Apr 2020 – Aug 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos · United States

• We are still operational, but under a new name -- BigShyft (company owned by InfoEdge) :)
• You can read about the acquisition here ~ https://www.bigshyft.com/blog/bigshyft-acquires-enthire-a-pre-interview-platform
• Founded by Alumni from Facebook, WorldQuant, UC Berkeley & IIT Kharagpur, EntHire helps companies hire tech talent 3x faster and with vetting standards of Facebook and Google. Our BarRaisers who evaluate the engineers come from Top Tech Companies!
• Our selection ratio so far has been 1 in 5 which is 6-8x better than industry standards.

Jul 2017 – Apr 2020 · 2 yrs 9 mos

• Co-ordinating Strategic Growth Initiatives for WorldQuant as a member of the CEOOffice.

Jul 2016 – Jun 2017 · 11 mos

Nov 2013 – Jun 2016 · 2 yrs 7 mos

• Responsible for developing quantitative strategies that make use of market inefficiencies to generate excess returns in our portfolio of investments across different asset classes
• Worked with the Currency team in developing strategies to trade across the FX markets.
• Focussed on using the Macro fundamentals for different countries and other related information to take bets on the currency asset class.
• Lead the Currency group as a lead researcher in the Currency Trading Committee
• Steering Committee member overseeing the development of WorldQuant University as the first of its kind online MS Degree in Quantitative Finance and with plans to expand to more than 100 such programs.

Apr 2014 – Dec 2018 · 4 yrs 8 mos

• 91springboard is an entrepreneurship hub in New Delhi - Startup Incubator/Co-working & Events space. It engages with promising entrepreneurial ventures from an early stage by providing:
• 1) Work space infrastructure & services (HR, legal, admin, accounts, digital marketing,PR etc) 2) A platform to network and learn 3) Mentorship 4) Customised Incubation and Access to Capital.
• Serving as an evangelist with the portfolio team in assessing start-up deals across sectors. Feel free to reach out on anuraag@91springboard.com

May 2013 – Oct 2013 · 5 mos · Haridwar Area, India

• Responsibilities included:
• Improving line efficiency in the Opaque Soap Unit, reducing down-times and optimizing manpower and the entire production plan.
• Bringing about improvements in the overall production process for Soaps,Shampoo,Creams in the PCPB Unit of ITC Limited.

Apr 2013 – Sep 2014 · 1 yr 5 mos · Kharagpur Area, India

• BuyHatke,(www.buyhatke.com/) is India’s first dynamic price search and social recommendation engine. Our platform dynamically grabs results from various online shopping portals and provides the best deal to customers across the entire range of product portfolio. The customers can then be directly redirected to the shopping portal offering the cheapest deal and complete the purchase. Buyhatke currently has 40 very credible and exhaustive e-commerce stores that provide the best deals and products online.
• Responsible for ensuring business growth by directing and managing business operations activities to ensure that they are delivered in accordance with the strategic objectives.
• Responsible for looking after client management, project management and formulation of strategies for the expansion of business operations,

Jan 2013 – Aug 2014 · 1 yr 7 mos

• In charge of a team of local network managers over 40 campuses across the globe in China, Indonesia, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal
• Tasks involved:
• + Training the network managers across different campuses
• + Assessing the quality of the presentations of members as per consulting standards
• + International Project Initiation and execution
• + Also involved in business development initiative for ShARE
• + Start-up project Initiative

Dec 2012 – Apr 2013 · 4 mos · Hult International Business School

• Hult Prize is a start-up accelerator for Social Entrepreneurship focusing on devising sustainable Social enterprise solutions to UN MDG , organised by Hult International Business School in association with President Bill Clinton, The Clinton Global Initiative, Innovation, Excellence and Leadership Center and Muhammad Yunus.
• Built a model for a Social Enterprise to help solve the problem of food insecurity in urban slums.
• My team was among the top teams selected to pitch for the regional finals at the Hult International Business School, San Francisco. We successfully competed against many PG and MBA teams from MIT, Stanford, Harvard and Wharton.

May 2012 – Jul 2012 · 2 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• Worked with the US Convertibles Flow trading desk of the Global credit asset class. Task primarily focused on conducting fundamental credit analysis for companies in the US HY Oil and Gas space and dry-bulk shipping industry. Involved sector specific research, financial statement analysis and peer and DCF valuations. Made trade recommendations for traders in US to hedge the positions for Deutsche Bank.
• Also created an automated tool for Relative value technical analysis of bonds and Formulated a sector-agnostic algorithm to identify firms ($0.5-3 Bn) with refinancing needs, helping syndication desk in its capital issuance functions.

May 2011 – Aug 2011 · 3 mos · Mumbai/Bangalore

• NSEF aims to inspire and build people and organizations, who can effectively respond to social challenges, lead the movement for grass roots development and provide a premier platform for social entrepreneurs to meet, collaborate, learn and develop social innovations.

May 2011 – Jun 2011 · 1 mo · Mumbai

• Focussed on strategy formulation for launching new ETFs by study of the Exchange traded fund market across the world and comparison with the scenario in India. Also worked on formulation of a new methodology for calculation of the BSE Sensex followed by backtesting. Other projects included study of Eurozone debt Crisis: Causes, Impacts, short-term and long term economic implications of the Eurozone crisis and suggestions for the PIIGS. Softwares learnt: Bloomberg for equity research and global-market analysis.

Dec 2010 – Dec 2010 · 0 mo

• Developed upcoming event's strategies, worked with business development, content creation and planning. Events co-ordinator for Edudigm at TTIS Challenge 2010-11,Kolkata.

May 2009 – Jun 2013 · 4 yrs 1 mo

• Pursued B Tech in Electrical Engineering. Student's representative to the undergraduate advisory committee. Member of several startups. Co-founder, Univect Education Solution pvt Ltd.
• Activities: Product Design,Case study,Ad Design, Dramatics