Narayan Venkatishvaran

CEO

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India23 yrs 9 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Over 20 years of leadership in business transformation.
  • Expertise in operations and process excellence.
  • Certified Six Sigma Black Belt driving impactful results.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Business Transformation Leader with expertise in Operations and Process Excellence.

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Market ResearchBusiness Process ImprovementCustomer InsightCRMSegmentationCompetitive IntelligenceAnalyticsPrimary ResearchMarket AnalysisLeadershipNielsenCompetitive AnalysisMarket IntelligenceData AnalysisOutsourcing

About

I am a leader with over two decades of expertise in steering teams through build, scale, and transform journey. Throughout my career spanning 20+ years, I successfully led diverse teams across global geographies, excelling in client servicing, operations, and delivery. As a certified Six Sigma Black Belt, I bring a strategic, transformation-driven mindset to my leadership role , consistently delivering impactful results and fostering excellence

Experience

Neuiq

Senior Vice President - Operations

Jun 2025Present · 9 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Incubation: patronus (premium home furnishings)

Entrepreneur

Dec 2024Present · 1 yr 3 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Dentsu

Head- Operations & Process Excellence - Dentsu Global Services

Jan 2022Dec 2024 · 2 yrs 11 mos · India

  • This is a pivotal role which rolls up to Global COO of Dentsu Global Services (DGS). This role anchors all new M&A integrations, governance set up, process excellence & operations excellence as we scale this 7000+ strong Dentsu Global Capability Center, across various delivery centers across geographies

Nielseniq

3 roles

Global Head - Traditional Trade Data Strategy

Jan 2020Dec 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Global Head for Data Strategy, which focuses on hunting & pitching partnership arrangements with Traditional Trade POS machine Providers & Data Aggregators across the globe to drive creation of alternate data sources with higher data granularity, better data frequency & stronger analytics

Gracenote: India Lead (Country Head) and VP - Editorial (Operations) India, Middle East & SEA

Promoted

Aug 2018Dec 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Administrative head for India office, which is the biggest site in Gracenote, a company acquired by Nielsen with 700 employees and Direct accountability to Editorial (Operations) team - 200 content writers across India, SEA & Middle East. Primary focus was to drive overall cultural integration in to Nielsen & bring in operational efficiencies to support growth

Global Head - Digital Accelaration (Operations), Consumer Insights & Innovation

Jan 2018Jul 2018 · 6 mos

  • Leading digital enablement & acceleration for consumer insights & innovation business operations globally. The digital acceleration is expected to improve & digitize processes to create stronger competitive advantage for the consumer insights & innovation line of business and improve client experience as a whole

Goodera.

Vice President- Consulting

Jul 2017Dec 2017 · 5 mos · India

  • This was my attempt to take a plunge into social sector where I was leading the consulting team which worked across some of the renowned companies & brands to help design, execute & report their CSR Programs. Was a short but an enriching stint 👍

Nielseniq

6 roles

Head of Operational Excellence- Emerging Markets, Greater China, Global (Insights Business)

Jan 2015Jun 2017 · 2 yrs 5 mos

  • Leading Operational Excellence which covers BPO, Performance Metrics & Audits for the Consumer Insights & Innovation business globally and all 'Buy' business for Emerging markets & Greater China

Head of Data Aquisition (Operations) - Consumer Insights & Innovation - SEA, North Asia & Pacific

Aug 2014Dec 2014 · 4 mos

  • Heading the Operations team for consumer insights & innovation across 11 countries in South East Asia, North Asia & Pacific

Executive Director- Consumer Insights (Business Head: Singapore & Malaysia)

Promoted

Jan 2013Aug 2014 · 1 yr 7 mos

  • Commercial head of consumer insights business - Singapore & Malaysia with P&L responsibility

Black Belt- Global Business Process Improvement (BPI)

May 2011Dec 2012 · 1 yr 7 mos

  • Running business process improvement projects under the global CR & BASES organization which delivered $4mn in Savings across 11 countries

Associate Director, Client Servicing

Promoted

Feb 2010Apr 2011 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Lead an IPG servicing mix of FMCG, IT & Telco clients conducting Multi Country Research

Manager & Senior Manager, Client Servicing

Oct 2007Oct 2010 · 3 yrs

  • Handling a sub-team servicing Multi Country FMCG Research clients

Synovate

Research Manager (Client Servicing)

Jun 2006May 2007 · 11 mos

  • Worked on building the customer experience loyalty practice within the India team

Wns global services

Senior Executive, Client Servicing

Jun 2005Jun 2006 · 1 yr · Mumbai Area, India

  • Handling Offshore projects for UK based Research Clients

Nielseniq

Executive, Client Servicing

Jun 2003Jun 2005 · 2 yrs · Mumbai, India

  • Research Executive doing B2B Research & Customer Experience studies

Research international

Operations Executive

Jan 2001Jan 2003 · 2 yrs

  • Handled Field Operations using outsourced fieldwork agency model across India

Education

University of Mumbai

Masters in Management Studies (MBA) — Marketing

Jan 1999Jan 2001

University of Mumbai

Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.) — Commerce

Jan 1993Jan 1998

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