Spike is a monthly networking meet-up for tech startups, founders, investors and startup enthusiasts in Sri Lanka. We're an informal gathering of people who love to talk about the exciting world of technology startups and entrepreneurship!This event was started in 2014 as a regular pitching and idea-sharing night where entrepreneurs get an opportunity to connect with other founders, investors and a curious audience. Since then it has evolved into a community where people can walk in, grab a beer (or two) and listen to start-up stories, people sharing their learnings as entrepreneurs in a casual surrounding.The spirit of Spike Community is always social interaction - going out and meeting people in person! We believe this is part of the reason why Spike works within the start-up community: because it's all about learning from one another's experiences and sharing them with others so that we can grow together as a community.

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SummaryLead marketing, growth and revenue generation efforts, play a key role in business innovation and strategy, lead internal and external marketing teams, serve as a key thought-partner to the CEO, and play a critical role in the leadership team.Responsibilities- Implement Inbound marketing methodology where business attracts customers by creating valuable content and delightful experiences tailored to them.- Lead the go-to-market strategy and plan for the core product, ”Healthnet - Your Pharma Assistant”. - Align and coordinate dedicated resources across Marketing, Product, and Data teams to execute the strategy to drive acquisition, retention and referrals.- Develop content marketing strategies targeted at driving traffic, engagement, generating leads, delivering sales, retaining customers, and building brand awareness. - Conduct webinars, events, schedule monthly newsletters to generate a consistent flow of recurring customers.- Plan and implement a search engine optimization strategy to improve organic search results (long term investment to reduce cost on digital advertising).- Analyze paid and organic traffic on the mobile app, Website, Apple & Google Play store, blog and building out funnels across customer journeys to increase app downloads, signup, conversion rate and reduce churn rate.- Own the marketing automation platform, marketing technology stack & processes to nurture leads and deliver them to sales. Marketing Technology stack includes Hubspot, Google Analytics, Google Search Console, App Annie and Facebook Business Manager.Results- Launch the mobile app with Blok & Dino viral video campaign which resulted in 2.3+ million views (across YouTube, Facebook, & Instagram) and 2500+ app downloads.- Ranked No 1 in both Apple App Store and Google Playstore in Health category (SL).- Complete 10,000+ mobile app downloads within 15 weeks.- Complete 8 figure sales within 12 weeks of launching the mobile app.

SummaryLead product development and engineering, play a key role in business innovation and strategy, lead internal and external development teams, serve as a key thought-partner to the CEO, and play a critical role in the leadership team.Problem and Requirement- Develop the product strategy to achieve the business objective of becoming the fastest growing pharmaceutical platform in the country by 2020.- Identify an effective and leaner approach to Product Development, Marketing and Growth.- Inefficiencies and misalignment due to traditional department-based organisational structure. Approach- Implement design thinking culture where the decision-making process is based on market-validation over assumptions. - Using Design Sprint to identify the right solution to address the problem of medication delivery with an innovative approach. - Breaking the silos between teams to build collaborative cross-functional teams consisting of product development, product marketing & customer service.Results- Launched the world's 1st chat-based mobile application to order and manage regular medication for NCD patients. - Key pain points addressed;1. Talk to SLMC registered pharmacist real-time from anywhere in the world. 2. Never misplace your prescription3. Manage your entire family prescriptions4. Never forget to re-order on time - Collaboratively develop the organisation's vision, mission, brand values and culture which resulted in creating organisation wide alignment.

Emagine is a boutique product development agency who work with entrepreneurs, startups and businesses who want to transform simple business ideas and solve problems using technology. As the CEO of Emagine, my responsibilities include setting strategy & direction for businessgrowth, modelling, building and leading the core product team

QA Lead for UK, Germany, Norway, Sweden and Denmark Billing and CRM platforms from LOVEFiLM to Amazon platform. Responsibilities • Testing of large-scale commercial products including Amazon Prime Video• Devising test strategy, planning, execution • Design of user acceptance test strategies for applications, enhancements and change requests.• Production of Applications related KPIs and management reports

* Ascertaining and dealing with customers’ needs through email, telephone and postal communication.* Prioritising and resolving serious complaints, including billing and banking issues, marketing and fulfilment queries and offering technical support. * Maintaining excellent quality (Above 98% at all times) whilst ensuring company standards and values are maintained.* Helping various members of the team (including seniors) and other staff members when help and training needed.* Converting service trialists to long-term paying subscribers.

* Working in an extremely pressurized environment, assisted the Operations Manager in servicing the everyday banking needs of customers. * Tasks performed were providing account details, carrying out internal transfers, stopping cheques, ordering statements and cheque books, setting up and cancelling regular payments, arranging encasements and pro-actively investigating and recording complex customer enquiries.* Ensured that the bank’s rigorous security procedures were followed at all times so that customers could be sure of a confidential and secure service. This required correctly identifying customers by telephone, performing call-backs where instructions where received in writing, ensuring that any submitted signatures were genuine.* Act as the last line of defence against counterfeit cheques and other payment instructions, with the authority to return any payments that were suspected to be fraudulent. * Use initiative to increase efficiency and productivity within the department, beyond the strict confines of the role.