Siddharth Jhawar

CEO

Gurugram, Haryana, India12 yrs 11 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led successful launch of Moloco in India.
Built premium intercity food delivery service at Zomato.
Designed key public initiatives in the Government of India.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in Ad-Tech and Food Delivery sectors with strong consulting and public administration expertise.

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Skills

Core Skills

Business StrategyMarket EntryBusiness DevelopmentOperational StrategyConsultingPublic Administration

Other Skills

DigitizationFinancial AnalysisGrowth StrategyMachine LearningP&L ManagementPerformance ImprovementPerformance MarketingProduct DesignProgrammatic AdvertisingProject ManagementPublic PolicySupply Chain Management

About

An operator with a unique set of experiences. Building Moloco (machine learning for ad-tech) in India. Specialise in: - Building 0 to 1: Built a D2C business for intercity food delivery (Zomato Legends); designed the Ministry of Civil Aviation's customer grievance mechanism (AirSewa); led the market entry of Moloco into India from scratch and rapidly scaled the business. - Leadership: Trained by senior leaders across business, government & academia. Have set up operations and run teams in high-stakes settings. - Learning by first principles: Worked in tech (ad-tech, consumer tech), media (TV, streaming), professional services (consulting, banking), & central government. Passionate about India, food, stand-up comedy!

Experience

Moloco

Country Manager (GM India)

Nov 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 4 mos · Gurgaon

Machine Learning for Advertising (Mo-lo-co stands for machine learning company)
We use cutting-edge tech to make digital companies more profitable. Our expertise lies in helping streaming/ecommerce apps grow their ad revenue using machine learning. Our core business (~$2B revenue) is to optimize performance marketing spends of apps to acquire high quality of users, using a programmatic demand side platform.
As General Manager, I led Moloco's launch into India from scratch. We now have offices in Gurgaon and Bangalore, from where we operate 3 business verticals and run a global engineering centre.

Machine LearningPerformance MarketingProgrammatic AdvertisingBusiness StrategyMarket Entry

Zomato

Vice President & Business Head

Apr 2021 – Oct 2022 · 1 yr 6 mos · India

Legends: Built a premium intercity food delivery service by Zomato. Managed the cold supply chain, restaurant partnerships, commercial structure, product design and UX, branding, last mile distribution, P&L for the intercity business.
Supply/Sales Strategy: Driving key central initiatives through the 1000+ member sales team and improving the team's efficiency.
Restaurant Delight Ops: Improved ops of restaurant service function and reorganized the department, driving ~2x impact on key metrics within 2 months.

Supply Chain ManagementProduct DesignP&L ManagementBusiness DevelopmentOperational Strategy

Hotstar

2 roles

Head of Strategic Initiatives

Sep 2020 – Apr 2021 · 7 mos

Office of the President - Asia-Pacific, The Walt Disney Company

Jul 2019 – Sep 2020 · 1 yr 2 mos

Ran the APAC Corporate Office of Mr. Uday Shankar, driving leadership's priorities for Star TV, Hotstar, & Walt Disney's Direct to Consumer businesses in China, Japan, SEA, ANZ, ME.
Designed the revenue strategy and org structure for Hotstar.

Bain & company

Management Consulting, SE Asia

Jun 2018 – Jul 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo · Singapore

Financial Services expertise in South East Asian markets:
Growth Strategy for stock exchange in Singapore
Performance improvement for bank in Indonesia
Digitization of bank in Thailand

Growth StrategyPerformance ImprovementDigitizationConsulting

Government of india

Officer on Special Duty (Chief of Staff) to Hon'ble Minister of State for Finance

Jul 2014 – Aug 2016 · 2 yrs 1 mo · North Block, New Delhi

Bureaucrat in Government of India (among youngest Director-ranked officials ever).
Banks Recapitalization: Supported senior bureaucrats in running the financial analysis and getting approvals across Ministries/Departments of GoI to announce a recapitalization package for public-sector banks worth Rs. 75,000 cr (~$9B).
AirSewa: Designed and led the pre-launch phase of AirSewa, an initiative by the Ministry of Civil Aviation to resolve passenger grievances.
Sabka Budget 2015 - Led the publicity strategy of the Govt's first full budget, coordinating across the Ministry of Finance and I&B.
Managing the Hazaribagh parliamentary constituency: Managed an on-ground team to represent the local MP Mr. Jayant Sinha on public welfare and policy-making.

Financial AnalysisPublic PolicyProject ManagementPublic Administration