Jun 2015 – Present · 10 yrs 11 mos · Bangalore

• Product Management for Cloud Fusion EPM Products - specific focus on Evolutionary Cross-Enterprise Connected Planning Solutions across Finance, IT, Marketing, Sales, and HR.
• Passionate about solving business problems with simplified, application-based solutions that can be owned by Business vs. toolsets that needs big IT involvement
• Rethinking Planning, Forecasting and performance management with next-gen Intelligent Performance Management (IPM) that looks at leveraging ML / AI - for Cash Forecasting, Sales & Revenue Performance Management, Trade Promotion & Marketing Mix Modeling, and several Multivariate prediction use cases.
• Additional Outbound Product Management responsibility in Asia Pacific Japan for Cross EPM Products

Jan 2015 – Jan 2020 · 5 yrs

• Part of the group of elite industry mentors that supports Startups that are part of the Google Lauchpad
• Evaluated several early stage startups with critical evaluation of product market fit, as well advising on growth and product life cycle management

Aug 2014 – Present · 11 yrs 9 mos · Bangalore

• Mentoring few startups on product management, growth, product - market fit with outside in view
• Blogging on topics that interest Indian Product startups

Jan 2013 – Jan 2019 · 6 yrs · Bangalore

• Been an active industry mentor for students of the Institute

Aug 2012 – Jun 2015 · 2 yrs 10 mos

• Customer Innovation Product Management at SAP,driving innovations with leading global customers on big data, digital, IoT and consumer use cases. Worked on customer focused innovations that are white space and greenfield opportunities for SAP, deeply engaged with customers to solve problems with next generation technologies. In our group we test out the "Create Prove" of our innovations, before it can become mainstream products.
• Involved in several customer innovation projects in the Customer Engagement area where many enterprises are redefining their Digital Strategy in this era of Mobile, Cloud, Social, Big Data and eCommerce, to drive mass-personalization and 1x1 contextual customer engagement. In this, built couple of key machine learning models relevant for Travel and Consumer Industries, where knowing the customer and serving them is of utmost importance, leveraging their digital footprints.
• Additionally involved in the recent past on Integrated Business Planning applications for Sales & Operations - this solution enables Real time what if scenario planning and Social collaboration, all built in both Cloud and On Premise deployment options.
• Continued to contribute to SAP community touching 100 blogs including well received Top 10 takeaways from SAPPHIRENOW that received 15k+ views every year
• Prior to this was part of SAP EPM products that included market leading solutions such as BPC, BPC on HANA etc, where was involved in defining the vision,strategy and market opportunity for EPM on Cloud.

Feb 2010 – Jan 2013 · 2 yrs 11 mos

• Part of the Global Business Development and Go-To Market team focusing on EPM and Finance solutions. In this role played a significant role as part of the team driving a global 140M+ Euro business.
• Key responsibilities and focus:
• GTM for Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting solutions (global field lead for SAP BPC, BPC on HANA,Planning solutions) and the broader Enterprise Performance Management solutions.
• GTM for Accelerated Finance Close solutions including taking to the market the newly acquired solutions SAP Disclosure management (incl XBRL) globally.
• Driven several key initiatives to derive demand, customer success, sales strategies, competitive programs - to ensure success for SAP in EPM space through Global Sales Plays
• Spoken in several CFO and Technology events globally - in US, Europe, Middle East, India, Australia,Singapore on best practice adoption of process, technologies and emerging trends.
• Conducted several hands on workshops with customers to define their roadmap and vision of next generation CFO office, including leveraging Design Thinking Methodology.
• Enabled 150+ sales, presales colleagues across the globe through direct presentations, webinars and on the job training in customer interactions, surrounding the value of solutions to run their business better.
• Leveraged Social Media extensively to interact and communicate with stakeholders (internal and external) on the value of SAP's Analytics and CFO solutions

May 2009 – Feb 2010 · 9 mos · Bangalore

• Practice Head - CFO Solutions - Built a very able and definitive practice for Office of CFO and had success in few customers. Team was one of the best teams with deep expertise and fantastic execution capabilities

Mar 2007 – Apr 2009 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bangalore Labs

