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The Fool is a strategic consulting and brand design firm working with marquee clients to demonstrate the power of design in catapulting the brand to greater heights. Vikas brings in-depth understanding of the branding process and manages the business development function at The Fool. He has several years of consulting and advertising experience and has worked on brands like ITC Foods, Kwality Walls, Tata Group, Apple Computers amongst others.

FFE (Foundation for Excellence) is a charitable trust that helps economically underprivileged and academically bright students in India become doctors and engineers. Bringing positive change for students, thereby empowering their families and communities in over 25 states across India.• Develop and execute Foundation’s annual fundraising plan seeking financial support from individuals, charitable foundations and corporations • Raised over USD 1 million from international agencies for… Show more FFE (Foundation for Excellence) is a charitable trust that helps economically underprivileged and academically bright students in India become doctors and engineers. Bringing positive change for students, thereby empowering their families and communities in over 25 states across India.• Develop and execute Foundation’s annual fundraising plan seeking financial support from individuals, charitable foundations and corporations • Raised over USD 1 million from international agencies for special projects • Focusing on a self-sustaining model for the trust to reduce dependence on external funding• Identify, develop, and mentor the development team Show less

Instrumental in driving the growth of Managed Services business for EMC in the sub-continent, almost doubling the business size and team size. Responsibilities included: • Driving sales - from enquiry to closure and delivery • Managing customer relationships • P&L responsibilities with a team size of 125+ • Responsible for BU profitability and margin• Annual planning and reporting at geo and corporate level

India centre hosts the largest global engineering operations of EMC worldwide. The role required collaboration and coordination across all internal functions, external partners, regional theatre and global headquarters. • Drive business operations and excellence across functions (operations, finance, HR, facilities, payroll, SBUs) to ensure alignment with strategic goals. • Detail out Operating Strategy for the fiscal year; drive scorecards and governance models for key initiatives… Show more India centre hosts the largest global engineering operations of EMC worldwide. The role required collaboration and coordination across all internal functions, external partners, regional theatre and global headquarters. • Drive business operations and excellence across functions (operations, finance, HR, facilities, payroll, SBUs) to ensure alignment with strategic goals. • Detail out Operating Strategy for the fiscal year; drive scorecards and governance models for key initiatives working closely with SBUs to ensure overall progress to annual plan • Selected to participate in the coveted 'Director Development Program'​ at EMC.• Received the 'Outstanding Performance Award' from Global CFO for successfully program managing EMC India’s largest business transition project.• Participate in strategic GTM discussions with partners and support the COE Partner Strategy. Show less

• Responsibility for business penetration and development of strategic client relationships.• Scoping and managing delivery of large projects for Fortune Customers in areas of Business Process Improvement, Internal Audits, SOX compliance, etc. with globally located teams. • Solution development in areas of Business Efficiency and outsourcing of key IT initiatives. • Proposed a methodology to integrate RFID with key enterprise systems.

• Involved in a project (through iGate) to Integrate IT Systems and processes for a new business acquired by GE in Germany. • Assessed and audited business readiness of the IT Systems for the corporate requirements. • Suggested and implemented remediations for gaps in the areas of Disaster Recovery, Problems and Incident tracking, Data Management, etc.

• Part of core team who set up the ODC (India operations) and reported to Board of Directors. • Clocked USD 1.7 million in 2004 for offshore sales in France, Germany, Scandinavia, UK, US. • Helped prospects in defining right outsourcing approach and business models with clear ROI.• Spear-headed the Offshore centric Sales & Marketing initiatives that involved coordination with UK, US and European geographies and accounts.

• Strategic Marketing Consulting, including business plan & sales strategy development for clients. Guided sale of integrated marketing communication programmes for clients across South India.• Provided services for Customer Relationship Programs, Product launch, market research, event, roadshows, advertising and product promotions (online and offline).• Won business from 5 new clients and secured repeat business from existing clients - Sundaram Mutual Funds, Enterasys Networks, Apple… Show more • Strategic Marketing Consulting, including business plan & sales strategy development for clients. Guided sale of integrated marketing communication programmes for clients across South India.• Provided services for Customer Relationship Programs, Product launch, market research, event, roadshows, advertising and product promotions (online and offline).• Won business from 5 new clients and secured repeat business from existing clients - Sundaram Mutual Funds, Enterasys Networks, Apple Computers, Chaitime.com, ITC, Walls (HLL) etc. Show less

• Steered market development across India for new manufacturing technology application. • Coordinated with engineering for product feasibility, prototype development and delivery. • Built and strengthened Key Institutional Accounts in the automobiles, fire-arms and other light engineering industry – MOD (Defence), Telco, TVS Group, Titan Watches, Godrej.

India's largest engineering and construction conglomerate (Annual turnover over Rs 100 billion). • Sale of industrial maintenance products through direct & indirect (dealer network) channels.• Appointing 2 new stockists and achieved best Regional Sales performance in 1995-96.• Established 2 new product applications for Indian Railways, with potential sales worth INR 100 million at the national level.