Anand Deshpande
Strategic Partnerships at Mercury
Strategic Partnerships @Mercury, Startup Advisor, Angel Investor
Anand helps early stage startups use their data to find PMF and inform product/services, plan GTM strategy and build scalable, automated systems for effective customer engagement and management. He is an angel investor, advisor/mentor and board member for a small personal portfolio of startups.

Anand is also the founder of A Letter from the Chef where he is a storyteller that uses recipes, cooking and food traditions to help people understand and empathize with one another most effectively.

https://www.thisisanand.com/
https://www.aletterfromthechef.com/
Mercury
https://www.linkedin.com/company/mercuryhq
San Francisco, California, United States
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Strategic Partnerships
500 Startups
https://www.linkedin.com/company/500global
San Francisco Bay Area
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Startup Mentor
GSV Ventures
https://www.linkedin.com/company/gsvventures
San Francisco Bay Area
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Startup Mentor
A Letter from the Chef
Contained in a recipe is a treasure of knowledge. Look deep enough and a dish tells you what’s available and what’s scarce for the cook, what’s important to them to show off- their medicine, religion, politics, history, economics. It’s all in the food that’s served to you. In short, a recipe is a letter from the chef connecting you to them in the most intimate, human, life-giving way.

A Letter from the Chef helps people empathize and understand one another using food as the catalyst for conversation. Anand teaches history through cooking, culture through conversations around food and the human condition through pop up restaurants: aletterfromthechef.com
San Francisco Bay Area
Founder
Segment
https://www.linkedin.com/company/segment-io
- Created and managed a multi-million dollar ARR pipeline flywheel
- Automated the majority of the Startup Program to ensure low cost and high return, making it the most profitable acquisition program at Segment
- Established and developed partnerships with strategic tech partners, investors and startup communities
- Spoke at numerous startup events and panels
- Mentored dozens of startups in choosing stacks, getting started with data tracking and deciding how to look at the metrics that matter to them
San Francisco Bay Area
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Head of Startup Program (Growth/Acquisition)
Segment
https://www.linkedin.com/company/segment-io
Forming hypotheses on what moves the needle in customer engagement, churn reduction and growth
Analyzing data to inform the likelihood of those hypotheses
Creating and executing experiments to test the efficacy of a program and its methodology in this area
Building and maintaining programs for engaging, growing and upselling customers at their point of need, at scale
San Francisco Bay Area
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Scaled Success Strategy
Segment
https://www.linkedin.com/company/segment-io
Business Operations within the Success organization with work focusing on project and program management skills in a highly cross-collaborative environment
San Francisco Bay Area
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Customer Experience & Operations
Lyft
https://www.linkedin.com/company/lyft
Worked on sales team to establish and grow corporate travel partnerships with SMB and strategic clients, NGOs, educational institutions and healthcare providers.
San Francisco Bay Area
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Enterprise Account Manager
WittyParrot
https://www.linkedin.com/company/wittyparrot
-       Headed client onboarding, account management and customer growth initiatives for WittyParrot's larger enterprise customers
-	Onboarded new customers, delivering both training and expertise in setup
-	Provided professional consulting services for best practices and customized use of product in existing operations
-	Wrote blog posts and aided marketing
-	Supported sales process, working directly with leads
-	Performed initial outreach for inbound leads
-	Ensured customer success during sales/trial period
-	Managed account questions, product related problems and overall assistance in use
San Francisco Bay Area
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Head of Customer Success
Startup Institute
https://www.linkedin.com/company/startup-institute
- Completed career accelerator course focused on tech startup skills and culture.
Greater Boston Area
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Student: Sales, Account Management and Business Development
Anthros Inc.
https://www.linkedin.com/company/anthros-inc
-	Created brand for new company, including name, themes and logo
-	Established baseline of content such as mission statement and language
-	Understood and translated CEO’s thoughts into an actionable vision
-	Worked with graphic and web designers to form brand and web presence by effectively explaining high level goals and granular details
-	Communicated directly with the CEO to interpret his ideas into a realized vision for the brand
Orlando, Florida Area
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Branding Consultant
Joshi Technologies International, Inc.
https://www.linkedin.com/company/joshi-technologies-intl-inc
- Created a three phased sustainability initiative including the formation of a policy, reporting and structuring guidelines and shared value programs to increase attractiveness to investors and financial institutions, decrease risk and increase productivity of employees and of invested capital. 
