Ayush Agarwal

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India10 yrs 1 mo experience

Key Highlights

  • Led initiatives resulting in significant revenue growth.
  • Expert in stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration.
  • Proven track record in optimizing operations for startups.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Strategic Program Manager in the SaaS and Tech startup industry.

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Skills

Core Skills

Program ManagementStrategic PlanningSales Strategy & GrowthMarketingBusiness DevelopmentFinancial Planning And Analysis (fp&a)Business StrategyMarketing StrategyLead GenerationSales OpportunitiesMicrosoft Word

Other Skills

Analytical SkillsBrand StrategyBusiness AcumenBusiness AnalyticsBusiness Process ImprovementBusiness financeCC++Client VisitsCommunicationCorporate FP&ACross-Functional CollaborationCross-functional Team LeadershipCustomer AcquisitionDaily Operations

About

Strategic Program Manager with expertise in stakeholder management, cross-functional collaboration, and business strategy execution in tech-driven startups. I help early to mid-stage companies like Blackbuck, Criodo and Skill-Lync drive revenue growth and optimize operations. Some examples of my results include: ✔ Led channel partner development initiative, resulting in a 25% revenue boost and a 17% reduction in customer acquisition costs for Skill-Lync. ✔ Managed partnerships with industry leaders like NASSCOM, ACMA, and NSDC, creating multi million dollars new business opportunities ✔ Led cross-functional teams on special projects in finance (established business finance verticals in 2 companies), growth (collaborated with CXOs on org-wide strategies) and sales (productivity enhancement, new channel development) ✔ Supervised a team of 20; led Profitability, Debits, Pricing & Revenue Assurance: Debit overhead control improvements saved Rs 55L; promoted to head business finance for B2B business within a year due to strong performance. I'm passionate about working on strategic projects that involve collaboration with CXOs to implement business strategies, driving revenue growth and cost efficiency in fast-paced, tech-driven environments. I thrive on connecting with people who are equally committed to creating impactful solutions. Feel free to reach out at agarwal7ayush@gmail.com or here on LinkedIn. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Career Snapshot & Personal Interests - ✔ Work Experience: CrioDo, Skill-Lync (Y Combinator, Iron Pillar), Blackbuck, UnitedHealth Group ✔ Internships : Blackbuck, DRDO ✔ Academics : Top rank holder ECE NITW Batch 2012-2016, AIR 23 mathematics Olympiad, Topper AISSE 2010, Awarded research opportunity to pursue an internship at DRDO, AIR 3911 AIEEE 2012 ✔ PORs : Elected Senior Member (Merchandising and Design Committee, IIMK), Selected Member Additional Secretary (ECE Association, NiTW), Member (Sponsorship and public relation team, Technozion, NITW) ✔ Hobbies : Traveling, Reading fiction, Badminton, photography, playing piano

Experience

10 yrs 1 mo
Total Experience
1 yr 8 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr 3 mos
Current Experience

Exotel

Lead Strategy- CEO Office

Feb 2025Present · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Pricing StrategyProgram ManagementRevenue & Profit GrowthCorporate FP&AStrategic Planning

Crio.do

Senior Program Manager (Founder's Office)

Jan 2024Mar 2025 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • ✔ Managed a channel partner development initiative, onboarding 12 partners, which resulted in a 25% increase in B2C revenue and reduced customer acquisition costs from 52% to 35%, driving top-line growth and geographic expansion
  • ✔ Developed Annual Operating Plan & 5-Year Plan for Skill Lync & Crio.Do, contributing significantly to the closure of recent investment rounds
  • ✔ Improved B2C Sales through implementation of sales improvement initiatives at the bottom of the sales funnel
  • ✔ Led the Business Finance Vertical, overseeing development of MIS, fin ops (cost control), vendor negotiations & compliances, and cash flow control
Cross-Functional CollaborationSales strategy & GrowthPresentationsClient VisitsAnalytical SkillsNew Venture Development+22

Skill-lync (y combinator & iron pillar)

