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Ryan Valasapali

Co-Founder And Head Of Operations
Bengaluru,KA

Summary

Experienced and accomplished professional with 16 years of senior management and leadership experience in India and the United Kingdom. Established and managed an e learning and upskilling company, a social media digital fundraising company, a fundraising and software development company in India and regional fundraising operations in the UK. With a track record of successfully starting and executing new challenges in different sectors, I am looking for a role where I can use my ‘entrepreneurial, client acquisition/relationships, product development and operations management’ skills and experience to meet and add value to the goals of an organization

Overview

5
5
years of post-secondary education
19
19
years of professional experience

Work History

Co-Founder and Head of Operations

Finverse Upskilling Private Limited
BANGALORE, Karnataka
04.2022 - 07.2023

www.finverse.guru
Android App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=guru.finverse

• Co-Found ‘Finverse Upskilling Private Limited’, an e learning and upskilling company for students of commerce from across India
• Under my leadership ‘FINVERSE’ as a product was built that enables commerce students to upskill and find placement opportunities
• Over 70 partnerships forged with Colleges/Universities, Ngos, Government (Karnataka Skill Development Corporation- KSDC, National Skill Development Corporation- NSDC, National Service Scheme- NSS and Karnataka Higher Education Council- KSHEC) and Corporates
• Over 7000 students enrolled on the platform till July 2023
• Over 1000 lectures, 250 courses and 15 subjects in two separate languages curated by the in-house team of content writers, presenters, editors and software developers
• The product was built with three primary functions
Upskill: Over 60 hours of learning materials presented as video lectures/blogs, course assessment quizzes, self assessment quizzes. Students have the option to view their progress through report cards and institutions can monitor the progress of their students through an institution dashboard
Interact: Latest news feeds form the world of finance, podcasts, blogs and interviews with entrepreneurs and academicians
Careers: Full Time/Part Time job opportunities and paid internships

Chief Commercial Officer

GoPoolit Limited, United Kingdom
BANGALORE, KARNATAKA
05.2020 - Current

www.gopoolit.com
Android App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gopoolit.gopoolit
iOS App: https://apps.apple.com/in/app/gopoolit/id1520681643

• Co-Found GoPoolit Limited (United Kingdom) in 2020, a social media platform for the charity sector where users create content that generates funds for various causes from across five continents
• Established GoPoolit India Private Limited in 2020, a product development company with a team size of 20 developers that created the web application, mobile applications (android and iOS), country specific sandboxes and internal dashboards for the global operations
• Managed a team of business development consultants based out of India, Malaysia, Pakistan, Australia, England, North America and South America
• Onboarded over 100 charities from across the world

Managing Director

Home Fundraising India Private Limited
BANGALORE, KARNATAKA
10.2012 - 04.2020
  • • Established Home Fundraising India Private Limited (Home India), a wholly owned subsidiary of Home Fundraising Ltd-UK (Home UK) in 2012 to provide the parent company with software development and data processing services
    • Home India saved the parent company over 250,000 GBP a year between 2012 to 2018
    • Started Home India's fundraising operations in 2015 with a unique 2 stage business model. Overall revenue between 2015-2019 was 20 crore
    • From the onset, increased the average monthly ask by 60% against industry standards thus increasing the ROI for clients
    • Negotiated contracts with national and international charities worth INR 36 crores
    • Built strong infrastructures and teams consisting of head of operations, fundraising managers, client services, deputy fundraising managers, data and stats managers, quality control, welcome calling, software development and human resources managers
    • Expanded the fundraising operations from 1 city with 8 fundraisers to 4 cities with over 150 fundraisers in 3 years
    • With a team of software developers, headed the planning and execution of product development varying from an in-house donor and fundraiser management database, dashboards, gps tracking, mobile apps (android and iOS) and online tablet-based donor recruitment. With technology was able to bring down pre-export donor attrition by 25% thus saving the company about 2 crores in losses annually
    • Established new standards in the sector with employee attrition below 5%
    • As a result of strategic financial and business planning, adapted the fundraising model from a 2 stage to a 1 stage model in 2018 which resulted in a pretax profit margin of 400% against the previous three years combined

Fundraising Regional Manager

Home Fundraising Limited, United Kingdom
Sheffield
05.2007 - 09.2012

• Operations manager for the Sheffield office where I personally trained and managed over 1000 fundraisers and raised over 8 million pounds for charities over a period of 3 years
• Increased the number of fundraisers in the region by 300%
• Helped establish new regional office in Leeds and Nottingham
• Turned the Birmingham region around from a loss-making operation to the top 3 regions in the country

Call Center Executive

ADP, Accenture
Hyderabad, Bangalore, Karnataka
05.2004 - 01.2007
  • Customer support
  • Senior technical support

Education

MBA - General MBA

Sheffield Hallam University
Sheffield, United Kingdom
01.2007 - 01.2008

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics And Communications Engineering

Hindustan College of Engineering
Chennai, India
04.2000 - 04.2004

Skills

Leadershipundefined

Additional Information

· Speaker at the IFC (International Fundraising Conference) Asia in 2017, Thailand

· Speaker at IWRM (International Workshop on Resource Management) India in 2014, New Delhi

· Spent two weeks in Malaysia in 2017 to meet stakeholders and establish a subsidiary company for Home Fundraising, UK

Timeline

Co-Founder and Head of Operations

Finverse Upskilling Private Limited
04.2022 - 07.2023

Chief Commercial Officer

GoPoolit Limited, United Kingdom
05.2020 - Current

Managing Director

Home Fundraising India Private Limited
10.2012 - 04.2020

Fundraising Regional Manager

Home Fundraising Limited, United Kingdom
05.2007 - 09.2012

MBA - General MBA

Sheffield Hallam University
01.2007 - 01.2008

Call Center Executive

ADP, Accenture
05.2004 - 01.2007

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics And Communications Engineering

Hindustan College of Engineering
04.2000 - 04.2004
Ryan ValasapaliCo-Founder And Head Of Operations