Alok Shankar Email & Phone Number

Orlando, Fl, Us

New York, New York, Us

Pioneering the future of marketing technology, I co-founded Nudgespot, a cutting-edge platform that revolutionized enterprise marketing. Following our strategic merger with Boomtrain in 2016, we scaled rapidly in the US market using AI-driven strategies. Acquired by Zeta Global in 2017, Nudgespot formed the foundation of the Zeta Marketing Platform. Through continued investment and evolution, it now serves Fortune 500 companies, rapidly approaching ~$1B in revenue and employing 1,700+ people globally. I continue to drive impactful business outcomes for major brands worldwide.

San Francisco, California, Us

Boomtrain acquired Nudgespot in Aug 2016Nudgespot Marketing Platform rebranded as 'Boomtrain Marketing Engine' (and subsequently 'Zeta Marketing Platform'), and deeply integrated with AI, becomes the flagship product of Boomtrain.

Pioneering the future of marketing technology, I co-founded Nudgespot, a cutting-edge platform that revolutionized enterprise marketing. Following our strategic merger with Boomtrain in 2016, we scaled rapidly in the US market using AI-driven strategies. Acquired by Zeta Global in 2017, Nudgespot formed the foundation of the Zeta Marketing Platform. Through continued investment and evolution, it now serves Fortune 500 companies, rapidly approaching ~$1B in revenue and employing 1,700+ people globally. I continue to drive impactful business outcomes for major brands worldwide.

Waltham, Ma, Us

Over 7.5+ years with the company built the following cloud products from the ground-up and instrumental in scaling it up to enterprise-grade that included fortune 500 brands as customers and generated more than $100 million in revenue within 4 years of launch. • Integrated Talent Management Platform (ITM) • ITM - Recruitment Suite • ITM - Performance Management Suite • ITM - Compensation Planning Suite • ITM - Succession Planning SuiteAs of 2020 these products are actively in use by Learning Technology Group that Acquired Peoplefluent.Part of Executive team that advised board members on strategic mattersBuilt and Managed a team of 110+ employees in direct/indirect reporting structure.Worked in various roles focused on Technology and Solutions across Asia, Europe and United States.

Waltham, Ma, Us

Responsible for overall delivery of product and services from the Asia region. Improved product development velocity, methods and processes. Provided coaching and mentoring to line managers. managed organizational budget, employee performance and compensation. Managed team synergy and cross-functional collaboration midst rapid growth of the company through acquisitions. Advised executive members of global team on strategic matters.

Waltham, Ma, Us

Responsible for several releases of Talent Management suite of product and platform features including flagship product lines in the integrated suite viz. Recruitment Management, Performance Management, Succession Planning and Compensation Management. Facilitated adoption of extreme programming methods including Agile and Test Driven Development. Led key projects such as user interface standardization for cross-browser and cross-device compatibility and usability; midst fast pace development.

Waltham, Ma, Us

Responsible for building the Talent Management product development team from ground-up. Instrumental in evaluation of technology stacks and prototypes. Played a hands-on role and led the team in creation of highly scalable and configurable enterprise product platform, and first SaaS product in the Integrated Talent Management suite of products.

Mendota Heights, Mn, Us

Over 7.5+ years with the company built the following cloud products from ground up and instrumental in scaling it up to enterprise-grade. • Xora Field Service Manager: Founding engineer of the product, bootstrapped at Mountain view and Built from the ground up.• Xora GPS TimeTrack: Built real-time tracking of field workers on first-generation J2ME devices and built Google Map equivalent software 5 years before Google Map was launched.• PlainSpeak: Early member of the team, that built a voice recognition software to drive enterprise operations similar to Amazon Alexa but 14 years before its time. This product was put to rest due to voice tech immaturityAs of 2019. Xora Field Service Manager become part of Salesforce through the acquisition of Click Software for $1.35bhttps://www.salesforce.com/news/press-releases/2019/08/07/salesforce-signs-definitive-agreement-to-acquire-clicksoftware/Day to day responsibility included overall product delivery of the mobile workforce management solution. Led the development of extension of mobile solution on newer mobile devices and platforms. responsible for transformation of the user interface to Web 2.0 standards and GIS Map interfaces for high-performance real-time tracking of GPS data and work order transactions through J2ME and Blackberry device applications.

Mendota Heights, Mn, Us

Responsible for building the development team from ground up, coaching and mentoring on base architecture of the platform, and making them productive to rapidly deliver features to market. Developed mobile to web communication protocols to enable work order transactions through mobile devices by field-force.

Mendota Heights, Mn, Us

I continued my role as a lead developer and architect of Mobile Workforce Management product as an enterprise, mobile, SaaS and multi-tenant solution, after the prototype was approved and funding secured. I was responsible for development of base architecture and first release of the product to market.

Mendota Heights, Mn, Us

Initial member of the start-up responsible for managing enterprise servers and writing deployment scripts on Unix platform for voice recognition and enterprise connect solution called PlainSpeak. The company re-positioned itself into Location Based Services space and I was responsible for prototyping the web and mobile application to build a mobile workforce management product.

Responsible for following key projects:Digital Insight (now Intuit): Built a scraping engine for financial account aggregation web application using Java, XML parser and XSL transformation techniques.Tavolo (now Amazon): Built an order management system on Java based client server platform and assisted in migration from legacy platform.

Part of the team responsible for development of J2EE based visa Dropbox application for TT Services which facilitated US visa application and tracking.