May 2023 – Jul 2024 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Transitioned to a global role for another sister company of LemmaTree group - Affinidi (https://www.affinidi.com/) to drive corporate strategy, long-term planning and strategic initiatives spanning across Singapore, India, and Berlin geography
• Affinidi aims to shift the identity power back to users by making them the rightful owners of data via a range of tools for end-customer and developers.

Oct 2022 – May 2023 · 7 mos

• Responsible to drive Goodworker's strategy, growth initiatives, capital allocation, partnerships, and fund-raising efforts. Goodworker strove to create a career-building platform for 400 Mn+ blue/grey-collar workers in India by providing them access to jobs and learning opportunities.
• Drove ideation and initial pilot of a decentralized identity platform as a moonshot for 400 Mn+ blue/grey-collar workforce via a global technology team

Jan 2022 – Oct 2022 · 9 mos

• Conceptualizing and striking long-term partnerships, alliances for MPL Platform. Available to explore partnerships at shobhitgupta@mplgaming.com
• Driving MPL Sports P&L - One of the youngest and fastest - growing D2C athleisure/sports merchandise brands

Feb 2021 – Mar 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo

• On an exciting journey to build a massive sports merchandise business with Indian Cricket Team!
• Looking to hire across business roles and if you are excited about the above problem statement, drop an email at shobhit@mplsports.in!

Oct 2019 – Feb 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• Drove program management for Disney+ Hotstar OTT Indonesia launch across business and technology leadership
• Support senior management in formulating long-term strategy and evaluate new digital business opportunities including inorganic options for the sports portfolio

Oct 2017 – Oct 2019 · 2 yrs · Bangalore, India

• Drive end-to-end process - evaluation, deal-negotiation, and integration of potential inorganic opportunities including M&A, Investments, Strategic Partnerships for Ola group business spanning mobility, food-tech, and fin-tech
• Formulate the group-wide strategy and deep-dive assessment of adjacencies and white-spaces for growth esp. for mobility business and auto-commerce
• Support incubation by driving go-to-market strategy and program management for organic growth initiatives - led shared mobility, outstation and premium rental categories etc.

May 2015 – Oct 2017 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Bangalore

• Founding member - Supported senior management with GTM plan, financial and business plan; Program management and on-ground implementation of pilot and website launch
• Set-up business and operations process for first-ever fashion omnichannel implementation
• Drive system adoption of Omni-channel retail for NNNOW at 800+ lifestyle retail stores pan-India.
• Responsible for sales, operations and business development by leading a pan-India team of 15 people

Feb 2014 – May 2015 · 1 yr 3 mos · Ahmedabad & Bangalore

• Corporate Strategy resource associated with B2C E-Commerce and Retail Business of Arvind Group i.e. Arvind Internet Limited, The Arvind Store, Fabric DTR Distribution business
• Responsibilities -
• Support Promoters, C-level executives in formulating the big-picture strategy
• Drive and execute cross-functional strategic initiatives and projects including omni-channel store digitization, pricing and product restructuring, inventory optimization etc.

Jul 2011 – Jan 2014 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

• Over 2 years of diverse management consulting experience spanning across Retail, Consumer Goods, Automotive and Energy industries.
• Key Engagements-
• Category performance improvement for a leading pan-India retail chain
• Strategic sourcing for India’s largest confectionary manufacturer
• Growth strategy for a Japanese Auto OEM
• Business Process Transformation for India's largest private power plant

Jun 2009 – Jul 2009 · 1 mo · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

• Inducted in Testing Section at Mumbai.
• Benchmarked SMART-oil platform technology vis-a-vis conventional set-up to demonstrate economic and productivity advantages; results presented to prospective clients to get multiple deals