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Dubai, Ae

Pune Area, India

Founder at Le Monturé Strategy, a boutique innovation & strategy consulting firm that works with businesses & accelerators at the confluence of domain expertise, consumer insights & strategic foresight. Key consulting services:1 | Foresight Strategy: Conduct horizon scanning and trend analysis to identify emerging opportunities and threats to develop future scenarios and strategic roadmaps to navigate potential outcomes and risks.2 | Experience Thinking (EX): Craft strategies to augment new products/services through consumer insights and emergent trends 3 | Humanising Business (Design Thinking): Create a winning value proposition that is aligned with emerging consumer needs through a Human-centered design approachDomains: Healthcare | BFSI | Fintech | Edutech | Technology | Startup | Retail | Social ImpactSome of the work which we undertake includes:- Developing a product-market fit and new business model discovery- Scenario planning: Leveraging trends for business impact- Identify and develop innovation roadmaps to include the creation of strategic assets & operating models- Innovation capability building

Pune, Maharashtra, India

Key areas of work:- Built and implement innovation frameworks that combine foresight analysis with business design principles to identify and commercialize novel opportunities.- Leveraging a human-centred design approach to co-create solutions with clients, ensuring customer needs are at the forefront of innovation strategies.- Value-driven innovation using GenAI and collaborative tools- Identify and explore new business opportunities, leveraging innovative technologies and emerging trends.- Designing innovation culture and capability programs to equip organisations for the future- Innovation & business strategy curriculum design & implementation for academiaDo drop in a line to learn more about how we can collaborate.

Pune, Maharashtra, India

Teaching "Doing Business in India" to students enrolled in the MBA program. The key modules include:- The nuances of the Indian demographic and cultural landscape- Key sectors overview - The economic integration of India- India's changing shape of consumption- The variables at play while designing a business in India- Overview of policies and regulationsand much more.

Pune, Maharashtra, India

Key capabilities and deliverables:- Built and implement innovation frameworks that combine foresight analysis with business design principles to identify and commercialize novel opportunities.- Lead workshops and presentations to share insights and engage stakeholders in strategic conversations.- Value-driven innovation using GenAI and collaborative tools- Designing innovation culture and capability workshops to equip organisations for the future

120+ startups | 8 countries | 300+ hours of 1-on-1 strategy sessions | 50+ hours of group sessions and counting Work spans 2 key programs: India Market Discovery for German startups and India-EU Innocenter for startups from the larger European Union. The startups span domains but intersect at the confluence of technology, artificial intelligence and machine learning.There are 3 key areas that I focus on that help them decode the 'essence of doing business in India' approach leading to an India-specific value proposition. 1) Understanding the Indian user/consumer mindset2) Identifying variables & and influences at play which define the contours of an India-centric business model3) Leveraging the macro trends (India + Global) to localize the value proposition

Pune, Maharashtra, India

Engaged in the capacity of an industry mentor as part of their Board of Studies which is responsible for crafting a curriculum for the undergraduate program with a focus on entrepreneurship development. Also, undertake guest lectures for the undergraduate program. The topics span go-market strategy, pricing, idea generation/validation, etc.

Pune Area, India

I led the Research & Strategy, along with client engagement (Google, Samsung, BPCL, Mahindra Group, Aditya Birla Group, Business Finland,) at Turian Labs. Key responsibilities include:- Leading multiple projects, right from getting involved in conceptual discussions & help structure the project - Own client relationships & give broad directions for the team during the course of the project- Structure complex, ambiguous information to identify business challenges and map areas of opportunity- Mentoring & guiding teammates on projects Projects which I led, involved:- Conducting foundational studies to understand the domain/mapping opportunities - Strategy consulting engagements, which revolve around finding opportunities to grow user engagement, identifying product-market fit, optimizing pricing and monetisation for new products, determining the ideal customer experience (CX), etc. - Futures Thinking projects are focused on helping clients navigate the near, medium & long term (future) uncertainties through a combination of Megatrends + Kedging techniquesDomains worked for: Healthcare | Edutech | Fintech | Automobile | Energy | Retail | Technology | Startups (Incubators & Accelerators) | Industrial | Government | ConglomeratesOther responsibilities:- Facilitating Design Thinking, Innovation & Trends workshops- Managing operational efficiency at the organization level- Leading bid management

Pune Area, India

Quick Startup is a Consulting, Advisory & Technology firm which facilitates development of the start-up ecosystem.Often the hardest part of starting a startup is getting things off the ground. At Quick Startup, we facilitate startups with validating an idea, designing business model & strategies, providing technology framework, financial planning & budgeting, managing investor relations and other aspects of building & scaling businesses.Our Startup toolkit equips founders & startup enthusiasts to tackle challenges & obstacles in their entrepreneurial journeys.

Pune Area, India

Virtua Research, a fintech company is a leading innovator of investment research tools and services for public companies. It offers targeted financial applications focused on a firm's internal and external communication needs. • Responsible for managing two most important aspects on which our firm was benchmarked viz., turnaround time and accuracy of the estimates published of publicly listed companies across the developed, developing and frontier markets - ~1000 companies | 25 analysts. • Signed up a global steel producer as one of our first two clients in the Indian markets as part of the new business initiatives in the Indian markets.• Setup and managed an offsite equity research project for a listed broking firm based in India. This was a test case and was a part of the new business initiative.

Pune Area, India

It is a professionally managed financial services firm involved in offering quality financial advice. Services include wealth management, financial planning, retirement solutions, insurance solutions & mutual fund advisory.• Identifying investment opportunities with a focus on long term wealth creation• Identified 2 value investing opportunities in the midcap IT space through primary research, which turned out to be multi-bagger stories.

Mumbai Area, India

A boutique investment banking and a corporate advisory firm involved in identifying growth stories across the listed and unlisted space. The firm specializes in private equity, debt funding, capital raising, restructuring and strategic M & A activity. • Identifying investment opportunities in the small cap and mid cap space based on benchmarks setup by the firm. This was followed by a meet with the management to understand the prospects, following up with a research report which facilitated in the decision making process.

Pune Area, India

Involved in managing the backend operations for a UK based Life Insurance & Pensions Company. The process is into administration of pension funds, investment products which includes processing of applications, servicing of funds to include claims & surrender processing, etc.Other supervisory responsibilities in line with company policies and applicable lawsKey activities:- Successfully completed a remote migration of 4 FTE’s.- Trained on the DMO methodology.

Mumbai Area, India

Involved in managing the back office process for a UK based Life Insurance & Pensions Company. The process is into administration of pension funds which includes processing of the dividend and tax vouchers received from custodians or investment managers and reconciling the assets and providing portfolio valuations on a periodic basis.Key activities:- Completed 2 successful migrations of 25 FTEs each. This included travelling onsite and working alongside the onshore team.

Pune Area, India

Handling a team of 15 - 20 case handlers who were involved in providing back office support for a leading UK based Life Insurance & Pensions Company. The processes included underwriting, processing new business applications and coordinating with IFAs back in UK.Driving continuous improvement within the team and process through actively identifying such opportunities through Kaizen and Six Sigma initiatives.Other activities:- Involved in preparing the process to be certified under the UK Data Protection Act & COPC- Have worked as a yellow belt resource in a Six Sigma project - Independently worked on Lean Six Sigma projects

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