- Worked with multiple teams of varying language, skill and knowledge in America, India, Ecuador and Colombia to learn and improve the business model and on-ground operations, and engaged them in increasing sustainability.
Tulsa, Oklahoma Area
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Sustainability Consultant
Intram Investments
- Worked at an investment company which specializes in commercial real estate with the goal of understanding basic corporate finance and financial engineering. 
- Researched and created white papers for presentations on potential investments.
Orlando, Florida Area
Corporate Finance Apprenticeship
Live Green
https://www.linkedin.com/company/live-green
- Created marketing and communications materials, involving both content and design.
- Coordinated content management systems and outreach, including website, correspondence with potential partners and monthly newsletters with personally created content such as featured articles.
- Handled the firm’s client-facing communications and customer support needs by email, phone and in-person.
Washington D.C. Metro Area
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Marketing and Communications Intern
Ashoka
https://www.linkedin.com/company/ashoka
- Evaluated social entrepreneurs for sponsorship and fellowship
- Engaged in small projects involving hybridized value chains, marketing and potential private sector partners as well as personally led mapping projects to improve efficiency and project streamlining within the organization
Arlington, VA
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Global Venture Associate
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) with Honors
My academics have focused on the function of institutions, i.e. government, NGOs and businesses, in sustainable development of society as well as sustainable self-development. My primary focus has been on business, and my internships and course work have given me experience and interest in corporate sustainability and social enterprise. My academic background has given me the tools to work with the private sector to create positive impacts in the sustainable development paradigm while further improving the companies' bottom lines. Such win-win situations can be created through hybridized value chains, social business units and redesign of production, among other things.
Sustainable Development
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Emory University
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- 1 of 15 students chosen to participate in a year long program focused on service, community building and leadership.
- Undertook a community project to explore the effects of institutional racism on Emory's undergraduate body.
- 3 hrs/week
Ethics and Servant Leadership Forum
Participant
- Coordinated monthly cultural and educational outreech events including food, entertainment, financing, rentals and decorations for over 500 people, free of charge
- Began term with a budgetary deficit, but ended presidency with over $2000 budget surplus
- 20 hrs/week
Hindu Students Association
President, Vice President, Discussion Chair, Freshman Representative
- Group of selected delegates formed by school faculty to facilitate cross-cultural and interreligious dialogue and projects of reconciliation. 
- Took trips to New York, Washington, D.C. and the Carter Center to engage with scholars on the topic and to partake in training workshops on the issues of cultural reconciliation and non-violent community action.
- 3 hrs/week (varied)
Interreligious Council
Delegate
- Organized the group’s “Adopt-a-Road” program and co-sponsorship of volunteer events with other campus groups
- 4 hrs/week
Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity
Philanthropy Chair
- Helped in the creation of a community-supported agriculture system for a local refugee-run farm
- 8 hrs/week
Slow Food Emory
Vice President
- Facilitated women's health, agency and enterprise in the slums of Pune.
- Worked with city officials and ecologists to find new modes of slum and city infrastructure to reduce environmental impact of city and increase livability of the city.
- 30 hrs/week
Pune Megacity Project
Volunteer
- Built demonstration farm with local team to teach and create synergized agricultural methods for local farmers to employ.
- 60 hrs/week
Biodynamic Farm
Farmhand
Received for the completion and successful defense of an honors thesis in the senior year of the BA or BS curriculum in addition to a GPA of or above 3.5. Honors thesis titled "From Slums to Skylines: The Effects of Mumbai Slum Rehabilitation on Economic Inclusion".
Emory University Office of Awards and Honors
Distinction of Honors
Given to top 5% active undergraduate senior class found through faculty and student nomination, followed by board vote.
Emory Alumni Association
100 Senior Honorary Award
Given to students who have been cited as future scholars in the field of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies by senior faculty of the department.
Emory Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies
Outstanding Promise in Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies
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Phi Eta Sigma National Honor Society
Received this distinction while enrolled at Emory College.
Office of the Dean
Dean's List
Code School
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Try SQL
https://www.codeschool.com/courses/try-sql
https://www.linkedin.com/in/whitneyaclark
San Francisco Bay Area
Whitney C.
