Ankkush Agarwal — CEO

Over the last 25+ years, I have worked across various countries and industries and have built start-ups from 0 to 1 and scaled them to unicorn status. This journey has given me electrifying clarity to achieve success in the surrounding chaos. Whether it’s helping a founder hire right, guiding a team through sales transformation, or mentoring leaders to build happier, high-performing workplaces, I focus on practical, actionable strategies rooted in empathy, structure, and results. Currently, I serve as the Head of Corporate Operations at Zeta, where I lead large cross-functional teams globally and drive strategic initiatives that directly impact performance and culture. I am also an Anchor Mentor at IIM Bangalore NSRCEL, working closely with early-stage start-ups mentoring them on hiring, team building, growth, sales, and path to revenue & profitability. The areas I mentor and consult on: - Setting up for success – by hiring the right talent - Helping individuals, teams and leadership to realise their potential - Leadership development & organisational culture - Org-wide process optimisation & team development - Business consulting for scale and revenue As a LinkedIn Top Voice, I enjoy sharing honest stories and reflections from our workplace under #HappyCorporateSouls. :) If you're a founder, leader, or team member feeling stuck or seeking clarity in your journey, I'd love to connect. You can reach out to me: https://bit.ly/ankkush

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Recruitment expert with extensive experience in scaling operations and mentoring start-ups.

Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Experience: 23 yrs 3 mos

Skills

Corporate Operations
Talent Acquisition
Mentoring
Sales
Sales Strategy
Customer Onboarding
Corporate Sales
Sales Team Management
Sales Operations
Marketing
Recruitment Process Outsourcing

Career Highlights

Led teams to scale start-ups to unicorn status.
Mentored early-stage start-ups on growth and hiring.
Developed successful go-to-market strategies across APAC.

Work Experience

Zeta

Head - Corporate Operations (4 yrs 6 mos)

National Sales Head (2 yrs 2 mos)

Sales Coach (2 yrs 1 mo)

NSRCEL

Anchor Mentor (4 yrs 6 mos)

RoundGlass

Sales Leader - APAC, Round.Glass, Reach (1 yr 8 mos)

PE Front Office Solutions

Co-Founder, Board Member (6 mos)

Mint RPO Services Pvt. Ltd

Founder & CEO (8 yrs 2 mos)

Mastek Ltd

Marketing Manager (1 yr 4 mos)

You Telecom India Pvt Ltd

Product Manager (5 mos)

Lionbridge Technologies

Marketing Manager (2 yrs 4 mos)

Education

MBA at K J Somaiya Institute of Management

Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.) at Narsee Monjee College of Commerce and Economics

Ankkush Agarwal

CEO

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India23 yrs 3 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led teams to scale start-ups to unicorn status.
Mentored early-stage start-ups on growth and hiring.
Developed successful go-to-market strategies across APAC.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Recruitment expert with extensive experience in scaling operations and mentoring start-ups.

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Skills

Core Skills

Corporate OperationsTalent AcquisitionMentoringSalesSales StrategyCustomer OnboardingCorporate SalesSales Team ManagementSales OperationsMarketingRecruitment Process Outsourcing

Other Skills

Account ManagementAffiliate MarketingAnalyticsBusinessBusiness DevelopmentBusiness IntelligenceBusiness OperationsBusiness StrategyCRMCloud ComputingDemand GenerationExecutive SearchGo-to-Market StrategyInterviewsKey Account Management

About

Experience

Zeta

3 roles

Head - Corporate Operations

Sep 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 6 mos · India

I manage multiple Corporate Functions at Zeta
1. Real Estate & Workplace (REW)
2. Procurement
3. Talent Acquisition
4. Workplace IT

Corporate OperationsTalent AcquisitionProcurementWorkplace IT

National Sales Head

Promoted

Oct 2017 – Dec 2019 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Part of the core leadership team at Zeta and actively involved in all aspects of product planning, roll outs and ‘go to market’ strategy
Set up the entire corporate sales team across India, which included hiring 100+ team members in 9 cities in record time
Signed up a base of 300,000 unique users with 1200+ customers in a short span of 3 years
Identified and structured complex alliance deals with strategic partners and created opportunities to acquire large number of corporate users.
Set up CRM & MIS teams to successfully manage the record growth spurt achieved by the sales team
All of the above culminated in Zeta’s successful acquisition by Sodexo at a $300 million valuation.

Corporate SalesCRMSales Team ManagementStrategic Partnerships

Sales Coach

Aug 2015 – Sep 2017 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Nsrcel

Anchor Mentor

Sep 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 6 mos

Mentor to all start-ups being incubated at IIM Bangalore - NSRCEL Incubation Centre - primary areas of Mentorship are in Sales, Business Operations, Team Building & People Management.

MentoringSalesBusiness OperationsTeam BuildingPeople Management

Roundglass

Sales Leader - APAC, Round.Glass, Reach

Dec 2019 – Aug 2021 · 1 yr 8 mos · India

Developed the Go-to-Market strategy and plans for India, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines & UAE
On-Boarded 100+ corporate customers with 200,000+ paid corporate employees in a record six months of launch of the wellbeing platform
Rapidly hired and set up a 20+ member Sales, Alliances & Solutioning team in India
Defined from scratch all sales processes, team structures, sales operations, MIS reports, CRM modules, Team goal setting, Incentive structuring, Sales training and coaching, Pre-sales & Service delivery strategy.
Managed the sales support team of 15+ members that included telesales and support, customer onboarding and key account management to ensure high quality service delivery.
Set up business alliances team across Insurance, Banking & Ecommerce industry verticals and realized high value deals with top players in these segments while gaining access to 2 million B2C users.

Go-to-Market StrategySales ProcessesSales TrainingCustomer OnboardingKey Account ManagementSales Strategy

Pe front office solutions

Co-Founder, Board Member

Jan 2015 – Jul 2015 · 6 mos · Mumbai Area, India

Responsible for running global sales & marketing operations for a unique cloud-based software for private equity & venture capital firms to manage their entire workflow of Deal Pipeline, CRM, Portfolio Management, Fund & Investor Management.
Successfully sold the software to 20+ customers in 5+ countries with a lean sales team. Customers included marque industry players in the Alternate Asset Management space
Currently associated in the advisory capacity as shareholder and member of the Board

Sales OperationsMarketingCRMPortfolio Management

Mint rpo services pvt. ltd

Founder & CEO

Jan 2006 – Mar 2014 · 8 yrs 2 mos · Mumbai

Bootstrapped and grew the business to 75+ recruiters servicing 90+ corporates in 6 countries
Pivoted from an India focused company to generating 85% of revenues from international markets.
Trained a high quality team to hire talent globally and successfully recruited talent for clients in over 20+ countries
Set up sales offices in India, Middle East, Singapore & USA
Created industry benchmark RPO processes leading to better revenue predictability and client satisfaction
Successfully exited the business - it was acquired by a Singapore based entity for a 100% acquisition in March 2014

Recruitment Process OutsourcingTeam TrainingSales Strategy