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Shefali  Arora

Shefali Arora

Agency Partner Manager, India
Gurgaon

Summary

Shefali is a Business & Sales Executive with over 15 years of successful Sales & Marketing experience. A goal oriented manager with proven leadership abilities & has been recognized consistently for performance excellence and contributions to success for Advertisers/Publishers and Partners in the AdTech ecosystem.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Agency Team Manager

Meta
Gurgaon
04.2024 - Current
  • Drive revenue and adoption of Meta’s advertising solutions by managing strategic relationships with media agencies.
  • Manage a $1B annualized revenue book of 50+ Agencies, with 6 team members reporting into me.
  • Have delivered on revenue goals for multiple years and quarters in a row, with a strong culture of a high performing team.
  • Built and grew new initiatives like : New Business Development, Agency Only Managed revenue as well as operational rigor on product goal attainments along with overall revenue goals.
  • Strong CXO relationships across Agency Founders/Advertisers/VCs driving Meta product adoption in the ecosystem via event activations and vertical roundtables.

Client Partner, Gaming

Meta
07.2021 - 03.2024
  • Led the Real Money Gaming Vertical for India & Australia managing a $200Mn yearly ad investment portfolio and guiding a team of 3 Client Solutions Manager across the vertical.
  • Transitioned the Gaming Vertical to India & worked with Marquee Clients such as : Dream 11, Games24x7 in India, and VGW, Entain in Australia.
  • Grew Dream11 during WC 2023 amidst challenges of PlayStore, GST impact via measurement backed incrementality tests driving Incremental $1.8Mn achieving 127% on Q4'23 goals.
  • Strong relationships with CXOs, agencies and executed focused on advanced measurement solutions and driving growth for top accounts by over 150% from 2021 to 2022 (VGW).
  • Evangelized conversation of DEI & hosted the first Leaders of Tomorrow event aimed at senior leaders & founders in India.

Client Partner, Audience Network

Meta
Singapore
09.2017 - 06.2021

Partner Business Development

  • Business Development Lead for Audience Network for key markets : Australia/New Zealand and India.
  • Trained and mentored new team mates and built out the GTM strategy for new product adoption in India & Australia.
  • Business from region has grown 78% YoY and contributes to 28% of APAC's revenue (2021). Acquired over 40 publishers across India and Australia in a span of 1.5 years, growing the AN business by 4x in the region.

Strategic Partner Manager

Google
Gurgaon
09.2015 - 08.2017
  • Responsible for building AdMob Ecosystem in India through - evangelizing Indic content amongst apps, hosting large scale product awareness events, building CXO relationships with top partners.
  • Built processes and team to scale partner management across top 200 clients in region.
  • Grew revenue for book consistently over 30% YoY for 7 quarters.
  • Hosted several landmark events for AdMob ecosystem in India :
    Google for Mobile & Premier Partner Circle, AdMob Code Labs & Design Sprints

Senior Account Strategist

Google
01.2012 - 08.2015
  • Responsible for Planning, Strategy and Analysis for key Healthcare clients in the North American Market & APAC market. Managed $80 Mn dollar business along with the business leads.
  • Worked on wide variety of Digital Marketing Products – YouTube, Google Search, AdMob, Google Analytics, Mobile Search and the App Ecosystem.
  • Used third party reports and measurement partners to come up with holistic plan for clients. (Appsflyer, AppAnnie, Branch)

Research Executive

Hansa Research Pvt. Ltd
04.2011 - 01.2012
  • Worked as Qualitative Research Executive. Handled key clients across – FMCG, Durables and Media Category
  • Created Research Studies to build consumer segmentation and category understanding. Built segmentation studies across markets, ethnographic understanding & positioning insights for clients.

Education

MBA - Communication Management

Symbiosis Institute Of Media & Communication
Pune
04.2009 - 03.2011

Bachelor of Arts - Bachelors in Mass Media & Mass Communication

IP College, Delhi University
Delhi
08.2006 - 03.2009

Skills

    Strategic Deal Negotiation

Partner Relationship Management

Design Thinking

Research & Analytics

Media & Communication Planning

Performance coaching

Stakeholder management

Managing operations and efficiency

Accomplishments

  • Awarded multiple Gold Awards, Performance Excellence for achievements at the APAC and Global level both at Google & Meta
  • Lead the Knowledge Initiative & Ted Talks for the Global Gaming Team.
  • Working Moms Chapter Lead @ SG and India growing the Women@charter for the region
  • India's Representative for the Roger Hatchuel Academy at the Cannes Ad Festival, 2011
  • Piloted the Internet Saathi Program at Google to bridge the digital literacy gap in India. Scaled program to train over 50Mn women in Tier II and III cities.
  • Certified Design Thinking Trainer & Own the Room Trainer. Conducted over 100 trainings with a satisfaction score of 4.9
  • Media Delegate at the Harvard Project for Asian & International Relations


Timeline

Agency Team Manager

Meta
04.2024 - Current

Client Partner, Gaming

Meta
07.2021 - 03.2024

Client Partner, Audience Network

Meta
09.2017 - 06.2021

Strategic Partner Manager

Google
09.2015 - 08.2017

Senior Account Strategist

Google
01.2012 - 08.2015

Research Executive

Hansa Research Pvt. Ltd
04.2011 - 01.2012

MBA - Communication Management

Symbiosis Institute Of Media & Communication
04.2009 - 03.2011

Bachelor of Arts - Bachelors in Mass Media & Mass Communication

IP College, Delhi University
08.2006 - 03.2009
Shefali AroraAgency Partner Manager, India