Siddhant Hota

CEO

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India10 yrs 11 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Proven track record in marketing and branding.
  • Strong leadership in managing client relationships.
  • Expertise in producing successful live events.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Marketing and Branding expert with extensive experience in event management and client relations.

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Skills

Core Skills

Business DevelopmentClient ServicesMarketing StrategyLeadershipBrand ManagementProject ManagementSales

Other Skills

Sales pipelinePitchesClient AcquisitionClient ServicingContent & IPSocial MediaEvent ManagementCommunicationCustomer Relationship Management (CRM)MarketingTrainingMarket ResearchAdvertisingBusiness AlliancesBrand Strategy

About

Doer.

Experience

10 yrs 11 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 4 mos
Average Tenure
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Current Experience

Ucid

Chief Business Officer

Feb 2025Jan 2026 · 11 mos · Mumbai · On-site

  • Sales pipeline
  • business development
  • Pitches
  • Client Acquisition
  • Client Servicing
  • Content & IP
Sales pipelinebusiness developmentPitchesClient AcquisitionClient ServicingContent & IP+2

Gigsaw buzzle limited

Director & Co-Founder

Oct 2023Apr 2025 · 1 yr 6 mos · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · On-site

  • Talent Management:
  • Vetted all talents we wanted to onboard and had them sign up with on contract basis
  • Negotiations and Contracts for artists
  • Artist Showcases/ Live Shows and Events:
  • Produced 12 shows in collaboration with various artists
  • Increased footfall for venues and F&B sales through our show
  • Sold our tickets to customers via promotion on Social media (Meta) and Eventbrite Accounts via email marketing, promotions and social media
  • As a Producer & Creative Director:
  • Line up of show's features, talent management and understanding the customer bases
  • Segmenting shows in 2-3 formats, subject to customers and the venue
  • Tied up with Long & McQuade, procurement of instruments and managing inventory for show
  • Hosted all shows from starting till the end, engaged with customers.
  • Did Storyboarding and mood-board for video shoots of upcoming release on YouTube for artists (Uncredited)
  • Hosting & Customer Management
  • Entertained more than 600 customers in a span of 10 months
  • Got a repeat customer base of 65% show on show basis
Marketing StrategyBrand ManagementLeadership

Career break

Relocation

Apr 2023Aug 2023 · 4 mos · Toronto, Ontario

  • Immigrated to Toronto, Canada
  • Explored the city for the first 2 months
  • Enrolled for a course in digital marketing with Humber College
  • Networked with people from advertising and marketing
  • Assessed market, understood demand supply chain, economic benefactors for keeping this country functioning
  • Decided to startup a business and try out something new instead of joining an agency that isn't open to experiment with people coming from outside of Canada

Ucid - unconventional crafts, ideas & digital

3 roles

Chief Operating Officer

Promoted

Dec 2021Feb 2023 · 1 yr 2 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · On-site

  • Led Client Services at UCID with a team of Executives and Supervisors
  • Set business targets and achieved them
  • Managed portfolio amounting to 35% agency 's revenue
  • Oversaw day to day operations including quality checks and cross functional team outputs
  • Value addition to the client's brands, campaigns, and projects
  • Building and maintaining relations with the clients and their associates
  • Internal resource management
  • Maintained stakeholder expectations - internally and externally
  • Worked closely with the management leadership for organisational policies, reforms and business objectives.
Project ManagementCommunicationCustomer Relationship Management (CRM)MarketingTrainingMarket Research+24

Account Director

Promoted

Apr 2019Nov 2021 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · On-site

  • Managed client expectations through campaign lifecycle and beyond, ensuring issues and challenges are actively identified and mitigated.
  • Managed revenue generation about 25-35% in fiscal year 19-20, 20-21
  • Oversaw project management for timely deliverables from commercials, staffing, scope and delivery.
Project ManagementCommunicationCustomer Relationship Management (CRM)MarketingMarket ResearchAdvertising+17

Account Manager

Jul 2017Mar 2019 · 1 yr 8 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · On-site

  • Maintained relationship with primary client point of contact and build relationships
  • Ensured client expectations being set and met
  • Oversaw project management support during the campaign lifecycle to ensure timely completion
  • Strategised ideas and content for the campaigns
  • Assisted in copy for various brands for ATL and BTL campaigns.
Project ManagementCommunicationCustomer Relationship Management (CRM)MarketingMarket ResearchAdvertising+18

Tdp - the design people

Marketing Strategy Manager

Feb 2017Jul 2017 · 5 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · On-site

  • Project management: providing strategic solutions to the clients, in regards to packaging for major clients like GPI, DSM, ITC
  • Client servicing for the existing and new clients
  • Costing and proposals for the projects
  • Business Development: Overlooking the process for BD
  • Team Management: Handling a team of 3 employees and 2 interns
  • Cross function: Guiding the creative team and co-ordinating with the creative director for the timely outputs of the deliverables
CommunicationCustomer Relationship Management (CRM)MarketingMarketing StrategyClient Services

Bajaj finserv

Sales Manager

May 2016Jan 2017 · 8 mos · Mumbai · On-site

  • Worked as a Sales Manager, in the mortgage loan business for the SME segment, for Bajaj Finance Ltd. Acquisition of new customers in LAP (Loan Against Property) for SME segments
  • Expansion of portfolio for prime locations which included Mumbai
  • Cross-selling LAP to the Business Loan Database
  • Cross-selling insurance by Tata AIG to LAP customers
Lead GenerationSales

Ogilvy and mather

Summer Intern

May 2015Jun 2015 · 1 mo · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · On-site

  • Assisting my Supervisor in handling briefs for Bajaj Pulsar
  • Managing operations for print ads for Bajaj Platina, Bajaj Pulsar AS 150, Bajaj Pulsar RS 200, in Hindi and other Indian regional languages
  • Assisting in the photoshoot for Bajaj Platina
  • Ideation and brainstorming for ONGO & Vodafone

Welingkar institute of management

Management council member

Jun 2014May 2016 · 1 yr 11 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · On-site

  • Played a role in the core committee in the Management Council during MBA
  • Assisting in conducting of events, conferences in our campusAssisting junior batch for any queries during joining, on-campus help, conducting elections

Kotak mahindra bank

Deputy Manager- Client Relations

Apr 2013Mar 2014 · 11 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · On-site

  • Responsible for revenue generation through CASA sales through New to Bank customers
  • Managing deepening for existing accounts for CASA
  • Responsible for cross-selling products for Kotak Life Insurance and Kotak Securities

Taj hotels

Trainee

Nov 2009Mar 2010 · 4 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · On-site

  • Internship for 20 weeks in 6 departments at Hotel President by Taj (now under IHCL selecQtions), as a part of the training in the second year of graduation from IHM Mumbai
  • Housekeeping
  • Food Production- Worked at 24 hour cafe- Trattoria
  • Learning and Development
  • Business Centre
  • Finance
  • Food & Beverage Service

Education

Welingkar Institute of Management

Master of Business Administration — Marketing

Jan 2014Jan 2016

Humber College

Digital Marketing Connections — Sales and Marketing | Design Thinking | Project Management |

Jul 2023Sep 2023

Institute of Hotel Management - Mumbai

B.Sc. in Hospitality and Hotel Administration — Hospitality and Hotel Administration

Jan 2008Jan 2011

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