Harish Abbott Email & Phone Number

United States

Ottawa, On, Ca

San Francisco, California, Us

Acquired by Shopify for $2.5B. Deliverr is loved by thousands of merchants and powers tens of billions of dollars of commerce. Built a phenomenal team and culture (4.5 stars on Glassdoor). Deliverr offers any retailer a nation-wide Prime-like delivery experience (1-2 day delivery) to their customers by positioning items close to demand centers and utilizing local carriers. Deliverr predominantly utilized an asset lite network of warehouses and carriers focussing its efforts on orchestration and optimization of the network.

Austin, Tx, Us

Acquired by Quantum Retail. Enterprise focussed end-to-end commerce platform running large and fast growing brands.

Research Triangle, Nc, Us

Product Management, P&L and Revenue Management - Led the Product vision and development roadmap to transform Lulu from self publishing to the largest vertically integrated content marketplace. Managed detailed specifications for Search, Virtual Distribution and Open Publishing Platform, Tradebooks. - Built and Managed Product, Product Marketing and Business Intelligence teams from ground up - Delivered a $12M+ EBITDA increase by eliminating non-performing initiatives/products, non-trackable marketing expenses and consolidation/re-organization of teams.- Delivered growth in revenue with 70% cut in marketing expenses during 2009 – a tough economic year - Identified un-met needs for paid services and started a vertical that grew to $3M run rate in 12 months.- Implemented end-to-end tracking for all web traffic including referrals, Emails and SEM. Launched partner and affiliate programs. Improved the cost of customer acquisition by over 70% .- Executed traffic and revenue generating partnerships with Google, Amazon, Apple, Ingram and others.

Research Triangle, Nc, Us

In

- Acquired by Lulu.com (largest marketplace of independent authors) - Raised venture financing and built US and India Operations with 15 Engineers- Led the product vision and roadmap for the largest social book discovery platform with 3M+ members and 70M+ books- Designed and engineered core recommendation and scalability platform components- Built and Managed Engineering, UI/UX, Analytics and SEO/SEM teams.

In

Seattle, Wa, Us

Financial Analysis, Strategic Planning and Negotiations- Led financial assessment and design of seasonal capacity expansion and contraction of distribution network. Project resulted in avoiding $30M capex and reduced fulfillment cost-per-unit by 2.5%.- Performed financial analysis on vendor proposals, valuations of new businesses and negotiations on cost and inventory ownership that resulted in $12M savings in long term contracts and deal buys.Leadership and Operational Experience- Managed space utilization across fulfillment centers in US, UK, Germany and Japan.- Designed and implemented warehouse processes to enable release day delivery for Harry Potter V book.- Led team of five business experts in the design of first pan-European e-commerce fulfillment network for a quick launch of operations in new countries.New Product Development - Designed and developed inventory planning system for the extended network that improved forecast accuracy by 18% and resulted in 22 inventory turns per year – highest in the industry.- Conceptualized and coded a scalable, real-time order fulfillment system that resulted in improved customer experience through more accurate delivery promises (promise ship date and promise delivery date on the shopping cart) and $8M annual savings.

Scottsdale, Arizona, Us

Business Analysis, Sales and Supply Chain Optimization - Conducted business impact analysis and identified key drivers for supply chain inefficiencies for a large retailer. Instrumental in selling a $15M consulting project as integral part of sales team.Enterprise Wide IT Implementation- Led seven consultants to deliver an industry-wide business-to-business online exchange and planning software, a first for i2 Technologies and Toyota. Estimated $140M transactions in the first year.- Implemented demand planning solutions for General Motors that resulted in 18% improvement in forecast accuracy and 45% reduction in order processing times.

Mba

Ms, Operations Research

Bs