CFA Institute

CAIA Association

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

T.P Bhatia Junior College Of Science

Swami Vivekanand International School

Strategy Consultant  -  IIT Bombay

Short Gamma, delta neutral and short gamma directional trading for a prop desk

Karna Stock Broking LLP

Options Trader

1. Micro-small cap investing in Indian Equities (Growth, Special Situations)
2. Non-directional and directional intraday and positional strategies in index options and Nifty50 stocks
3. Momentum strategies in entire cash stocks universe

Self-employed

Derivatives Trader and Investor

A global strategy consulting firm. My role involved data gathering, analysis and presenting the data in a format that helps clients take strategic decisions. I have been a part of the following cases:

1) Sales force optimisation for a new drug at a Japanese pharmaceutical company
2) Vendor due diligence of a reverse logistics company headquartered in Germany and operations across U.S, Europe and India
3) Commercial due diligence of a K-12 school chain spread across Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar and Malaysia for a Sweden based PE firm
4) Vendor due diligence of an ed-tech company providing industry discovery courses in U.S.
5) Commercial due diligence of an ed-tech company providing online K-12 tutoring in Indonesia for a New York based PE firm
6) Commercial due diligence of a K-12 International school in Singapore for a government-owned investment company
7) Go-to-market strategy for an Australian Higher-ed university entering Singapore
8) Commercial due diligence of an International private university in Bahrain for a Middle East focused fund
9) Growth strategy for a leading online university in the U.S.

L.E.K. Consulting

Associate

Fall Semester - Managing a class of 60+ students ( UG + PG ) for a new course "Introduction to Terahertz technologies". Responsibilities range from setting assignments, conducting quizzes, term examinations and evaluating students based on performance across exams, class participation and attendance.

Spring Semester - Managing a class of 200+ students across CS and EE departments at IIT Bombay + IIT Dharwad for the course "Communication Networks". Additional responsibilities include conducting lab sessions at IIT Dharwad over the weekend for better understanding of the course content.

Teaching Assistant

A global strategy consulting firm, joined the Global Education Practice and part of 2 cases across India, Europe and Latin America.

Received a Pre-Placement Offer ( PPO ) for exemplary performance.

• Performed due diligence over India’s largest test preparation provider for a buyout deal worth USD 800 million
o Completed market sizing of medical test preparation market across India supervising a team of 10 freelancers
o Developed an EBITDA bridge to explain unit level economics between the asset and its key competitors in India
o Designed a survey to measure customer satisfaction and awareness across the industry for competitor benchmarking
• Performed sell-side due diligence over top global school chain with the asset worth USD 2.8 billion
o Completed market sizing of K-12 school market in geographies like Spain and Chile supervising 20 foreign freelancers

Summer Associate

Secured position in top 3 among 350+ pre-final year students in a competition held by Blackstone Private Equity Division testing valuation skills and business and investment acumen.

The Blackstone Group

Blackstone Business Challenge, 2018

A pan-IIT machine learning competition involving customer analytics and optimizing sales force to achieve maximum conversion rate for a given budget of calls/visits. IIT-B winner out of 120+ teams.

American Express

Analyze This, 2017

Received a Part-time Joining Offer to work with the Strategy Department for setting up a Social Media Lab for in-depth analysis
• Analyzed existing on premise BI setup, from data collection, OLAP cube formation to dashboard reporting on Microsoft BI
􀀐 Reduced data processing time by 20% by optimizing data flow, automated the dashboard for additional metrics
􀀐 Assembled a machine learning algorithm for checking patterns in audience resubscriptions & predicting unsubscriptions
• Achieved 25% estimated increment in audience retention by designing plan for targeted adverts for Bindass TV shows
• Developed a fully automatic dashboard with 20+ metrics for Bindass & Disney India social media pages using PowerBI

The Walt Disney Company

Data Engineer

ROLE
• Spearheading 3-tier team of 20 core group members and 600+ volunteers across 8 verticals
• Managing budget of INR 21M (30% y-o-y increase) to execute 2 international, 6 national and 25 institute events

INITIATIVES
• Established INR 5M corpus for nurturing student startups in coalition with 1990 IIT Bombay Alumni Batch
• Founded Intellectual Property platform to ensure student-faculty interaction, envisioning 25% increase in tech startups
• Secured alliance with Maharashtra Skill Development Ministry to spread startup awareness in 450+ colleges
• Collaborated with ‘Startup India’ for a nationwide competition to establish 100+ new E-Cells across the country

REFORMS 
• Partnered with 2 Israeli universities for startup exchange program, ensuring international exposure for IITB students
• Forged long term partnership with Intel and DST to raise cash sponsorship of INR 3.5M, 33% y-o-y increase

E-Cell, IIT Bombay

Overall Co-ordinator

Head of Operations

1) Project awarded by United Nations for its excellent sustainable approach, funded by Government of Karnataka
2) Created a Model-Driven Decision Support System which measured the day-to-day reach of the project and facilitated quick decision making to enhance operational efficiency
3) Designed an implementable process for automation of ticket raising against failure of class delivery
4) Developed a system for random surveillance of Field Officers which helped in timeline analysis of school infrastructure and review of students for improving the content of the class
5) Worked overall on data analysis, public policy, strategic and operations management

Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore

Project Assistant

- Department Festival of Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay
- Ideated, organised and executed nationwide competitions in electronics and robotics
- Conducted a nationwide Online Game Event which saw a participation of  2000+ students
- Pivotal role in bagging more than 5 sponsorships for the festival amounting 2 lac +

Aavriti

Marketing Manager

Part of a three-tier student's council. Main duties include :-
1) Handling a budget of 6 lacs for maintaining all basic amenities of the hostel
2) Co-ordinating with the entire council to organize various hostel events
3) Representing the hostel at different inter-hostel competitions

Hostel 7, IIT Bombay

Maintenance Secretary

Mood Indigo is Asia's largest cultural festival. I was the part of Hospitality and Public Relations Department. In a team of 30 members, our duties were to ensure proper arrangements to the visitors and guests. Also ensure smooth distribution of event passes and refreshments. The main purpose was to make sure nobody coming to Mood Indigo leaves unentertained.

Jainam Shah