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Delhi, India

Developing Authored Articles, Event Panelist Talking Points, Case Stories, Video Scripts, Newsletters, Press Releases, Website Content, Donor Reports, and Social Media Campaigns; hosting hybrid events and facilitating quarterly board meetings; participating in planning and budgeting for entrepreneurship development programme communications campaigns.

Delhi, India

As Chief Customer Officer at StrategINK Solutions Pvt. Ltd., a boutique, research, content, events and digital marketing agency based out of Delhi NCR, I lead Audience Marketing, Content Development, and User Experience programmes. Key Responsibilities1) Manage large-format online events.2) Develop write-ups/articles, doodle animation scripts for webinars and content platforms.3) Develop creative offerings for digital content and online marketing programmes.4) Maintain operational excellence for StrategINK conferences, webinars, and lead-gen campaigns.5) Publish topical blogs and book reviews for the CXO audience.6) Undertake interpersonal communication/teamwork training interventions, when required.7) Coach young executives in marketing, content development and seamless project management.

Delhi, India

New Delhi Area, India

Advise clients on understanding key audience profiles of business, information technology, trade & industry, digital and social media. Help to craft and deliver impactful messages, to convey compelling brand stories that improve recall and engagement.

New Delhi Area, India

Advocacy and CSR Communications Consultant with Comdesign Solutions (project-based engagements) – CSR impact assessment reports for public sector clients like Hindustan Copper Ltd. and Project Report on Water Conservation for Mewar University (Rajasthan) in July 2019.

New Delhi Area, India

Conceptualising, developing, and pitching Indian Mobile Phone industry concerns and viewpoints to leading Business, Telecommunications, and IT media publications; setting up one-on-one meetings resulting in a write-up (contributory article) or Q&A (interview). Helped TMA to host their launch event aimed at the India Telecommunications and Mobile Device sector with wide publicity in June 2018.

Delhi Area, India

Writing and editing policy analyses and recommendation pieces on the India ESDM (Electronics System Design and Manufacturing) sector, for a level playing field, to enable indigenous sourcing of components and higher value-addition in local manufacturing. Successfully hosted the 50th Anniversary Commemoration Summit for ELCINA in September 2017 with a good turnout of speakers and extensive media coverage.

Delhi Area, India

I consulted clients in the areas of ICT Sector Advocacy & Impact Assessment, and Media & Digital Marketing Communications.The focus of my contributions is to create impactful content, messaging and engagement frameworks for individual learners and Corporate Sustainability executives; Technology Incubators; IT-Electronics Hardware Manufacturing Start-ups and e-Governance Programmes in the areas of Education & Skill Development, Public Health and Smart Infrastructure.

Gurgaon, India

I drew inspiration from the cerebral nature of my work that involved meetings and interactions with a diverse set of stakeholders (including 'C' suite executives), research, analysis, writing and presentation.No two days were the same, as my colleagues, industry peers and I debated and tried to interpret for our readers (customers), technology adoption trends by individual consumers, large scale infrastructure deployments via corporate digital transformation projects or innovative solutions implementations for e-governance/public sector programmes.My responsibilities included:1) Identification and development of new research and consulting opportunities;2) Planning and execution of go-to-market strategy for research and consulting offerings in new domains like e-Governance, Healthcare & Lifesciences, Electronics and Energy, and3) Setting up interaction opportunities for IT, ITeS and Telecommunications research analysts with vendors/OEMs, service providers, domain experts, mainstream media and bloggers.

Gurgaon, India

October 2006 onwards as General Manager and October 2009 onwards as Associate Vice President, Go-To-Market Services, IDC India (CyberMedia Group):Responsible for driving the planning and business strategy execution for the Go-To-Market Services Practice for IDC in India. This included conceptualising, promoting, and managing the business and operations for IDC events on business/information technology themes, and engaging with major IT vendors in developing Go-To-Market tools such as newsletters, White Papers, Case Studies and webcasts for key target customer segments.Responsible for enhancing the visibility and value of the IDC brand in India by means of developing and publicising a series of press releases, articles, analyst quotes, and IDC data in mainline business and English language media. Co-authored and provided editorial leadership for IDC’s India Domestic IT Market Top 10 Predictions for five successive years – 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010.Key Achievements: Re-launched the defunct industry verticals research practice for IDC India. Developed and guided a research team, which published seven report titles on the theme of ‘IT in industry verticals’ consecutively over two business years. Report sales and consulting project revenues grew six-fold from less than Rs. 4 lac (FY2004) to Rs. 24 lac (FY2006). Created ISO 9000 Systems Manual for IDC Events Business in India. Events and Seminars revenue grew three-fold from approximately Rs. 70 lac (FY2007) to Rs. 210 lac (FY2009).

Bengaluru Area, India

Sr. Business Manager – Programmes and e-CommerceResponsible for launching path-breaking new programmes like the CIOL Enterprise Connect for the Top 1,000 CIOs of India (now, CIOL C-Change, www.ciol.com/c-change/), e-commerce initiatives like CIOL Shop (www.ciolshop.com) and generating subscription revenues for CyberMedia magazine web sites.The CIOL Enterprise Connect Programme won the Silver Award of the Bombay Advertising Club for Best Online Marketing Innovation 2002/2003 (EMVIES 2003) for WPP Media.

Gurgaon, India

Asst. Manager (Marketing) - Promoted sales of IDC India syndicated reports, consulting projects, and the annual DIRECTIONS seminar.As Assistant Manager (Advertising Sales and Circulation) and subsequently as Product Manager-Computers@Home and PCQuest magazines was actively involved in:Launch of India’s first magazine for home and novice PC users, Computers@Home (subsequently re-named Living Digital or, simply LD2.in).Implementing re-positioning plan for PCQuest magazine (www.pcquest.com) as a magazine for corporate technical management.

New Delhi Area, India

Corporate sales and client servicing for IT and line-of-business executive skill development programmes in newly emerging networked PC environments.

New Delhi Area, India

Frontline institutional sales responsibility for fax machines, electronic telex machines, EPABX systems and PCs.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Marketing, Quantitative Techniques, Business Management, First Class

Activities and Societies: President, Students Association, Dept. of Business Administration. Co-wrote and Directed two, short and widely.

Bachelor’S Degree, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, High Second Class

Activities and Societies: Wildlife Club (as a member of World Wildlife Fund-India, now World Wide Fund for Nature-India) Mathematics.

High School, English, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Engineering Drawing, First Class

Activities and Societies: Member of team that won First Prize for 'Aspiration'​ House for "The Bishop's Candlesticks"​ (author: Norman.

High School, Gce 'O' Level, First Class

Activities and Societies: Topped the school in the 'O' Level English Language Examination. Pursued study of the prescribed curriculum.

Icse (Class X), English Language, English Literature, Hindi, Sanskrit, Mathematics, General Science, Social Studies, First Class

Activities and Societies: Philately, Numismatics, Debating Society Played Badminton, Participated in Cross-Country Hot Weather Cycling