Shammi Raj Balla Email & Phone Number

Bengaluru, Ka, In

I work closely with Founders and CXO to creatively address challenges, craft compelling business cases, shape strategic roadmaps, and provide expert advisory services.

New Delhi, Delhi, India

Ministry of Culture, Government of India Policy | Future of Museums | Museum of Future

Goa

▪ Boot-strapped Sensistan: India’s first interactive Technology and Art Experience Night Museum in Goa. Established a creative technology laboratory / co-working space for research and development. in form of a Private Limited and a Foundation (section-8 Company): a hybrid social business. ▪ Built a core management team. Established a financial and legal structure. Set up processes for the operations. ▪ Managed partnerships with the local Government authorities, national and international galleries, museums, and embassies for intercultural artists’ exchange.▪ Curated 5 Residency programs in 2 years, developed curriculum, and facilitated in-house software research and development. ▪ Mentored and managed 100+ local and global artists. Curated 3 arts festivals, 4 exhibitions, 80+ workshops, events, and performances with local and global artists, artisans, and women entrepreneurs.▪ Created technology-aided creative learning programs for underprivileged children and students; international, cultural artistic exchange (incl. digital residencies)▪ Collaborated with 3 local schools, 1 vocational/training center, 2 NGO for vocational training in open-source: hardware integration and software skill development.

New York, United States

Interactive Art InstallationsDigital Projection Mapping

Cambodia

1st and 2nd Year Master :Courses covered: Financial Management, Profitability Analysis, Financial Analysis Risk ManagementClass size : 20 - 60 students per course▪ Designs the courses and created teaching material in conjunction with Lyon University, France.▪ Teaches conceptual framework on financial and valuation models of investments, evaluating risks, covering both theoretical background and practical implementation.▪ Develops the knowledge and skills as expected of a financial manager, to build an optimal risk-return portfolio on investments, both in public and private sectors.

Phnom Penh

started a strong 400+ volunteer run multi-disciplinary art community in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Organized several unique and under-ground arts and music festivals and events.

Austria

Co-founded an NGO based out of Austria in 2016 to provide stress relief and psycho-social education, especially through art and technology (magical interventions) at distress areas like refugee camps and slums. Through this NGO, we conducted various programs at refugee camps, under-privileged centers, and streets of India, Cambodia, Indonesia, and Bangladesh with a small team of 5 volunteers in collaboration with UNICEF, CODEC, MicroGalleries etc.

Cambodia

▪ Published a report for a client on Cambodia's primary education sector anomalies with respect to other Asian countries and the role public-private partnership will play in transforming the Cambodian education landscape▪ Presented a business strategy on short, mid, and long-term market scenarios and a feasible expansion roadmap.▪ Advised on financial management, raising capital options, and investment opportunities.▪ Partnered with Mekong Strategic Investment Firm to conduct a feasibility analysis and created a financial model for an equity partnership investment of 10M watt solar plant being currently built in Phnom Penh with a 70% debt + a subordinate debt and 30% equity financed by a venture capitalist, partners, and grants. ▪ Conducted the research on the solar production technologies, efficient build-up, and costs in the local market, and created a business plan and a financial analysis for business launch

Cambodia

▪ Lead and managed 10 member consultant team to build a roadmap, market, and business strategy.▪ Re/Designed and developed 3 new products packages to include new frameworks and methodology for data collection, analysis, reporting, and presentations for products: HR Audit, HR Audit-Compliance, and Employee Satisfaction, to be launched in April.▪ Introduced for the first time in HRINC an electronic (online/offline) data collection methodology to effectively conduct market research. Introduced new frameworks and methodologies for project proposals.▪ Introduced and designed questionnaires in cross-platform word-excel tools to eliminate the manual data entry reducing time from 18 days to 1 hour. Reengineered a 10-year-old methodology to implement algorithms for decision-making on job descriptions in turn to reduce 150 days of work.▪ Advised business unit COOs on an efficient and cost-effective target business operating model by identifying, evaluating, designing, and implementing strategic programs across cross-functional departments.

