SHEKHAR C

TECHNOLOGY STRATEGY & BUSINESS DESIGNER ~ IIT-Delhi Alumni with Expertise in Sticky Marketing and Persuasive Sales Strategy ~

BUSINESS PHILOSOPHY
I design meaningful experiences to tap into users Latent Needs that thrill customers and build sustainable businesses.

Big-picture thinker and a pragmatic doer... 9 years leading the design, development and marketing of new products in
areas ranging from Technology, Education and Health-care.

Disciplined Leadership... Displays a rare blend of creativity and analytical skills to quickly analyze key business drivers and
collaborate with diverse teams to create and bring to market meaningful products, services, and experiences.

A R E A S O F E X P E RT I S E
Sticky Marketing Communication Persuasive Sales Strategy Negotiating & Closing Deals Strategic Business Partnerships Conceptualization of Innovative Business Models Web Search Technology New Product Development and Launch Redesigning Business Processes In-Depth Market Research and Analysis Team Building & Business Adoption

ACHIEVEMENTS
Nominated for theWEF TechPioneers2008 for creating proprietary technologies in Personalised Contextual
Web Search and Mobile Transliteration Space.

Filed a Patenton Multilinear Latent Semantic Analysis (USPTO Application # 11409907). Appreciated by Lt. Dr. Rajeev Motwani for the Personalised Search Technology and
Helion Ventures mentored me to learn Business Algorithms. Dr. Ashish Gupta of

Ranked in the99.2 percentileinIIT-JEE entrance examfor theIITin 1999. Synthesized and Published afast computational technique to manually getNth root of natural numbers in
class 9.

BUSINESS EXPERIENCE
C O N S U L T I N G I 2 K 2 N E T W O R K S A S V P - B U S I N E S S S T R A T E G Y, N O V 1 2 - P R E S E N T Mentoring the Marketing and Sales team for a Sticky Marketing pitch and Persuasive Sales Communication to underline the key offerings of the cloud hosting company. B U S I N E S S C O N S U L T A N T, T 6 V E N T U R E S , F E B 0 9 - P R E S E N T Currently consulting on new business model for an Indian non-prot organization. The Organization, Swaasthya Sanchar aims to operate a Health Care advisory-line for disease prevention and health promotion.

Designed and Developed a 4 layered business offering to cater to peoples health needs and mapping a Health Exchange
Network to help people navigate through the health touch points viz. doctors, hospitals, labs, pharmacies in a streamlined way using web and mobile platforms.

Designing the prototype to showcase the power/impact of the concept and align stakeholders to get feedback and strengthen
the offering.

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SHEKHAR C
TECHNOLOGY STRATEGY & BUSINESS DESIGNER ~ IIT-Delhi Alumni with Expertise in Sticky Marketing and Persuasive Sales Strategy~
V P - T E C H N O L O G Y S T R A T E G Y, L I Q W I D K RY S T A L J U N E 0 8 - J A N 0 9 Brought in to build and lead technology-driven new education business initiatives. Led team of 6 to do market research, develop new products, design or revamp work processes, and identify emerging technologies.

Transformed unstructured and inefcient department by upgrading talent, improving workow and developing products
that provided competitive advantage. C O - F O U N D E R & C E O , T E N S O R T E C H N O L O G I E S , I I T - D E L H I N O V 0 5 - M AY 0 8 Started up company specialising in Personalised Web Search Technology based out of IIT-Delhi incubator. We used the same concepts to build the Language Transliteration Technology for web and mobile.

Wrote the business plan and develop investor pitch to raise capital. Created demo systems, and drove sales and marketing
initiatives.

Attracted luminary VCs and distinguished personalities to constitute the Advisory Board. Led the product design/ development and R&D operations, and hired all technical staff. Conceptualized Algorithms leading to disruptive technologies to improve Personalized Search Experience and
Transliteration Engine for mobile phones. S D C E N G I N E E R- | | , YA H O O
( AC QU I S I T I O N O F I S O F T T E C H )

J U LY 0 4 - J A N 0 5

Initially hired as a software engineer to work closely with VP, Technology. We worked on Bloomba: a radical product that made searching mails meaningful.

On VPs recommendation I was offered stocks and directly recruited as SDC engineer level-2 when yahoo acquired Bloomba. Part of a 25-member team prototyping the Yahoo Desktop Search on Bloombas PCDB technology.

K E Y P R O P R I E T A RY T E C H N O L O G I E S D E V E L O P E D
Invented a multi-layered concept extraction algorithm from a given topology, to represents the exact intent of the
topology and rank them using a novel human centric multi layered page rank algorithm.

Worlds most adaptive technology for an Intuitive Phonetic Voice and Text Transliteration across all platforms viz.
WEB, Mobile and Desktop to text input romanized phonetic version of any world language over a mobile keypad using minimum number of keystrokes.

Worlds rst technology to render any script on any Mobile phone; irrespective of device dependencies thus
enabling to send a multilingual SMS without downloading fonts.

E D U C AT I O N & P RO F E S S I O N A L D E V E L O P M E N T
Writing a book titled Stand-Out, a simple self-help book to act as a compass for creating meaning in life. A compilation of
the best read and experiences of mine to create value for oneself and others.

Design of Business (self taught): Harvard periodicals, IDEO and Duke University. One led patent, developed several proprietary technologies. 5yr Int. M.Tech, Mathematics & Computing, IIT-Delhi.
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T +91-9711179334

E shekharc@gmail.com

W www.linkedin.com/in/NeoKnight