Spanedea was founded in 2011 by Nitin Bansal, Rajat Sharma and myself - 3 batchmates from IIM Bangalore 1998. Spanedea’s vision is to make high quality, teacher led, interactive, student-centric learning accessible to students across the world, real time. Spanedea was founded on two core beliefs. Firstly, that for non-formal education, one-to-one coaching or a small class group coaching (3-4 students in a class) in customized form is the best way to learn and prepare. Secondly, it… Show more Spanedea was founded in 2011 by Nitin Bansal, Rajat Sharma and myself - 3 batchmates from IIM Bangalore 1998. Spanedea’s vision is to make high quality, teacher led, interactive, student-centric learning accessible to students across the world, real time. Spanedea was founded on two core beliefs. Firstly, that for non-formal education, one-to-one coaching or a small class group coaching (3-4 students in a class) in customized form is the best way to learn and prepare. Secondly, it believes that best tutors are essentially entrepreneurs who want the freedom to teach as per their methods and students’ learning style - they love the responsibility of being a mentor to their students. Show less

Responsible for complete relationship management with very large banking and insurance enterprises - covering sales, partner/SI management, and overall account presence. Successfully established account presence through strategic deals.

Program managed Insurance Solutions, with responsibility for solution management - including development, solution led delivery and enabling solution sales. Built key solution elements including prototypes that enabled sales.Earlier, as marketing anchor for a large IBU, managed budgeting and strategizing for marketing and PR plan and also program managed execution including campaigns, events, webinars, analyst interactions. Led a key thought leadership initiative to establish 'trusted… Show more Program managed Insurance Solutions, with responsibility for solution management - including development, solution led delivery and enabling solution sales. Built key solution elements including prototypes that enabled sales.Earlier, as marketing anchor for a large IBU, managed budgeting and strategizing for marketing and PR plan and also program managed execution including campaigns, events, webinars, analyst interactions. Led a key thought leadership initiative to establish 'trusted advisor' credentials. Show less

Based at Redmond, responsible for sell -through and sell-to business in application development and engineering services leveraging the worldwide Microsoft alliance. Also mandated to lead business development through leveraging alliance and relationship management with ISV ecosystem. This includes aligning business development strategy with principal's GTMs, driving alliance based joint sales and marketing engagements as well as direct ownership of (and program management at) strategic… Show more Based at Redmond, responsible for sell -through and sell-to business in application development and engineering services leveraging the worldwide Microsoft alliance. Also mandated to lead business development through leveraging alliance and relationship management with ISV ecosystem. This includes aligning business development strategy with principal's GTMs, driving alliance based joint sales and marketing engagements as well as direct ownership of (and program management at) strategic accounts. Also involved in marketing - solution positioning and communication, campaigns and event management. Show less

Responsible for business development through Internet alliances covering ecommerce, co-branded sites, registered user acquisition, click throughs. Also managed securing 'suppliers' for Internet commerce fulfillment - Chaitime was a pioneer in the 'gift-into-India' ecommerce strategy. Project managed IT application development.

Was involved in launch strategy for retail banking launch initiative, including on banking and capital market applications. Designed execution processes for services/products, built functional requirements for applications, evaluated packages against business requirements matrices, For new applications carried out functional testing and user training. Also managed relationship with vendors.