Pavan Varma Email & Phone Number

Seattle, WA, US

Menlo Park, CA, US

• Lead Facebook’s partnership with Samsung across Americas, develop best in class strategies for Samsung’s global mobile business teams to facilitate their device launches and "Direct to consumer sales" teams across our.
• Empower local market teams by providing relevant support from cross functional partners (product, measurement, etc.) and timely inputs from Samsung global to deliver on Samsung’s business objectives and our revenue.
• Work closely with cross functional teams to ensure we have the necessary resources to negotiate and deliver consistent revenue growth from Samsung.

• Grew our partnership with Unilever in APAC driving revenue growth through new business activation, relationship management and building capabilities of our in-market teams.
• 100+ % YoY revenue growth in 2015, with strong relationships across leadership both locally and regionally. Won the Power of partnerships award (Global Sales award) in 2016.
• Opened new channels of investment like Unilever international and the global brand development teams of Closeup, Clear, and Lux to accelerate growth.

• Started the sales team in India in 2011. Grew the team to a total of 9.
• Grew the business by over 300+ % in the first full year of business - 2012.
• Led the sales channel transition from Reseller to a Facebook direct sales team managing the top 200 advertisers in India

Mountain View, CA, US

• Recruited trained and coached a team of account managers driving investments from the new (e-commerce companies like Flipkart) and old (classifieds and matrimonial sites) internet businesses in India.

Mountain View, CA, US

• Grew the Banking, Financial services and Insurance vertical by 100% in my first 2 years.
• Received “Chak de Champ” (Country award for sales contribution), JAPAC Sales Innovation award and the Prestigious OC (Founders) award – 2010.

• Established a new channel of sales in the state of Karnataka, 348 Channel development associates (franchises) and 1300+ advisors (agents) with 16 branch managers and 2 cluster managers reporting to me.
• Ranked number 1 region in terms of advisor activation and growth in premium collected for the year of 2007.

Amsterdam, NL

Was responsible for managing the wealth of preferred Customers and acquiring new customers

Mumbai, Maharashtra, IN

• Identified, appointed and grew corporate agents like Zen Securities, Karvy, etc. across the state of Andhra Pradesh.
• Trained and supported bank assurance partners and national distributors in Life Insurance sales likeCitibank, IDBI Bank, etc.