Ajay Singh

• Deliverables for/on behalf of senior leadership highlighted below:
• Providing internal consultancy services in business development to enter new markets or improve business performance in existing markets
• Providing actionable information to the business heads to help them in allocating business investments
• Delivering insights on market sizing and share and competitive analysis for entire Thomson Reuters - Financial and Media business
• Tracking a wide gamut of competitors and delivering vital business intelligence information to help senior management make informed decisions
• Keeping a track of various news & events across the globe and studying its impact on the business
• Cultivated relationships with industry leaders and within company to share tips and information.

Key Projects:

Financial and Risk business

• Competitor’s Cloud Strategy (Senior Leadership Team) - Identified competitors initiatives and investment in cloud strategy. Point out top 5 cloud technology provider and their partnership or alliance with our competitors. The project helped to form strategic alliance with top three cloud provider – Google, Amazon (AWS), Microsoft (Azure) and made company could enabled
• Asia Wealth Management (Head, Market Development, Wealth Asia) – Identified the scope of high net worth income (HNWI) in Asia region along with the assets under management (AUM) of the region. Also, pulled the companies or individuals who would be target market for ThomsonReuters wealth management product. The outcome of this project increased the sales of Wealth Management (Asia) product and made enhancement to its digital offerings.
• Asia Client/Competitor Radar (Senior Leadership team) – Created a tracker to know the pulse of our biggest client/Competitor
• F&R Competitor Radar (Senior Leadership team) – Created a tracker to know the activities of our biggest competitors

o Track their top and bottom lines

o M&A in the market

o Market Trends

o Executive Changes

Media business

Future of Reuters TV (Senior Leadership Team) – Identified news channel in US market

• News television channels
• Televisions spend on news gathering or news production
• Reason for revenue growth or decline for these channels

OTT Players (Senior Leadership Team) – Identified over the top (OTT) players that sells news on their platforms with geographies on US, UK, UAE, Australia, LatAm and Asia. The project increased the scope of selling Reuters TV on different OTT platforms across geographies.

Media Market Share and Size (Global Head, Strategy & Agency Business Development)– Created a market map to showcase the overall market size in our media business and where do we position in there and identified the white space and adjacencies

• Worked on informal sector mapping under Aviral – a project for reducing the flow of plastic waste in the Ganga, implemented by the German development agency GIZ and funded by the Alliance to End
• Plastic Waste (AEPW)
• The scope of the project was Rishikesh and Haridwar.
• Met with waste workers to resolve issues and build productive relationships.
• Planned and scheduled field activities according to set timelines and order of operations.
• Investigated issues and developed effective solutions.
• Promoted availability of vendor resources through continuous contact and coordination.

• Provided consulting on the solid waste management solution and revenue options from waste, generated by locals and tourist in Chamba Gram Panchayat,
• Uttarakhand
• Designed awareness program in the community about solid waste and venues of revenue from solid waste.
• Analyzed problematic areas to provide recommendations and solutions.

• Worked on Sig Sigma green belt project to improve turnaround time of query response time for clients
• Proposed new set of functionality in existing front-end tool (Seibel)
• Provide a central, concentrated query resolution function across Global Content

• Setup inventory management process for clients like Symantec, SanDisk, and Palm
• Identified trends and analysis on inventory to determine stock, revenue recognition roll forward calculations for checking reporting variance and pricing etc.