Ankur Nandu

Founding product leader for Motive Card, responsible for the strategic roadmap, execution, and scaling of our financial services ecosystem. * Zero-to-One Scaling: Built and scaled the Motive Card business from initial inception to ~$XXM in annualized revenue. * Scale & Volume: Overseeing a platform driving $1B+ in annualized spend for our customers. * Risk & Profitability: Engineered a proprietary risk and underwriting framework that reduced loss rates to best-in-class industry levels, ensuring sustainable hyper-growth. * Market Expansion: Spearheading the evolution of the financial services product suite into new verticals and leading our international expansion strategy beyond the US market

Led the Fleet Operations Product charter at KeepTruckin with the mission of helping Fleet managers optimize their fleet operations & maximize ROI on their fleet. Built multiple cutting-edge data driven products across Fuel, Maintenance, Fleet app, Telematics & Fleet Operations to drive higher fleet utilization & increased profitability.

• Canvass recognized by Nasscom, Software suggest & Finances Online as among top bootstrapped companies in India • Created & Launched Cloud based (SAAS) Marketing Automation software – Firecart.io. Led and grew the product to 1000+ business customers globally, handling over a million triggered emails every month. Drive product, user-engagement & marketing activities for Firecart.io • Developed a Marketing Automation Success program for Firecart - increasing product adoption by 50% • Exhibited at Gitex in Dubai in Oct 2015 to promote Firecart & the product development offerings at 36 Thirsty Media • Drove account management activities supporting existing customers to better use & up-sell product features & handle on-going product & support needs better

Led strategy for over 30+ Chargebee integrations across multiple categories - Payment Gateways, CRM, ERP & the open App Marketplace.

Led Vision, Strategy & Execution of eCommerce initiatives at Chargebee. Built the team & grew revenue for the vertical to more than 10% of the total revenue for the company.

36 Thirsty is a Software product development company that specializes in cloud based web & mobile development. Built extremely scalable products & delivered more than 50 custom projects - marketplaces, ecommerce websites, custom web & mobile apps on various web & mobile technologies like - ▪ Cloud Infrastructure – AWS, Heroku ▪ Databases – Postgres, Mongo, Redis ▪ Backend – Java, PHP, NodeJS ▪ Queuing – RabbitMQ, SQS, IronMQ ▪ UI – Angular, HTML/CSS, JS ▪ Apps – Android, Ionic, iOS Mentored 5 web & mobile startups - LocalOwls, Multplyr, Swoon, Snacked, Mytha from a product & technology standpoint. Hired & Mentored a team of 20+ rockstar developers, project managers & digital marketers from IITs & other engineering institutes across India

• Received Outstanding Achievement Award (Sept 2010) • Lead Innovator & filed a Patent on Cloud based Contextual Ads over a Wireless Infrastructure for the Business unit • Received a ‘Cisco Achievement Program Award’ within the first year of joining the team for exemplary efforts & innovation Was part of the Mobility Services division in the Wireless Networking Business Unit of Cisco and actively developed features for three products -- Mobility Services Engine (3310, 3350), Wireless Control System (WCS) & Location Appliance (2710). The Mobility Services Engine (Interop Finalist 2009) is a platform which can support multiple Services like Context Aware Services, Wireless Intrusion Prevention (Wips) that can run over a single product. These Services are offered on top of a Wireless (802.11) deployment. WCS is the Management System used to configure and manage large scale wireless deployments. Gained areas of ownership across various parts of these products.

Embedded Systems Programming Course [18-348] Designed and Conducted Labs using the Motorola Microcontroller MC9S12C32 with C Programming. Instructed a class of 30 students and held weekly recitations and office hours.

Integrated FTL driver for the Cisco IOS with FTL driver for Linux 2.6.10. Achieved complete FAT to Flash translation in Linux by porting the Cisco FTL driver.

Implemented Object Oriented Video Motion Detection on a FPGA. Performed Preprocessing and Adaptive threshold to original Video image. Executed Convolution and Scanning operations to form contour of the objects in the images. Analyzed contours of the objects in the image for further motion detection in VHDL. In this way, not only detected motion change in streaming video but also identified particular object that moved.

ISB Merit based Tuition Waiver by ISB Admissions committee ISB Deans List, Merit List (top 5%) and ISB Scholarship holder 2nd Runner up BCG Strategy Cup 2011 Consultant to a m-Commerce company; developed their India Market Growth strategy

Courses focused on specializing in embedded systems and wireless networking. Networking Courses: Wireless Sensor Networks Wireless Networking Packet Switching and Computer Networks Embedded Systems: Distributed Embedded Systems Embedded Systems Engineering Other Courses: Strategy and Management of Technological Innovation Policies of Wireless Systems and Internet

Course Taken: WSP 42: Assertiveness Skills for Business Professionals Taught by Sharon Bower, the course taught the DESC (Describe, Express, Specify, Consequences) Approach to have a con-size, well rounded discussion in a business setting while retaining assertiveness