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JIGYASA CHATURVEDI

JIGYASA CHATURVEDI

Entrepreneur. Strategist. Loves Unsolved Problems
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Summary

An entrepreneur and executive with over eighteen years of global experience of successfully delivering measurable business outcomes as a trusted advisor to clients. Expertise in business planning, revenue development and change management with over thirteen years of leadership experience and demonstrated track record of accomplishment. Specialize in customer-centric strategic planning, increasing customer reference ability across enterprises in Hi-tech, Banking and Financial services, Networking and Consulting. Specialize in synthesizing multiple complex ideas to develop effective implementable solutions. Expertise in consultative selling, structuring and closing deals, revenue protection and growth, and nurturing alliances to drive land and expand outcomes. Bring a deep understanding of matrixed customer environments, stakeholder dynamic and enterprise technology landscape with a proven track record of successfully launching, leading and delivering complex technology programs with diverse cross-functional, globally distributed teams. Passionate about and deeply vested in giving back to the community through volunteering at non-profits and advising startups. Particularly vested in building the STEM girl pipeline through mentorship.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience

Skills

Business Strategy Development

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Work History

Founder CEO

82ISM LLC
Redwood City, CA
04.2017 - 10.2021
  • Built “Uber” for innovation - marketplace of over 100 hundred participants including domain and technical experts, tech start-ups and enterprise customers, in short span of 18 months
  • Successfully created and launched productized- service offering for tech innovation aimed at redefining how technology services were delivered, bought and sold.
  • Conducted target market research to scope out industry competition and identify advantageous trends.
  • Studied market to determine optimal pricing of services to capitalize on emerging opportunities
  • Created organization's mission and vision statements to serve as north star for company.
  • Successfully empaneled as approved vendor with F100 clients within six months of launch
  • Successfully built revenue positive business within first year of operation
  • Built and grew reliable base of global suppliers from USA, Mexico, India, Ukraine and Israel operating under 82ISM operating agreement based on standard operating procedure
  • Maintained P&L and shouldered corporate fiscal responsibility. Made tough, critical capital allocation decisions within a bootstrapped business aimed at becoming a customer cherished, customer funded business
  • Spearheaded third-party contract negotiations to obtain favorable pricing
  • Developed point-based system to transparently evaluate and rank partners in bid for client contracts
  • Developed Sale-as-a-Service model to lower customer acquisition cost for partner-sellers
  • Developed Impact-as-a-Service model for non-profits to gain funding for their mission critical programs.
  • Co-lead development team to build AI enabled operations platform
  • Successfully developed marketing plan and campaigns to achieve business growth objectives

Vice President, Head of Sales, North America

Bodhtree Solutions Inc
Santa Clara, CA
03.2015 - 04.2017
  • Managed $6 Million sales portfolio – of Big Data, Cloud, SaaS including Salesforce, Oracle, Tableau, Informatica
  • Successfully sold and implemented Analytics and Big Data solutions at F100 Clients
  • Transformed customer experience for clients like Canon, Goss, Seagate, Deloitte, Cisco. Realized 18%+ improvement in internal productivity
  • Collaborated with customer C-suite to develop strategic plans to align program execution objectives with business outcomes
  • Developed deep relationships with customer business and technical teams while serving as conduit to delivery team
  • Oversaw strategy and execution of Oracle co-development program for fusion apps
  • Achieved average revenue growth of 250% YoY
  • Increased SQL to deal closure rate from 11% to 42%
  • Increased new sales revenue by 60% YoY
  • Developed sales processes and compensation models for sales reps
  • Spearheaded strategy alignment between sales, marketing, pre-sales and technical delivery teams to achieve business goals for bottom-line profits.
  • Attended trade shows and client meetings, promoting company brand and building rapport with prospects and partners.
  • Created and made appropriate documentation for annual budgets and senior leadership goals
  • Led recruitment and development of strategic alliances to maximize utilization of existing talent and capabilities
  • Spearheaded third-party contract negotiations to obtain favorable pricing

Director Strategic Accounts and Alliances

Bodhtree Solutions Inc
Santa Clara, CA
05.2013 - 02.2015
  • Established robust alliances’ strategy with diverse group of product and services organizations including Salesforce, Tableau and Informatica
  • Incubated partnership with industry leader is social, CloudSquads (acquired by Persistent Systems, NSE: PERSISTENT)
  • Successfully managed sales operations that enabled and supported fifteen sales reps and cumulative revenue of over $30 Million
  • Increased client satisfaction and reference ability by over 40% YoY
  • Added multiple F500 clients in under three months as part of ‘Over $Billion’ land and expand strategy
  • Achieved 50% growth in revenue in less than six months at marquee clients
  • Launched process improvement initiatives for inside sales and pre-sales that resulted in 20% increase in proposal volumes and lead to opportunity conversion
  • Increased customer satisfaction by resolving service issues. Actively listened to customers, handled concerns quickly and escalated major issues
  • Used critical thinking to break down problems, evaluate solutions and make decisions

