Shariq Plasticwala

Bangalore

Overview

years of professional experience

Kafqa

02.2021 - Current

Identified an opportunity to create high quality arts education inspired by centers of excellence in the US.
Hired & grew diverse team across product, technology, performing arts, sales, ops, finance, HR to 200 members.
Engaged with school boards, global & India experts, universities to create the service; BII feedback score of 4.6/5.
Built products across student, teacher, school experiences, internal tools & traffic channels across 7 art styles.
Acquired a company to grow content distribution, managed governance & shareholder engagements.
Scaled to 500,000 trials; 30,000 paid students & 800 teachers; became India's largest classical arts academy.
Raised $5M capital, grew net revenue to $3M, contribution margin to +12% & company valuation to $27M.

Medisync

10.2019 - 12.2022

Identified the opportunity to provide quality care at low prices by digitally upgrading under-utilized hospitals.
Co-founded an asset-light hospital chain offering surgical, maternity, general & emergency healthcare services.
Built products for patient experience, clinical quality, demand generation channels and provider experience.
Improved clinical quality from 35% to 78% (BII: 85%); accelerated hospital revenue growth rate from 8% to 18%.
Scaled to 1M out-patient; 30,000 admissions annually with 25 hospitals, 3,200 beds & 2,300 staff across 3 cities.
Became largest hospital chain by beds in Bangalore; $30M of network revenue; delivered +4% contribution margin.

Amazon India

08.2011 - 09.2019

Led Amazon Pay balance across digital, cash, corporate, retail GC loads. Scaled issuance to $900M (+100% y/y).
Launched everyday use cases (bill pay, ticketing) on Amazon serving paying & consumption beyond shopping.
Scaled adoption of everyday use cases to 10M MAU (+125% y/y), TPV to $1B (+210% y/y).
Navigated significant changes in regulations to preserve CX & deliver growth in Amazon Pay balance.
Engaged with regulators (RBI, UID) on influencing regulations for the PPI license & KYC compliances.
Led acquisition & integration of a company to accelerate technology development of every day use cases.
Set up Amazon's first JV in India (spinning out a 120 member internal team) enabling SMB sellers to sell digitally.
Acquired & managed 30,000 sellers delivering $250M GMS. Managed team of 500 across 20 cities in India.

Stanford Graduate School of Business

Stanford, CA

05-2011

IIT Bombay

Mumbai, India

06-2007