Ramana Gogula

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Vice President, Technology Innovation at Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. @ Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.
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Hyderabad, Telangana, India, India
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Highly motivated, with over two decades of international experience in business strategy, sales, product/digital marketing, and customer support. Consistently met organizational goals and successfully built strong corporate brands. As a serial entrepreneur, founded companies in areas of eLearning, Entertainment and Clean Energy. Developed innovative customer-centric outreach programs that significantly reduced sales cycles and helped in consistently meeting revenue targets. Experience includes setting up operational subsidiaries of multi-national companies in Europe & Asia. Focused on leading teams to success through employee empowerment that is interlinked with Organizational Vision, and Extreme Customer Satisfaction. After working as a Venture Capitalist in Unitus Seed Fund and Anthill Ventures, Gogula is currently with Stanley Black & Decker, scouting the globe for smart startups & sourcing emerging technologies to accelerate corporate innovation within business units. Before taking on this role, he was instrumental in building a Solar Agricultural Platform that had the potential to impact the lives of over 500 million farmers in India. As a producer of World Music collaborated with musicians in New Orleans and San Francisco to record numerous albums. Performed at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. His first music album reached the top of the charts on MTV, Channel V and other major music channels in India. Composed music for twenty-five films.With an M.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute Of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, Gogula also has an M.S in Computer Science from Louisiana State University (LSU), Baton Rouge. He lives with his wife & daughter in Hyderabad, India

Ramana Gogula's Current Company Details
Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.

