Puja Das

Founder

Gurugram, Haryana, India11 yrs 9 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • First woman Class President at ISB Hyderabad.
  • Founded and scaled a childcare startup to 5X capacity.
  • Led strategic initiatives for major health and fitness brands.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a strategic leader in Health & Fitness and Education sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

Business StrategyNew Program LaunchesBusiness LaunchCross-functional Team BuildingOperational StrategyProject ManagementOperations ManagementEntrepreneurshipEarly Childhood Education

Other Skills

Business AnalysisBusiness DevelopmentBusiness InsightsC++CRMConsultingConsumer InsightCross-functional Problem SolvingCross-functional Team LeadershipCustomer RetentionData AnalysisEnergyEngineeringFormation EvaluationGo-to-Market Strategy

About

Entrepreneur with 10+ years across education, health-fitness, and childcare, specializing in driving strategic initiatives and operational excellence. Has held strategic leadership roles with Curefit, Zomato (Fitso), Schlumberger, Sandbox (own startup) and 2 early stage startups by industry veterans. Excels in building high-performing teams, leading transformational projects, stakeholder management, and leveraging data for decision-making in fast-paced and high-stakes environments. Distinguished as first woman Class President at ISB Hyderabad & Hostel G.Sec at IIT Bombay.

Experience

11 yrs 9 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 11 mos
Average Tenure
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Current Experience

Sandbox early learning

Founder

Oct 2024Present · 1 yr 8 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

Digiaccel learning

Business Growth Consultant

Aug 2023Sep 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo · Gurugram, Haryana, India · On-site

  • Digiaccel is an ex-HUL Alumni founded education company that runs a specialist business school; knowledge partner to Amazon & HUL. I looked after New Programs, Admissions and Team Building.
  • New Programs & Admissions -
  • PGP : Led end to end admissions for PGP Batch 2
  • PGPEx : Designed & launched this unique program which is India's only Industry backed MBA alternative for working professionals; led admissions for its first batch
  • Recruitment -
  • Built an in-house recruitment team and closed 35+ positions for non-tech & engineering roles.
Business StrategySales PlanningSales OperationsPeople ManagementTeam BuildingNew Program Launches+1

Gabit

Founding Team

Sep 2022Aug 2023 · 11 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

  • Gabit is a Health, Fitness and Nutrition Startup by an ex-Zomato Co-founder. I worked closely with the founders to build their Fitness services vertical along with overall team building
  • 1. Fitness Vertical: Conceptualization and Launch
  • Content: Led end to end Fitness Content Creation (160+ videos) through large scale production with Celebrity trainers
  • Fitness Offering Pilot & Scale up readiness: Built In-house Fitness Team with best-in-class trainers, launched a successful pilot with 3 remote studio set-ups and setup processes for scale up.
  • 2. Team Building
  • Built Recruitment team, set up SOPs & led hiring for all Engineering roles and non-Engg roles in Marketing, Design, Content, Supply Chain & CX
Cross-Functional Team BuildingPilotingBusiness LaunchStrategic PlanningCross-functional Problem SolvingPilot Projects

Cure.fit (cult.fit)

2 roles

Strategy & Operational Excellence (Cure.fit)

Apr 2022Aug 2022 · 4 mos

  • Looked after Strategy & Operational Excellence for 500 cult.fit centres comprising of 1P and 3P facilities pan India
  • Introduced Sports SKU, 'Play' on the Cult App by leading Fitso's migration to Curefit Central org, SKU & cross charge definition, migration of 18k users, 70 facilities, central support integration, expansion and re-branding through cross departmental efforts across Fitso and Curefit
Operational StrategySenior Stakeholder ManagementCross-functional Problem SolvingProject ManagementLarge-scale Projects

Head of Operations (Fitso by Zomato, later owned by Cure.fit)

Mar 2021Mar 2022 · 1 yr

  • Led Pan India Ops for Sports with 70 COCO and Partner facilities of Fitso (owned by Zomato which later moved to Curefit)
  • Increased offline sales by 50%, achieved 30% faster TAT of maintenance
  • 30% manpower cost optimisation & SOP/KPI/KRA set-up
  • Launched Bangalore location and 5 new centres pan India, built Quality team.
  • Helped founders with long term problem solving across customer experience, recruitment, procurement and L&D
Operations ManagementBusiness StrategyTeam LeadershipStrategy

Sandbox - early learning centre and childcare facility

Founder & CEO

Dec 2015Dec 2020 · 5 yrs · Mumbai

  • Founded chain of Alternate Early Learning and Childcare facilities in Mumbai partnered by IIM-A faculty, Prof. Sunil Handa & Eklavya School. Scaled to 5X capacity in 4 years, 1500+ parents & children, 50+ team size, consistently top rated (4.9/5 on FB/Google).
  • USP - Holistic Early Development exposure with world class childcare from 6 months onwards.
  • Awards -
  • 1. Most Promising Pre-School & Daycare in Mumbai, in 7th Global Education Excellence Awards-2019
  • 2.Recognised among "Top most promising Pre-School & Daycare in Mumbai" by Silicon Magazine
  • Winded business due to impact of Covid
EntrepreneurshipEarly Childhood EducationGo-to-Market StrategyCustomer RetentionProfit & Loss ManagementRevenue Generation

Indian school of business

President, Graduate Student Board

Apr 2014May 2015 · 1 yr 1 mo · Hyderabad Area, India

  • First woman President of Graduate Student Board in ISB's 13 year history (highest student position); elected by 570, led 29 student clubs, 7 councils & ISB's flagship leadership summit. Linked In's most searched female student profile, 2015 (overall in top 2)

Schlumberger

Wireline Field Engineer

Aug 2011Dec 2013 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Abu Dhabi (UAE), Andhra Pradesh & North East India

  • Pre-placement offer.
  • Generated $3M revenue through 80+ petrophysical data acquisition operations for reservoir evaluation in high insurgency areas
  • Leader- Loss Prevention Team: Safety related risk management on-field and off-field
  • Leader- Quality Steering Committee: Service quality monitoring of field-services and products

Education

Indian School of Business

Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.)

Jan 2014Jan 2015

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

B.Tech

Jan 2007Jan 2011

Holy Child School Guwahati

10th

Prathibha Jr. College Hyderabad

12th

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