Ankur Sharma Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Il, Us

Gurugram, Haryana, In

Chicago, Il, Us

Propelled the organization's growth trajectory by building the Mode Earn Club & EarnPhone products, creating a future-proof strategy through recurring subscription business models, resulting in significant market penetration and growth, establishing the company as a major player in the industry.Successfully recruited & led high-performing functional teams of VPs, directors & product managers, delivering exceptional results.Revolutionized the company's product management approach to goal-setting by successfully establishing company, department & individual OKRs and holding the Senior Leadership Team accountable by leading SLT meetings, resulting in an extremely focused, aligned, and measurable goal-setting process across the organization, driving growth and empowering the organization to achieve scale with speed and efficiency.Championed a culture of transparency, alignment, and accountability across the organization by leading weekly All Hands Standups of over 100 team members for 3yrs, empowering them to stay on track and consistently deliver outstanding results.Expanded top-line by 3x by sourcing, evaluating, and executing technology M&A deals and integrating the solution as well as teams in record time.Implemented AI/ML solutions for targeted marketing, customer support and personalized recommendations of affiliate deals and offers to drive ad revenue and streamline operational costs, resulting in $150M+ earnings & savings for 1M+ DAU.

Delhi, Delhi, In

Built a hugely successful SaaS platform for Compliance-as-a-Service for Indian tax, accounting & practice management market; recognized by the GoI as largest e-return intermediary platform for 3 consecutive years.Extended the platform to incorporate SME tax and accounting services, as well as practice management Compliance-as-a-Service for CAs, with integrated ERP and CRM modules, resulting in higher ARPU and retention rates. Solution selected by GoI as preferred platform for GST return filing (other selected platforms include PWC, Intuit, Tally).Developed a robust digital finance ecosystem in alliance with India's largest banks (Citibank, SBI), payroll companies (Aon, Randstad) and ERP platform providers (SAP) to develop integrated platform services to customers. Developed cloud platform products jointly with Big4 consulting firm (KPMG) and telco (Vodafone).Built the platform on micro-service architecture with DevOps on AWS and Azure. Built a robust analytics platform on Spark & Hbase. Launched a data monetization platform to deliver Big Data Analytics-based Tax Optimizer service to customers. Initiated blockchain and AI integration in core transaction platform.Worked with the top VCs to jointly develop fintech marketplace business plan and valuation negotiations; Conducted M&A negotiations with senior management teams of very large US fintech companies.Work closely with the CXOs of large Indian and Global companies to define business and fintech ecosystem strategy. Very well connected with startup ecosystem in India, regularly engage with founders of cutting-edge tech companies. Direct relations with VCs in India and US.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Public sector CXO consulting of large scale IT projects in Government and Education verticals, including Panchayati Raj, Computerization of Govt. schools, and, Government Aided PC Purchase (GAPP) programs in India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and PakistanLed the product conceptualization, including business models, for SME and Education verticals for Intel’s channel market in emerging economies. Built the technology solution along with large ecosystem – hardware, operating system, middleware, applications from several vendors, and support and services.Executed Intel’s platform leadership strategy, led $10M+ Design Wins on software solutions, along with Intel hardware.Responsibilities included IT systems delivery and management, technology evaluation, review of functional requirements, and development of partner ecosystem, solution deployment strategy and revenue tracking.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Zero-based budgeting and planning for a $1B+ business group. Managed technology & operations stakeholders to successfully lead B&P cycles. Led and contributed to various cost reduction and optimization initiatives in R&D and production. Managed planning and analytics processes including 5-yr strategic long-range plan, annual plan and weekly sales updates.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Developed distributed fault-tolerant high availability protocol layers for signaling software in C/C++, managed full software development lifecycle including CI/CD with 100% test coverage.Developed protocol software for 3G and VoIP networks and signaling and call processing protocol products in C and Unix.

Designed & coded ASN compiler for real-time operating system in C & Unix.Developed native relational database for call processing stack with OS level primitives for 99.999% availability.

Mba, Finance

Master Of Computer Applications - Mca, Computer Science