Nikhil Khandelwal

Head of Growth

Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia17 yrs 2 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Over 15 years of experience in Growth Marketing.
  • Successfully launched multiple fintech products across Asia.
  • Expert in forging partnerships to drive business growth.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and Marketing expert with extensive experience in growth strategies and product launches.

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LeadershipTeam Building & TrainingBusiness PlanningData AnalysisDecision MakingNetworkingProcess DevelopmentKnowledge SharingLead Generation & SourcingSalesAdvisoryProduct Growth

About

Experience • 15+ years of Growth Marketing • 14+ years of Loyalty Programs • 13+ years of Leadership • 12+ years of Entrepreneurship • 11+ years of CRM • 10+ years of Business Development • 9+ years of Partnerships • 8+ years of Deals & Discount Platforms • 7+ years of P&L Management • 6+ years of Fintech • 5+ years of SAAS platforms • 4+ years of Consulting • 3+ years of Card Linked Rewards • 2+ years of Product Development • 1+ year of E-wallet I work with the intent to create “Brand Nikhil”. I grow revenue and reach for tech platforms that includes e-commerce, payments, loyalty, e-wallet. In the last 10+ years, I have worked in UK, India, Singapore and Malaysia for global & regional O2O platforms such as Groupon, Fave, and Razer Fintech to grow offline categories & evolve online products. As a leader, I formulate business strategy, execute them with the cross-functional leaders or ground level teams, coach people to build efficient teams, take data driven decisions, curate needle mover partnerships, own & manage P&L, communicate data backed information & reports with the stakeholders including C-suite. I invest in domain names. I own expatshift.com, mysteryqr.com, mysteryscan.com, nikaashi.com Skills: Leadership, Team Building & Training, Business Planning, Data Analysis, Decision Making, Networking, Process Development, Knowledge Sharing, Lead Generation & Sourcing, Market Research, Sales, Project Planning, Merchandising, Promotion & Sales Strategy, Business Development, People Management, Advisory, Product Growth.

Experience

Enigmatic smile limited

Head of Growth

Feb 2023Present · 3 yrs 1 mo · Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia · Remote

  • Enigmatic Smile powers loyalty and rewards for Banks, Fintechs, and Superapps globally through merchant-funded card-linked offers and white-labeled loyalty apps.
  • I drive growth by forging partnerships with merchants and publishers, creating loyalty use cases that boost customer engagement and long-term value.

The reward collection

Head of Growth

Feb 2023Mar 2025 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia · Remote

  • The Reward Collection are the world's largest provider of Card-Linked and Open Banking offers, reaching over half a million consumers globally. We work with the world's top Loyalty Publishers and through that network, merchant brands can reach millions of customers.

Pulse id

3 roles

Chief Growth Officer

Mar 2022Jan 2023 · 10 mos · Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

VP of Growth

Oct 2021Mar 2022 · 5 mos · Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

  • Pulse is a web3 loyalty ecosystem that drives adoption of crypto / card linked payments with merchants & users. We work with merchants that offer cashback promotions for crypto, card, QR payments. Financial Institutions embed these offers to drive adoption of their platforms.
  • Merchants fund these cashback offers for Pulse to distribute them across a network of Financial Institutions in a hyper local, hyper personalized manner.
  • For reference, Visa has adopted our platform to issue merchant funded offers to Visa cardholders via issuers.

Country Manager

Dec 2020Oct 2021 · 10 mos · Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Lynk

Advisory Council Member

Jan 2022Present · 4 yrs 2 mos

Third bridge group limited

Advisory Council Member

Jan 2021Present · 5 yrs 2 mos · Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Prosapient

Advisory Council Member

Nov 2020Present · 5 yrs 4 mos · Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Insider.

Strategic Advisor to Insider

Jun 2020Present · 5 yrs 9 mos · Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

  • Sit on the board of Insider as Strategic Advisor
  • Product Strategy | Go-To-Market Strategy | Insider Ambassador

Mysteryqr

Founder

May 2020Present · 5 yrs 10 mos · Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

  • Current trying times has challenged companies all across the globe to rewrite their forecasts, rethink their budgets, and shift their mode of operations almost overnight. Contactless marketing is the need of the hour as Covid-19 has taken the world by storm and QR codes are coming to the rescue.
  • MysteryQR is rising to the occasion by building contactless marketing tools using QR, AR, and AI functionalities for the SMEs to prepare the campaigns, amplify on multiple channels, and engage with the customers.

Razer inc.

