St Josephs College of Business Administration

Mangalore University

Nalanda English High School

Proven Entrepreneur, Auto Retail and After-market, Business Leader.

Additional Role - Building the evfin 2.0 Technology Stack in continuation to the great work already done by the team. Moving from Tech Driven EV Lending to a Tech and Data driven end to end EV Ownership Platform with Lending at the core.

evfin

Assignee - Head of Product & Technology, Greaves Finance Ltd (evfin)

Greaves Retail and Distribution plays across the vehicle lifecycle. We retail EVs, service EVs and ICE vehicles and also provide spares for ICE and EVs through a very large network of FOFO stores, distributors, retailers and mechanics.

I am responsible for overall digital strategy and execution. Revamping legacy systems + Building a new technology stack to position the business for technology + product led scale and growth over the next 5 years.

Greaves Cotton Limited

Head  of Product & Technology - Greaves Retail & Distribution

1. Core Team - Bounce Infinity - Worked on Dealer Development, Go to Market (Digital and BTL), Partnerships (E-commerce, Auto classifieds), Experience Store Concept, Performance Marketing (Social, WhatsApp, IVR), Test Rides (Concurrent locations across multiple cities), Customer mapping and delivery, Post sale escalations, Deployment of DMS and other software solutions to run business efficiently on ground.

2. Leading EV Rentals for GIG Workforce - Worked on partnerships with GIG staffing companies, Pricing models, Offering design for various use cases, Scale up to new city, Partnerships with Govt agencies.

3. Building Zuink Retrofit (Petrol to Electric Conversion) Business - Worked on product R&D, Go to market (ATL and BTL campaigns), Partnerships (GIG staffing companies), Pricing models for various use cases, Bank and Insurance partnerships, PR, Franchisee Development (Across multiple states), Partnerships with govt bodies, Liaising with Niti Aayog and other state bodies for seeking support for the program.

4. End to end software layer implementation for Wholesale, Retail and Service.

5. Sales Planning and Strategy for penetrating smaller markets in India that bring maximum sales volumes for commuter scooters.

Bounce

Vice President

(Software Business Acquired by Bounce). The company was re-imagining purchase and post purchase experience of 2 wheelers in developing countries. As Chief at LetsService, I worked closely to understand the various challenges faced by customers, dealerships and service centers when it comes to purchase and post purchase experience. LetsService aimed to simplify the process, make it digital and bring simplicity and convenience to both sides of the equation.

We also envisioned cloud dealerships and service centers for auto retail and built technology to solve this piece. I believe the future of auto retail is online. We successfully signed partnerships with the big auto OEMs like Hero MotoCorp, Honda Motorcycles, Eicher Motors, Yamaha and Suzuki to distribute our products and services. We also worked on an innovative and first of a kind product called "SmartRide" which provided an "All Inclusive Vehicle Maintenance Plan" along with smart features like collission detection and RSA dispatch, Riding behaviour pattern tracking and analysis and so on. 

I was also responsible for the monitoring and execution of the overall strategy for the company.

LetsService.in

Founder, CEO

Co-founded Summit PayCom with 2 amazing individuals and we are poised to take the mobile commerce space in India by storm. About our first product Madzz rebranded to Flit. (www.madzz.co.in, www.flit.in) Madzz is a “mobile first” market place for all offline retailers and businesses to go mobile and interact with the mobile and tech savvy consumers around them. Madzz also takes the form of a shopping guide for consumers who will get to know of all the offers, deals, sales and discounts running in their favorite store right on their mobile phone.

I was responsible for marketing and HR Operations and Hiring

Summit PayCom Pvt Ltd

Co-founder, Director of Marketing and HR Operations

In my role, I helped the company set up a very robust and scalable Social Media Marketing practice and drove the initial RoI myself leading a strong team in action today

Also played the role of a "Functional Lead" to build the Social Media GRC product (Social Listening and ORM).

MetricStream

Social Media Lead

In this role, I was assigned the responsibility to lead, plan and execute the digital and social media strategy for a new breed of expert integrated systems from IBM. The role was challenging as the product was new and IBM had to create a need and identity for the product in the market and we delivered great results. The focus was on extensive social media marketing to create enough buzz about the new great product and in return create a lot of interest among existing and new customers.

Social Media Lead for Expert Integrated Systems and Mobile First Portfolio

Managed the end to end digital and social media marketing requirements for my portfolio. I was part of the  IBM Middleware segment and that was where most of the action was happening at that point in time. It helped me transition into my next role where i could deliver greater results to the company.

Worldwide Digital Marketing Specialist - IBM Software Group

The urge to get some solid experience under my belt drove me to this role. I did this during the final trimesters of my MBA. So that would be 8 Hrs of college and 6 hrs of work. Thoroughly fulfilling.

Assisted the manager in all marketing and demand generation activities.
Handled events end to end in various geographies where the company showcased their products in. 
Build annual events calender with increased focus on thought leadership and demand generation.
Create slide casts and pod casts for the company to be placed on the website.
Was a part of the website migration process from word press to Jumla. Also facilitated translation of the website in 5 different languages.
Assisted the manager in go to market planning for various geos.

Manthan Systems

Marketing Executive Trainee

I had the distinction of being the first trainee to be deployed into QuEST. Worked on 2 great projects and results suggested the company to have a full-fledged summer internship program which has given some real great talent to the industry till date. The projects where as below - 

Built a social media framework for the company primarily to generate leads through social media activities. Primarily in twitter and linkedin.
Conducted a Brand audit for the company and made recommendations which were implemented immediately.
Kept track of all the activities related to competition and customers to provide key insights to the senior leadership.

Sachin Vasanth Shenoy