Akash Talwar Email & Phone Number

Toronto, On, Ca

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Managing the end-to-end success of web products by spearheading technical requirements, product roadmaps, process optimizations, and new product features in an effort to attract new and returning users to drive revenue goals

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Led product feature expansion and business strategy at Paragon One (rebranded to Extern), a Y Combinator EdTech startup, providing remote externship experiences to University students. Also, I participated in an externship opportunity (facilitated by Paragon One) at Zillow. Supported the Zillow Rentals team in assessing the market viability of entering new (alternative) property segments by conducting user interviews to gauge underserved customer needs.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Selected to be on an elite group of 20 Schulich MBA Students (<5%) assigned to work with the startup CEOs/founders on a series of special strategic projects in the areas of product/market research, competitive intelligence, business case development encompassing financial modeling and growth strategy.Managed strategic direction of AdvisorStream by identifying new market and vertical opportunities for its marketing automation platform. Conducted feature gap analysis, created user personas and developed product roadmap

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Worked as a Point of Contact within the Operations Team for conducting business research, developing, and integrating data with CRM.Strategic research: Pioneered an organization-wide dashboard providing a comprehensive data repository of US-based law firmsProcess optimization: Integrated research and data dashboard with OnePlace (CRM) to facilitate McMillan’s business development for US-based co-GTM outreach

Gurugram, Haryana, India

Managed a team of business analysts in leading various product-based consulting engagements for big tech clients.Product launch: Led developers on a client’s logistics product launch in Australia, basing product features on market gaps and prioritizing them based on the release schedule. Devised product roadmap impacting A$250K investmentsCustomer needs analysis: Maximized market penetration for a media-tech product by conducting user interviews and surveys to evaluate their need & adoption likelihood. Insights increased product sales by 20% in the follow-up quarterProduct analysis: Forecasted product performance for a client based on past sales using data models. Analyzed feature effectiveness and prioritized workable backlogs and devised road map allocating ~$100K into feature expansion

Gurugram, Haryana, India

Product repositioning: Led GTM strategy for Siemens NX to increase market share via user interviews, resulting in a ~30% product sales increase. Additionally, supported dev team in planning sprint cycle by creating user storiesPartner strategy: Optimized the global cloud channel partner strategy for Microsoft’s HiPo program by identifying profitable partners based on analytic hierarchy process modeling impacting their >$10 M partner investments Product benchmarking: Analyzed product competencies of 20 tech providers based on RFIs and C-level interviews. Developed market report that established Zinnov’s thought leadership and contributed ~$500k to the revenueProduct Design: Created product wireframe for clients assessing AI to simplify claim workflow by analyzing user journey maps. Defined product feature requirements and value of MVP for the development team within JIRA

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Positions held: Vice President of Public Relations for Schulich Toastmasters and Director of Technology for Business Technology Management.

Bachelor Of Technology - Btech, Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: English Literary and Debate Club, Alumni Association, Organised Alumni Talks 2013-2014, Compering Committee.