Anurag Hakeem
Experienced business and technology leader with over 5.5 years of proven success in driving growth, profitability, and innovation. Skilled in digital strategy, product development, financial management, and strategic planning. Adept at leading diverse cross-functional teams across Asia to launch new services, optimise operations, and scale innovative solutions that deliver measurable and sustainable business results.
Work Experience:
5.4 Years
Industry:
Media | Technology
Function:
Finance | Marketing | Project & Program Management
Adtomica (Singaporean marketing agency operating across Asia & Europe) | Gurgaon
- Director - Finance & Partnerships
- Spearheaded cost reduction initiatives across verticals by eliminating redundant services and enabling employee upskilling strategy to achieve cost reduction of 30%.
- Launched path-to-profitability plan with the leadership team and monitored key profit-driven KPIs against the targets to increase revenue by SG$ 200,000 and achieve profit of SG$ 180,000.
- Devised go-to-market strategy for web development services focusing on start-ups in Asia-pacific region - led market sizing initiatives, performed benchmarking and evaluated investment required to launch the service to increase the overall revenue by 10%.
- Led a cross-functional initiative to launch a program that optimizes the lifecycle of a new businesses lead, resulting in 23% reduction in conversion time and 25% improvement in achieving quarterly targets.
- Headed business conversion program for tech vertical to identify and onboard 3 new businesses, resulting in revenue of SG$50,000.
- Led tax optimization initiatives with the accounting team across Singapore and India by streamlining bookkeeping process to reduce yearly non-taxable components to SG$1,000 (95% reduction) and optimize yearly ITR filing time to 3 weeks(40% reduction).
Moonvault Partners (Metaverse-focused NFT platform in Asia) Gurgaon
- Web3 Creative Technologist
- Formulated the go-to-market strategy with the CXOs to adopt for a NFT aggregator marketplace product (vs a traditional NFT store) in Asia, resulting in quarterly revenue growth of 30%.
- Led a cross-functional global team of 20+ people to revamp the website and simplify the customer journey, resulting in 20% increase in user engagement.
Adtomica (Singaporean marketing agency operating across Asia & Europe) Gurgaon
- India Head & Creative Technologist
- Founded the tech vertical and spearheaded projects to launch technology capabilities such as AR, AI chatbots, websites and mobile apps for multiple customers resulting in additional sales of SG$ 50,000( 20% of total revenue).
- Led cross-functional teams for digital marketing campaigns across social media platforms and ecommerce stores for the company’s biggest 2 retainer clients in Singapore, generating SG$ 10,000 revenue per month.
- Designed operational processes for India and evaluated key KPIs to track and enhance project quality & employee satisfaction.
- Spearheaded hiring initiatives to build India team by establishing a comprehensive onboarding handbook to condense onboarding time to 3 days ( vs 7 day average onboarding time in previous quarter).
Publicis Sapient (Global digital transformation consultancy) Bangalore
- Associate - Experience Technology
- Developed AR capability for a leading American FMCG company to smoothen users’ interaction with online products resulting in 25% improvement in average user session time.
- Managed website codebases for a leading American FMCG company to enhance code coverage to 95% (from 88%).
- Awarded Top Business Talent at Adtomica for generating the highest business and financial impact across Asia Pacific
- Fast-tracked promotion at Adtomica; promoted in 9 months (vs. 14-month average) for successfully setting up the India team in record time
- National Hackathon Runner-Up; ranked 3rd among 100 teams for developing an NFT-based authentication system for COVID vaccine certificates
- Selected Global Speaker at Publicis Sapient XT Summit; presented AI-driven CX use cases to 5,000+ attendees to highlight business growth opportunities
- Received Pre-Placement Offer from Publicis Sapient; recognized among top 10% of interns for creating a tool that streamlined HR onboarding processes
- BE(Computer Science), M.S. Ramaiah Institute Of Technology, Bangalore
- Product Management, Great Learning
- Data-driven Decision Making, PwC
- Financial Analysis Fundamentals, Corporate Finance Institute (CFI)
- Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, KPMG
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals, Microsoft
- UX Foundations: Multidevice Design, Udemy
- The Web Developer Bootcamp by Colt Steele, Udemy
- Excel 2010 Essential Training, Udemy
- Introduction to Cloud Computing, Udemy
- Intro To Web3, Buildspace
- Speaker Series Coordinator at IIM Ahmedabad; spearheaded CEO/CXO engagement, bringing leaders from high-growth firms to strengthen industry ties and IIMA brand
- Tech Vertical Head, Profile Committee at IIM Ahmedabad; led tech revamp of profile portal, improved peer profile quality, and executed official batch photo shoot to enhance brand visibility
- Conceptualized a growth strategy that scaled annual revenue by 10x for an Edtech firm during a consulting fellowship program
- Authored an internationally published paper on forensic suicidal analysis using machine learning; achieved 99.7% model accuracy (vs. 88.6% average) in detecting suicidal tendencies by analyzing user tweets
- Volunteered with the National Service Scheme to organize blood donation drives and provide educational support to underprivileged children in Bangalore