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Kaustubh Singh Rana

Kaustubh Singh Rana

Business Leader
Noida

Summary

Business leader specializing in Strategic Partnerships, Key Accounts Management and P&L Management.

Consistently acknowledged & awarded for on-boarding marquee clients across categories and establishing multiple revenue streams with big clients. Always on the lookout for new business opportunities.

Have been building innovative strategies to strengthen the company's market leadership.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Languages

Work History

Vice President

Pine Labs
Noida
10.2022 - 04.2023
  • Leading P&L for 2 categories: QR and Lounge
  • Established new revenue streams by closing strategic partnerships with other Fintech & Loyalty players
  • Closed 3 deals including a multi-crore deal
  • Leading team of 18 resources

Associate Vice President

Paytm
Noida
04.2015 - 09.2022
  • Astute Salesman: Won multiple multi-crores deals & built new revenue streams in Energy, Dairy & Emerging Businesses through Loyalty, Lending, SAAS & Payments
  • Managing portfolio that generates annual GMV of INR 70,000 crores and revenue of ~INR 400 crores
  • Pivotal in starting, building & scaling Energy business at Paytm through Strategic Partnerships, campaigns, winning tenders and building multiple use cases such as QR, EDC / POS, Loyalty, Payment Gateway & BCA
  • Experience in managing & dealing with organizations of all sizes: large corporations, PSUs (Public Sector Undertakings), Fortune 500 companies, SMEs (Small & Medium Enterprises) and Startups
  • Leading one of the fastest growing categories at Paytm doing monthly business of 150+ crores and 1 million+ MAU (monthly active users) with ~20% MoM (month on month) growth
  • Heading Government / PSUs & Private / MNC (Multi National Companies) tender filings
  • Excellent in building & harnessing strong business relationships with some of the biggest business accounts that has led to building multiple revenue streams from them
  • Managing large teams, multiple stakeholders & cross functional teams: Proven track record of leading projects with huge teams and stakeholders from Legal, Finance, Product, Operations & domestic / international hardware manufacturers
  • Leading team of 25 resources
  • Focusing on emerging businesses such as EV (Electric Vehicles), Solar companies, Lending, In-car payments, FASTag payments & Door to door Fuel delivery

Sr. System Engineer

Infosys Limited
Bangalore
11.2009 - 06.2013
  • Got promoted twice in 3.5 years tenure
  • Last responsibility was leading Regression Testing & Admin of CISCO labs at Infosys
  • Improved Automation coverage of Cisco Call Manager use cases by 25%
  • Reduced dependency on manual QA by 33% by automation & better system design
  • Built team of 4 Systems Engineers to efficiently run regression testing cycle & reduce its completion time by ~20%

Education

MBA - Sales & Marketing

Institute of Management Technology, IMT
Ghaziabad
06.2013 - 03.2015

B.Tech - Information Technology

Dr. KNMIET
Ghaziabad
08.2005 - 06.2009

Skills

    Partnerships & Alliances

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Accomplishments

  • Instrumental in increasing annual revenue by 30% within a span of 6 months at Pine Labs
  • Improved & customized the onboarding process flow to reduce GO LIVE TAT by 25% in QR Business at Pine Labs
  • Process improvement in Lounges Business, thus saving losses worth 5% of annual revenue
  • Built Gas business from scratch at Paytm to a 1.5 million monthly active users category in 1.5 year
  • 100% client coverage in LPG, ~95% in Petrol & CNG and ~80% client coverage in Dairy
  • Built strategic partnerships with all major Oil companies and installed 30,000 EDC / POS machines at Petrol pumps PAN India generating annual revenue of INR ~300 crores
  • Closed 40 deals worth INR 500 crores in FY 2021-22 across 5 different categories & 9 different products
  • Scaled up the Energy Business from 0 to 10,000 crores monthly GMV & 8 million+ monthly active users in a span of 6 years
  • Won 8 tenders in FY 2021-22 with combined project cost of INR 350 crores & margins upward of 10%
  • Won 4 deals in Dairy segments in FY 2021-22 with total deal size of 10 crores with clients such as Arvind Milk, Vijaya Dairy, MILMA & Gyan Dairy

Additional Information

  • Received 2 awards from Group MD for outstanding performance in Oil/Gas business unit
  • Awarded by Paytm Bank CEO for launch of Paytm's first EDC/POS in the market
  • Promoted 7 times in the last 7 appraisals
  • Awarded by Delivery Head at Infosys for completing reducing regression testing cycle by 25%
  • Recipient of 4 Best Speaker Awards in first 4 speeches at Toastmasters Club; Represented club at Division level in International Speech Contest


Interests

Running

Cricket

Public Speaking

Timeline

Vice President

Pine Labs
10.2022 - 04.2023

Associate Vice President

Paytm
04.2015 - 09.2022

MBA - Sales & Marketing

Institute of Management Technology, IMT
06.2013 - 03.2015

Sr. System Engineer

Infosys Limited
11.2009 - 06.2013

B.Tech - Information Technology

Dr. KNMIET
08.2005 - 06.2009
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