Head of Core Customer Experience at Mercury
https://www.linkedin.com/in/bbodner
San Francisco, CA
Beth Bodner
Fighting food waste at Afresh
https://uk.linkedin.com/in/aryan-pillai-90006a108
London
Aryan Pillai
Associate - EMEA Trade Support, Rates at JPMorgan Chase & Co.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kochryan
Washington DC-Baltimore Area
Ryan Koch
Veteran, technologist, and passionate problem solver
https://es.linkedin.com/in/fermin-garcia-2831a1134
Martorell
Fermin Garcia
Founder & CEO en Canigó Serveis Geriàtrics / Business & Geriatric consultant
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tullykatherine
Seattle, WA
Katherine Tully
Software Engineer at Afresh
https://www.linkedin.com/in/amrdixon
Washington DC-Baltimore Area
Anna Dixon, PhD
Researcher, Data Science and Machine Learning
https://www.linkedin.com/in/philip-wheat-088970
Pflugerville, TX
Philip Wheat
Senior Technical Architect, R&D at FlashParking
https://www.linkedin.com/in/astroniklas
Greater Sacramento
Niklas Henricson
Senior Software Engineer at All Weather Inc.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregg-weaver-53905342
Brownsburg, IN
Gregg Weaver
Senior Software Engineer at Mandolin
https://www.linkedin.com/in/cathleenturner
Raleigh, NC
Cathleen Turner
Senior Software Engineer at Perch
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffreynolan
Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area
Jeff Nolan
Empowering Digital Customer Service for FinServ
https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-nelson-97bb28105
New Orleans, LA
Eric Nelson
Leadership Coach
https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielsullivan88
Boston, MA
Dan Sullivan
Vice President, Growth and Partnerships at Cuseum
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dalebertrand
Greater Boston
Dale Bertrand
SEO Strategist | Keynote Speaker | Business Coach | Text AUTHORITY to 66866 for my Authority First SEO Strategies Guide
https://www.linkedin.com/in/yoavlurie
Boulder, CO
Yoav Lurie
SaaS Entrepreneur, Operator, and Investor Focused on Scaling Impact Companies | EHF Fellow
https://www.linkedin.com/in/bconstantin
Atlanta Metropolitan Area
Bogdan Constantin
CEO at Voxie - We’re hiring!
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jnpayne
Los Angeles County, CA
Josh Payne
Entrepreneur & Investor
https://www.linkedin.com/in/victorrico
Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area
Victor Rico
Connecting the world privately.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessicameher
Boston, MA
Jessica Meher
CEO + cofounder, Wonderment. Startup advisor. Angel investing in minority-owned businesses. (Jess@wonderment.cc)
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        Had the pleasure of working with Anand over the last year. His skills go beyond an ability to do the job—he has the ability to connect with clients on the sales side, while moving projects forward from a PM perspective. His ability to balance long run and short run sales cycles and implementations for large, complex accounts make him a key asset with customers. Anand creates lasting relationships that push conversations forward and stay top of mind. Being client focused, he also manages company needs when prioritizing project execution. Always the internal advocate for clients, he manages expectations both internal and external, ensuing a successful long term customer relationship. As an example, I had a number of clients that had multiple points of contact at Lyft, but would go to Anand first and rely on him as a trusted advisor. He would be an asset for any company big and small lucky enough to hire him.
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        I worked with Anand on many customer deployments and in his role handling the account management of existing corporate and SMB customers. He's great at establishing a personal relationship with key contacts, as well as organizing and timelining touchpoints and/or project work. He does this while staying focused on value - ensuring customers get the benefits that THEY care about from their WittyParrot solution.  

Anand doesn't hesitate to bring up any issues he notices to the wider team and suggest solutions. He always does what he says he will, or he'll flag it in plenty of time if there's too many projects on and we have to reprioritize (which happens in a start up often!) Plus, he's just a pleasure to work with
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Founder and Chairman of Persistent Systems
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Nasik
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Chief Operating Officer (COO) (Retired) Reliable Autotech Pvt Ltd.
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Pune
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Program Manager at Birlasoft CSM® &  SAFe Agilist®
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Pune
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Manager Sales at ABB
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India
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DGM - Utility at Alok Industries Limited
Content Marketing Group
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Sustainability Working Group
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Customer Success
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Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) & Sustainable Development (Sustainability)
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CSR Jobs
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Emory University
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Queer Mornings
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Emory Sustainability Alumni
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Branded Content Strategy
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Content Management Professionals
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Sustainability Practitioners
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