Experience

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  Otis elevator co.

  Sept 2000 - Dec 2000

  Customer care executive
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  Ibm

  Jul 2001 - Jul 2002

  Customer care specialist

  One of top performing Customer Care Specialists for DAKSH & received ‘EXCELLENT’ grade in year-end appraisal. Worked for PayPal & Sprint PCS accounts.

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  Iifl (india infoline group)

  Jun 2004 - Apr 2005

  Manager - corporate alliances

  Managed Stock Messaging Service & clocked Rs. 1 million in revenues in a quarter from Stock Messaging Service (user gets daily stock tips via SMS’).

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  Sinch

  May 2005 - Apr 2007

  Senior manager - business development & vas

  Established & enhanced multiple domestic & international bulk SMS connectivity’s from Mobile Service Providers, resulting in an increased bandwidth (by over 150%) for Enterprise Business – leading to a top-line growth of 400%.

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  Times internet

  Apr 2007 - Aug 2009

  Chief manager - 58888 voice (telecom)

  New Product Development & Product Management – Identified an opportunity to set-up an IVR platform under the aegis of 58888 brand and thereby launched ‘58888 Voice’ along-with dedicated multi-modals for services. My team of brilliant Product Managers enabled first of its kind Voice based interactive Cricket portal with ball-by-ball score updates with a stadium like ambiance.They also introduced a revolutionary new product – Voice gaming – an IVR based gaming product wherein users could play games like Aakhri Over (Cricket), F1 Racing, Snakes & Ladders etc.Business Development – Including Concept selling (of 58888 Voice) to Product Marketing teams of Mobile Service Providers (MSPs), facilitating approvals from their Product, Network & Marketing teams and finally from their Legal team for agreement sign-offs.Also did Commercial Negotiations (Revenue share negotiations for 58888 Voice with MSPs and with Platform providers for Voice platform), Business Operations and Platform Management (of 58888 Voice platform). Show less

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  Aircel

  Aug 2009 - Jul 2010

  Senior manager - marketing & head - value added services (delhi & haryana circle)

  Handled Product Management, Product Strategy, Product Marketing, Customer Acquisition, Vendor Management and Revenue Management.Achievements:* Successfully tripled VAS revenue for Aircel Delhi circle within a year. * Enhanced penetration of DialerTune (CRBT) and PocketInternet (Data) to over 60%.* Introduced small value VAS rate-cutters (such as SMS 9 and PI 5) as Paper Recharge Vouchers thereby democratizing uptake of VAS through Retail. Corporate VAS team endorsed it and replicated it pan-India.* Grew contribution of VAS revenue to Gross revenue in Aircel Delhi circle from 9% to 16% (one of the highest across the country for a Circle such size).* Took VAS ARPU from sub-Rs.16 level to Rs.25+ level (highest in Delhi market). Show less

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  Abuzz oxfordcaps

  Aug 2010 - Oct 2011

  Associate director - operations & business head - sms and wap

  Handled Business planning & Execution, Business Development, Operations Management, Human Resource Management and Vendor Management.Set-up a new distribution model for mobile Value Added Services (mVAS) – 'VAS embedding on handsets' – and thereby opened up a new revenue stream by tying up with major Feature phone players such as Micromax, Lemon mobiles etc. thus targeting BOP (Bottom-end of Pyramid) users.

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  Times internet

  Sept 2011 - Aug 2015

  General manager and head - strategic alliances & market development (timesmobile)

  Handled Market Development & Strategic Alliances function for Augmented Reality based platform – Alive. Headed Media Sales i.e. providing mobile based User interactivity solutions to leading Media channels in India such as HBO, WB, Cartoon Network, Pogo, ABP News, Mahuaa TV, Odisha TV, Raj TV, Ruposhi Bangla, Tara News etc. and monetizing Content by distributing the same through them.Been the Product Head for Follo – a celebrity connect service that enables users to connect to his favourite celebrity (Actors, Actresses, Models, et al). Users could view extensive multimedia content pertaining to their favourite celebrity, choose to like it & comment on it and share it across platforms. Show less

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  India curated experiences and hospitality private limited

  Aug 2015 - May 2018

  Co founder & director - strategy, alliances & growth

  India Curated Experiences and Hospitality Private Limited (i.e. Curated.tours) was a start-up in Travel & Hospitality space with an objective of providing curated, educative, immersive, responsible, specialized and bespoke experiences to our clients through renowned & specialist Tour curators. We wanted to aid, assist & support individual tourist/ group of tourists in their endeavour of recreation whilst discovering local culture, its heritage/ history and landscape by arranging their visit to such places of interests, along-with their boarding, lodging, ticketing, transportation etc. We thought of designing and developing bespoke tours so as to inform, educate and inspire travellers whilst providing them with an immersive and experiential travel experience. We wanted to curate tours that included history, art & architecture, archaeology, museums, performing arts, cuisine, and cultures of India. Our tours were to be curated and handcrafted to help our clients experience India through five senses – taste, touch, smell, hearing and sight! Show less

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  Dyra ventures private limited

  Sept 2016 - now

  Founder & consultant-in-chief

  DYRA Ventures Private Limited is a boutique Consultancy Firm helping companies grow by leveraging Strategic Partnerships, Business Development, Relationship Marketing & Growth Marketing tools.

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  Origindata

  Jun 2018 - now

  Responsible for global Preload business of Origindata SAS, including OEM partnerships & managing relationships with Billing Service providers.My Focus: Grow business for my business partners – OEMs & Billing Service providers, whilst improving both top-line & bottom-line for Origindata.We; at Origindata, have been continuously adding tremendous value to customers of our OEM partners by offering best in class UI & Billing innovations in our games. For us, “customer delight” is the cornerstone. Show less ORIGINDATA SAS is a Paris headquartered Mobile Game Distribution company. We preload/ embed some of world's most popular mobile games on smartphones and Feature phones based on Native, MRE, JAVA & Android for our OEM partners across the world.Our games include Assassin's Creed from Ubisoft, Crossy Road for Hipster Whale, Doodle Jump from Lima Sky, Stick Hero from Ketchapp and others.We work with both local & global OEMs to provide best-in-class mobile games with 'clean & complaint-free Telco billing support' (across the world) for their consumers. We provide end-to-end Marketing assets & Technical support so that our OEM partners could deliver much better value to their customers. Show less

  • Business Head – Global Preload business, OEM & Billing partnerships

    Jan 2022 - now

  • Head – Strategic Alliances & Growth – India & Bangladesh

    Jun 2018 - Dec 2021