Akanksha Kumar Email & Phone Number

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Humanness Inc.CEO2021 – Current* Strategic Leadership: Spearheaded the launch of Humanness Inc., setting the strategic direction and vision for the company, focusing on developing products that create meaningful impact.* Product Development: Led the development and successful launch of a 0-to-1 product, now utilized by thousands of users. Oversaw all stages of product development from concept to deployment, ensuring alignment with market needs.* Revenue Growth: Drove the company’s revenue growth, achieving a steady increase in monthly revenue, reaching thousands of dollars within a short timeframe.*Technology Integration: Leveraged modern technologies, including Beautiful Soup for data scraping, Tidio for chatbot integration, and a WhatsApp AI agent, to enhance productivity for both the team and customers. These innovations streamlined operations and improved customer interaction and satisfaction.* Team Building: Assembled and led a cross-functional team, fostering a collaborative and innovative work culture that prioritizes user-centric design and agile methodologies.* Market Penetration: Strategically penetrated the market, establishing a strong brand presence and building a loyal customer base through targeted marketing and exceptional product performance.Stakeholder Management: Effectively managed relationships with stakeholders, including investors, partners, and clients, to ensure continued growth and alignment with business objectives.

Redwood City, California, Us

Improved the payment volume by through incremental product updatesImproved pay rate by changing how the end customer views the invoiceDesigned a new product linesImproved GTM assets to make new product discovery easierLaunched a marketing campaign in partnership with Stripe

San Francisco, Ca, Us

* Successfully launched multiple new features that supported growth in sales of new product lines, growth in new markets and improvements in internal processes* Managed the roadmap for a mature Quotation/Proposal creation product which leveraged Salesforce and integrations with software like Avalara, Genability, and DocuSign * Led the transition of document management system from Flapjack to Windward* Consistently achieved all the identified quarter goals

Bengaluru, Karnataka, In

Furlenco is a ecommerce startup in india introducing the idea of rental economy in the space of furniture. As a director of product management i built and executed the vision for a successful implementation of the supply chain product that will power their fulfillment in future. I did this with a large team of product managers, business users, engineers and designers. * Successfully launched 3 products order management, billing and discounting * Led the decision making for critical processes like Prepaid or Postpaid * Worked on 2 other products which were not launched in my tenure - Warehouse management and MyFurlenco app

Bangalore, Karnataka, In

SAAHAS is a social enterprise which is propagating scientific waste disposal in the region of bangalore. It is invested by IAN. At SAAHAS, I have been instrumental in forging multiple partnerships with vendors and partner firms . * Formulating a new product line for decentralised waste management* Built strategic partnerships with organisations* Created the Marketing strategy * Worked on product lines like ewaste , organic waste , recyclable waste and reject waste

This startup was to play ode to a long time obsession for custom supply chains . One of the most customizable products and high on use is Mens shirt. Me and my team thoroughly enjoyed everything from designing, working with manufacturers, delivering and recording customer experience , while continually upgrading our product. Even today when i see people wearing this label, i feel proud. We shut it down for lack of funds and the fact that ecommerce market was not mature enough, customer acquisition costs were high and delivery ecosystem not evolved enough. Today Arvind mills has launched a similar brand called Creyate which has seen good adoption.* Created a ecommerce website which sold custom made clothing * Formulated startegic partnerships with suppliers for material and manufacturing * Grew the business from 0 - 500 shirt sale in 2 years.

Round Rock, Texas, Us

* Successfully led a team of 2 analysts to conduct market research for the services and warranties of competitors * Formulated the service strategy and presented it to the business users

Waldorf, De

* Centralized procurement for group companies of a FMCG major* Procurement organization redesign for company in Insurance sector * Implemented sourcing strategies to provide cost savings to companies in insurance and FMCG companies* Led negotiations for both direct and indirect spends * Led a team to conduct reverse auctions * Implemented the business processes for RFI, RFP, RFQ, Contracts, Auctions and Post auction vendor selection for direct and indirect materials * Led a number of user training as an Ariba Certified Trainer

Waldorf, De

• Integrated Ariba's supply chain product with enterprise resource planning (ERP) software such as SAP, PeopleSoft to increase Ariba sales to existing ERP users• Converted existing integration software using complex and expensive technology to simpler, easy to use and extensible technology to make future software development cheaper

* Worked with 15+ team members on large scale ERP (Peoplesoft( supply chain management implementation * Collaborated closely with functional consultants, business users to capture the requirement and translate them into technical design documents * Led the training of the business users on the newly implemented software* Implemented Peoplesoft General Ledger for HSBC Chicago * Part of the team which upgraded Peoplesoft 7 to Peoplesoft 8

Professional Certificate In Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning And Ai

Mba, Strategy, Finance

B.Tech, Information Technology

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