Manish Chopra

Leading Partnerships for Facebook India across Media/Content, Platform, Workplace, Payments, BD/Growth for Facebook's family of products/platforms.

Little is an app only marketplace for deals in the burgeoning Online to Offline space (O2O). The company was backed by marquee investors like SAIF Partners, Tiger Global and Paytm among others. Little has built the largest O2O supply side infrastructure, and already offers deals from over 25000 merchants. Scaled to 2.5M users in less than 18 months. Hyper local merchant discovery, convenient click to buy, high merchant acceptance levels have led to category leading cohort and referral behavior. Running at operating profitable levels for last 6 months till exit event.

The ZOVI brand was born out of a simple yet powerful idea: Let’s locally design and manufacture high-quality lifestyle apparel and accessory products and exclusively offer them online to you at extremely reasonable prices. I joined SAIF Partners incubated venture, Zovi in 2012 as CEO and co-founder.

• Led strategy, operations, sales and product marketing, public relations, branding and citizenship programs for Microsoft Indonesia across all business lines driving significant growth across all revenue and business metrics. Mentored local country team through significant organization transformation. • Contributing to development of MBS ERP strategy for APAC along Industry Verticalisation with market analysis, opportunity sizing and competitive trends • Building awareness and clearly articulating impact of competitive actions with specific reference to “packaged pricing” approach being adopted in APAC region • Building the MBS ISV Value Proposition and approach in conjunction with HQ and evangelizing it within MS ISV Strategy team as well as ISV Community • Selected as Hi-Potential Bench leader for 7 out of the 8 years in Microsoft. Awarded Microsoft Global Platinum Circle of Excellence Outstanding Achievers in 2008. Gold 2006

Responsible for Microsoft Dynamics for APAC region

• Worked extensively in regional product and program rollouts orchestrating with WW HQ leaders and in-country execution teams balancing corporate priorities with local capacity and capability challenges • Intensive in-country projects with reseller partner organizations to drive large bid negotiations, pricing and promotion tactics • Developed and executing on launch plan for Oracle Mid-Market Applications Business across Asia Pacific in 9 countries. • Conceptualized and implementing large scale Mid-Market Demand Generation campaign using multiple market access modes • Co-developed Oracle’s Corporate Governance based Applications Solution strategy internationally.

On moving to Singapore, directed business development, alliances, consulting and operations.

• Regional P&L responsibility for India & Middle East • Started the India operations for Intiqua from scratch– grew to 60 and then through acquisition to 350 persons

Regional Practice Head for North India –Supply Chain Strategy, Cost Reduction and Process Improvement. Increased the North India business by 200% including marquee enterprise account acquisition • Selected for International secondment to Coopers & Lybrand US – Global Strategic Services Group, New York • Consistently rated as the top performer (top 5%) across the firm over the entire 7 years

Regional Sales Leader for Southern India for Lamps and Lighting Division • Orchestrated sales and promotion campaigns across key markets in four Southern India states. • Drove distribution growth in Tier 2/3 markets with 50% increased dealer acquisition