Saumya .

Co-Founder

Hyderabad, Telangana, India15 yrs 6 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Co-founded impactful vocational training startups
  • Led successful projects connecting youth to employment
  • Recognized for innovative social impact solutions
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Social Impact Entrepreneur with expertise in Education and Vocational Training.

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Skills

Core Skills

EntrepreneurshipLeadershipManagementProject ManagementTrainingBusiness AnalysisBusiness DevelopmentInvestment Banking

Other Skills

AnalysisAnalytical SkillsBusiness StrategyFinancial AnalysisMarket ResearchMicrosoft OfficeOperations ManagementStart-upsStrategic PlanningStrategyTeam Management

Experience

Kheyti

Co-Founder

May 2015Present · 10 yrs 10 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

  • Winner, MassChallenge (Israel) Startup Accelerator 2017
  • Winner, GSVC (UC Berkeley) 2017
  • Winner, CommonBond Social Impact Award 2016
  • Ashoka Emerging Innovator 2016
LeadershipEntrepreneurshipBusiness Strategy

Yellowleaf solutions

Co-Founder and Partner

Jul 2013Jun 2015 · 1 yr 11 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

  • Founded company to connect undereducated youth in India to meaningful livelihoods by providing them effective vocational training and quality placements in industries abroad while ensuring they are not exploited by middlemen
  • Responsible for conceptualizing and driving company strategy including building team and systems, creating partnerships and managing end-to-end operations of the company
  • Started pilot program with N-KOM - a premier shipyard in Qatar - to source, train and place ~500 workers from India over 3 years
  • Setup operations in 3 cities in India; Succeeded in becoming a strategic partner of the Government of Telangana - responsible for establishing and managing the Government’s relationships with employers abroad
ManagementProject ManagementTeam Management

B-able (basix academy for building lifelong employability)

2 roles

Project Manager - Bihar and Jharkhand

Promoted

Dec 2012Jul 2013 · 7 mos · New Delhi Area, India

  • Trained ~500 students in courses like Retail Sales, Hospitality, Beautician, Driving, etc. and linked more than 70% of the students to employment; established a skill development center in Chaibasa, which is a backward district in Jharkhand and is a victim of severe militant communism – 120 students have been successfully trained and ~90 of them are now employed
  • Hired and supervised the work of multiple operational managers who have been chosen to focus on identifying and monitoring franchisee partners, curbing student dropouts, ensuring regular attendance, making sure trainers keep the students motivated, forging placement partnerships and so on.
  • Worked closely with the CEO & MD on strategic planning and developed business plans for the short and medium term
TrainingBusiness AnalysisStrategic Planning

Assistant Manager - Business Development

Jun 2012Nov 2012 · 5 mos · New Delhi Area, India

  • Developed B-ABLE’s franchise model by conducting due diligence of 100+ potential franchisees. Signed up 8 franchisees on the basis of their financial strength, intent and training experience for implementing our projects
  • Initiated development of standard manuals for operations and franchise model, saving ~25 man-hours per operational centre
  • Only employee of B-ABLE to be promoted from Senior Executive to Assistant Manager within a span of 2 months
Business DevelopmentOperations Management

Nomura

Analyst - Equity-Linked Derivatives Team

Jun 2010Mar 2012 · 1 yr 9 mos · Mumbai Area, India

  • Executed Conversion Inducement Offering for a Canadian company’s $500m convertible bond
  • Executed Cash Tender Offer and a simultaneous Exchange Offer for a Spanish bank’s outstanding €500m Senior Notes plus Call Warrants
  • Launched The IAG Bulletin, a quarterly newsletter to educate the +3,000 employees across Legal, Operations, Capital Markets, and IT on investment banking and finance
Financial AnalysisInvestment Banking

Homi bhabha centre for science education (hbcse), tifr

Intern

May 2008Jun 2008 · 1 mo · Mumbai Area, India

  • Selected as a scholar for the nurture camp based on paper submitted on Landau Theory of Phase Transitions

Education

Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management

Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) — Marketing

Jan 2015Jan 2017

St. Stephen's College, Delhi

B.Sc. — Physics

Jan 2007Jan 2010

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