Vijaya Mary High School

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

Part of A Passionate and Visionary Team Striving to Build A Next Generation Global Business Research, Strategy Consulting and Market Intelligence Solutions Organization

Pune, Maharashtra, India

Building a Dynamic and Passionate Team with Expertise in Business Research, Strategy Consulting and Market Intelligence Solutions Covering a Wide Range of Industries and High Potential Markets from All Geographic Regions.

Ken Research

Vice President - Business Research

a) A study along with Frost & Sullivan on Global Premium Vehicles Market, for a leading European Automotive OEM.
b) Built Transportation & Logistics domain capabilities for a new boutique market research & consulting start-up.
c) A study on Airport Cargo Handling and Management Market Global Opportunity Assessment for a Cargo Equipment Co.
d) A study on Global Market Opportunity Assessment for Nano-crystalline Materials in Automotive Applications.
e) A study on Europe Market Opportunity Assessment & Entry Strategy for an Asian 2-wheeler Suspension Parts Company.
f) Capabilities mentoring and guidance for a start-up providing Industry Orientation Training Solutions to Business Schools.
g) A study on Europe Market Opportunity & Customer Opinions Assessment for an American Healthcare Company.
h) Business Diversification Strategy and Guidance for an emerging Real Estate & Infrastructure Development Company.
i) Marketing & Distribution plan, Brand Development Strategy and mentoring for a start-up Organic Farming Company.
j) Strategic Insight on Why EVs are Not Yet Viable for India in Transition to Green Mobility.
k) Strategic Insight on Key Trends, Challenges and Outlook for Automotive Testing.
l) Thought Leadership for a Automotive Industry Community & Portal on Top Trends and Key Opportunity Areas after COVID-19.
m) Strategic Insight on Key Trends, Growth Opportunities and Outlook for Global Temperature Controlled Logistics Industry.

Freelance

Freelance Business Research & Management Consultant Advisor A&T Domain SME, Start-up Growth Mentor

a) As the global business unit head of A&T domain research, consulting & advisory activity, built a Center of Excellence with capabilities & growth across all sub-domains & value chain of Automotive, Transportation, Logistics & Supply Chain, resulting in a sustainably profitable trajectory of 5X growth in revenues over a period of 4 years, working with CXO team.
b) Built and nurtured the domain Center of Excellence from 400 studies within 4 years, by covering all established & emerging segments such as electric, connected and autonomous vehicles apart from a library of studies on COVID-19 Impact,
c) Spearheaded the business growth initiatives for the domain by identifying new target market segments, new target geographies, Top 250 target clients, Account Farming, Client Servicing and developing new solution offerings.
d) Delivered high impact business transformation projects & Enabled realization of revenue growth ambitions of ~$100 Mn for a host of Fortune 500 companies in A&T  ecosystem and allied industries like technology, chemicals & infrastructure, advising their CXOs & senior management by providing strategies & recommendations – to identify, prioritize and tap adjacent/unknown market opportunities, competitive benchmarking, determine go-to-market strategy, partner identification & business model.
e) Built a credible brand for the company as thought leader, strategic market insights author and preferred knowledge partner within A&T ecosystem by proactive participation as key note speaker, panel member and moderator in conferences and summits such as – WAFIT, HEVEN, Connected Vehicles, Transport India, Automotive CTO Roundtable, India CV, Telematics India, Asia Powertrain Conference, India Auto Expo & India Logistics Expo.
f) Fostered multi-domain collaborations to successfully win and deliver engagements with several large conglomerates.

