Shashwat Gangwal

Co-Founder

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India11 yrs 9 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Founded India's largest sustainable packaging service.
  • Generated employment for over 450 people.
  • Achieved significant cost savings for major industries.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a social entrepreneur with expertise in sustainable solutions and impact investing.

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About

Shashwat is a passionate social entrepreneur and runs InfinityBox- India's largest sustainable packaging as a service. Working with 80+ enterprises across India, InfinityBox helps reduce Scope 2 and Scope 3 emissions by 40-60% in their cafeteria, while reducing their cost by upto 30%, and completely outsourcing their operational hassles. They have generated employment for 450+ people and raised money from marquee investors along with grants from reputable global orgs like Alliance to end Plastic Waste, Hult Prize, UNDP, etc. He graduated from IIT Kharagpur at the top of his class in 2019 while publishing multiple research papers on Bitcoin. He joined Mckinsey & Co as a consultant and worked across sectors- Delivered 200Cr in Indirect cost savings in Pharma industry to one of the largest Pharma Cos in India, suggested strategies to reduce the TAT of Vendor Financing for MSME loans from 15 days to < 1 hour for one of the largest public sector banks, surveyed farmers across 8 states to understand the impact of Covid and presented that to the top CXOs in the country, and helped one of the largest NGOs in the world to raise funds amounting to ~$10M. Post that he was the youngest senior investment manager at an impact-focused fund, Sagana, where he invested in funds and startups in FoodTech, alternatives to plastic, and Climate-related solutions. Working with UNDP in Jordan, having represented India at Unleash Singapore, being a member of the Hult Prize, and running a podcast on Circular Economy (played in 60+ countries) are some of his other experiences in the impact space.

Experience

Sagana

2 roles

Senior Investment Manager

Jan 2022Jun 2022 · 5 mos

Investment Manager

Aug 2020Dec 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos

Terra.do

Mentor

Aug 2021Present · 4 yrs 7 mos

  • Terra.Do is an online climate school for working professionals with a mission to get 100 million people working to solve climate change by 2030. I volunteer as a mentor which involves 1:1 interactions with fellows from across the globe looking for general and specific guidance on career opportunities in the climate space.

Keiretsu forum

Investor

Jul 2021Present · 4 yrs 8 mos · India

Mckinsey & company

Business Analyst

Aug 2019Aug 2020 · 1 yr · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Undp jordan

Intern

May 2019Jul 2019 · 2 mos · Amman

Intesa royal

Analyst

Apr 2019Jun 2019 · 2 mos · Remote

Infinitybox

Founder

Nov 2018Present · 7 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Workonomix

Analyst

Jun 2018Aug 2019 · 1 yr 2 mos · Zürich Area, Switzerland/ Remote

  • Analysing competitors in the freelancing and background check industry across three fields – Blockchain based, digital, and traditional
  • Strategizing investor pitches, competitor analysis, and preparing the revenue model with Mr. Vivek Anand, Ex-MD Accenture Europe

Unleash - innovation lab for sdgs

SDG Talent

Jun 2018Jun 2018 · 0 mo · Singapore

  • Represented India as one of the youngest SDG talents in SDG 11 - Sustainable cities and communities. Won Bronze for developing a solution to help millions of refugees with social integration and security in Kakuma refugee camp, Kenya.

Nomura

Intern

May 2018Jul 2018 · 2 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  • Index Structuring
  • Analysed cross-asset risk-premia strategies based on macro fundamentals using VBA, Bloomberg, and Totoro
  • Built a new index with Sharpe of 1.74 using Economic Indicators, Volatility Scaling, and Momentum filters on SPX and 10y T- bonds
  • Explored Carry and Value strategies across assets focusing on Cross-Sectional Carry for a $4bn European National Pension Fund
  • Equity Linked Strategy
  • Built Coffee-Can portfolios for Japan, India, and Hong Kong; Strategy is currently being pitched to investors
  • Developed robust screeners to identify quality stocks (growth + profitability) in each country – ROIC, ROE, Loan, and Revenue growth
  • Rebalanced and Non-Rebalanced portfolios consistently beat their indices (in most cases 5yr Sharpe > 1.5) and had lower drawdowns

Hult prize india

Associate National Member

Nov 2017Jan 2019 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Headed the team to raise sponsorship for the Nationals winning team
  • Managed the partnerships with Entrepreneurship Cells across the country

Hult prize foundation

Campus Director

Sep 2017Jul 2018 · 10 mos · Kharagpur I, India

  • Led a team of 10 towards the successful organization of the event with 25 teams
  • Achieved a 226% YoY increase in sponsorship by raising an amount of over INR 260k
  • Spearheaded publicity; 10+ newspaper mentions, 5+ Online media- InShorts with 10m+ users
  • Instigated the first ever incubation by collaborating with EY, FICCI, & social entrepreneurs quoted by Forbes
  • Initiated Engagement Drive; Signed MoUs with college’s official students’ body for future alliances

University of alberta

Intern

May 2017Jul 2017 · 2 mos · Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

  • Selected for 1 of the only 2 positions across 12 countries through the UARE program for an internship under Prof. Gordon Houlden, CIUA
  • Sentiment index tracker for Bitcoin: Developed a model with quality factors with Prof. Vikas Mehrotra, Head, Alberta Business School
  • Conducting ongoing research on Bitcoin being in a bubble using future growth option assets- Tesla and Amazon, CoT reports, etc.

Motilal oswal financial services ltd

Intern

May 2016Jun 2016 · 1 mo · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

  • Analysed and projected performance of two companies in the NBFC sector; Presented Insights to the Vice President of Equity Research
  • Performed DuPont analysis and forecasted line items of Balance Sheet and P&L statements with 98.9% accuracy; Attended Con-Calls

Bonanza portfolio ltd

Intern

Dec 2015Jan 2016 · 1 mo · Greater Delhi Area

  • I Worked under the Fundamental Quant Division where i had to build stock screeners using Excel Macros and check how they fared in the last 10-15 years.

Just iitians

Content Developer

Jun 2015Jan 2017 · 1 yr 7 mos

  • This position demands writing about the happenings and interviewing people at the 16 different IITs . A lot of my work is published on The IITIAN (facebook page) and Justiitians.com . It has been received well by the audience which not only includes the current college students but IIT alumni too.

Iit kharagpur aquatics team

Member

Jul 2014Apr 2019 · 4 yrs 9 mos

  • Central defender for the multiple times inter-collegiate gold winning team

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

Master of Science (MSc) — Economics

Jan 2014Jan 2019

Bhartiya Vidya Bhavans Vidyashram

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