Dec 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• ▶︎ Who gets results working with us
• CFOs, Finance Leaders, and Procurement Heads at high-growth companies looking to centralize procurement with intelligent automation.
• We offer an AI-native procurement solution that combines intelligent agents to run procurement for you from intake to PO.
• Spendflo helps you:
• (1) Automate intake and approvals through structured workflows
• (2) Benchmark software pricing and vendor performance using real-time intelligence
• (3) Let AI agents and certified experts negotiate on your behalf
• (4) Track contracts, renewals, and spend all in one place
• ▶︎ Results our customers are seeing
• (1) 30% reduction in procurement spend
• (2) 4+ hours saved per week per finance team member
• (3) $1M+ in annual savings through automation and consolidation
• (4) 70% of spend brought under control within 60 days
• ▶︎ Want to see how it works?
• ✔︎ Book a procurement consultation at spendflo.com
• ✔︎ Or email siddharth@spendflo.com

Jan 2020 – Present · 6 yrs 5 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Jan 2020 – May 2020 · 4 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

• We embarked on the EV journey in India but Corona hit our clients and we had to rethink our strategy.
• We'll be back to enable the EV journey in the future.

Apr 2018 – Nov 2019 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Built and lead the Business Operations team at Volta Charging, which partners across Finance, Product, Operations, Media sales, People operations and Site sale that lead to a 5x increase in station and revenue numbers.
• Our team helps accelerate strategy, process, system and analytics development to help us scale smarter and faster.
• Key Responsibilities:
• 1) Work with leadership across functions to tackle problems, implement strategy and Identify opportunities to help achieve our vision of free charging for the world.
• 3) Facilitate and implement strategy across functions.

Jun 2017 – Apr 2018 · 10 mos

• Volta Charging operates the largest free electric vehicle charging network in the U.S
• Orchestrated partnerships for two mission-critical components in the station.
• Lead NPI across 7 geographical networks in North America.
• Executed firefighting solutions during network outages and component malfunction across
• the entire network and performed a root cause analysis to solve the problems upstream.
• Built strategic partnerships with suppliers, CM’s and contractors to enable force multipliers.
• Developed a supply chain strategy and procurement policy with the founding team
• and external stakeholders.

Aug 2016 – Dec 2016 · 4 mos · Greater Boston Area

• Graded the R code based data projects/assignments done by the students.
• Worked with the students, while using the Boston Area Research Institute to produce projects that have a positive impact on the community.

Jun 2015 – Dec 2015 · 6 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• Built a subscription business model for a regional content house that now has 5 million subscribers.
• Assisted in the corporate restructuring of an $8 billion dollar conglomerate,Which created a scalable structure for the organisation to grow 13% y-o-y
• Worked with the equity capital markets and research team to build competitor valuations for six
• companies where we were the lead manager for their IPO

Jan 2015 – May 2015 · 4 mos · Chennai Area, India

• Conducted a static stress analysis on the leveller unit using Abaqus to find the cause of the levelling issue.
• Simulated dynamic stress with various configurations to determine the optimal solution.
• Executed process improvements that lead to a 5% decrease in the defect rate.

Jun 2014 – Aug 2014 · 2 mos · Chennai Area, India

• Implemented a Kanban system and Inventory management for the maintenance workshop to reduce the lead time
• Created a new database consisting of 1.5 million parts using macros in excel, which helped the team transition to a unified database.
• Applied 5S/BIB standardization to the spare parts warehouse to reduce machine downtime.
• Processed/audited reports on outbound/inbound supply information.
• Analysed the supplier database (using SQL) to rationalise the supplier base which led to a reduction in lead time.
• Applied the ABC analysis to the inventory base to reduce the inventory carrying costs.

Jan 2012 – Feb 2012 · 1 mo · Malaysia

• Determined KPI’s in order to track the performance of the international sales team.
• Implemented a cost reduction strategy, which leads to a savings of $1 million for the Indian subsidiary.
• Performed a Cost-Benefit Analysis on orders worth $10 million originating from Azerbaijan.
• Generated queries and reports to analyze the costs related to orders originating from South East Asia.