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Tarun Shekhar

Tarun Shekhar

New Delhi

Summary

Innovative sales and marketing professional in electronics components industry bringing progressive career spanning entrepreneurship, operations, sales and marketing, business management and distribution in domestic & international markets. Known for strong leadership and communication skills to build and maintain profitable relationships while exceeding sales and revenue goals.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience

Work History

India GSD Leader and Manager- Product Marketing

TDK
New Delhi
01.2022 - Current
  • YoY biz, market share and Gross margin growth of responsible products
  • Product promotion
  • Coordination among factories, sales, distributors and customers for seamless supply chain and lead time.
  • Analyze ICT market in India, emerging applications and prepare strategy to target potential customers
  • Budgeting and forecasting
  • Pricing, Customer relations, technical presentations, Tech training.

Founder and CEO

FITNANO TECHNOLOGIES
11.2017 - 01.2022
  • eveloped and implemented a comprehensive business plan to launch the company. Company formation, regulations, certifications etc.
  • Preparing financials (Balance Sheet, P&L, Term sheets etc with accounting team)
  • Product positioning, go to market and pricing strategy.
  • Handled Sales & Marketing activities, product development, supply chain management.
  • IP creation, filed 4 patents and 1 trademark
  • Investment pitch decks, grant and schemes submissions.
  • Government Relations, Investor relations
  • Incubator, Accelerators and exhibitions

Country Manager

LuGuang Electronics (LGE)
Shenzhen And New Delhi
09.2015 - 10.2017
  • Started company operations in India
  • Evaluated total market for right product mix, estimated TAM and SAM and expected business growth
  • Identification of key customers, go to market strategy
  • Channel management (Signing new distributors, supporting them with payment terms, samples and technical information)
  • Technical training of products to Customers and Distribution application teams
  • Overall brand image of the company

Sr Application and Marketing Engineer

STMicroelectronics
11.2011 - 08.2015
  • Application support on Analog, MEMS and sensors products to customers in India region
  • Technical training to Distributors
  • Product demo preparations
  • Technical marketing of AMS
  • Support sales team on all technical aspects.

Field Application Engineer

Arrow Electronics
06.2008 - 11.2011
  • Application support on Texas Instruments products in north India region
  • Technical presentation and decks
  • Customer visits with sales and solving their product related issues (technical and commercial both)
  • Products : Analog and Digital like MCU, Power supply ICs, Analog IC, EEPROM, RTC, ADC etc

Design Engineer - Hardware

Indoasian Fusegear
09.2006 - 05.2008
  • Design and development of Power supplies and LED drivers
  • Schematic, PCB assembly, hand soldering, testing of final assembled PCB

Education

PGDM - INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF FOREIGN TRADE - IIFT DELHI
01.2011

B.TECH - ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING

SIET
01.2006

SCHOOLING -

SUMMER FIELDS SCHOOL

Skills

  • Idea Development and Brainstorming
  • Networking
  • Financial Management
  • Business and Go to market Strategy
  • B2B Marketing and Sales
  • Relationship Building
  • Analytical thinking
  • Project Management (Software and Hardware)
  • Visionary Thinking

Awards

  • Awarded "Best Application Engineer" by Texas Instruments for the year 2011 among all 5 distributors.
  • Awarded by STPI as Startup Leader in 2018
  • Awarded Best solution in security category by Elets (Product selected and developed by us) in 2018
  • Research project "Suppply chain management in Semiconductor Industry" selected among top 5 research projects in MBA

Hobbies and Interests

  • Traveling, Trekking and camping
  • Visit to ancient temples
  • Outdoor Sports (Cricket and Badminton)
  • Photography
  • Watching movies and series based on real life
  • Cooking and eating experimented food

Timeline

India GSD Leader and Manager- Product Marketing

TDK
01.2022 - Current

Founder and CEO

FITNANO TECHNOLOGIES
11.2017 - 01.2022

Country Manager

LuGuang Electronics (LGE)
09.2015 - 10.2017

Sr Application and Marketing Engineer

STMicroelectronics
11.2011 - 08.2015

Field Application Engineer

Arrow Electronics
06.2008 - 11.2011

Design Engineer - Hardware

Indoasian Fusegear
09.2006 - 05.2008

PGDM - INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF FOREIGN TRADE - IIFT DELHI

B.TECH - ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING

SIET

SCHOOLING -

SUMMER FIELDS SCHOOL
Tarun Shekhar