2 roles

Regional Marketing Director & Malaysia Country Head for Razer Pay

Feb 2019Jun 2020 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Relaunch of Razer Pay v2 in 25 days after joining.
  • Grabbed the title of official e-wallet for “Malaysia Tech Week” (an event organized by MDEC and BNM).
  • Credited to get a sponsorship of Proton Iriz car from Proton within 2 weeks to promote “Malaysia Tech Week”.
  • Launched a revolutionary functionality “Mystery QR” that resulted in the acquisition of 125K users within 1 week.
  • Launched multiple product features to optimize marketing cost from 50% to 7% within 6 months of time.
  • Piloted closures of key brands such as KFC, Ayamas, Watsons, KK Mart, Burger King, Agoda, and more.
  • Curate proposals and ideas to drive more value for partners by driving sponsorship from Razer’s ecosystem.
  • At present, playing an instrumental role for the Razer prepaid card launch in partnership with Visa.

Marketing Director

Feb 2019Mar 2019 · 1 mo

  • Marketing head for Razer Pay.

Glg

Advisory Council Member

Jan 2018Present · 8 yrs 2 mos · Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Fave

2 roles

General Manager

May 2017Jan 2019 · 1 yr 8 mos · Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

  • Roles & Responsibilities:
  • Was responsible for the overall P&L; achieved consistently MoM double-digit growth.
  • Played a leadership role in launching FavePay in KL within 1 month after getting promoted to GM role.
  • Built strategies for go-to-market plans such as Merchant Acquisition, Campaigns, Pricing Strategies, and more.
  • Launched FavePay in 10+ markets within 6 months of time.
  • Optimized marketing spends for FavePay from 25% to 1.5% and for Fave Deals from 15% to 5%.
  • Built revenue-driving strategies & launched features such as Dynamic Cashback, Cross-Sell campaigns.
  • Monitored ROI of all marketing channels and accordingly decide on future digital and offline campaigns.

Head of Planning & Merchandizing

Dec 2016May 2017 · 5 mos · Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

  • Mobile commerce company Fave Group (formerly KFit Group) bought over Groupon Malaysia in Dec 2016 and later in Feb 2017, it got rebranded as Fave.
  • Roles & Responsibilities:
  • Played a key role in devising a strategy to migrate Groupon's merchant & customer database & executed it immaculately.
  • Brought in a data-driven approach to optimize the marketing budget spending and building future product features.
  • Executed brand awareness and customer activation campaigns across all channels.
  • Activated 50% of Top 100,000 Groupon customers through tactical CRM campsaigns.
  • Improved customer retention from 1.3 times to 2.3 times in a month.

Groupon malaysia

Head of Planning & Merchandizing

Jun 2015Dec 2016 · 1 yr 6 mos · Selangor, Malaysia

  • Did budgeting and projections; identified gaps in the forecast; and created sales plans to fill these gaps.
  • Improved supply quality; created opportunities by generating innovative ideas.
  • Optimized merchandising channels to achieve monthly targets.
  • Planned and executed thematic campaigns based on seasonality and events to generate traffic and gross profits.
  • Scaled a data-driven approach in order to curate promo code structures for campaigns.
  • Reported directly to GM. Managed a team of over 7 people.

Groupon india

Senior Manager - Planning & Merchandizing

Nov 2011Jun 2015 · 3 yrs 7 mos · New Delhi Area, India

  • Launched in April 2011, Groupon (formerly Crazeal) features one daily deal on the best things to do, see, eat, and buy across India.
  • Business Planning role within Groupon is all about deciding what all Groupon should sell, for how long, at what price, and revenue that a product should make on a daily, weekly and monthly basis.
  • Managed team of merchandisers, planners, and supply chain.
  • Worked in tandem with sales team & business heads to build out strategies that meet business goals.
  • Sales analysis of the vertical performance as well as individual categories with the derivation of actions.
  • Planned the budget, stock, and margin; identified products to be discontinued and did inventory projection.
  • Improved gross margins by building channels to procure products from China directly.
  • Responsible for doing revenue planning; built offline channels such as corporate sales to liquidate aging stock.

Copal art

Research Analyst/Art Advisor

Jul 2009Oct 2011 · 2 yrs 3 mos · London, United Kingdom

  • Executed research reports on artists and art investments.
  • Built alliances with financial institutions and private collectors.
  • Sourced artworks & negotiated from private collectors and auction houses.
  • Played advisory role to HNI clients and managed their art portfolios.
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University of essex

Research Assistant

May 2009Jan 2010 · 8 mos · Colchester, United Kingdom

  • Testing Pecking Order Theory

Calypso technology

Intern

Oct 2008Feb 2009 · 4 mos · London, United Kingdom

  • Worked on Stress Scenario Project

Education

University of Essex

MSc Finance — Finance

Jan 2007Jan 2008

Delhi University

B. Com (Hons) — Commerce

Jan 2004Jan 2007

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