Founder, General Management | Eating Circles | Chennai
● Researched extensively to bring utmost authenticity to the Carnatic cuisine in Chennai; visited interior parts of Karnataka over 15 times to understand the cuisine and build connections with potential workforce.
● Built a restaurant considered one of the best in the metropolitan city with over 15,000 restaurants across reviewing platforms; rated 4.5+ across Zomato, Swiggy and Google; Established the restaurant as a go-to spot for national icons across sports, film industry and politics like Virat Kohli, Anushka Sharma, Ravi Shashtri.
● Led a united team of 34 people from different parts of India and Nepal, speaking five different languages and from three different religions to deliver unique dining experience to over 500k patrons over last three years
● Gave interest free education loans over 37 lakhs to the employees to facilitate education of their children; achieved attrition rate of less than 10% in the last two years through empathetic leadership (way below industry average)
● Identified pain-points and the mistakes for the lack of profitability in my first outlet, corrected and perfected the business model in the second outlet which today gives a ROCE of over 60%
● Held the brand strong and provided full-fledged support to the team without any layoff during the tough period of Covid.
Head - Digital Initiatives, General Management | Infinitheism | Chennai
● Led transformation from a physical organization to digital-first, a need-of-the-hour during Covid; This shift helped us transcend physical boundaries and increased topline by over 30% in the past two-years
● Built a social media presence from scratch achieving over 900k subscribers across social media platforms (Facebook, Instagram and Youtube) and over 60 Mn cumulative views
● Led a team of five to build a digital learning platform as an ancillary revenue line that gained over 2,500 paid subscribers and generated revenue of over 2.5cr till date.
● Started vernacular Tamil channel that gained 15k Youtube subscribers and 500k views in under three months
● Identified and enabled the closure of two unsustainable business units like our magazine vertical and growth stores that weren’t achieving their objectives, saving over 1cr per year in costs
Franchise Owner, General Management | Havmor | Chennai
● Started an ice cream parlor right below my restaurant which was on average getting 600 walk ins at the time
● Negotiated with over 10 different franchises, went ahead with Havmor for their quality and superior distribution network.
● Made a strategic decision to pivot and sell the franchise to the distributor himself to generate cash needed to sustain my primary business and main cash-cow, Eating Circles, during the incredibly difficult Covid phase.
Business Partner Associate, Human Resources | D. E. Shaw | Hyderabad
● Promoted to Business partner within four-months; key point-of-contact between Directors based out of Hyderabad, and remaining 300 employees at various levels in the organization, reporting directly to the Director of HR.
● Conducted three off-sites, the organization wide sports day, and 15 exit interviews; identified turnover drivers and common pain-points in the exit interviews and presented it to leadership to reduce attrition by the targeted 5%
● Awarded 30% raise (highest of associate class) and the highest bracket of variable compensation for performance
Associate - Operations and Recruitment, Human Resources | D. E. Shaw Research | Hyderabad
● One of four out of 350 students to get selected ; Worked closely with the strategic head in NY, understood complex organizational HR needs, digitally sourced competent candidates and prepared a document for strategic evaluation