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Shashwat Gautam

Shashwat Gautam

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Founder's Office Associate, Renegade Insurance | Strategy & Operations | PGP Management, Masters Union Co '24 | Ex - BridgeUp, Recur Club | University of London

  • Education

    • National Institute of Open Schooling

      2016 - 2018
      Senior Secondary School Business/Commerce, General Top 10%ile

    • Loyola High School, Patna

      2008 - 2016
      Secondary School Certificate Examinations Standard 10th 9.2 CGPA

      Activities and Societies: Debates, public speaking, group discussions and Quizzes

    • Udacity

      2020 - 2020
      Nanodegree Business Analytics

      Projects completed in this Nanodegree:1. Explore Interactive Data Visualization in TableauUncovering insights and preparing a report on these insights.2. Analyze NYSE Data in ExcelIn this project, I used a data set containing financial performance data from companies listed in NYSE S&P to create an income statement and forecast financial metrics. I used Excel functions like INDEX, OFFSET and features like Data Validation to create a Drop Down.3. Query a Digital… Show more Projects completed in this Nanodegree:1. Explore Interactive Data Visualization in TableauUncovering insights and preparing a report on these insights.2. Analyze NYSE Data in ExcelIn this project, I used a data set containing financial performance data from companies listed in NYSE S&P to create an income statement and forecast financial metrics. I used Excel functions like INDEX, OFFSET and features like Data Validation to create a Drop Down.3. Query a Digital Music Store Database using SQLIn this project, I used a digital music store database to help the company see how they might optimize their business practices. I used explicit JOIN in queries.4. Make Dashboards & Stories in TableauIn this Project, I built interactive Tableau dashboards and tell impactful stories using data of US census. Link: https://graduation-api.udacity.com/api/certificate/RF2LQQR9/download Show less

    • Masters' Union

      2023 - 2024
      Master of Business Administration - MBA Technology and Business Management 3.52/4 (Dean’s List)

      Awarded 50% waiver on tuition fees under Masters' Union Scholarship for Young Leaders.Member of the Placement Committee | President, Consulting Club

    • University of London

      2018 - 2022
      Bachelor of Science - BS Banking and Finance Upper Second Class Honours (2:1)

      Activities and Societies: Vice President, Entrepreneurship Society of ULIC Academic Direction: London School of EconomicsDistinction: Mathematics 1 (94), Principles of Accounting (74)Merit: Business and Management in a Global Context (67), Microeconomics (65), Principles of Corporate Finance (65), Financial Intermediation (60)

  • Experience

    • The Youth Chronicle (Prime Time News)

      May 2015 - Jan 2016
      Editor in Chief

      Prime Time News started as a facebook page for short news. It was founded by me & Bhaskar Thakur in May 2015. We converted the Facebook page into a blog and started inviting writers in our city to write for the blog. There were 15 writers and 5000+ unique website visitors in less than one month.The response was tremendous.This motivated us to rebrand the blog as "The Youth Chronicle".Responsibilities: - Editorial Role- Writing Columns- Onboarding writers Show less

    • MOREMA

      Aug 2015 - Mar 2016
      Editor in Chief

      MOREMA (acronym for Monthly Reader's Magazine) was a high school student magazine started by me & Bhaskar Thakur. It was founded in August, 2015.The aim of the magazine was to provide good writer's from the school a platform to write & students with quality and updated content apart from textbooks. The magazine was success and got featured in two leading newspapers. Financial Aspect: The magazine was cash flow positive from the first month only. It became profitable as we managed to bag leading coaching institutes from India as advertisers.Responsibilities: My role in the magazine was:- Deciding the theme for each issue - Writing and editing articles - Final content selection - Publishing Editor's Note for each issue Other responsibilities on the Business end involved: - Getting advertisers- Part time designing the magazine- Getting the magazine printed. Show less

    • Collobe

      Mar 2016 - Feb 2019
      Co-Founder

      Gamify your workspaceCollobe lets you identify top performers in your team and managing day to day functions like assigning tasks, managing groups and its members.

