Nov 2020 – May 2022 · 1 yr 6 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

Sep 2019 – May 2022 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

Aug 2016 – Apr 2024 · 7 yrs 8 mos · Gurgaon, India

• Amcontra is a Consulting and Training Company. Increasing Your Business Is What We Do. We offer consultancy services to Startups/companies (irrespective of the industry) in partnerships, alliances and business development. As a part of this, we do partnerships, alliances and carry out business development activities on the companies' behalf. Basically we become an extension or an outsourced arm of the company for their Partnerships, Alliances and Business Development activities. Basically we are "Execution Consulting" rather than just "Strategy".
• Few of our clients from various industries include HomeAway (www.homeaway.co.in), Loan Frame (www.loanframe.com), Revv (Self Drive Car Rental. www.revv.co.in), Invitly(invitly.co), Debt Nirvana.
• As a part of our Training Practice, we conduct Negotiation Skills Training Workshops for Corporates. We offer 1 day or a 2 day workshop as options for the corporates.

Apr 2015 – Jul 2017 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Gurgaon, India

• Innercover.com, Innerwear Is Our Speciality. Innercover.com was an e-commerce offering which was an one stop shop for inner wear/underwear for Men, Women, Boys and Girls.

Sep 2013 – Mar 2015 · 1 yr 6 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

• India Discovery Platform is like an intrapreneurial venture within Here (Mapping and Navigation), a Nokia Business. The product is called “Nearby” which is a location based local search App available for Android, iOS, Windows platforms etc. Based on the person’s location, the App tells what is (Restaurants with menus, reviews, snaps etc, Events, Branded Showrooms, Shops, Offers, Monuments etc) nearby.
• a) Leading Business Development, Alliances, Sales and Marketing for the product.
• b) I along with the Product Head lead the team
• c) Managing and working on new alliances for getting content for the product.
• d) Working on distribution of the App through various Handsets OEMs like Nokia, Micromax, Karbonn, Samsung, HTC, Xolo etc. Currently only available on Nokia Devices and discussions on with others
• e) Targeting the Big Retail Brands for Location Based Advertising on Nearby

Jan 2010 – Sep 2013 · 3 yrs 8 mos

• Google Book Search Program was the first programme under Google Print which was introduced in 2004 to help users search through the oceans of information contained in world’s books and to help authors and publishers promote their books and expand their sales. And now we have Google Play Books, Google Play Magazines, Google Currents, Google News and Google Scholar as various products under Google Print.
• a) Responsible for creating new partnerships and alliances within the publishing industry so that more and more publishers become a part of the various Google Print Programmes.
• b) Responsible for managing a portfolio of partnerships and providing product and solutions support
• c) Launched Google Play Books (ebooks) in India to sell digital access of books to buyers. Worked on various partnerships to bring various publishers’ (Both Indian and International) ebooks to Indian users. Worked with cross functional teams to make this launch a great success.
• d) Launched Google Currents/Newsstand (An App to present online news/stories in a magazine app form) in India by working on partnerships with big online news properties.
• e) Started to work on the launch of Play Magazines in India. This involved creating new partnerships with Magazines Publishers so that various titles/issues can be sold through Google Play.

Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 · 1 yr

Jul 2007 – Dec 2008 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Business Development for Google's mobile/wireless products in India. Managing and developing new strategic partnerships on the wireless side for Google in India.

Aug 2005 – Jun 2007 · 1 yr 10 mos

• Responsible for the entire business generated through Mobile Carriers in India
• Responsible for business development activities for key products like oneSearch (Mobile Search), Yahoo! Go, on-the-go messaging, such as email, instant messaging, information, such as news, cricket, astrology and alerts; and fun and games, including ringtones, mobile games, wallpapers etc through the short code 8243/8242, STK and WAP.
• Managing product development for Mobile in terms of conceptualization, development, implementation and monitoring growth
• Leading a team of account managers who service assigned Carriers and a team of product managers responsible for mobile product development
• Preparing quarterly/yearly plans for forecasting, monitoring and evaluating team's performance in assigned accounts
• Responsible for strategizing, implementing and monitoring strategic objectives and tactical business plans.

Sep 2004 – Aug 2005 · 11 mos

• Managing MDX+, a content management and delivery system.
• Conceptualizing new products and modifying the existing product according to the client’s requirement
• Providing end to end solutions to clients who want to offer their content through SMS, WAP Based VAS on the ASP (Application Service Provider) Model. Handling clients like Indiatimes 8888, NDTV 6388, Sify 4545, Dainik Jagran 7272, Aljazeera.net, Galileo etc.

Mar 2004 – Sep 2004 · 6 mos

Jun 2001 – Mar 2004 · 2 yrs 9 mos

Feb 2001 – Jun 2001 · 4 mos

May 1999 – Feb 2001 · 1 yr 9 mos