Ankita Balotia

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India11 yrs experience
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Key Highlights

  • 5 years of management consulting experience.
  • Expertise in business strategy and financial modeling.
  • Proven track record in smart city and telecom projects.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a management consultant with expertise in strategy across technology, telecom, and healthcare sectors.

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Business DevelopmentCC++Data AnalysisData MiningDiscrete Event SimulationHTMLJavaManagement ConsultingMarketing StrategyMicrosoft ExcelMicrosoft OfficeMicrosoft WordOperations ManagementPowerPoint

About

5 years of management consulting experience with a demonstrated history of working on challenging strategy projects. I am an accomplished, result-oriented MBA with an engineering background that has equipped me with advanced analytics, decision making, leadership and business skills. I have worked across smart city, telecom, technology, retail and healthcare industries across India, South-East Asia and USA. My functional expertise include Business Strategy, Financial & Valuation Models, Market Entry Strategy, SCM Transformation, Operating Model design, Due Diligence and Predictive Modeling.

Experience

Fireside ventures

Vice President

Jan 2023Present · 3 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Got an interesting idea to build for tomorrow's consumer? - reach out to me at ankita@firesideventures.com

Venture highway llp (now general catalyst india)

Investment Professional

Jul 2020Jan 2023 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Delhi NCR

  • Investments - Ivy Homes, Meragi Celebrations, Curelink, Ripik.ai, Loopin, Swiflearn, Flashprep, Stealth Healthcare

Bain & company

Senior Consultant

Jun 2019Jun 2020 · 1 yr · Gurugram, Haryana, India

  • Product Full Potential for a Major ITeS in USA:
  • Developed strategic roadmap for an app marketplace to compliment core offering
  • Estimated the latent demand and desired list of use-cases with operating model considerations to drive platform success
  • Customer NPS improvement for a leading Real Estate (India):
  • Led the design & execution of solutions for superior product quality
  • Analyzed the root causes and designed initiatives with special emphasis on new-age software and construction technologies
  • 5 year commercial strategy and business development for a steel major in India
  • Developed 5 year growth and go-to-market strategy
  • Looked at multiple facets of biz. development including asset acquisition for inorganic growth, organic plant expansion plan (brownfield and greenfield), iron mine auctions and connected assets acquisition / partnerships

Strategy&, part of the pwc network

3 roles

Senior Associate

Promoted

Apr 2018May 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Public Policy:
  • Recommended Department of Technology (DoT), India on key policy interventions for driving investments and ubiquitous fibre presence in India
  • Recommended GMDA (Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority) on common development and resource allocation framework for better citizen quality of life. Developed a list of holistic liveability themes and key indicators for target setting and measuring efficacy of allotted budget
  • Publication: Led the NASSCOM Digital ER&D report to study the impact of digitization on ER&D ecosystem worldwide, India's digital potential(w.r.t. talent, regulations and industry structure) and recommendations for GoI, NASSCOM and Engineering Service Providers
  • Supply Chain Transformation:
  • Leading a team of three associates to achieve 15% cost reduction on Tail Spend (Marketing, Corporate Services and Facilities Management spend) by identifying opportunities for demand rationalization and vendor consolidation. Led and designed end-to-end sourcing activity and vendor commercial negotiations

Associate

Apr 2017Apr 2018 · 1 yr

  • Smart City Projects:
  • Developed a business plan to estimate viability gap funding of a fiber NetCo setup, a Joint Venture between city Municipal Corporation and Global optic fiber player under Indian Smart City Initiatives
  • Developed a financial plan to assess commercial viability & return on investment for an integrated multimodal mobility platform via a Joint Venture with state govt. by a leading American automaker
  • Telecom Projects:
  • Independently developed Long-Range Plan & Mobile financial services strategy for a major wireless Telco in Indonesia
  • Performed due diligence and identified value realization options for world’s leading digital telco
  • Telecom Policy Assistance:
  • Analyzed impact of changes in Mobile Termination Rates (MTR/IUC) on investment by telecom operators and benchmarked MTR regimes based on their level of Industry Maturity
  • Recommended DoT on key policy intervention levers for investment friendly Telecom policy to achieve healthy competition while increasing broadband penetration
  • Recommended Urban Development department on building common underground multi-utility duct policy (dig-once) through national highways and policy recommendation to state govt. to form city DuctCo SPVs
  • Business Developments:
  • Assessed threats and opportunities for a Leading Global Nonalcoholic Beverages company with evolving consumer and business trends (OBPCC framework - Occasion, Brand, Package, Price & Channel)
  • Developed revenue assurance framework for a leading Indian Communications company to align processes and systems from call to billing and prevent revenue leakages

Summer Associate

Apr 2016Jul 2016 · 3 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

  • Developed a $15 Bn Joint Business Plan for a major telecom merger in India - Evaluated cost synergy potential of ~$300 Mn/year and laid out MergeCo synergy realization and integration plan
  • Created a 4G case study to assess impact of new technology roll-out on subscriber and Telco key metrics like ARPU, data consumption, Revenue & Customer market share

Diamond management & technology consultants

2 roles

Experienced Associate

Jul 2014Jul 2015 · 1 yr · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

  • Designed demand planning framework for Global Luxury Jeweller to transform sales & operations by increasing responsiveness - Achieved $11Mn working capital reduction and increased order on time fill rate from 70% to >90%
  • Developed supply chain risk mitigation strategy for a Global Apparel major and evaluated $80 Mn/Year VaR - Prioritised risks and categorized responses (Accept, Avoid, Mitigate)
  • Food Marketing Institute, USA 2014 - Designed customer targeting strategy for grocery retailers through leakage and peer performance analysis

Associate

Jul 2013Jun 2014 · 11 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

  • Re-designed marketing strategy for US Healthcare Providers as per evolving healthcare landscape in the US after Obama Care Act
  • Devised competitive benchmarking framework and evaluate best practices in improving cost efficiency and quality of care - Identifies cost saving potential of $520 Mn for a Major US Integrated Hospital System (IHS)
  • Created a go-to-market strategy for innovative healthcare services (e.g., remote health monitoring and tele-medicine) by evaluating relative financial and medical performance compared to existing services

Intuit

Intern

May 2012Aug 2012 · 3 mos

  • TurboTax Companion Application
  • Designed and developed Individual Tax Planner on Android and IOS platform
  • Conducted market research to increase customer engagement by feature identification in the core app
  • Successfully implemented cornerstone of company’s 3 year plan by launching 2 apps (Android and IOS)

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) — Computer Science and Engineering

Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad

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

ESCP Business School

Student Exchange Program — Masters in Management

HansRaj Model School

High School — Science

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