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Executive 77487

Siddharth's Profile

iCEO #77487

Position: Business Development Director

Nationality: India

Experience

SUMMARY A decade of leadership experience across high-tech industries in large corporations, growth-stage startups, and founding/executive leadership in early-stage startups. Expertise spans product-management, partnerships, strategic planning, business expansion, regulator relations and venture capital. Holds Master’s from UC Berkeley and an MBA from INSEAD.

Major Achievements

● Expanded business across 5 APAC countries accounting to 40% of global annual revenue, built public-private consortiums and launched world’s first digital-currency initiatives for the world’s largest blockchain consortium ● Managed product teams of up to 20 employees for 3 growth-stage and early-stage startups, led product launches and built partnership-networks winning industry accolades, reaching millions of users globally ● Built and ran $60million Corporate VC fund for a $5 billion digital security giant, managed EU and Asia portfolio; success cases include trusted execution environment (Trustonic), mPOS(iZettle), tokenization (Apple/ Samsung)

Industry Sector Competencies

E-Commerce/Internet
IT/Computer Hardware
Software
Fintech, DLT (Distributed Ledgers), Blockchain
Financial Services

Professional Objectives

Function: CEO, COO, CPO, Strategy, Business Development
Interim Manager: Yes
Permanent Position: Yes
Operational: Yes
Availability: Full time, part time
Prefered Locations: London, UK

Additional Professional Interests

Operational coaching on demand
Non executive director assignments
Personal financial investment:150-350K USD

Countries Covered

UK

Operational Competencies

Technologies to market (Expert)
Business development (Expert)
Acquisition and shadow management (Professional)
New product or service launch (Expert)
Geographical expansion (Expert)
Pre or post investment audit (Professional)

Nationality

India

Home Country

UK

Availability

Full time
Part time

Education

Hold an MBA from INSEAD and master’s in computer science from UC Berkeley.

Languages

English, Hindi

Management Experience

More than 10 years

Company Size

Start-up, SMB, Multinational

Interim Manager

Yes

Founder or Co-Founder

Yes

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Professional Matching

a timely professional matching process to identify and present the right international executives with relevant local expertise amongst our interim managers, executives, and executive investors.

Fast Selection

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Contractual Flexibility

for any executive recruitment, the clients have the flexibility either to sign a few months interim management agreement or to hire directly our vetted executives for a permanent position.

Competitive Fees

100% success fees based on executive recruitment closing. A fixed recruitment fee specific by region and unique for any salary. No retained fees. No exclusivity.