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Shariq Plasticwala

Bangalore

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience

Work History

Founder, CEO, Board Member. Mission: world's best performing arts education for students & teachers in India

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.

CEO (until Dec '20), Board Member. Mission: transforming healthcare for patients & providers in India

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. 

Director. Mission: transforming the way India buys, sells & pays

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. 

Education

MBA -

Stanford Graduate School of Business
Stanford, CA
05-2011

B.Tech - Aerospace Engineering

IIT Bombay
Mumbai, India
06-2007

Skills

    Timeline

    Founder, CEO, Board Member. Mission: world's best performing arts education for students & teachers in India

    Kafqa
    02.2021 - Current

    CEO (until Dec '20), Board Member. Mission: transforming healthcare for patients & providers in India

    Medisync
    10.2019 - 12.2022

    Director. Mission: transforming the way India buys, sells & pays

    Amazon India
    08.2011 - 09.2019

    MBA -

    Stanford Graduate School of Business

    B.Tech - Aerospace Engineering

    IIT Bombay

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