Pranav Barve Email & Phone Number

United States

Market Intelligence, Market Research, Strategic Planning, Long-term Forecasting

Colorado Springs, Colorado Area

Working for Outdoor Technologies , a leader in hand-held outdoor safety devices, as a Sales & Marketing Consultant. Outdoor Technologies builds and sells proximity lightning detectors enabling safer conditions while working and playing outdoors. Responsibilities include :--> Conducting research to identify new markets and customer needs-> Promoting the company’s products and addressing customers’ objectives-> Building long-term relationships with new and existing customers

Irvine, California

* Played a key role in Skyworks Solution's $2.2B all-cash bid to acquire PMC Sierra. -> Lead marketing efforts in the due-diligence phase to analyse acquiree's end market TAM, SAM and SOM projections, quarterly and yearly revenue models , product and technology road-maps, end-customer relationships and competitive dynamics. -> Helped contract storage industry experts as consultants to guide the executive team with the potential acquisition. * Manage 3rd party market research relationships for a host of research topics like mobile & tablet devices, mobile RF analog semiconductors and IoT with several syndicated research outfits like IDC, Strategy Analytics, GFK Research, ABI Research & GSMA Intelligence. -> Responsibilities include managing contracts, budgets, pricing and renewals, scheduling regular calls with analysts, liaisoning between internal stake-holders and external 3rd party research teams, sampling new off-the-shelf and custom research. * Manage ThomsonOne database for sell-side analyst commentary (Price Targets, Investment Recommendations, Earnings Analysis, Other Corporate Developments) about the Mobile/IoT industry, semiconductor competitors and peers, end customers and potential target firms.* Manage TAM, SAM and SOM forecasts for mobile/tablet RF Front End Analog Markets( >$10B ), IoT Vertical Markets (like Wearables, Smart & Connected Home, Automotive & others).

Colorado Springs, Colorado Area

* Conduct market research on Servers and External Storage Systems & Enterprise HDDs & SSDs.* Build and maintain market models for storage components such as IO Controllers, ROC Processors, Expanders, Host Bus Adapters and RAID Adapters, execute long-range forecasting for LSI's RAID Storage group with revenues of $600M+* Guide strategic business planning activities and explore market adjacencies worth >$100M

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

* Manage forecasting for a $3 billion storage industry commodities market, comprising of HDD (hard-disk drives) and SSD (solid-state drives) components, through dialogue with industry analysts, customers and sales.* Drive precise cost-management of SoCs(System On A Chip) and Preamps through cross-functional interactions with Operations, Marketing, Engineering and Program Management.* Lead product-based business-case management through margin and operating income analysis.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

* Successfully lead digital-design efforts for tape-out of Preamp for a major HDD customer with no digital design errata * Design and develop next generation Digital IP for Preamps and provide verification and validation, there-by reducing design errata by 60%* Conduct competitive analysis through tear-down of competitor's product and investigate improvements in design, architecture and methodology

Twin Cities, Minnesota

Executed a wide range of Teaching Assistant duties for a host of courses at an under-graduate as well as graduate level, courses such as Buyer Behavior, Market Research, Supply-Chain Management, Business Statistics, each with a class-size of 60 students.

Ms, Electrical Engineering

MBA level coursework in Accounting; Finance, Marketing and Operations Management;

Be, Electronics Engineering

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