' site and App journey experiences. I am privileged to lead a team of extremely passionate rockstars who are data driven and drive excellence in everything from Search to Personalization on our digital properties.
• My role also involves in ensuring that as the 3 Stripes, we deliver high quality E com engagement and product experiences for our Creators (our Loyalty Membership Program-the Creators Club) across the Emerging Markets.

Jun 2020 – Aug 2022 · 2 yrs 2 mos

• "When digital transformation is done right, it is like a caterpillar turning into a butterfly, but when done wrong all you have is a really fast caterpillar"- George Westerman, MIT Sloan.
• The role of technology in transforming lives and industries in a fast evolving consumer and business world excites me. In my current role as a member of Adidas India's Senior Leadership Team, I get to live this excitement through my mission in leading our digital transformation. I do this through channel leadership of our Own E com channel, our App ecosystem and our Creators Club members program. I also do this by using traditional ways of consumer connects and a data first approach in listening to what our consumer tells us. Blessed with an organizational vision that believes in a 360 degree ownership, I lead the entire B2C supply chain fulfilment and our contact center operations for both B2B and B2C channels. This enables me to play a leadership team role in making Adidas' the best sports brand for our consumers.
• I am also fortunate to have a key playing position in Adidas' current "Own the Game" Strategy in India and the Emerging Markets (GCC, South Africa, India, Turkey, Israel and Lebanon/North Africa) as a Digital Leader. This gives me a chance to create experiences that delight our consumers, lead and inspire our next generation of leaders across our cross functional team of rockstars, and co-create with the Organization's Leadership a Digital First Culture.
• In my younger years, I used to play Sports at a professional level and I firmly believe in the Power of Sports to Change Lives.
• The combination of my love for Technology, People and Sports makes me jump out of bed every morning to play my part towards nurturing the Caterpillar to a Butterfly at Adidas.

Feb 2018 – Jun 2020 · 2 yrs 4 mos

• The Vendor Success program works with the largest vendor base at Cloudtail- a wholly owned subsidiary of Prione (a JV between Amazon India and Catamaran group) with the aim and mission of helping vendors succeed in their journey on e-commerce selling. My teams' goal is to help vendors familiarize themselves with the tools and strategies that will help them scale online. The program indexes high on automation to help achieve its' objectives.
• Under this program, I lead a team of 100+ rockstars operating at scale that span across vendor recruitment, strategic account management and process oriented teams that drive operational efficiencies. We work across all key product categories that Cloudtail/Amazon operates in; namely Consumables, Hardlines, Media and Softlines.
• If you would like to hear about how we can help you scale online or participate on any of Cloudtail's ecommerce selling programs, please write to us at vsp-core@cloudtail.in

Apr 2016 – Feb 2018 · 1 yr 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Under this role, I led and mentored a team of high performing Vendor Managers who were responsible for negotiating with Amazon's exclusive wireless partners.
• I also led sales teams that helped drive Amazon's offline expansion of these exclusives into retail distribution across 12 states pan India.

May 2014 – Mar 2016 · 1 yr 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

May 2009 – Apr 2013 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

• CEF is one of the world's largest electrical distribution chain with 52 manufacturing facilities.
• I took up this challenging general management role in 2009 that involved expanding and leading the CEF brand across multiple geographies. Starting from greensites, I was able to launch our operations across multiple countries in the GCC, North Africa, West Asia, Eastern Europe, Afghanistan and Iraq either through direct operations or dealer-distributor networks across 35 countries. As a Business Leader, I had overall financial responsibility including the regional P&L, financial ratios, credit risk and liquidity. I recruited, mentored and led a team of 12 + nationalities that served customers, vendors and dealers across 50 + (direct selling and export) countries.
• Within 3 years, I achieved the distinction of leading CEF- MENA to be the top operation globally (sales and profitability) among the company's myriad of 100 + divisions. As a Senior Leader, I also led numerous cross-BU initiatives in market expansion within various geographies and in product expansion by creating a Far East input driven supply chain.
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Jan 2006 – Apr 2009 · 3 yrs 3 mos · United Arab Emirates

• Handled the complete outdoor, utilities and city beautification portfolios for Philips Lighting. Played a very key role in increasing Philips standing from almost a non existant player to a 40 % market share in the street lighting segment. Also responsible for some of the most iconic City beautification lighting such as Ras al Khor bridge ( both Valmont inclined poles and Philips luminaires) as well as Solid State Lighting on Ras al Khor-Business bay bridge which was the first real major CB project for Philips in the M.E

Dec 2003 – Nov 2005 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bahrain

Dec 2002 – Dec 2003 · 1 yr