Irwin Anand Email & Phone Number

Gurugram, Hr, In

Pursuing personal goals, advising early stage startups, and exploring idea spaces to build on my own.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

On a mission to help people reach their full potential and achieve their goals, through through pragmatic, on demand workplace learning.Joined as the first employee for Udemy in APAC, and set up and scaled the Udemy platform in India and APAC, building a robust two-sided marketplace that connects millions of learners to thousands of instructors across the world. Owned the planning and execution of the APAC marketplace business, led the International market expansion charter, and established India as a critical talent hub for Udemy. - Grew business at 50%+ CAGR in revenue- Established Udemy as the #1 platform for professional skilling and the most known & loved skilling platform- Increased APAC share of revenues and seeded new countries, contributing to global expansion and market presence- Helped scale the team from a single employee to hundreds within the region- Evolved all facets of the marketplace to drive market expansion in existing markets, and entry into new markets. These include driving demand (at optimal CAC), acquiring high quality instructors/courses, optimizing the product experience, and effective marketplace regulation. - Anchored Consumer business M&A exploration- Established India as a talent hub - In addition to building local GTM teams, established global functions: Product & Engineering, Analytics, Performance and Lifecycle Marketing, Business Systems and IT

Amsterdam, North Holland, Nl

Amogst the first few employees at OLX India, played a pivotal role in creating and scaling OLX to a mobile-first, horizontal classifieds leader in India, empowering millions of buyers, and hundreds of thousands of sellers, to engage in win-win exchanges. Contributed as a cross-functional leader, to the strategy, tactics and execution across the marketplace’s growth journey - from product market fit, to driving repeatable scalable growth, to marketplace monetisation and verticalisation. Was managing a span of ~220 high caliber talent.Teams Led - Consumer Marketing, Product and Tech, Customer Experience and Content Moderation, Real Estate Sales, Advertising Sales- Launched the brand new OLX App solving key consumer friction points - sellers up 70% and users up 50% in 6 months of launch- Rebranded OLX to a new positioning - Neighbourhood buying and selling- Transitioned India Product & Tech team to be a key contributor to the Udemy global product- Launched Seller Monetisation and Advertising - Established the Real Estate Sales team and started shaping up the RE vertical site experience- Established Advertising Sales practice

Amsterdam, North Holland, Nl

Functions Led: Digital Marketing, Regional Marketing, CLM, Business Development & Customer Experience - Led cross-functional interventions to improve marketplace health- Set up Customer Lifecycle Management Practice- Anchor marketplace growth strategy- Drive automation in content moderation

Amsterdam, North Holland, Nl

Functions Led: Mobile Marketing & BizDev, Regional Marketing & FoS, & Bangladesh - Anchored OLX's app-led growth, becoming a top 40 Free App in India. Initiatives included – emerging market optimized app, ecosystem partnerships with exclusivity deal constructs, and promoting app as hero in marketing.- Established OLX as a close #1 in Bangladesh within 9 months of launch- Drove a 20% increase in regional marketing efficiency- Scaled FoS missionaries to the most efficient seller development channel, contributing 10% of sellers.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Manage inorganic growth for Yahoo! in India. Complete ownership of the sales process, starting from opportunity identification, solution pitch development, relationship management, proposal formulation, techno-commercial-legal negotiation to deal closure. Drive India specific product distribution strategies and plans, and align the internal product organization to market needs by being a key influencer in product roadmapsLed distribution partnerships with carriers, ISPs, OEMs, chipset vendors, and software providers, with deep and wide coverage driving 60% of mobile traffic and 25% of desktop traffic from partnerships.

Product management and business development for Aricent's software product lines (infrastructure software components).- Business Development (Software Products) - Worldwide exposure (Europe, US, ASPAC), through multiple channels (direct sales, distributor, partner). Owner annual revenue targets > $5M- Product Management - Handed Product Planning and Marketing responsibilities of wireless technology software product, the LTE Basestation Framework. Got 3 design wins.-Partnership and Channel Development - Set up engagement models with technology and market partners for furthering market penetration and growth- Product Marketing - Conceptualized and executed GTM plans for successful new product launches - Launch Plans encompassing collateral, website presence, media kits, demo preparation, analyst and media interactions, press releases, media event coordination

Dublin 2, Ie

Operations consultant, in business process re-engineering. Client being a Tier 1 Indian engineering conglomerate.

Blackfriars, London, Gb

Designed consumer activities for driving sales of low cost shampoo sachets in rural India

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

Software Development for Lucent's Wireless Base Station product line, with prime work being in GPRS. Involved in one of the first deployments of 2.5G wireless services globally.

My first job - developing software for managing Nokia's Access Nodes in Fiber Optic network.

Pgdbm, Marketing

Harvard E-Commerce Program

B.E, Engineering