Vish (Vishwajeet) Chatterji

I coach and advise clients on a breadth of topics, from work and business challenges to personal issues, across all sizes of business, from large corporations to small businesses to early-stage startups. I have experience across a variety of industries from technology to healthcare to consumer goods to manufacturing to services and international coaching experience across North America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Whether it is gaining clarity on a business strategy or managing challenging peers, I support clients in growing their business and income, uncovering and aligning to their deeper mission, getting their passion projects off the ground, selling their businesses, writing books, making movies, launching products, getting promotions, negotiating deals, all the while improving their leadership skills, overall health and sense of well-being.

Executive coaching and leadership development, empowering high-achieving professionals to access their full potential and drive meaningful organizational impact through better human-to-human connections.

Business Casual Yogi – can you even do yoga in business clothes? At first business and yoga may seem incompatible, till you realize most working people are always trying to find some way to improve themselves. I was a working professional, rising through the ranks, to higher levels of income, responsibility and mind-numbing stress. In the midst of that life, I found the system of yoga (beyond just the poses), as the most powerful set of practical tools to attain calm, focus and career success in a balanced and healthy way. The Business Casual Yogi offers a systematic method to cultivate self-improvement – in work, in relationships and in life.

Cofounded enterprise software startup; built product, commercially launched and brought to early revenue an innovative Internet-of-Things (IoT) Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution. Openversa is a unique, flexible data-extraction platform to help liberate operational intelligence and marketing insights from Internet connected products to help companies better understand how consumers use their products. Explore at www.openversa.com

Product Development lead for advanced embedded & application software projects reporting to SVP in $500M global market leader in wireless AV control technology. 4X stock growth during tenure. • Productized, marketed and commercialized revolutionary embedded SW technology to enable simplified AV control for major global TV, Cable and Game Console customers • Pioneered consumer insight based strategic initiative to prioritize key consumer pain points generating 200+ product concepts • Directed design, development and launch of advanced AV remote control apps for tablets and smartphones across Android and iOS platforms for global markets

Product planning, development and marketing lead, reporting to General Manager, in fastest growing Internet of Things division at $1B multinational consumer electronics company. • Created worldwide product strategy and roadmap of WeMo smart home products • Defined go-to market strategy and executed creation of new green IoT category in consumer electronics retail • Launched 5 new products with regional variants for US, Canada, UK, Germany, France, Australia • Supervised marketing team to develop global product positioning and marketing materials; created packaging, product bulletins, web content, photography, product videos and online advertising campaign •Identified key consumer needs through primary and secondary research to drive future product development •Developed white-space analysis of adjacent business opportunities identified strategies in water conservation and home automation

Founded internal startup, focused on home energy management technology, resulting in Conserve & WeMo Products Division with portfolio of energy conservation and smart home products. • Managed P&L and grew revenue 400% in first year • Launched retail products worldwide, gaining placement in 30+ retailers including Home Depot, Walmart, Target, MediaMarkt, Tesco, Carrefour & Harvey Norman • Spearheaded innovations process to create new to the world home energy management products • Pioneered Belkin process to synthesize consumer insights and codify into business, product and marketing strategies • Crafted M&A strategy, identified competency deficiencies and initiated partnership discussions to support growth • Built relationships with utility industry players to identify key needs and architect smart grid in-home technologies

• Managed product plans, volumes, pricing & financial case for 3 global vehicles with $2B yearly revenue • Developed differentiated vehicle specifications to create 3 vehicles across Dodge, Jeep and Chrysler brands from a single vehicle platform • Supported negotiations with alliance partners for joint vehicle projects leading to Chrysler partnership strategy • Performed anthropological-style consumer research to identify US Gen. Y attitudes driving vehicle platform choice • Gained top management approval to pursue future global compact car platform with $4B+ revenue potential • Guided engineering team during $1.3M Design For Six Sigma (Voice of Customer) research and specification

Selected by top management for exclusive executive management development program, involving 4 assignments across the globe and 5 week-long immersion sessions at Mercedes-Benz Headquarters focusing on management and leadership training. • Chrysler Global Product Marketing - Developed future compact car strategy • Chrysler China Product Portfolio - Managed China vehicle portfolio & identified vehicle import opportunities • Mercedes-Benz Vehicle Engineering - Designed steering system solution for AWD RHD E Class - patent pending • Daimler Hybrid Center - Assessed long-term strategic options & business strategy around hybrid technology

Outperformed MBA peers in business case competition and offered summer engagement working with world-renowned team of offshoring experts • Developed RD&E strategy and managed pilots offshore projects for automotive supplier to outsource engineering work to India

Managed and performed engine control software development and vehicle testing to meet EPA and Ford standards. Tested and refined engine performance in hot-weather, cold-weather & altitude environments, wind tunnels, emissions labs and test tracks. • Launched 3 Ford SVT vehicles over 4 years with 12-18 month development cycles vs. traditional 48 month cycle • Programmed engine control software and defined engine specifications to increase vehicle output from 320 to 400 horsepower, resulting in 4.6 second 0-60mph times for 2003 Mustang Cobra • Redesigned cooling system for Ford Mustang performance models after discovering unaddressed customer complaints -implemented $1.2M solution eliminating overheating problems performed 160mph track test to verify cooling system performance under high performance race conditions

Graduated with Distinction