MarketsandMarkets

Global Domain Business Unit Head - Automotive & Transportation

a) Built & nurtured the MENASA T&L business research, management consulting & advisory practice within the organization into a sustainable business unit over a period of 7 years, by managing P&L, business planning, resources building (across 7 countries) & management, client management, key accounts farming, project management & delivery.
b) Spearheaded execution of over 20 strategy consulting projects valued $100K-$1 Mn for Fortune 500 firms including World’s Top-3 players in T&L, aerospace & shipping, apart from logistics infrastructure companies, government bodies, automotive OEMs, MHE companies, technology & SCM solution providers.
c) Accomplished thought leadership in T&L and SCM as speaker/moderator in conferences & summits such as – Trans Middle East, India Logistics Summit, South Asia Ports Logistics Shipping, India Smart Logistics, Material Handling Middle East, MENA Rail, TransOman, Food Logistics Forum, SITL India, South Asia Container Ports, Intralogistics, Auto Logistics, EyeForTransport, India Container Infra & Logistics, & Supply Chain Transformations.
d) Built a credible brand for the company contributing market insights to several logistics publications - Cargo Connect, Cargo Talk, TransREporter, Infrastructure Today, India Transport & Logistics News, Logistics Middle East, Infrastructure Middle East, Technical Review Middle East, MEED, Gulf Business, Gulf News, Gulf Industry, Indian Ports & Infrastructure Review, Trade Arabia, Global Logistics Media, Arabian Supply Chain, The Economic Times, The Hindu Business Line, Auto Logistics & Auto Monitor.
e) Ramped up the knowledge repository of domain by 10X from 50 studies within 7 years, by covering all key market segments of logistics, transportation & SCM.
f) Spearheaded conceptualizing and establishing Annual Logistics Benchmarking Awards Program in India, Middle East and Africa; and Annual Logistics Executive Strategy Workshop in India, and Supply Chain Transformations community.

Frost & Sullivan

Program Manager - Transportation & Logistics

a) Managed & nurtured the largest Business Research team (comprising 15 multi-domain specialist analysts) of company into a sustainable unit by leading pre-sales, client engagement, resource planning, project management & delivery.
b) Led the execution & delivery of 10+ global level strategic business consulting projects with values ranging $10K-$100K for Fortune 500 firms across multiple industries like aerospace, engineering, energy, food, infrastructure, etc.
c) Collaborated with some of world’s 10 leading business consulting firms as their extended research & analysis division.
d) Spearheaded the Knowledge Management and Best Practices Fostering initiatives of company to build a comprehensive reference library of all projects deliverables and developed structured training modules to adopt best practices.

Boston Analytics

Project Manager - Business Research

a) Managed & Scaled up the Healthcare business research and consulting practice of company into sustainable domain unit comprising 10 analysts by leading pre-sales, client engagement, resource planning, project management & delivery.
b) Led the execution & delivery of 10+ global level business consulting projects with values ranging $5K-$50K for Fortune 100 firms in healthcare manufacturing and services industries, covering North America and European markets.
c) Demonstrated domain expertise of all key segments of Healthcare industry ranging from pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals, hospitals, diagnostics, physiotherapy, nutrition, patientcare and health insurance.

Pipal Research

Research Manager - Healthcare

a) Built and nurtured the APAC T&L business research, management consulting & advisory practice within the organization into a sustainable business unit over a period of 2 years, by mobilizing & mentoring resources (spread across 5 countries), client management, project management & delivery.
b) Built the multi-client targeted knowledge repository/library of domain from scratch to >25 studies within 2 years, by covering all established & emerging segments such as Transportation, Warehousing, 3PL, Shipping and SCM Solutions.
c) Spearheaded execution of over 5 business-management consulting projects valued $25K-$50K for Fortune 500 firms including World’s Top-3 players in T&L, shipping, logistics infrastructure companies, government bodies, and supply chain solutions providers, by managing multi-functional-lingual teams spread across 7 countries in 2 continents.
d) Demonstrated Thought Leadership in logistics and SCM through speaking engagements (Eye for Transport China, Asia Warehousing & Logistics Conference), and several strategic insights covering APAC markets.
e) Spearheaded conceptualizing and establishing Annual Logistics Benchmarking Awards Program in ASEAN, and APAC.

Team Leader - Transportation & Logistics

a) Played key role in establishing a 50 member business research team that became one of top 3 contributors of Business Strategy Case Studies and Publications to the European Case Clearing House (ECCH) and other libraries.
b) Developed and published Global Industry Analysis studies and business case studies, and created a research study bank that was subscribed by top five global consulting companies.
c) Built, mentored and nurtured a team of 10 research associates into highest productivity & efficiency team.

ICFAI UNIVERSITY PRESS

Team Leader

a) Developed and published more than 50 syndicated reports on various industries and Fortune 500 firms.
b) Won the award of “THE FOURTH BEST PERFORMER" in the organization of more than 400, for 1999.

Srinath Manda

Srinath Manda