Account Executive Plant

ADVAIT PRATURI

K *** Brigade Gateway Apartments • Bangalore, India 560055 • +91-897******* • ******.*******@*****.***

Freelance writer with a specialization in art as well as business and technical writing looking to write on business,

finance, arts, travel and religion based topics

WORK EXPERIENCE

NLF AVATAR MUMBAI, INDIA

Operations Fellow July 2013 – Present

• Conceptualized, designed and streamlined operations and processes for a local Mumbai church plant to address

crucial needs in all of its core areas – including arts and social justice events, community groups,

communications and services

• Devised strategies to communicate vision to hundreds of young urban professionals, artists, and business

leaders and implemented those strategies by developing training material, creating a website, creating online

content, providing training, and organizing community events

• Mobilized and managed teams of 25 30 visual and performance artists in Mumbai to create, conceptualize

and organize 6 artistic events in Mumbai.

GATEWAY HOUSE: INDIAN COUNCIL ON GLOBAL RELATIONS MUMBAI, INDIA

Outreach and Membership Coordinator September 2012 – June 2013

• Assumed responsibility of the membership program within 6 months – managed member relations for over 180

corporate and individual members and worked with Membership Team to increase memberships by 12% from

September 2012 – June 2013

• Spearheaded the use of Salesforce as a cloud database system within the organization for fundraising and for

tracking membership; trained all employees to use Salesforce, to manage data and to run data analysis tools

• Assumed responsibility of internal project management within 6 months ; coordinated a team of editors,

designers, proofreaders and researchers to ensure seamless transition between research, design and production

for all projects

Outreach Coordinator March 2012 – September 2012

• Secured/printed over 100 interviews and Op Eds in over 72 cable, digital and print media outlets including

BBC, Mint, New York Times, and CNN IBN

• Worked directly with global knowledge partners including the Australian Government, media companies, U.S.

National Intelligence Council, Google India Pvt. Ltd. etc. to provide INR 1,800,000 (USD 30,000) in funding

to secure Fellows and scholars, set up roundtable meetings and create relevant foreign policy research

CITIGATE DEWE ROGERSON MUMBAI, INDIA

Investor Relations Account Executive October 2010 – January 2012

• Managed clients’ relationships with 40 50 institutional investors and financial analysts in Mumbai; met with

analysts to discuss company outlook and performance and to lead plant visits to clients’ facilities

• Assigned 4 clients within 6 months – from the shipbuilding, fast moving consumer goods, clean energy and

infrastructure industries

• Wrote 4 annual reports in a period of 3 months for 2 years consecutively along with Management

Discussion & Analysis of business strategy, Chairman’s speeches and other business related writing

Worked with client Senior Executives at the CEO/CFO level and a team of analysts to create a corporate

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messaging platform for all clients including conference call speeches, annual reports, chairman speeches and

media talking points for all senior executives

EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO, La Jolla, California, United States September 2006 –

June 2010

BA Hons. Political Science – International Relations; BA Economics (GPA 3.75) Graduated cum laude

PUBLICATIONS

Praturi, Advait Mendonca, Michelle, and Smith, Emily J. “On Operations and Rescue: Proper Police Procedure in Brothel

Rescue Operations under ITPA.” Human Trafficking: The Stakeholders’ Perspective. Ed. Virendra Mishra. London: Sage

Publications, 2013. 66 85. Print.

HONORS AND MEMBERSHIPS

Pi Sigma Alpha – National Political Science Honors Society

Phi Beta Kappa – National Honors Society

La Jolla Symphonic Chorus

Indian Council on Global Relations

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