Giridhar Soundararajan

Founder

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India19 yrs 4 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Founded India's first electric dual sport motorcycle company.
Grew Barrel Exhaust to an international brand in 3 years.
Raised angel investment and built a working POC in 6 months.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a founder in the electric vehicle and motorsports industry.

Contact

giridhar.srajan@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

LeadershipProduct DevelopmentSalesBrand DevelopmentData AnalysisSales StrategyData MiningAutomationReportingProcess ImprovementProcess AutomationDatabase Management

Other Skills

AccessAnalysisAnalyticsBusiness AnalysisBusiness AnalyticsBusiness IntelligenceBusiness ObjectsBusiness Process ImprovementBusiness StrategyChannel Sales AnalyticsCreative Problem SolvingCreativityDashboard ManagementData ExtractionExcel

About

Currently building India's first electric dual sport motorcycle with a highly skilled and passionate team since 1 year. Barrel Motors Pvt Ltd was founded in Nov 2021 with a vision to not just make human transportation sustainable but also exciting. With decades of fascination for motorsports and high performance and adrenaline rush sports, we dream to build machines that is power packed and rugged for any terrain. Raised an angel round of investment last Nov 2021 and built a working POC within a record 6 months time with a small team of superheroes. Now gearing up for the next aggressive milestone and raising funds to fuel the efforts. Prior to Barrel Motors, founded Barrel Exhaust ( proprietary concern) in 2014 and grew it from selling on the streets in Bangalore to having customers in over 18 countries by 2020. Built a brand that is loved by the customers and also is an aspirational lifestyle brand for the biking community. Motorcycles have been an integral part of my DNA and the entire team is passionate about biking and motorsports.

Experience

Barrel motors

Founder & Managing Director

Nov 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

As the custodian of the vision to make human transportation sustainable and exciting, I serve the team at Barrel Motors as an enabler of resources so the they can create happiness to bikers across the globe. I am responsible for fostering great culture in the organisation and also create an environment that gives people opportunities to do creative work and freedom to express ideas that can change the world.

LeadershipCreative Problem SolvingProduct DevelopmentBusiness Strategy

Barrel exhaust

Founder

Dec 2014 – Present · 11 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

A brand that was started in 2014 and grew from selling on streets to going international in 4 years. Finally in 2021 being acquired by "Barrel Motors Private Ltd"
As the founder of Barrel Exhaust and growing it to become an international brand in 3 years of operation, I was handling everything from operations to finance to housekeeping till a year ago. Now with ambitious plans ahead to grow to a 2 crore revenue company, I change my role and take on sales to make sure we touch more and more bikers in the coming year and diversify Barrel Exhaust into new streams of business that will add more fun to work with.
As a Salesman, I would also get to interact more with the customers and channel partners while leave all the operations in safe hands from my team. 25 years ago during my 6th grade, I began selling aquarium fishes and pets and did an amazing job. This is the second time I am taking on a similar challenge and It's sure gonna be great fun! It's all about quick results and more parties! Let's get the world Barreled!

SalesOperationsFinanceBrand Development

Hewlett-packard

Sales Analytics Consultant

Jun 2011 – Nov 2013 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Bangalore cvr campus

Segmenting the Customers into High/Medium/Low business opportunity, thereby ensuring Sales coverage Optimization, Business expansion & Customer Retention.
Use Duns & Bradstreet MI tool to perform data-mining and profile accounts.
Assessing market size and revenue potential for each BU and sub region for sales teams to work on planning
Calculate IT spend ratios for various industry vertical and countries.
Prepare white papers for Global Analytics knowledge management.
Assist sales team across EMEA with sales strategy development.
Attend EMEA country sales managers monthly calls to identify current issues and initiate projects to find solution
Refer IDC and IPR reports and make suggestions to the sales team on market share and sizing.
Assessing the current market opportunity landscape in terms of volume & value at Customer & Country level by delving into the Customer profiles.
Proactively analyze Key Sales Drivers, Trends, and Root Causes to resolve any business critical exigencies
Identify 3rd party sources for additional landscape information and validating it before suggesting to management
Use Gartner, IDC and IPR reports to assess market size and calculate Total Addressable Market.

Data AnalysisSales StrategyMarket Analysis

Hp enterprise services

Sr Analyst

Jun 2010 – Nov 2012 · 2 yrs 5 mos

 Data extraction from Salesforce.com
 Designing queries in Business Objects and perform data mining activities.
 Build Automation tools for internal and external clients to minimize errors and time.
 Train team members on Advance Excel skills and also troubleshoot issues encountered on the floor.

Data ExtractionData MiningAutomation

Aol

Sr Analyst

Jun 2010 – May 2011 · 11 mos · Bangalore

Completely revamped a process of reporting and automated 90 % saving 2 FTE's work for a month.
Prepare dashboards for higher management on monthly performance to assess areas of improvement.
Manage micro team at HP and assist team with issues.

ReportingDashboard ManagementProcess Improvement

Isgn

Business Analyst

Oct 2007 – May 2010 · 2 yrs 7 mos

Understand the process and build models suitable to work from offshore.
Prepare Standard Operating Procedures.
Build\Design queries on ad-hoc request using Business Objects
Improve efficiency of process by automating periodic reports.
Assist management in designing processes.
Perform Gap Analysis to find ways to improve process and introduce change

Process AutomationStandard Operating Procedures

Ocwen financial solutions

Analyst

Jan 2005 – Jan 2007 · 2 yrs

As Remittance Analyst was responsible for
Preparing Monthly reports in excel for the Trusts (clients) in US.
Consolidate the monthly JE’s for all portfolios handled by team.
Responding to Trust queries and solving them within tight schedules.
Prepare minutes of meetings for monthly team meetings.
As Process Automation Analyst was responsible for
Perform data mining to find errors in the database and fix them.
Automate the Report preparation in Excel using VBA.
Maintain the huge database and prepare customized tools for data retrieval.
Create MS Access applications that simplify the process and increase the usability.