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Location: India
Concentration: General Management, Strategy
Re: Calling all IIM Ahmedabad PGPX Applicants (2022 Intake, Class of 2023)
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25 Aug 2021, 01:49
Profile Evaluation request for 1yr MBA program at IIM- A,B,C,L
Gmat Score: 640 (Q-50, V-25, IR-3, AWA-5) Age:37 Nationality: Indian
Target Sectors: Retail (1st priority) ; Consulting- Strategic : (2nd Priority) ; Venture Funding / Startup : (3rd priority)
Target Roles: Strategic Decision Making (general management) ; Growth Leader / Business Development (Sales and Marketing) ;
Work Experience:
• Total = 8+ years (2 years post BE and 6+ years post-MBA). This does not include 1.5 yrs of part-time work experience post MBA
• Launched two startups with a collective experience of more than 4 years working in them.
• Currently serving as Founder and CEO of Hundred Plus (Rural Retail - Ecommerce). I have initiated a planned exit from my startup and shall close down the organization by September 2021. Meanwhile, I have started accepting consulting assignments on a part-time and freelance basis.
• Worked at MNCs viz: HDFC Bank (1yr) and Idea Cellular Ltd (6 months).
• Served strong leadership roles involving Business Planning, Team Building, Product Management, P&L Accountability, Go-to-market Strategy, Category & Vendor Management, Distribution Channel Management, Wealth Management, Venture Funding, and Leading large Teams.
Educational Qualifications:
• MBA – SIBM-Pune (India’s tier-1 B school), Regular Full Time - 2010-12, CGPA (2.64/4.0)
• B.E.- BMSCE- Bangalore (one of the top 5 colleges in the state of Karnataka in India), Regular Full Time – 2004-08, Average %marks across all semesters – 67/100
Key Achievements:
• Authored the book “Bitcoin Basics: Logic and Magic of Digital Gold”, 2018
• Selected among India’s Top 30 promising Youth Leader, by Indo American Centre, sponsored by the US Department of State, 2019
• Invited as Mentor – Entrepreneurship Cell, IIM-Rohtak, 2019 and 2020
• Invited as Judge, B Plan Competition, IIT Delhi, Department of Management Studies, 2019 and 2020
• Selected at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Entrepreneurial Bootcamp at Croatia, Europe, 2020
Community Connect:
• Took guest lectures at more than seven MBA colleges in India, 2018-21
• Rendered startup-consulting to more than 10 startups on a pro-bono basis, 2018-21
• Worked as Mentor-of-Change – Atal Innovation Mission, Niti Aayog, Government of India, 2019
• Guest Storyteller on Entrepreneurship at “The Loudspeaker”, 2017-18
• Volunteer Partner, Tech Delhi, contributing to the entrepreneurial ecosystem at Delhi/Ncr, 2017