Process oriented professional with prolific experience of over 25+ Years in:

Business strategy • Sales strategy and brand promotions •Investor Pitch • Investor Term Sheet • Cash flow management • Customer acquisition & Management • Startup scaling • Time & Resource Management • Recruitment & Efficiency Improvement • Work Allocation & Prioritisation • Quality Assurance & Improvement • Learning & Development • Performance Management •P& L Management • Team Management

* Entrepreneur I Business Coach I Mentor I Life coach I Public speaker I Start-up and incubation Mentor

* With more than 25 years’ experience in successful business leadership, led teams and organizations to innovative, build, implement business solutions & products in the field of Technology and services for customers across 20+ countries.

* Ashish is startup & Incubation Mentor at 91 Springboard and many other communities to mentor many startups from idea to reality and growth stage in various industries and technology like IOT, digital transformation, Media, e-commerce, B2B to B2C and more. I have huge network of startups, professionals, investors from almost all verticals.Ashish also on the Advisory board of various startups in India and abroad

* huge experience working with individuals and teams (students, executives, or entrepreneurs) to help them gain self-awareness, clarify goals, achieve their development objectives, unlock their potential, and act as a future leader. He helped them Solve specific situation in life, business and achieve specific results.

* I have been involved with people to build a career path and working towards empowering people to enhance their skills and fulfil their dreams. Being an experienced industry business leader and mentor, he has recently launched Next Gen Mentorship platform (MentorKart) for various target mentee groups e.g. Students, Working professionals, leaders /entrepreneurs & Startups. This platform is launched and recognized by Startup India scheme under Govt. of India. Vision of this initiative is to provide everyone an ideal mentorship.

* Mentorkart was founded by Ashish and his team with mission to provide access to mentors for everyone on a digital platform with easy availability, where experts from various industries can be your mentor and get direct assistance from leading professionals across the globe. Overcome challenges to achieve your personal & professional goals, learn a new job-oriented skill and be successful. From one-on-one (1:1) interaction to Group sessions, MentorKart brings your number of opportunities to develop your key skills and helps you increase your employability, you can stay connected with your personal mentor to Create, track, review and achieve your personal & professional goals from anywhere! anytime! Mentees can Learn from best of industry veterans, Attend Webinars and Mentoring Sessions by Educational gurus, entrepreneurs to handhold you along your journey & so much more!

Professional experience:

* With more than 25 years’ experience in successful business leadership, Ashish led teams and organizations to innovative, build, implement business solutions & products in the field of Information Technology for customers across 20+ countries.

* During his tenures at PC Solutions an IT consulting company having its business in many countries and strong consulting partners of companies like Microsoft, HP, IBM, Citrix etc, Ashish has grown from engineer

to Vice president and successfully created multiple business units within the company. He has built new business and led large team of IT professionals working in various industry verticals.

* After successful career as IT Professional for around 20+ years Ashish has decided to step into the journey of entrepreneur and founded IOT World Labs Inc knows as D4DT HQ based out of Seattle USA, D4DT developed and launched digital transformation platform for global market and acquired customers in multiple countries. D4DT runs on futuristic technologies like IOT, Machine learning, Artificial intelligence, big data. This global Startup is growing fast in a very short span of time of 3 years.

* During his entire professional career his colleagues applauded his strategic ability to plan and execute organisations vision, energetic leadership and strong team building capabilities. Ashish used a distinct leadership practice of ‘leading through mentoring and coaching’.

* Technology Leader with end to end experience of building and managing innovative products & Professional services business; acquired various technical skills on the technology area e.g. IOT, Big data , Digital transformation , Cloud, System Management, Identity Management, Information Security, Business Solutions and Financial Management

* High-Performance Executive with expertise in business performance measurement & management framework, metrics and processes; undertook various process improvement initiatives to achieve maximum efficiency in various operations within organisations, Sales, Marketing, HR, and other Support functions

* Strong analytical, problem solving and decision-making skills; proven ability to juggle multiple priorities and achieve results; hardworking and goal oriented with a high degree of flexibility; energetic and self-motivated with willingness to learn, openness to change and thrive on challenges

Significant Achievements

* awarded with highly prestigious award of the organization “Leadership award for outstanding contribution to the organization “in previous organization

* Achieved average growth of 40% Year over Year for more 10 years

* Expanded team from 0 to 1000+ People

* Travelled across 20+ countries for business and gained extensive experience of working with customers across the globe in different industry verticals

* Successfully increased geography Presence of business across globe

* Instigated paper less operations, starting from all processes like HR, Project management, Time sheet Management, KRA’s, Customer satisfaction, Profit and Loss dashboards, and various other support functions within organisation

* Accredited with “Celebrating leadership award “on 25th Year celebration of the organization

With over 20 years of experience in architecting Enterprise Solutions, Prashant has the mandate to digitally transform Products & Services at Denave. His focus is to progressively build technology enabled processes, support revenue and business growth drivers and enrich service/product offerings.

In his past stints, Prashant had built several strategic systems for Snapdeal and managed large-scale transformational programs for Infosys. He has worked with Fortune 500 companies like Nordstrom, Emerson, Del Monte Fresh Produce, Arrow Electronics, etc. across locations in America, Europe, Japan, Hong Kong and India. Over the years, he has architected and successfully managed ERP, CRM, SCM, HCM, BPM & BI multi-million dollar engagements. He has expertise in strategizing IT to align with organization’s vision, engineering business design to meet defined objectives, and deploy right technology solution to succeed.

Under his guidance, the team is focused on creating centralized database offering on cloud, identifying whitespace with statistical intelligence, building propensity platforms, enhancing Sales Motion Products & Services and automating internal functions.

