Prashant Agarwal Email & Phone Number

Chapel Hill, NC, US

San Francisco, California, US

Helping C-Suite executives overcome the challenges to achieving inorganic growth.

San Francisco, US

Managing Influencer Marketing Hub, the leading resource for Social Media Influencers, Influencer Marketing Platforms and Influencer Marketing Agency Case Studies.

San Francisco, US

Building the next generation of ecommerce solutions to help independent brands thrive.

London, England, GB

Helping clients identify, define and build new ventures.

US

• I was a leader in McKinsey Digital Labs - Design Studio. A team of 100+ seasoned Design professionals that partner with client teams across sectors to Imagine, Evolve, Explore and Invent experiences that create new.
• NewCo Building – Counsel clients and lead teams to define and deliver new businesses that combine distinctive digital experiences, value propositions and business models.
• Digital Transformations – Helping clients develop new digital capabilities to reinvent their businesses and maintain industry leadershipExperience highlights
• Grew Digital McKinsey design team from 20 UI/UX designers to a global team of 100+ Service and Experience Designers
• Serve clients across advanced industries, media, retail, telecoms and financial services
• Defined digital NewCo for global industrial client combining ethnographic research, competitive strategy analysis, business model innovation and customer co-creation. Presented final output to Board of Directors who.

London, England, GB

• Fjord is an international digital service design consultancy that helps clients leverage design to reimagine their businesses and reinvent their industries. Built and grew Fjord’s US presence directly leading to.
• Lead US Business Design practice that helps clients meet their business objectives through Fjord’s user-centric service design approach
• Business Design leads the context and opportunity phases of Fjord engagements using product strategy, design and management methods to align service concepting, detailed design and implementation phases with business.
• Successfully integrated Fjord’s design approach with Accenture's management consulting approach for leading clients such as Prudential, AIG, and Kohl’s
• Responsible for generating $5M in direct billing and over $200M+ in pull-through billings since Accenture acquisition in May 2013

London, England, GB

• Founded Fjord’s US presence with offices in New York and San Francisco
• Responsible for general management, business development and client management
• Built team from 1 to 30 members including operations, business development, project management and design
• Secured engagements with market leading clients including ESPN, Real Networks, Nokia, Samsung, LG, MySpace, The NFL, Foursquare, Yahoo, Microsoft, Verizon, Citigroup,PayPal, Qualcomm and Meijer
• Grew annual revenues from $0 to $5M over three years

• Product strategy consultant to Fjord’s media, telecoms and technology clients
• Introduced product management methods/perspective to Fjord’s design-led methods
• Helped design and close Fjord’s first six-figure engagement with Nokia that spanned service strategy through implementation
• Collaborated with Fjord’s design teams on engagements for The BBC, Nokia and Deutsche Telekom

• Developed and launched Mippin, a service from Refresh Mobile. Refresh Mobile is a London-based company backed by Accel Partners.
• Brought on by Accel Partners (London) to turn around product strategy for portfolio company Refresh Mobile
• Developed and relaunched Refresh as Mippin, a service to optimize web content for mobile screens
• Implemented product management process to develop new product vision, user-centric product design and iterative collaboration model with technology teams

Sunnyvale, CA, US

• Responsible for new mobile product development, deployment and partnering with external developers for advanced products such as mobile clients and mobile search platform components
• Managed five person cross-functional team to deploy mobile search transcoding solution for UK mobile operator, 3; increased product usage by 50%
• Launched the official FIFA World Cup 2006 Mobile Matchcast Java client across Europe in six languages as a showcase for Yahoo’s mobile technology strategy
• Developed and launched industry’s first multimedia mobile IM client preloaded on Nokia Series 60 devices and distributed in 11 markets across the US, Europe and Asia

Sunnyvale, CA, US

• Managed Yahoo! Europe’s communications team and products in UK, France, Germany, Spain and Italy
• Consolidated regional product requirements for core product development team in California
• Worked with European mobile team to launch premium mobile communications services both direct to consumer and in cooperation with Tier 1 mobile operators
• Successfully deployed Yahoo! Messenger 6.0 resulting in 25% increase in user adoption
• Led transition of increased mail storage from 10MB to 1GB

• Advised clients on wireless hardware, software and service strategies, created product specifications and built key partnerships to execute strategies and launch products. Key projects included:
• TechDirt Corporate Intelligence - Corporate intelligence and analysis for emerging technology firms
• vVault - Carrier-class wireless mobile productivity platform
• Musicbank - Digital music subscription service

• Co-founded wireless Internet startup with $12M in seed capital developing next generation wireless multimedia platform
• Built and led four person product management team which worked with research and development to build product specifications for wireless commerce, content, messaging and location-based services and long term product.

• Joined BuyDirect.com (CNET spin-off) that was subsequently acquired by online retailer Beyond.com
• Led cross-functional team that launched industry's first voice-prompted download assistant to ease the consumer downloading experience

• Negotiated software distribution agreements with leading online software and music retailers

San Francisco, CA, US

• Developed and implemented comprehensive reporting system combining site traffic, finance, operational and sales data which increased business planning efficiency and transparency for senior management

San Francisco, CA, US

• Managed strategic relationships for CNET's software services division

New York, NY, US

• Oversaw web site tracking and collection of user demographics

Bachelor'S Degree, Business Adminstration

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