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    Ankur Jain

    Ankur Jain

    I am now solving India's higher education problem at Sunstone as CBO
    I am also the founder of HostelFund- a platform to mentor and fund student startups, India's 1st student fund. Mentored 200+ young student entrepreneurs and invested in 5 of them.

    Sales India Insat University '10
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    Experience
    Sunstone
    Sunstone
    Chief Business Officer (CBO) 2021 - Present (over 5 years)
    HostelFund
    HostelFund
    Founder, Founder 2020 - Present (almost 6 years)
    We invest in Student Startups.
    YourStory
    YourStory
    Director Business Development 2018 - 2019 (about 1 year)
    Lead the sales and BD team to generate top line and maintain the bottom line for the company by opening new streams of business.
    Amazon
    Exit
    Amazon
    Regional Sales Manager 2016 - 2018 (almost 2 years)
    - Part of the founding team,which is working to offer Indian customers the fastest and most reliable service to buy leading national brands of daily essential products for... more home delivery across categories in less than 2 hours
    - Leading the Partner (All National & Regional Retail chains) ecosystem in NCR
    -- To on-board new partners across consumer categories.
    Bharti Airtel
    Bharti Airtel
    Business Head Franchise Retail- Punjab, Haryana & HP 2015 - 2016 (about 1 year)
    Heading a team of 15+ zonal managers, who manage 200 franchise retail stores and around 700 front end retail staff.
     Sales of airtel products and delivering world class... more customer service are the key deliverable of this role.
     Develop the airtel retail presence in all major towns of HPHP by opening new stores and managing sales and operations of existing stores.
     People development, franchise ROI, partner management, self and team career growth are key focus areas
    National Operations Manager- Franchise Retail 2013 - 2015 (about 2 years)
    postpaid Sales, prepaid, DTH, Telemedia; Achieved financial and service targets of 1700 Franchise stores PAN India
    Launched new stores PAN India
    Ensured all Franchisees... more & Staff imbibe Serve to Sell as way of life
    Implemented & ensured SOP, CE Guidelines are followed across PAN India
    Increased the productivity of stores by collaborating with product teams and other support functions to make full use of Retail channel
    Honoured with Director’s Gold Award

    National Product Manager- Emerging Business 2012 - 2013 (over 1 year)
    Designed Genre Top Line and Content Strategy for Education products on Mobile, Internet and TV
    Steered revenue, new product development & content innovations in Education... more segment

    Worked across Circle VAS relationships (21 different locations), Vendor Management and led approx. 20 partners
    Devised 4 new mobile/ internet products, which are first of its kind and generated 300 MN INR topline in its first 6 months
    Best Product (Counseling services on Phone) by mBillionth in 2013
    Liqvid e Learning
    Liqvid e Learning
    Strategic Alliance Manager 2010 - 2011 (over 1 year)
    My role was to help company enter into B2C space of Education. The top priorities included to work closely with Mobile operators, Device manufacturers, Online companies to... more sell Education products
    Connect2MBA
    Connect2MBA
    Founder, Founder 2008 - 2010 (over 1 year)
    India's first B-school on Second life. The vision was to create marketplace for students, aspirants and professionals and bring them to one common platform.
    Received India's... more one of top emerging startup by Prorto.in
    I had to shut it down after getting some traction because of few reasons, which are I didnt keep aside operational fund for 2 years, Good Internet connectivity was still not available everywhere, students are still figuring out a way to learn online
    Atos Origin
    Atos Origin
    Oracle DBA 2006 - 2008 (about 2 years)
    Managed 11 clients of Atos Origin Netherlands & Belgium.
    Founder
    Connect2MBA, HostelFund
    Employee
    Amazon, Bharti Airtel, Atos Origin, Liqvid e Learning, YourStory, Sunstone
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    About
    Achievements

    Director Award for best Retail Unit in 2015-16

    Director Gold Award in 13-14 to deliver Serve to Sell model in India's 1000 stores

    Director Gold Award in 14-15 for Franchise Retail stores to Airtel Express

    Describe the most impressive thing you've done.
    Skills
    Revenue Growth Sales and Marketing Vendor Management Product Management Retail Sales Team Management
    Locations
    United States Dubai London China United Arab Emirates Australia Singapore
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