Ankur

312-***-**** linkedin.com/in/ankur-kumar-singh adhtve@r.postjobfree.com

Education

University of Notre Dame, Mendoza College of Business Indiana, United States 2-Year Master of Business Administration + MS in Business Analytics (STEM) May 2022

• Awarded 90% MBA Tuition Fellowship; GMAT – 710

• Completed the AT&T Summer Externship on Technology and Leadership Birla Institute of Technology Ranchi, India

Bachelor of Engineering, Chemical May 2014

• National top 0.5% in All India Engineering Entrance Examination. Earned Merit scholarship for all 4 years

• Green Belt in Lean Six Sigma, certified by KPMG; Technical Paper published in International Journal Experience

Mergetree.in (Technology and Design Consulting startup) New Delhi, India Pre-MBA Intern – Product & Strategy Apr 2020-Jun 2020

• Built AI powered image processing solution to aid remote client onboarding for a bank, performing user persona study, testing features and developing a minimum viable prototype; phase I automation drove 15% cost reduction TravelTriangle.com (Holiday marketplace; comparable to Booking.com) New Delhi, India Manager - Product & Growth Strategy Feb 2019-Mar 2020

• Partnered with CEO's Office to close the Series-D funding round ($13 M), building the target operating model, performing market intelligence studies, and managing outreach to investors

• Designed the 'Operations Funnel Management Dashboard' employing user study, experimentation, and prototyping steps of the Lean Startup method in an agile environment, to drive operations cost reduction of 17%

• Launched 'Reward Point System' - a gamified Partner performance efficiency tool by performing user behavior study and developing experimentally tested minimum viable product, to improve conversion rate by ~11%

• Liaised with tourism ministries of 5+ countries to launch a co-funded ‘Preferred Partner’ venture and performed multi-channel (paid sem/seo/social/display/email) marketing to target customers; boosted revenue of $3 M+/qtr Olacabs.com (Uber's biggest rival in India) Bangalore, India Entrepreneur in Residence - Foodpanda India by Ola Jan 2018-Dec 2018

• Performed acquisition analysis for Ola's venture into food-tech space, executing operational due diligence, forecasting synergy, and presenting operating model plan to leadership; created post-deal plan for 700% growth

• Led a team of 9 associates to achieve a 600% growth in fulfilled orders in 11 months, executing go-to-market strategies across 80+ micro-markets; launched 10+ inhouse product brands to enhance customer retention

• Streamlined user support process, designing an interactive in-app chatbot, to reduce support operations cost by 38%; deployed fraud prevention systems, employing predictive modelling, to reduce fraudulent orders by >70% Associate Program Manager, New Initiatives Sep 2015-Dec 2017

• Conceptualized and launched a novel shared mobility offering – Shuttle, on-boarding 350+ partners and scaling to 6+ cities, to attain a ridership of 5K+ in a period of 5 months; received CEO's 'Young Leader Award'

• Led a team of 17 senior associates to manage ‘Shuttle business’ quarterly operations P&L ($4 M+ revenue) for Delhi, to deliver a ridership growth of 400% in 14 months; invited by VP to consult 6+ cities on growth hacking

• Ideated, devised, and adopted ‘Operations and Supply Optimization' automation tool, generating business operations inputs for product team, to decrease cancellations by 13%, and enhance supply utilization by 22% Exide Industries Limited (India's leading battery manufacturer) Bangalore, India Front Line Entrepreneur, Operations Strategy and Excellence Jun 2014-Aug 2015

• Spearheaded collaborative profitability boosting project with a Japanese manufacturing firm, implementing DMAIC and Kobetsu Kaizen methodologies, to cut down losses in the ‘Grid Casting Unit' by $9.5M/year Achievements & Interests

• Co-founded 'Webpreneurs': Organized marketing bootcamps in 10+ schools, attracting 220+ generating $10K+

• Co-founded 'Mentortrail', a platform to connect young professionals to experts from industry