• Product management for Enterprise Performance Management solutions.
• Part of the dream team that operated in a startup style, and establishing significant momentum in EPM /CFO solutions through acquisitions and innovations.EPM business grew from 0 to 200 Million USD.
• Participated in the due diligence of Outlooksoft that later became SAP BPC as well as involved later in the integration of Business Objects EPM solutions into SAP.
• Continued to be key product manager for SAP BPC including porting of SAP BPC into Netweaver platform.
• Created the vision of Integrated Business Planning topic, including board level proposals
• Presented in various SAP Insider events - SAP Reporting & Analytics Conference, SAP Financials Conference and SAPPHIRENOW on the subjects surrounding Enterprise Performance Management.
• Started and became an active blogger in SAP community, providing thought leadership in the EPM space

Dec 2004 – Feb 2007 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bangalore

• Global Product Management for Hyperion Planning solutions (part of Hyperion EPM)
• Built Specialized Planning applications - Workforce Planning and Capital Expense Planning; and drove the vision and direction for future modules
• Actively involved in driving some of the conceptualization of EPM Architect, the new innovations that drove the modeling across Hyperion EPM products such as Hyperion Planning, HFM and more
• Played key role in defining next generation functionality working with development that included several user interface features such as Smartlist, Menus
• Performed several go to market for both Hyperion Planning as well as Spl Planning modules - engaging with customers, partners in various forums and events globally
• Presented in Hyperion User Conference on Planning topics as well as internal field events to enable the field with the latest and greatest of Hyperion products that got covered in R&D Central
• Facilitated in bringing domain and functional knowledge to the development team
• Overcame lot of challenges in performing product management function from offshore environment.

Sep 2000 – Nov 2004 · 4 yrs 2 mos · Chennai

• Product Management for ERP and Banking CRM
• Conceptualized, and developed next generation totally component based web architected ERP using Ramco Virtual Works, from drawing board to a full fledged ERP solution
• Covered the entire modules of Financials across General Ledger, Fixed Assets, Accounts Payable, Accounts receivable etc.
• Key accomplishment was ownership of Account Rule Definition for across the ERP.
• Supported several international customer engagements and enablement post launch.
• Built from scratch Banking CRM product for Loan Origination process driving co-development with Commerce Bank, NJ leveraging best practice business process methodology using ARIS tools

Aug 1998 – Sep 2000 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Chennai

• Treasury Function in Ford Treasury
• Managed the entire short term and working capital funding requirements for Ford India, during their launch phase of Ford Ikon cars.
• Effectively liasoned with banks, group companies on many aspects of sourcing funds and optimizing the cost, including FCNR funding
• Involved in many of the long term funding negotiation, documentation and finalization.
• Worked with all the top Indian and Multi National banks.
• Involved extensively in planning the cash flows, short and medium term working with different sales and operation units of the company

Jan 1998 – Jan 1998 · 0 mo · Chennai

• Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)
• Responsible for Financial Planning & Analysis for South India that covered 3 regions (Madras, Bangalore and Madurai) and 4 bottling plants.
• Responsible for creating the annual operating plans, strategy plans and coordinating the operations review for business units across South India.
• Effectively collaborated with regional business leaders/ CFOs in assessing the financial performance and allowing for continuous planning and rolling forecasts, through variance analysis and identifying key business drivers, ensuring driver based planning and analysis
• Extensively used Microsoft Excel in building comprehensive integrated business planning models and used as key collaboration tool across different regions and plants, as no scalable solution existed in those periods for such a complex business
• Explored data and statistics to connect Met climate data with demand, to see correlation effect for soft drinks. a ML / AI approach very long time ago
• In this role,was involved as business administrator for the country wise roll out of Hyperion Pillar

Jan 1996 – Jan 1998 · 2 yrs · Bangalore

• Directly reported to CFO of the Garments Business, that included leading brands such as Arrow, Lee, Flying Machine, Excalibur and Newport
• Focused on Corporate Finance and being chief financial analyst for CFO in corporate office
• Business Divisions FP&A,Monthly Management Reporting and Variance analysis
• Finance Adviser to Business Heads on Pricing and Processes.
• Involved in transformation projects for cost optimization of plant operations
• Supported in several legal consultations and compliance relevant to the business

Aug 1992 – Feb 1996 · 3 yrs 6 mos · Chennai Area, India

• Statutory, Internal, Special audits and consulting for Large and SME companies. Involved in transformation audits reporting to Financial Institutions. Rich experience reviewing processes in industries such as Chemical, Engineering, Tea, Banking, Agro Processing.