Senior Program Manager (B2B - S&O)

Oct 2022Mar 2025 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • ✔ Evaluated $10M strategic investment for revenue & synergies (TTL, Dassault); facilitated discussions, yielding Rs 40L revenue via Mahindra project
  • ✔ Collaborated with Gov bodies (ACMA, CII, SIAM): co-branded initiatives, content creation, seminars; resulted in 35L INR opp. with NASSCOM
  • ✔ Led B2B marketing team: impactful campaigns, collaterals; analyzed diff channels for ROI, achieved 10% avg. CTR increase, 7% CAC reduction
  • ✔ Forged software OEM partnerships (Matlab, DS, EB): secured 5000+ licenses at substantial cost savings, closing 4 crore deals with DS and Matlab
  • ✔ Created investor visuals and PPTs, showcasing B2B financial strength, goals; instrumental in securing ~6M bridge funding from existing investors
  • ✔ Pioneered content-as-a-service offerings for B2B clients including Siemens, with sizable revenue potential of $1MM; ongoing discussions in progress
  • ✔ Spearheaded B2B product enhancements and improvements in LMS, introducing customer-centric features to enhance user experience and usability
Cross-Functional CollaborationSales strategy & GrowthMarketingPresentationsClient VisitsStrategic Planning+21

Blackbuck (zinka logistics solutions pvt. ltd.)

Strategic Planning and Business Finance

Aug 2020Sep 2022 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bangalore Urban district, Karnataka, India

  • ✔Supervised a team of 2AMs, 4TLs &15 execs. to lead Profitability, Debits, Pricing & Revenue Assurance
  • ✔Managed Concept-to-launch of prof dashboard; Aids in tracking relevant KPI & take informed decision
  • ✔Developed pricing strategy framework to ensure best prices, maximizing profits & SVA by 2% on GM
  • ✔Analyzed financial performance of BUs, compiled dashboards & reviewed weekly with Ops,CFO &COO
  • ✔Prepared the flash forecasts and conduct financial planning of the unit by partnering with the sales team, discuss the ways of improving margins by overhead controls, etc.
  • ✔Conducted an in-depth analysis of critical financial metrics viz. operating margins, receivables, DSO, collections, payments, revenue productivity for the purpose of CFO’s review on a weekly basis.
  • ✔Performed cross-functional coordination and communicating the requirements with Operations, Product, Tech & Collection Team
  • ✔Built a strong Bizfin team, recruited and led workshops to increase team’s confidence & efficiency
  • ✔Developed Annual Operating Plan for the FMS Business and the Business Plan for the CB Business by analyzing various parameters to include in the plan and making appropriate projections, as well as having alignment with various stakeholders and closing it with leadership.
  • ✔Analyzed various KPIs for different categories & channels to provide insights to leaders for better decision making. Compiled LTV CAC in various forms and cuts for various categories and sales channels, as well as periodic updates and visibility to assist leaders in making appropriate business and strategic calls.
  • ✔Worked with various channel heads to help them guide and support the development of new sales channels in their early stages by providing critical insights into LTV, CAC, and other metrics.
  • ✔Compiled incentive schemes for various sales channels. Analyzed these schemes from a financial standpoint as well as the CAC implications & made suggestions for improvements to make them better & more effective.
Cross-Functional CollaborationSales strategy & GrowthPresentationsAnalytical SkillsFinancial AccountingFinancial Reporting+20

Goyalo safaris pvt. ltd.