    • University of London International Community (ULIC)

      Jan 2021 - Mar 2022

      An engaging community of University of London students from across the world valuing innovation and education - the first and only soon-to-be official student-run association of the University of London.As the VP of society, I led the team which organized sessions with these speakers:1. Colonel Arjun Pratap Singh Chabba, Sloan fellow at London Business School2. Syed Fahad, Co-founder of Mazik Global3. Aquibur Rahman, Co-founder & CEO of Mailmodo (backed by YCombinator and Sequoia Capital) Show less

      • Vice President, Entrepreneurship Society

        Jun 2021 - Mar 2022

      • Society Ambassador, Entrepreneurship Society

        Jan 2021 - May 2021

    • Sociomata

      Aug 2021 - Jun 2022
      Founder

      Sociomata is a social media content automation tool. It lets you schedule your tweets and threads. Give up on the hassle of daily posting by scheduling your content in advance.Sign Up on sociomata.comTech Stack: Frontend built using Elm, backend built using NodeJS and infrastructure handled using AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, Codepipeline, Codedeploy) and Github. My co-founder Bhaskar Thakur was the sole engineer who built the product.

    • BridgeUp

      Jul 2022 - May 2023

      At BridgeUp, I worked across two teams - Capital team and Risk Operations team. I used to run the preliminary analysis on the companies that are eligible for revenue based financing. This analysis was done based upon financial metrics like revenue, EBITDA, PAT, Debt and nature of revenue. Risk Operations: Analysing and scrutinising Bank Statements and Financial Statements (Income Statement and Balance Sheet) of companies.Inbound Qualification: I worked as the SPOC for the founders of the companies that need financing, talk to them and qualify/reject them based on revenue and debt related data.Outbound Prospecting: Researching the industries and companies that might need working capital and use our platform to get it. Show less

      • Founder's Office

        Sept 2022 - May 2023

      • Founder's Office Intern

        Jul 2022 - Sept 2022

    • Masters' Union

      Jul 2023 - Jun 2024

      Elected as the President (1/80+ candidates in a batch after merit-based rounds involving cases, guesstimates and elections). During my tenure, I achieved ~1500 registrations (ranked 1st/11 clubs) for international case competition Strategem by outreaching at Tier 1B-schools. For the same, I bagged sponsorship worth INR 50K from CK Foods (Golden Bird Rice) and created a real consulting case based on them.

      • Head, Placement Committee

        Jul 2023 - Jun 2024

      • President, Consulting Club

        Jul 2023 - Jun 2024

    • Recur Club

      Nov 2023 - Mar 2024
      Investment Management Intern

      Worked with the Investment Solutions team and Underwriters to perform due diligence across 4 debt financing deals in pipeline. Along with this, compared different termsheets for the offers made to existing customers.

    • Renegade Insurance

      Apr 2024 - now
      Associate - Founder's Office (Strategy & Ops)

      Renegade Insurance is a Series B funded Tech enabled P&C Insurance Agency in the US.- Drive organization-wide KPI development and performance tracking to ensure alignment with business goals.- Program manage the seamless transition and integration of newly acquired agencies.- Oversee the onboarding process for retail agents and franchise partners, ensuring smooth integration.- Lead IT and cybersecurity initiatives, ensuring robust digital infrastructure and data security.- Working around designing contracts and incentive plan for our front office and business development roles. Show less

  • Licenses & Certifications

  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Shashwat Gautam
      Speaker at The Kidoprenuer Summit, 2018 The Kidoprenuer Summit, Kolkata 2018 Jun 2018 The Kidoprenuer Summit was an unique platform promoting child entrepreneurship organized by The Merchant Chamber of Commerce and Industry & Sonali's Cubo in Kolkata on June 16th, 2018 where I was invited as a speaker to share my journey and talk about our work at Collobe.
    • Awarded to Shashwat Gautam
      Finalist at Symposium on Smarter Cities Robert Bosch Centre for Cyber-Physical Systems, IISc Bangalore March 1, 2017 We developed Cityzen is an intelligent portal which used prioritisation for addressing public complaints of smart cities.
    • Awarded to Shashwat Gautam
      Runner Up at Pitch 4 Bihar Bihar Entrepreneurs Association & Dept. of Industries (Govt. of Bihar) Oct 2016 Collobe was declared the runner up in the Mobile App category at Business Plan competition - Pitch 4 Bihar where 612+ ideas applied. It held by Bihar Entrepreneurs Association & Enterprising Zone on 21st October 2016.
    • Awarded to Shashwat Gautam
      Finalist at The Vault Show The Vault Show Sep 2016 Collobe was selected as Top 50 startups across India and the episode was aired on ET Now on 5th November and Times Now on 6th November.