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, CA05-2011
B.Tech - Aerospace Engineering
IIT Bombay
Mumbai, India06-2007
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