Business Consultant - Live Consulting Project

Jan 2020Mar 2020 · 2 mos · Kozhikode, Kerala, India

  • Project – Live Consulting Project – Lead Generation Advertising & Startup Valuation
  • Formulated the digital strategy for lead generation by the use of targeted Social media advertising
  • Estimated revenue projection to value a tech startup, Goyalo, by valuing different revenue streams
  • Evaluated comparable revenue multiples from pure play firms to aid in an effective startup valuation
Analytical SkillsMicrosoft WordMicrosoft PowerPointCommunicationPresentation SkillsMicrosoft Excel+2

Mahila mall

Live Consulting Project

Sep 2019Mar 2020 · 6 mos · Kozhikode, Kerala, India

  • Project – Live Consulting Project – SDP IIMK, Marketing Strategy
  • Suggested different alternatives to increase the footfall to Mahila Mall, Calicut, by discovering right TG
  • Indentified sales opportunities by exploring ancillary activities of TG by profiling current customers
Analytical SkillsMicrosoft WordMicrosoft PowerPointCommunicationPresentation SkillsMicrosoft Excel+2

Blackbuck (zinka logistics solutions pvt. ltd.)

Product Management Intern

Apr 2019May 2019 · 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Designing A Metrics Framework for Freight Marketplace Participants
  • Identified the critical dimensions of ratings for three sets of stakeholders of the Trucking Marketplace
  • Conducted extensive focus group interviews (600+) with three sets of customers to find their pain-points
  • Proposed a model of rating system and implemented it partly on the Blackbuck Marketplace platform
  • Identified the reasons of churn of stakeholders and ways to improve the truck utilization by 10 percent
  • Developed and presented robust improvement plan which intends to improve the entire client experience
Microsoft Word

Merchandising and design committee, iimk

Elected Member, Merchandising and Design Committee

Aug 2018Mar 2020 · 1 yr 7 mos · Kozhikode, Kerala, India

  • Elected Member, Merchandising and Design Committee
  • Facilitated bank loan processing, tailored suit, Safex deals and IIMK official merchandise deals
Microsoft PowerPointCommunicationPresentation Skills

Unitedhealth group

Product Engineer

Jul 2016Jun 2018 · 1 yr 11 mos · Noida Area, India

  • Roles & Responsibilities
  •  Product Engineer, Product Engineering and Data Solution Team
  • Qualified as Subject Matter Expert for Decision Support System (DSS), data store for claim processing
  • Designed and supported multiple UHG products that satisfied the immense information needs of UHG
  • Developed product that automated claim processing and helped in efficient assets management
  • Spearheaded quarterly newsletter promoting the ‘Synergy Theme’, given the recent acquisitions by UHG
  • Analyzed US healthcare industry, claim cycles, medical & clinical, plans & policies, health demographics
  • Initiatives
  •  Introduced various changes to automate the existing provider, pharmacy and member platforms
  • Reduced the number of defects by 18% and decreased the go-to-market time by same percentage
  • Streamlined DSS platform by removing redundancy; saved UHG business expense of USD 3715/annum
  • Achievements
  •  Awarded Opal Bravo, leadership award of UHG, for initiatives undertaken to correct issues in 2018
  •  Presented Sapphire Bravo, performance award of UHG, for leading the delivery of DSS platform in 2017
Microsoft Excel

Ecea nit warangal

Additional Secretary

Jun 2015May 2016 · 11 mos · Warangal Area, India

  • As an additional Secretary of ECE association 2015-16, I have organised/ helped to organize various events like 'know your branch' , 'treasure hunt', 'a step towards MBA', 'software classes' etc. These events create an educational and friendly environment to prepare students to meet the challenges of modern ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION Industry from the experiences of Faculties and seniors in technical knowledge and innovative approaches
Microsoft Word

Defence research and development organisation (drdo)

Research Intern

May 2014Jul 2014 · 2 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

  • Designed and developed Instantaneous Frequency Measurement device for electronic support receiver in DLRL lab of DRDO, Hyderabad.
  • Did primitive Instantiation in Xilinx for hardware realization of IFM device using user constraint file and thus improved the speed by decreasing the route delay.
Microsoft Word

Education

Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode

Master of Business Administration - MBA

Jan 2018Jan 2020

National Institute of Technology Warangal

Bachelor of Technology - BTech

Jan 2012Jan 2016

DAV Public School

HSC class 12th — Science

Jan 2011Jan 2012

Kendriya Vidyalaya

SSC class 10th — Science

Jan 2009Jan 2010

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