Kunal Desai Email and Phone Number

I lead exceptional teams to advise clients across technology (SaaS, IT services) & media industry. As part of my McKinsey experience, have worked with clients across technology (e.g., GTM strategy & 0-to-1 business scale-up with Fintech SaaS startup, pricing transformation with IT services major, restructuring strategy for a public sector client), and banking & financial services (collections transformation for a leading bank, new business development & growth for a digital loans product, online growth strategy for a leading brokerage firm).

Worked with the investment team of Yunus Social Business Fund, co-founded by Nobel Laureate Prof. Md Yunus. YSBFB is an impact investment fund targeted towards BOP focused social businesses.

Awarded with a Pre-Placement Offer for a full-time position.

Responsible for benchmark product quality at the largest cigarette manufacturing facility of ITC.

Managed and led centrally sponsored strategic initiatives and projects for the tobacco division of ITC.

Coordinating and monitoring decisions taken by the executive council, ensuring smooth transition of yearlong activities minimizing risk areas and focusing on improvement and sustainability.

Entrepreneurship Cell, IIT Kharagpur , is the largest entrepreneurship promoting student body in India and one of the largest in the world.Its aim is to foster the spirit of entrepreneurship among people and to educate,support and incubate people ready to start their own venture.

Global Entrepreneurship Summit is the annual flagship event of E Cell, IIT Kharagpur. Its one of the biggest entrepreneurial platforms for academicians, new-age entrepreneurs, eminent business personalities, venture capitalists and students to gather at one place and share their entrepreneurial endeavors and experiences, and to pledge to take entrepreneurship to greater scales.Responsible for the publicity of the Global Entrepreneurship Summit , 2012 throughout West Bengal.Also had to ensure proper media coverage of the event in Kolkata.

Aim : Eliminating Hot Coal Fall Out related complaints.• Developed and calibrated a testing machine to gauge defect magnitude.• Executed a first principle analysis of defect with varying tobacco, cigarette design and maker machine-specific parameters.• Narrowed down on an optimum combination of parameters resulting in a 70% decrease of defect magnitude at test conditions.• Designed, monitored and implemented necessary modifications.Received a Pre-Placement Offer at the end of the internship.

1.Designing the flow of a Warranty Improvement Tracking software.2.Analysis and Interpretation of batch codes of top 20% faulty parts(by Pareto) and documenting them.3.Root Cause Analysis(RCA) of a Power Window Regulator problem in I163 model(Chevrolet,India).