Prattusha Mukhopadhyay

Enabling Odisha’s AI transformation by drafting the State AI Policy and operational framework, and coordinating cross-department pilots to drive ethical, scalable AI adoption across 40 government departments in areas of governance productivity, citizen readiness, and sectoral impact

- Built a performance framework for 15 salespeople, aligning them with predefined targets across 5 KPIs, reducing manual operational effort by 40% via digitising into CRM - Developed pricing and carrier strategies, through trade lane and port pair analysis, to improve Logistics vertical topline - Implemented an expansion project, by scaling sales capacity with 160+ new clients, of which 10+ were successfully onboarded in 1 month

- Led the fundraising strategies in Asia, through interlock with executive leadership to expand Noora Health's funding base, explore revenue streams, and prospect foundations in new global markets - Orchestrated strategic partnerships with think tanks to enable our plans around scaling in new geographies and advocate for health systems strengthening and caregiver education globally - Led strategic planning, budgeting, and due diligence processes to secure substantial funds for Noora Health's implementation partners in national geographies, thus establishing a foundation of local funding - Contributed towards capital allocation strategies, impact modelling and forecasting with an aim to further the firm's expansion plan in new geographies as we scale - Represented the organisation at national level forums

- Single threaded owner of global strategic projects such as prioritization of onboarding 56+ clients, year-end business planning, and implementation of an effective payout incentive tool for Nomura's EMEA sales team. - Successfully drove monetization for ~200 clients, as well as devised Sales performance scorecards and efficiency frameworks - Created senior management material for development of the firm's strategy around increasing revenues while reducing risk from several trading desks

- Strongly escalated critical issues with an asset manager, resisting relentless pressure from Sales and the client to approve a trade, thus averting a loss of $50 million when the client defaulted in the market, causing losses of $500 million across the street. - Built a first-of-its-kind checklist framework to reduce errors during credit analysis of clients that belonged to diverse industries. This led to 63% reduction in errors, and 30% lesser time in reviewing the portfolio, allowing us to expand the portfolio size of our clients effectively by 15% - Trained 3 new team-mates over a course of two months as they transitioned into the role, while single-handedly managing the existing and new clients (~3000+) of the portfolio during this period

I worked as an Intern in Equity Research,Global Markets. As an intern my role was to assist Malaysia Head of Equity Research with maintaining databases, creating charts, presentations, and attending to client requests if any. As an Equity Research intern I have attended several trainings on Financial Modelling, Accounting and Valuation. For my final year University thesis, I have modelled and valued a bank in Malaysia and revolved my case study around the key economic differences that exist in Modelling banks based in a steady economy like Malaysia as compared to a high growth economy country like India. I have also based my paper on the importance and relevance of Islamic Banking in Malaysia. A section of my research talks about the change in regulatory reforms for banks pre and post the Financial Crisis of 2008.

Manipal the Talk Network was founded in 2011 by an Alumni who wanted to have a single forum to help out students in campus. Over the years it has transformed to Manipal's biggest and most trusted Media Network. Spread over 10 colleges throughout Manipal University it caters to journalism, genre based opinionated articles, travel blogs, food blogs, a repository for several discussions and course content. MTTN also has an internal self development system in place where we train the new recruits in fields of Writing, Photography, Art, Design and Public Relations. As the Managing Editor of MTTN, I have been at the helm of the organisation with an advisory role, managing a team of 100 people from all the colleges that span the University. My main aim was to steer the organisation in the correct direction and advise the Executive Board in making the right decisions. My previous experience as a writer and then as the Head of Reporting significantly improved my ability to take up this position and made me a good fit for this role. As the Managing Editor of the largest media organisation, I learnt several key leadership lessons and often got the opportunity to tackle several challenges. This helped me cultivate emotional intelligence, agility, networking and improved my communication skills

As a Summer Intern at Tata Steel, my role was mainly to work in the Electrical Maintenance department of Blower and Pump House to facilitate my Electrical and Electronics course in college with some hands on knowledge of an industrial sector. I worked with LCI Drives in the Blower house and studied their intricate mechanisms, with an extensive industrial report on their functions and usefulness in the present day scenario.

SCIO is an NGO which has three wings: Vidya, Vaidya and Veda. It caters to providing healthcare for the underprivileged, access to diagnosis and free checkups, along with medicines. Along with this, the Vidya wing also works with providing career guidance to school kids for the 9th to the 12th Grade. Soft skills like management, diversity, working with various groups of people, and putting together a great deal of hardwork to see a few smiles, is what I achieved through my encounter at this NGO.

As a Summer Intern at Tata Power, I worked with a senior Manager to study about the Protection Systems of Transformers and Alternators at this Power House. This was mainly to increase and facilitate my knowledge of Electric Machines which I studied as a part of my major at college. Industry exposure with hands on training and working with these machines improved my theoretical knowledge in this field with great practical experience.

Major in Electrical & Electronics engineering with focus on Electrical technology, circuit analysis, digital circuits, electrical machinery, electromagnetic theory, signals and systems, digital and analog system design, signal processing, communication system, power systems, microcontrollers, generation, transmission and distribution of electricity, power electronics, instrumentation, switchgear. Electives in Data Analytics, soft computing, Lighting controls,introductory psychology and interpretation of literary texts. Minor in Business management with a focus on engineering economics, introduction to finance, Marketing, operations and Human Resources.