Took a sabbatical to travel and connect with technology artists in Americas, SE Asia, West Europe

New York

Managed a team (5 direct managers, 500 indirect) to support advisory, finance, and IT strategy departments for 13 SS locations around the globe.Business Development and Innovation Advisory▪ Advised business unit COOs on an efficient and cost-effective target business operating model after a detailed review of and screening proposals of new opportunities and conducting a quantitative feasibility analysis including but not limited to breakeven analysis, financials appraisals based on NPV, IRR, financial ratios etc.▪ Built business plans to evaluate the expansion into in new market regions, developed financial analysis and reports for the CXOs for decision-making.▪ Supported in quantitative modeling and strategic initiatives to improve and Profit and Loss (P&L)targets.▪ Introduced a position control methodology in 96 countries to help manage resource movements.▪ Recommendations led to setting up two new SS Centers in Latin America (Bogota) and Eastern Europe (Vilnius).Analytics, Financial Modeling, and Data Visualization▪ Designed and lead the development of a real-time web-based dashboard to monitor the full life cycle of shared service migration, including migration status and financial benefits.▪ Collaborated with AIG global tax team on tax implications and challenges to implement a unified tax model.▪ Implemented a system monitoring the performance of over 20,000 internal claims analysts, measuring projects' benefits of more than $150M.▪ Implemented ‘Transfer Pricing’ financial models for AIG Global Tax Team to avoid double taxation.Financial Planning, Budgeting, Forecasting▪ Analyzing operational and financial data to define and measure meaningful metrics that drove business decision-making.▪ Facilitate budgeting process and prepare the annual budgets. ▪ Delivered monthly reporting packages that included analyses of key business trends, and comprehensive financial reports.

Stamford, Ct

Consumer Insights, Brand Strategy, and Marketing▪ Presented to the executive management a demand and pricing analysis to launch a new product ‘Ryzolt’.▪ Delivered a quantitative and qualitative branding strategy for a successful launch of Ryzolt to achieve higher than expected prescriptions sales in the first 6 weeks of sales.▪ Developed new creative proposals, graphic layouts, and storyboards for sales representatives’ sales pitches to physicians and nurse practitioners.Bonus Incentive Planning, Analytics and Reporting▪ Lead research, discovery, and strategy development processes to uncover and define the audience insights that shape our clients’ digital programs.▪ Carried out analytics training programs for sales representatives to attain comprehensive understanding of market, competitors and personal performance.▪ Modeled the ‘Bonus and Incentive Plan’ for the sales force of 600 representatives and designed evaluation metrics.▪ Designed a big-data solution platform on Cognos BI to implement and roll out integral web-based applications providing on-demand executive-level analytics and insights, consequently creating end-user satisfaction and executive-level recognition.

New York City

Teaching – Corporate Finance and Advance Excel Financial Modeling• Assisted in teaching Advanced Corporate Finance, Financial Markets and Fixed Income Securities, Equity Research.• Taught Advanced MS Excel modeling for data and risk analysis for management students.Student Advisory and Graduate Admissions Operations• Managed student recruitment strategy and its underlying operations and liaised with global consulting companies overseas; promoted academic programs and administration in education fairs.• Lead a team of four to analyze quarterly revenue reports for graduate admissions and provided strategic planning, forecasting, and budgeting to improve business processes for the following academic years.

New Delhi Area, India

Market Analysis and Evaluation▪ Evaluated existing workflows of client operations to recommend, develop and integrate a system design with the product line from Atrenta▪ New product development and subsequent process integration into the existing product line.▪ Presented pre-sales and post-sales demos and delivered hands-on training to corporate customers such as TI, Intel,Sony, HP, Toshiba, and Cypress.▪ Closely involved in closing 8 licenses worth $15M with Texas Instruments, Sony, and Intel. Software Development▪ One of 6 members in the software development team for embedded system software tool in C and C ++ onLinux/Hp/Solaris/Windows platform.▪ Initiated, designed, developed, with 11 other team-mates, a new product for SystemC users.▪ Released final code build, package & release of the product, model and run use cases, automatic testing, manual testing, regression, and patch-ups.▪ Developed plug-in in Visual Studio IDE on windows with QT framework from Trolltech, and integrated with visualstudio environment to invoke 1Team Embedded and 1Team System internally.▪ Created business requirements documents, uses cases, and test documents for new modules and system integration.

New Delhi Area, India

Masters, Financial Engineering

Bachelors, Eee (Hons)