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Vice President, Technology Innovation at Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.
Ramana Gogula Work Experience Details
  • Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.
    Vice President, Corporate Innovation
    Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. Sep 2016 - Present
    New Britain, Ct, Us
    ACCELERATING CORPORATE INNOVATION• Source global startups & emerging technology companies that can accelerate internal innovation vision for product development• Work closely with engineering teams within business units to identify technology and bring in innovations that can go beyond the requirement• Build partnerships that can leverage our brand and integrate their technology to quickly generate revenueCLEAN TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION• Created a strategy to leverage Stanley Black & Decker’s core technology competencies to build a Clean Energy Agricultural Platform to enhance the livelihoods of millions of farmers in India• Managed cross-functional teams in India & USA to build a Smart Solar Pump [NADI] in 18 months. With embedded IOT/Sensors & AI building blocks, NADI communicates with farmers over the cloud, internet & mobile networks, to effectively manage water resources • Responsible for the P&L for generating a profitable business in India• Designed a digital marketing strategy that enabled us to effectively communicate with stakeholders like FPO(s), NGO(s), the government and farmers across India
  • Anthill Ventures
    Venture Partner
    Anthill Ventures Aug 2016 - Present
    Hyderabad, Telangana, In
    • Building a brand for Anthill and assisting in all of its marketing and outbound activities• Corporate Innovation division to build innovation bridges between Corporations looking at futuristic initiatives, and, StartUps seeking "Speed Scaling" interventions• Work with our Pre-Series A Portfolio Companies with targeted Speed Scaling interventions that enable them to successfully transition to Series A
  • Earthen Glow
    Ceo/Founder
    Earthen Glow Jun 2009 - Present
    Earthen Glow is a Clean Technology Start-Up that focuses on building robust & scalable OFFGRID Lighting Solutions to enable rural households to gradually decrease their dependency on kerosene,and, move up the “lighting escalator” from a single light to a complete home lighting system as their quality of life improves with increased lighting in their lives. The lighting architecture integrates Solar Energy & LEDs with robust proprietary micro-processor based technology, to facilitate sustainable bright lighting after sunset. The Corporate vision is to alleviate light poverty for a million people by 2018.• Responsible for developing a global strategy for OFFGRID Solar/LED Lighting Solutions for the 1.2 Billion people living in “Darkness After Sunset”, in India, Africa and other parts of SE Asia• Successfully developed & deployed OFFGRID Solar/LED Home Lighting Systems & Street Lights in villages in Manipur & Andhra Pradesh• Role includes putting together an executive team for the mission critical business units, forging international alliances, development of a cohesive marketing strategy, sales channels and raising venture capital for driving the product to market
  • Unitus Seed Fund
    Investing & Operating Team, Incubator Acceleration Program
    Unitus Seed Fund Nov 2014 - Aug 2016
    Bangalore, Karnataka, In
    • Responsible for building a partnership platform called “Speed2Seed” where top-tier incubators and accelerators across India collaborate with Unitus Seed Fund to develop a framework for creating venture invest(able) StartUps.• Developing strategies for capacity building, implementing world-wide best practices and creating relevant mentor networks • Besides building the incubator and accelerator relationships, also focused on scouting for innovative start-ups from the Andhra Pradesh & Telangana State region• Building strategic relations with Governments to advise on developing and scaling entrepreneurial ecosystems• Reaching out to entrepreneurs and StartUps that build innovative technologies that impact large under-served rural and urban populations
  • Sabbatical
    Strategy Consultant | Film Music Composer [Tollywood] | Research On Lighting In Offgrid Terrains
    Sabbatical Jun 2004 - Jun 2008
    Za
    A much needed sabbatical necessary to replenish the soul, and delve into working on other facets of the being that needed attention. Music, teaching, composing, reading, travelling, researching, film making and business consulting formed the concoction of this time-off mix!• Travelled to over 50 villages across South India to study lighting needs and usage patterns of kerosene lamps in OFFGRID terrains. Earthen Glow emerged on the basis of these travels and intense research.• Built sales strategies for organizations like KENEXA [AN IBM COMPANY] to launch their HR product line into the Indian space. Strategies included product positioning, developing sales pitches, building strategic alliances and competitive analysis• Composed music for 25 films in Tollywood [SOUTH INDIAN CINEMA]• Developed a programs for high school children to the experience the joy of singing. The children were taught voice techniques bundled with confidence building exercises that motivate them to build internal strength.
  • Liqwid Krystal
    Ceo | Founder
    Liqwid Krystal Jun 2000 - Nov 2002
    Bangalore, Karnataka, In
    Liqwid Krystal was an eLearning Company that focused on enhancing the knowledge acquisition experience of students and software professionals. The goal was to create an online learning environment that integrated books, authors, learning institutions and software organizations on a singular platform.• Responsible for developing a vision & mission of an eLearning product line that made learning easier for software programmers of multiple programming languages• Built strategic alliances with large multinational IT book publishers like Addison Wesley and Pearson to integrate their books with Liqwid Krystal’s eLearning environment• Built Marketing, Sales & Development teams that drove the product line to market
  • Sybase [South East Asia]
    Managing Director
    Sybase [South East Asia] Jan 1997 - Dec 1999
    • Responsible establishing a Indian subsidiary that served as the sales, support & marketing hub for Sybase’s South East Asian efforts• Successfully transitioned the organization from a sole distributor model to an independent sales organization driven by Sybase• Built new networks of channel partners that scaled the deployment of products and services into the market• Responsible for all regional marketing and branding programs for Sybase• Identified trusted distributor networks in South-East Asia and expanded product reach in the vicinity
  • Sybase [South East Asia]
    Director Marketing, Internet Division
    Sybase [South East Asia] Jan 1996 - Dec 1996
    • Responsible for building the strategy for a product line that focused on databases that handled micro transactions for online sales
  • Sybase [South East Asia]
    Manager, Design Partner Program
    Sybase [South East Asia] Jun 1993 - Dec 1995
    • Developed a unique customer centric program that involved strategic customers to be part product design & development• Successfully recruited 15 strategic design partners to be part of the program
  • Ide
    Major Accounts Manager | International Sales
    Ide Sep 1988 - May 1993
    • Supported International & Major Accounts Sales teams with pre/post sales support• Responsible for all major account sales for the Organization• Resolved customer issues, and worked closely with development to ensure key product enhancement recommendations were pushed to higher priority• Set up an operations subsidiary of the Company in Munich, Germany • Responsible for coordinating International sales through distributors in South America and Europe

Ramana Gogula Skills

Start Ups Entrepreneurship Management Business Strategy Strategy Business Development Sales Product Management Management Consulting Leadership Consulting Marketing Saas Project Management Composition Strategic Partnerships Social Entrepreneurship Sound Design Integration Music Product Marketing Strategic Planning Program Management Marketing Strategy Film Sustainable Development Product Development New Business Development

Ramana Gogula Education Details

  • Louisiana State University
    Louisiana State University
    Computer Science
  • Indian Institute Of Technology, Kharagpur
    Indian Institute Of Technology, Kharagpur
    Alternative Energy/Mechanical Engg
  • Andhra University
    Andhra University
    Mechanical Engineering
  • Timpany Schools
    Timpany Schools
    High School

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