Senior Consultant

Bodhtree Solutions Inc
India, Singapore, USA
03.2011 - 05.2013
  • Successfully co-lead global operations team in matrixed environment to launch Cisco’s complex e-commerce platform to its partners and customers converting over $3 Billion in revenue to new e-commerce platform from legacy systems across multiple channels
  • Successfully co-lead change management team that enabled over 50 customers, partners and distributors WW and over 200 Sales and Channel Account Managers to adopt new commerce platform that resulted in over 170Hrs/Y of productivity gains across board
  • Effectively collaborated with Cisco’s Federal business team(s) to develop strategic plan to adapt Cisco’s e- commerce platform to serve federal sales teams
  • Successfully co-lead technology and business team chartered with business process and technology integration of Cisco's acquisition (Meraki)
  • Successfully built deep relationships with client executives and co-lead business operation support team based in India and US with tiered support model to facilitate on-boarding and training of Cisco’s partners in APAC and EU
  • Successfully co-lead client workshops to deep dive on business processes across twenty-five x-functional teams and eight business processes, including but not limited to Finance, Operations, Sales, Marketing, Supply Chain, Order Management, Legal, RMA, to design new business process for Cisco Brazil’s type V (manufacturing) entity
  • Developed plan to optimize business processes across business and technical support teams for effective and timely redressal of issues
  • Lead weekly and quarterly program reviews with stakeholder teams
  • Identified business issues through careful collaboration with key stakeholders
  • Troubleshot issues by understanding ,diagnosing root cause and coming up with effective solutions
  • Evaluated clients' needs and created plan of action to provide solutions
  • Proved successful working within tight deadlines and fast-paced environment

Functional Consultant

Tata Consultancy Services, Ltd.
India, UK, USA
01.2004 - 02.2011
  • Successfully co-lead integration of Quote and Configuration solutions as part of comprehensive governance based QTC Solution Implementation for Cisco
  • Successfully lead a team in designing, developing and delivering Derivatives Trading Interface for Rabo bank, Netherlands.
  • As member of team designed, coded and delivered Payments Processing system for Barclay’s Johannesburg, South Africa operations
  • Successfully delivered client demos
  • Obtained Reuter’s FIX certification for SEI Investments
  • Successfully designed Trade Desk saving over $20MM in liability for SEI Investments servicing HSBC London
  • Successfully established new model for electronic trading with three-tier back-office operations support based in London, USA and India.
  • Wrote effective documentation for each client system to deliver comprehensive sets of requirements and alignment with business objectives
  • Developed, configured and tested applications for accurate alignment with project standards
  • Professionally interacted with clients to assess business requirements and determine software needs
  • Analyzed existing systems and databases and recommended enhancements to solve business needs
  • Troubleshot incidents reported by end-users to schedule system changes and identify permanent solutions

Advisory Positions

Strategy Advisor, Watee, Cupertino, CA, USA Mar ‘17 Apr ‘19

French-American start up building a gamified knowledge management solution for enterprise knowledge management.

• Collaborated with the founding team, to help build a business plan , specifically advised them on go-to-market strategy , product market fit and target market definition and scope. Watee quickly acquired its first two customers in Paris and was able to use the business plan to obtain seed funding to expand in North America.


Strategy Advisor,Delphi Software International Inc, Redwood City,CA, USA Jun ’16 – Oct ‘16

Decade old Ukrainian technology company preparing to launch in US.

• Lead the Delphi executives in creating their brand story to position the company uniquely in an overcrowded commoditized technology services market in North America.

• Delivered a comprehensive capability assessment

• Lead the effort to define service offerings for the North American market.

• Lead the development of a new consulting practice offering ‘CTO-as a Service’ targeting non-technical start up founders.

Delphi closed over $100K in new revenue, within a month of launch

Awards & Accomplishments

  • Federal Coin Awardee Cisco/USPS, 2012 (Only Consultant Awarded this honor),San Jose, CA
  • Judge at Pitch Events, Palo Alto, CA
  • Keynote Speaker, Palo Alto, CA
  • Guest Speaker at Boy Scouts, Fremont, CA

Publications and Mentions

  • 82 Innovation Street – Podcast
  • Blog – Jigyasa Chaturvedi
  • Weebly Inspiration Center
  • MRC Productivity Blog – Challenges faced by CIO’s Part 1
  • MRC Productivity Blog – Challenges faced by CIO’s Part 2
  • Your Big Data Journey

Patents

Productized-Service or Innovation as a Subscription (Patent Pending USPTO62853062)

Volunteer Activities and Causes

  • Volunteer at SaiKripa, Noida, India Oct'22 - Present
  • Mentor at Technovation, Palo Alto Mar ‘17 - Jul ‘18
  • Volunteer at Habitat for Humanity, Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter Foundation Project, New Orleans May’08
  • ‘Big Sister’ at Big Brother Big Sister, Philadelphia Jan ‘07 - Jun ‘08
  • Mentor at ABC (A Better Chance) Radnor House, Wayne Dec ‘06 - Sep ‘08
  • Volunteer at SGI, New Delhi, London, Philadelphia, Santa Clara May ‘98 - Present
  • Volunteer at VIDYA, New Delhi Jul ‘85 - Jun ‘01

Education

Certificate - Disruptive Strategy

Harvard Business School Online

Certificate - Strategy Execution

Harvard Business School Online

Masters of Computer Application -

Institute of Management Technology
India

Bachelor of Science - Zoology

Delhi University
India

Quote

One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.
André Gide
JIGYASA CHATURVEDIEntrepreneur. Strategist. Loves Unsolved Problems