Rajus Augustine Email & Phone Number

Stamford, Connecticut, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Stamford, Connecticut, Us

Led the establishment of a Global Product Management Organization within Car Audio. Founded the Software-as-a-Product Vertical and created the NextGen Portfolio of Products, ensuring the Division’s continued expansion of global market leadership. Drove the exploration and launch of on-demand software products and business models including associated go-to-market strategy, opening up new customer segments, sales channels and revenue streams and offering end-consumers an unparalleled personalized in-car audio experience.

Stamford, Connecticut, Us

Increased awarded business backlog by 7-fold and scaled the business from a start-up in a global matrix organization into the market leader in the active noise management space within a span of 3 years. Expanded customer footprint to 15+ new OEMs spanning NA, Europe & Asia. Drove product management & development, launching 4 new products including the world's first road noise cancellation technology. Built-up associated press, marketing and demo-car assets around the world.Set-up business for further success, leading the establishment of entry barriers through IP, cooperations and partnerships - with OEMs, sensor and technology suppliers alike. Attained best-ever backlog growth in 2018. Established a 50+ strong global engineering team focusing on combining passion with purpose to push technology boundaries, offering our customers the best sound management technologies in the market.

Stamford, Connecticut, Us

Positioned Division for success as a front-runner in Car Audio, leading the establishment of partnerships with industry leaders in the audio space, driving the due diligence and cooperation discussions. Expanded the Car Audio Portfolio partnering with exhaust and sensor suppliers, offering OEM customers new audio enabled solutions such as Exhaust based active sound generation.

Stamford, Connecticut, Us

Led projects of strategic significance to Harman - deploying tools & processes facilitating Competitor Analysis, Strategic Planning and Global Sales Pipeline Management - helping Top Management Team drive quick decisions on RFQ engagements, potential acquisition targets, long-term planning, and product hit-rates.

Successfully drove a multitude of projects - from developing and deploying a streamlined reporting process to leading the annual strategic planning of the division - working with 15 executive directors across sales, finance and human resource teams.

Led the departments foray into a new domain - Daimler Cars' Engine Management, piloting the first project to success, in-turn opening-up avenues to further pursuits - winning new projects worth $2M+. Led the establishment of a competency center to effectively manage the Engine Domain projects.

Mba, General Management/ Strategic Management

Ms, Automation Systems

Bengg - Computer Science