Ankur Mehta

• Led strategic planning initiatives to align company vision with long-term growth objectives. • Oversaw execution of key projects, ensuring successful implementation and goal achievement. • Successfully raised $4M in Pre-Series B funding through equity and debt financing.

In my role as Associate Director at Plaksha University, I led initiatives to cultivate a culture of entrepreneurship and innovation. By building programs that bridge the gap between academia and industry, I empowered students to develop the skills needed to succeed in the startup world. Through strategic partnerships and hands-on mentorship, I played a key role in shaping the future of entrepreneurship at the university.

Powering Adani Group with the Consumer digital business on various Fronts - Startup POCs - Strategic Partnerships with Startups. - Investment Opportunities - Future Business opportunities for Adani Group.

Adani Digital will be a powerhouse for the Adani Innovation for it's consumer business. As a part of Program Lead for Adani Airport vertical business . I will be looking at multiple initiatives across to board to ensure completion timely manager. Adani Digital will be adding value and customer delight to our several hundred million end consumers that we serve across Adani Wilmar, Adani Airports, Adani Gas, Adani Electricity, Adani Real Estate and Adani Finserv is the top most priority by launching a unified platform for all business of Adani Group.

Leading the Developer Evangelism for Quantum Computing with Azure for Quantum - Enable developers using QDK (Quantum Developer Kit) & Q# - Partnering with Universities to Enable learning for Quantum - Building Developer base all across India with the help of Workshops, Hackathons etc.

Startup Weekend is a global network of passionate leaders and entrepreneurs on a mission to inspire, educate, and empower individuals, teams and communities. Come share ideas, form teams, and launch startups.

Partnering with India's First Blockchain Protocol Eleven01. Helping Govt. , dApps, Academic Institutions, Incubators & Accelerators. Connecting with the right stakeholders globally to empower them to use Eleven01 Protocol.

Programs designed to supercharge your innovation. The startups accepted into these programs are collectively selected by us, our corporate partners, and industry experts who are more on T-Source & T-Challenge for the corporates as well plan & implement other initiatives for open innovation. Helping the other teams / Departments regarding connects & executing the events in different parts of Mumbai, Chennai, Delhi, Gurgaon, Chandigarh & more. Previously at Ecosystem Dept. Anchored Events like Startup Corporate, Mentor & Investor Connect. Domain Meetups in different domains like Fintech, Edutech, AR/VR & Deeptech.

Got an opportunity to represent India in Entrepreneurship & Technology. About HPAIR - The Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations (HPAIR) is a student-run organization of the Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences. HPAIR organizes Harvard University’s largest annual student conferences in the Asia-Pacific region. Since 1991, they have continuously gathered a growing pool of international students from top universities, renowned academics, business professionals, and political leaders to engage in our rigorous educational events.

• Led Sales expansion in Zambia market in B2B and B2G sales structure and effective Change Management. • Understand the business needs in greater detail and technical requirement gathering from clients and coordinating with technical team to cater the business need of the customer. • Deploying new operation in a new country and independently streamlined B2B sales operational process • Negotiate the contracts and agreements with high net worth clients ( "C" level executives), managed a number of accounts across industry. • Managing order to Cash cycle and negotiating contracts and agreements with clients. • Gathering and synthesizing relevant information and data, assist in translating and analysing the market to provide client new strategic business, sales and marketing plan • Understanding customer insights and requirements in greater detail from clients to build value based solution • Developing and Managing critical tender bid documentation and operational guidelines in support of complex tendering Process. • Assist Management team in the identification of tenders to pursue contingent to relative competitiveness, workload, and capabilities. • Achieve ambitious profitable growth targets with high focus on Market Share , Customer Share and Profits. • Worked closely with procurement team of client to understand buying behaviour of clients and budget of customer • Monthly review & Analyzing the Sales report/ Dashboard, Performing analysis on the Margins, revenues and costs • Roadmap Assessment & Opportunity Prioritization. • To work on Sales forecasting. • Building reference network. • Coordinating with relevant departments for order fulfilment, to resolve customer complaints and assuring excellent customer service. • Inventory and Receivables management • Ensure the deal is closed from the enquiry generation till the Payment collections

Active Member of Operations Club Kaizen

Graduated with Honors in Business Administration, Core in Operations Management & Marketing Management. focus on Managing University Events. Received Recognition for management Fest Le Melange in 2009 & 2010.