Ashish is a part of Group Management Cadre, ‘General Management Program’ of the Mahindra Group designed to create a future leadership pipeline by hiring top talent from premier B Schools and giving them exposure to multiple functions, domains, and industries.

Being an electronics engineer & a general management professional, Ashish challenged the status quo of industry conventions, with an open outlook towards technology and formulated a go-to-market strategy for a B2B start-up in Mahindra group.

As a Country Head of Business Development & Strategy, he incubated and established the strategic business unit to a turnover of ‘USD 100 Million in 3 years’ by offering Industry solutions on next gen real time cloud based platform.

Ashish leads Strategic Consulting with C-level executives to bring business transformation with digitization, process automation, technology roadmap formulation, building strategic alliances and evaluating the new market potential and growth opportunities.

A brief snapshot of his profile is as follows-

1. Steered the BU to 3X growth : Recognised as ‘Emerging EPC Company of the year 2018’ at 8th EPC world Awards
2. Youngest professional to receive ‘Person of the year 2018’ award at the CIA World Infra Award
3. Contribution recognized in the M&M flagship program- ‘Mahindra Miracles’ to showcase “How I built a company
4. Co-published a Research Paper at International Conference of the Emerging Markets
5. Group Management Cadre (GMC) – 2015, Mahindra Group
6. Institute Rank 2/600 during PGDM course at IMT Ghaziabad

Demonstrated Competencies – Sales & BD | Digital transformation | Business Consulting & Strategy | Process Automation | Real time Cloud Based Project Management | Start-up Incubation | Market research & Analysis | Channel Management | Product Development | Digital Marketing | P&L Management | Financial Modelling & Valuation

He is currently Co-founder and Head of Product for Colombia SaaS, at Times Internet, leading the business strategy and the product roadmap of building the tech stack. Working on performance adtech, content personalization, native ads, data, yield optimization, recommendation engine, AMP/adblocker management, demand mediation and more.

Arjun joined Times Internet Limited in India in July 2014 as a Product Manager for the Company’s ‘Audience Platform’. Mr. Satya has a Bachelor’s degree in Technology from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay where he was conferred with Undergraduate Research Award for his final year project.

In 2014 Times Internet launched an in-house Advertising Platform called Colombia, which is responsible for managing and generating most of the advertising driven revenue for the company. Today, Colombia reaches nearly 450 million consumers across the world, in addition to having hundreds of marketers using the Colombia platform in India including a significant number of the Top 500 brands in India.

Previously, Mr. Satya became Chief Manager II of the Audience Platform– a sub-unit within Colombia which forms the bedrock for machine learning based revenue optimization for Colombia. He was responsible for conceptualizing and building the Audience Platform and currently leads a 41-member product, tech and operations team comprising of Product Managers, Developers, Designers, Architects and Quality Assurance Engineers, along with a dedicated team which is responsible for operating this platform for direct sales and advertising campaign operations.

Saurabh is an entrepreneur interested in the areas of Media , IT and Satcom. He Is a professional Chartered Accountant with a degree in international business management from IIFT , one of India’s premier B – Schools . Saurabh believes in India’s growth story and believes that entrepreneurship has to be promoted and practised like any other profession. He is a firm believer of business ethics and investing in people some things which he learnt from his experience at Tata Sons and General Electric. Saurabh joined Tabsons in 2008 , at a time when it was into metal fabrication for consumer durables. Today Tabsons is a leading player in media and satcom industry . It is the largest supplier of DTH antennas in north India and is monitoring more than 600 channel feeds for nation’s leading audience measurement entity. Apart from above the company is doing work in the fields of video fingerprinting solutions , advertisement tracking , content metadata extraction using technologies like face , logo recognition and Speech to Text.

Bijai K. Jayarajan is an entrepreneur who lives and works between Singapore and India. Bijai is the Founder & CEO of Houm Technology Singapore Pte. Ltd. Houm Technology is headquartered in Singapore, with a subsidiary in the United States and contractual tech development centres in India and Canada. Houm Technology is established with a vision to bring back privacy on the internet, via the revolutionary concept of ‘private ownership of the internet by the end consumer’. Houm Technology enables each consumer to build and own a digital home on the internet – a piece of the internet that you personally own, where you can keep your private data actuall private. Houm Technology’s mission is to build a few billion digital homes on the internet – houms that are owned and accessed only by the respective owners, thus getting privacy and ownership back on the internet. Prior to starting Houm Technology, Bijai founded Loylty Rewardz Mngt Pvt Ltd in 2008, and worked as the Founder CEO for ten years, and grew it into India’s largest consumer relationship management company. Bijai raised over USD 30 million of venture capital investment into Loylty Rewardz, and eventually gave his VC investors VenturEast and Canaan
Partners a multi-bagger exit. In 2017, Loylty Rewardz was acquired at a valuation of about USD 100 million by BillDesk, India’s #1 bill payments company (www.billdesk.com), whose investors include General Atlantic, Temasek, TA Associates and Visa Inc. At the time of Bijai’s exit, Loylty Rewardz managed the loyalty program for over one billion consumer profiles in India, processing over 200 million transactions and awarding over 2.5 billion loyalty points monthly. Prior to founding Loylty Rewardz, Bijai worked with MasterCard Worldwide as the Head of MasterCard’s relationship with the largest bank in India – the State Bank Group, and with Jet Airways India Pvt. Ltd. as the head of its frequent flyer loyalty program – Jet Privilege. Bijai is also a non-executive member of the Board of Directors of Vikalp India Private Limited, a school education-focused start-up based in Delhi that is working with hundreds of schools in Jharkhand, Bihar, Karnataka, New Delhi, Punjab and Maharashtra Bijai graduated as part of the Founding Class of the Indian School of Business (ISB) in Hyderabad.

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