Sanjay Kothari

Experience

Exit

MileWise

Founder

MileWise

Board Member

Start-upIQ

Product & Business Principal 2015 - Present (almost 10 years)

Yahoo!

Product Partnerships, St. Director 2013 - 2015 (almost 2 years)

The Boston Consulting Group

Project Leader 2004 - 2009 (about 5 years)

JPMorgan

Summer Associate, Investment Banking 2002 - 2004 (about 2 years)

SK Consulting

Principal, Independent consulting venture 2001 - 2002 (about 1 year)

The McKenna Group

Senior Consultant 1998 - 2001 (about 3 years)

Morgan Stanley

Associate, IT 1996 - 1998 (about 2 years)

Founder

MileWise

Employee

Morgan Stanley, Yahoo!, The Boston Consulting Group, JPMorgan, The McKenna Group, Start-upIQ, SK Consulting

Board Member

MileWise

Education

About

Achievements

Taking MileWise from idea to exit:
- Designed & built a real-time, personalized payments & travel search engine that showed & ranked all the ways to pay (Cash, Miles, Points).
- Innovated UI/UX such that travelers visited us even when just searching for cash, and several elements now part of Google Flights
- Secured agreements with leading airlines to be 1st partner to show award inventory & loyalty data.
- Negotiated sale to Yahoo! in 2013.

Describe the most impressive thing you've done.

Skills

Business Development Business Plan Consulting Consumer Products Customer Relationship Management Due Diligence E-Commerce Electronics Information Technology Infrastructure Investment Banking Lbo Marketing Management Messaging Pricing Project Leader Project Management Start-Ups Transcription Video Wireless Product Management Product Development

Locations

California

Sanjay Kothari

Product & Business Exec: Founder & CEO @MileWise - Acquired by Yahoo!, BCG, Morgan Stanley, UC Bekeley: MBA, BA: CS & Econ