Neel Bhatia — CEO
A professional leader with passion and proven track record transcending several streams in the career journey of nearly three decades. Energetic to build and nurture high impact team. Building trusted relationships for success. Enthusiastic to take an idea/initiative from concept to deployment in reality, brings with him years in the Industry with proven business leadership in strategy and execution and a hunger for launching of ‘new’ initiatives, products and services. In the last decade have focused on innovation and innovation frameworks, defining of new product/service ventures, Intrapreneurship, build out of strong alliances and eco-systems, business strategy/modeling and value creation. He is adept at product planning and its intercept with business strategy, negotiating successful wins, influencing venture capital and establishing strong CxO and industry relationships. Under his leadership he and his team have taken product and service ideas from concept stage and power point to making them material with real customers and building alliances leading and negotiating win-win business deals with partners around the globe. He possesses a good balance of expertise between business acumen and technology delivery and has the ability to set strategic direction for either a team or a project and deliver on that vision by executing and evolving the strategy; see it all the way through. In recent times Neel led Asia, ASEAN, OCEANA, and MENA for driving business growth for Invest India as the Chief Economic Relations Officer. He also led the Intel Startup Program and co-founded the Plugin Alliance held APAC regional and global initiatives. Neel enjoys mentoring and building teams and nurturing ideas and upcoming entrepreneurs. It's fun and a learning experience and journey always.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a strategic leader in the SaaS and Telecommunications sectors, focusing on entrepreneurship and innovation.
Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Experience: 33 yrs 5 mos
Skills
- Business Strategy
- Team Management
- Product Management
- Entrepreneurship
- Business Alliances
- Program Management
Career Highlights
- Led foreign investment initiatives across multiple regions.
- Co-founded a technology alliance to support startups.
- Successfully launched a national startup ecosystem platform.
Work Experience
Invest India
Sr. Vice-President and Chief Economic Relations Officer - Asia, Oceana, Pacific and MENA Geographies (1 yr 4 mos)
Sr. Vice-President and Chief Incubation Officer (8 mos)
Plugin Alliance
Co-Founder - Plugin Alliance (3 yrs 1 mo)
Intel Corporation
Sr.Director and Head: Intel Startup Program + Incubation Initiatives (Education, rural connectivity) (4 yrs 3 mos)
Head - Blockchain and Security Ecosystems, APAC Region (3 yrs)
Director - IP Scouting - IP Group (2 yrs)
Director and Head, Customer Support - Intel Aepona, Software and Services Group (1 yr)
Venture Head/General Manager-Content/Media Screen Services+Director APJ Region-PC Client Services (3 yrs)
Associate Investment Director - New Business Initiatives (NBI) (2 yrs)
Director, IT@Intel - Asia (3 yrs)
Head, IT@Intel Program - Greater Asia Region (Program Manager) (3 yrs 11 mos)
India Project Manager - Data Center Consulting Services, Communications Product Group (CPG) (2 yrs 1 mo)
Computer Associates
Sr Consultant and India PM (1 yr)
Reuters
Head - Projects and Telecommunications (2 yrs 7 mos)
Modi Olivetti
Head, Western Region, Services Divsion, Oliservice (4 yrs)
Education
Marketing Management at Xavier Institute Of Management and Research
BE at Thadomal Shahani Engineering College