Chief Consultant
Arabian Gulf
Total years of experience :40 years, 4 Months
Made significant advancements in new business development, acquiring new clients across India and from the SAARC nations,
Asia Pacific, Middle East and Russian federation.
- Conceived, developed and leading consulting and training verticals with focus in Automobiles, Information technology,
Retailing, Healthcare, Education management, Managerial excellence, Branding, Business turnaround, Customer satisfaction,
HR, Productivity, Leadership, Global Executive coaching, Mentoring, etc. to name a few.
- Spearheading the consulting and training firm from startup stage involved in academic and corporate consulting and Training
services with annual revenue from Indian Rs. 17.2 million in 2004 nto Rs. 426.3 million in 2013
Proved to be an outstanding people leader, relationship marketer, revenue generator and profit
Headed sales budgeting, annual business plans, formulated overall strategic marketing plans, redesigned channel sales of
Nissan vehicle, parts & services across assigned market.
- Achieved a year-on-year sales growth of over 42 % after first 12 months with 5 years average growth of 37.2% and achieved
record growth for Nissan from
Spearheaded brand building plans & product management strategies and managed advertising, PR, marketing
communications, principal liaison, dealer support, customer satisfaction and staff training.
- Identified & implemented major change management programs for operational convenience & efficiency including TQM for
greater customer satisfaction & Time management programs to improve profits.
- Improved and economized the entire gamut of marketing communication activities including advertising, PR & Promotional
activities, designed and conducted extensive in-depth market research and effective direct marketing activities.
- Closely worked with product development team in Japan to coordinate market focused product development, and managed
complete product life cycle including test marketing, market trends analysis, launches achieving record sales
Identified major troubled areas, suggested counter measures to the top management and implemented major divisional
change management programs to improve profits for Ford and Mazda vehicles & automotive sales, parts, services.
- Turned around to under-performing dealerships. Reversed losses and significantly improved Profits by 250% by efficiently
managing overall sales-service-parts operations, achieved 3 years average growth of 107.5%.
- Formulated and implemented major business process reengineering programs, developed effective Sales and Customer
satisfaction training courses for executives and managers.
- Taken up extensive inter-continental travel to streamline distributor level operations, inventory with efficient supply chain
management plans, improved sales process and effectively drawn and managed marketing communication plans
Headed the overall sales and marketing operations of US$ 860 million market dealing in Lexus and Toyota car sales, parts,
services, and played key role in achieving 72% market share for Toyota in Bahrain market.
- Achieved 100% service rate in Toyota Genuine parts, solving major logistics problems, introduced efficient supply chain
management, successfully managed recruitment, training and computerization of the divisions.
- Increased significant showroom and service workshop traffic, recovered genuine parts market share in the assigned markets.
- Successfully launched several major new models including Lexus and Camry, designed & implemented distributor level CS
policies, market specific marketing communication and efficiently managed the sales & product training programs across the
market.
- Received Toyota's Sales, Parts & Service Middle East awards for 3 years
Started as one of the founding members and contributed significantly in all creative and techno-commercial functions
consisting of conceptualizing, visualizing, copy writing, script writing, photography, film making, production, client relations, etc.
and was promoted from Creative Director to Chief Executive of Indian operations after 2 years
- Generated Rs. 395 million in annual revenue from Rs. 78 million annual turnovers and established the company as one of the
top ten ad agencies in India in 4 years and played key role in achieving 4 years average growth of 73.7%.
- Exceptional performance of the Indian market offered the opportunities to head newly acquired European subsidies where
reversed the losses and improved the turnover by nearly 700% in 5 years of tenure by heading efficiently and profitably in Spain
and Cyprus markets catering clients across West Europe.
- Demonstrated exceptional business/ organizational development abilities and outstanding man management & strategic
planning skills and successfully oversaw all departments including creative, account management, production, etc. handled
many major national and international campaigns of top local and global brands.
in the role of overall profit center leader
Concept Advertising and Concept Video Phototech, India, Spain and Cyprus
in the role of overall profit center leader
Country Manager, Spain & Cyprus
Concept Advertising Video Phototech
India, Spain and Cyprus
courses: Certified Automotive Engineer
Core Competencies - Sales & Marketing - Profit Leadership - People’s Leadership - Business Development - Account Management - Motivational Leadership - Relationship Marketing - Marketing Communication - Braiding & Product Development - Strategic Planning - Business Analysis - Operations & Consulting - Coaching & Mentoring - Competency Building - Service & Quality Assurance Education
in Advertising and PR, Association of Accredited Advertising Agencies of New Zealand