Saswata Shankar De Email & Phone Number

Singapore

India

New Delhi Area, India

Responsible for driving revenue goals (sales + customer success) and visualizing the product road map for product + engineering teams for the SquadIQ product (now SquadStack). Leading a team of 80+ members. Achieved 30x MRR growth in 36 months - since taking over a 3 member 'early beta' team in mid 2017 - in a completely bootstrapped fashion (net profitable in 16 months). Retained accounts from major Indian consumer houses for 3+ years (and continuing), while building core product… Show more Responsible for driving revenue goals (sales + customer success) and visualizing the product road map for product + engineering teams for the SquadIQ product (now SquadStack). Leading a team of 80+ members. Achieved 30x MRR growth in 36 months - since taking over a 3 member 'early beta' team in mid 2017 - in a completely bootstrapped fashion (net profitable in 16 months). Retained accounts from major Indian consumer houses for 3+ years (and continuing), while building core product features that rapidly established us as the go-to player in the segment, all leading to an extremely high NPS and powerful word of mouth. Lent support to our US foray (Auctm, acquired) for 6 months (launch period) as the customer success lead.Drove the strategy to deliver >2x recurring revenue growth during peak COVID months, eventually growing to $6M+ ARR and successful Series B. Personally secured multi-year longterm contracts with top consumer businesses like TATA Cliq, ZestMoney, UpStox (RKSV Securities) etc, worth ~$2Mn+ in annual recurring revenue (as of Jan 2020). Show less

Noida Area, India

Was directly responsible for building Squad's decentralized contractor networks in Kenya, Uganda and Malaysia, apart from India - our home base. At Squad, we are building a workflow automation platform that combines cognition (humans) and automation (AI). Squad’s AI-powered enterprise SaaS platform provides all of the tools an operations team needs to automate their business processes. Squad uses Smart Workflow Design & Management, Human-in-the-Loop Machine learning and a… Show more Was directly responsible for building Squad's decentralized contractor networks in Kenya, Uganda and Malaysia, apart from India - our home base. At Squad, we are building a workflow automation platform that combines cognition (humans) and automation (AI). Squad’s AI-powered enterprise SaaS platform provides all of the tools an operations team needs to automate their business processes. Squad uses Smart Workflow Design & Management, Human-in-the-Loop Machine learning and a proprietary high quality distributed workforce to optimize processes. Show less

Hyderabad Area, India

The First Meal is an early-stage food start up focusing on the 'breakfast' space. We understand breakfast as a 'health product' and are working to deliver affordable solutions to B2B and B2C consumers alike, while promoting the need to have a healthy breakfast daily! We are also one of the pioneers of the 'subscription model' in Indian online food commerce.Bootstrapped to 200+ unique monthly active subscriptions and repeat bulk orders from corporate houses like Deloitte, Invesco, Cykul… Show more The First Meal is an early-stage food start up focusing on the 'breakfast' space. We understand breakfast as a 'health product' and are working to deliver affordable solutions to B2B and B2C consumers alike, while promoting the need to have a healthy breakfast daily! We are also one of the pioneers of the 'subscription model' in Indian online food commerce.Bootstrapped to 200+ unique monthly active subscriptions and repeat bulk orders from corporate houses like Deloitte, Invesco, Cykul Sports etc. with max capacity of 800 servings per event. On the supply side: partnered with 4 restaurants and operated a delivery team of 20+ people.Update: The First Meal was acquired in a mid $ 6-figures deal by Sri Capital led Hello Curry - a Hyderabad based food tech major - in early 2016. Show less

Hyderabad Area, India

I joined the management cadre at Blue Star - India's #1 commercial HVAC company - as a GET in 2012. From a fairly early point of my tenure, I was the Lead for Electrical Procurement in AP & Telengana - and have experience handling purchases upwards 10 Cr. INR annually (direct + indirect sourcing) focused on the Electro-Mechanical Projects Group. I also contributed heavily to regional vendor development, materials management and logistics functions; and championed process adherence for my team -… Show more I joined the management cadre at Blue Star - India's #1 commercial HVAC company - as a GET in 2012. From a fairly early point of my tenure, I was the Lead for Electrical Procurement in AP & Telengana - and have experience handling purchases upwards 10 Cr. INR annually (direct + indirect sourcing) focused on the Electro-Mechanical Projects Group. I also contributed heavily to regional vendor development, materials management and logistics functions; and championed process adherence for my team - RFP, RFQ and Reverse Auctions - through online platforms like Ariba and SAP.Was awarded as the best GET, 2012 and received promotions in successive cycles (Sr. Exec 2013, Asst. Manager 2014). Show less

Delhi

Regular contributor, and also served as Senior Editor. Was a member of the Core Team that was at the heart of all that's NTMN, and won 2 global awards as a part of the same. News That Matters Not (NTMN) is an online news satire and parody website. NTMN has won 2 prestigious awards - Winner, 8th Annual Manthan South Asia Awards (New Delhi, Dec 2011)for best e-content practices (e-news and media) and Runner-up, World Summit Youth Award (Montreal, Oct 2012) for best e-content ("Pursue… Show more Regular contributor, and also served as Senior Editor. Was a member of the Core Team that was at the heart of all that's NTMN, and won 2 global awards as a part of the same. News That Matters Not (NTMN) is an online news satire and parody website. NTMN has won 2 prestigious awards - Winner, 8th Annual Manthan South Asia Awards (New Delhi, Dec 2011)for best e-content practices (e-news and media) and Runner-up, World Summit Youth Award (Montreal, Oct 2012) for best e-content ("Pursue Truth" category).http://newsthatmattersnot.com/team-ntmnhttp://newsthatmattersnot.com/author/saswata-de Show less

Vellore

Vitian’s Sharing Hands in Interest of National Development is a Not-for-Profit initiative by the VIT Alum Association involving VIT’s top management, alumni and some students in an effort to contribute positively to society.Was directly involved in the IT Development Team for the initiative, where I co-ordinated all activities of V-SHINE on the web.

Vellore & Kolkata

ngoFuel is a non-profit facilitating technology usage to other non-profit organizations either free or at minimal costngoFuel is the first technical non-profit organization in the social sector of India, awarded by NEN among others. Currently I function as a trustee, and an adviser to the team