Vinay Pushpakaran Email & Phone Number

Chennai, Tn, In

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Chennai Area, India

Future Impact Learning is a co-founded passion project to provide high-quality training and coaching solutions for children and adults in the domain of communication and public speaking. We started off by conducting entrepreneurship modules and interview training sessions in B-schools. But later streamlined our business to be a focused provider of training and coaching services.We are pioneers in creating a first-of-its-kind annual public speaking program that was integrated with the school's academic calendar. Our mission was to reach students in the smallest towns and cities and to do that, I led a team of student interns and public speaking enthusiasts to curate age-appropriate content and engaging delivery methods for children.My marketing experience enabled us to establish strategic collaborations to reach children in 14 cities across 4 countries. We launched and established hugely successful brands like Young Orator, Talking Titans and MUNCafe Club in both offline and online formats.In 2018, I launched my full-fledged Business Coaching in Marketing for Solopreneurs and Startups. Today, I divide my time between mentoring my young team of interns and managing my coaching business.

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Joined the newly formed packaged foods company under the TGI Group of companies, as Consultant - Product Head, and played a key role in conceptualizing the entire culinary range of products under brand TERRA.Spearheaded the product development cycle of each product in the TERRA range - tomato paste, rice, spices and seasoning, mayonnaise and instant foods. Managed the category in terms of product offering, packaging, pricing and market penetration for Nigeria.Established long-term sourcing strategies for the products with a special focus on exclusivity, optimal capacity, investment, geographical focus and marginal costing.Also, coordinated with agencies for creatives and digital marketing initiatives, outsourced from India.

Chennai Area, India

After marketing alcoholic beverages in Western India, I moved to a Product Manager role where I was handling milk and other dairy products for Western Africa! (talk about poetic justice)As the Category Manager for Dairy Products, I handled product development, sourcing strategy, and marketing blueprint for the brands 'Jago', 'Jago Fresh' and 'Pomo' in West and Central Africa. Marketing in Africa and product development in countries like Peru, Malaysia, Germany and New Zealand were paradigm-shifting experiences. My expertise is embedded in the stories and experiences that I have gathered over the years of travel and learning across the 7 countries where I spent considerable time in my career. In fact, when I had started off as a fresh-out-of-Bschool marketing professional, sales often seemed like a tug of war, where price was the rope! But while doing a consumer research survey in a small village in West Africa, a simple homemaker taught me the essence of selling in the fewest words. "Real selling is not a fight. It is a meaningful journey that starts with understanding your customer and culminates with the happy customer becoming a raving fan." There are amazing things to be learnt all around us - if we pause and notice.

Mumbai Area, India

My induction into the corporate world was in high spirits! Starting off in sales, I worked in markets across the country, before making the transition to marketing in Mumbai. I handled a portfolio of premium and non-premium brands, with a special focus on launching new brands and concepts in the market. I spearheaded the re-launch of Romanov vodka in its new avatar in the Goa market, which was followed by being part of the core team that launched the first of its kind diet whisky, McDowell's No.1 Diet Mate. The proverbial icing was being chosen to be an integral part of the team that introduced Bagpiper Bindaas - the first whisky in Tetra Pak in the world. Brand rejuvenation, Regional marketing strategy, Communicating brand DNA and trial generation were some of my key deliverables in my stint with United Spirits (UB Group Spirits Division).

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Marketing/Marketing Management, General

Activities and Societies: Coordinator - Alumni Core Committee

Bachelor'S Degree, Electrical And Electronics Engineering

Activities and Societies: 1) Executive Council Member, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers [IEEE, GEC Thrissur Student.

Senior Secondary School, Cbse

Education record