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Work History
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Expertise & Interests
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Sachin Kumar

Sachin Kumar

Product Management
New Delhi

Summary

A product management person with experience of building and leading cross-functional teams across Industries including Clean Energy, EVs, Payments and marketplace. 2x Founder, 1x exit. Have been part of 3 other Early/Growth stage ventures

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education

Work History

BATTERY ENERGY STORAGE

AZURE POWER
08.2021 - Current

Azure Power, a NYSE listed renewable energy organization, is one of the largest renewable energy organizations in India

  • Started energy storage vertical at Azure
  • Bringing domain expertise to organization and helping build organization’s internal competencies in energy storage
  • Evaluated and participated in battery storage opportunities of ~$450Mn
  • Conducted Techno-commercial evaluation and optimization of solutions to participate in opportunities

CEO & Product Head

PANINE ELECTROMOBILITY
04.2018 - 07.2021

Panine was India’s first Electric Vehicle Batteries subscription and battery life cycle management platform for light EVs. Panine was acquired in early 2022 by another EV organization

  • Built and led 13 people cross-domain team from Software Development, Data Science, Battery Tech and IoT to build India’s first EV Battery subscription and battery life cycle management platform
  • Created battery life cycle management intelligence platform based on coherence of utilization principal and by methodology of Use, Re-Use, Repurpose and Recycle to maximize ROI to 458%
  • Led development RTBOS, for Real-time connected Battery Operating System
  • Optimized product cost by 42% vertical integration and process optimizations
  • Closed several business partnerships for collaboration and business set-up
  • Increased ARR from $8K+ to $100K+ during pandemic

Product & New Initiative

CBIX
02.2017 - 03.2018

CBIX was Business Opportunity & Information intelligence closed Network in Infrastructure intelligence and Commercial Real Estate. CBIX was acquired by Prop-Tech organization in 2018

  • Built & led product team and piloted for new vertical
  • End to End product management
  • Planning, Strategizing and laying out development plans for product and features and scheduling product releases
  • Laying Product development road map and prioritizing product and features based on current strategies
  • Working with remote teams to align on plans and strategies
  • Started new initiative which became organization’s core offering
  • Designed product and UX for new product
  • Converted closed network product to semi-open platform
  • Handling end to end demand generation
  • Handling quantitative marketing efforts which includes Google Adwords, Linkedin

Chief Product Officer

Qpaycash
07.2016 - 01.2017

Founding member of Qpaycash as a new group subsidiary for Nakshtra Group which was into e-commerce and Education. Qpaycash was a mobile-only semi-closed e-wallet which was created for Hardwareless Highway Toll collection along with other e-wallet functionalities

  • Led product and UI design along with technology team which involved intersection of software and hardware expertise
  • Developed the prototype as well as tech lay out for product functionality
  • Led the hard pivot after gathering customer feedback and primary research
  • Beta roll out for a closed user group to test initial hypothesis and product functionality
  • Laid out growth and expansion strategy with short and long term goals

Product Consultant

Independent Consultant
06.2016 - 11.2018
  • Led a project to develop LFP battery pack and BMS for storage of 5kWh in low current and low voltage environment
  • Guided development of LFP battery pack for automotive industry of 9kWh running more than 2000 cycles with high power requirements
  • Consulted three consumer electronics products from scratch to mass scale manufacturing
  • Consulted on designing Test System and Refining Product for Pay As You Go solar system


Founder & Product Head

Illumind
09.2013 - 04.2016

Started Illumind as a solar product start-up, focused on household consumers with greater details in design, technology & user experience

  • Developed world’s most compact solar lamp cum power bank “i-Diya” and executed mass scale manufacturing to successful commercial launch
  • Built & Led team of 14, to develop home automation module for automating electrical appliances based on user behavioral analysis
  • Developed UI and functionality road map for Smart Solar System App
  • Developed Smart Solar System with Li-ion storage

Education

Bachelor of Technology - Electrical Engineering

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, BOMBAY
MUMBAI
07.2010 - 06.2015

Skills

Energy storage

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Accomplishments

  • Winner of Eureka, IIT Bombay business plan competition, out of 6000 participants worldwide (2014)
  • India Winner & Global Finalist of Global Student Entrepreneurship Award held in Washington DC by Entrepreneurs Organization (2013)
  • Nominee of International Finance Corporation Social impact Award, Washington DC (2013)
  • Nominee BASES E-Bootcamp organized by Stanford University (2013)

Expertise & Interests

 

  • Energy Storage - End User Application Development
  • Application Specific Battery Storage modelling
  • Blockchain in Clean Energy

Timeline

BATTERY ENERGY STORAGE

AZURE POWER
08.2021 - Current

CEO & Product Head

PANINE ELECTROMOBILITY
04.2018 - 07.2021

Product & New Initiative

CBIX
02.2017 - 03.2018

Chief Product Officer

Qpaycash
07.2016 - 01.2017

Product Consultant

Independent Consultant
06.2016 - 11.2018

Founder & Product Head

Illumind
09.2013 - 04.2016

Bachelor of Technology - Electrical Engineering

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, BOMBAY
07.2010 - 06.2015
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