Aakarsh Kalra
Director, Business Analytics & Strategy at ServiceNow
Business Analytics |Forecasting| Revenue Optimization | Product Analytics | Strategic planning | Insights
I am astute analytics professional with a passion for delivering actionable insights from complex data analysis to drive strategic business planning and execution. 

Highly skilled in breaking down findings into easily digestible recommendations that support operational goals and provide an enhanced understanding of key business drivers. 

I have a passion for coaching and mentoring analytics teams to excel both in technical skills and thought leadership. I embrace ambiguity and love to roll up my sleeves and find facts from data to enable data-driven decisions across the organization.
ServiceNow
https://www.linkedin.com/company/servicenow
San Francisco Bay Area
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Director, Business Analytics & Strategy
Salesforce
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Global Marketing Analytics & Strategy
Malwarebytes
https://www.linkedin.com/company/malwarebytes
- Provide Key Performance Indicators (KPI's) to the senior leadership team and present strategic growth levers to C-level management.
- Built Analytics team responsible for ensuring data integrity and consistency across different sources.
- Generate consumer insights to identify growth opportunities via digital marketing or product experimentation - Develop performance analytics across different teams for understanding B2B and B2C related metrics like lead generation/retention/funnel conversation/cohort analysis to drive deeper insight and for forecasting and planning.
- Responsible for rolling out a single source of truth (via analytics applications) to enable data-driven decisions across different teams
San Francisco Bay Area
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Director, Growth Analytics
Malwarebytes
https://www.linkedin.com/company/malwarebytes
•	Serve as a subject matter expert on drivers and opportunities for rapid growth testing encompassing customer acquisition to user activation and engagement.
•	Oversee complete corporate forecasting and financial planning, to build out plans for future periods
•	 Utilize knowledge and experience with data mining and quantitative analysis, SQL and data warehouse architecture. Leveraging Domo/Tableau/Excel for creating powerful visualizations.
•	Monitor industry trends and develop processes based on best practices for business analytics.
Santa Clara, California
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Sr. Manager, Business Analytics & Strategy
Malwarebytes
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Sr. Manager, Sales Analytics
Pandora
https://www.linkedin.com/company/pandora
•	Working closely with Sales Leadership to recommend strategies based on historical trends of revenue data.
•	Partnering with stakeholders in defining business analytics roadmap and collaborating with cross-functional teams to implement the same.
•	Leading a team of BI Engineers to iterate on development of dashboards and following a monthly release cadence to push updates to end-users.
•	Developed a Revenue Pacing dashboard which enables executive management to track and monitor the effectiveness of forecasted sales revenue more accurately.
•	Successfully migrated Sales Analytics platform from Cloud9 to Birst.
•	Designed and facilitated training sessions across different locations for sales managers, VP’s and executive management in the US resulting in improved adoption of the platform.
•	Responsible for managing all vendor relations for sales analytics.
San Francisco Bay Area
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Sales Analytics Manager
Salesify
https://www.linkedin.com/company/salesify
•	Working closely with the CFO and Management team to build out the next generation analytics platform.
•	Leading a team of engineers and managing all the data driven initiatives in the company and responsible for developing the data pipeline for the core product using different ETL tools and databases like Redshift, MySQL.
•	Extensively working on product development using big-data and using No-SQL database like MongoDB as back-office.
•	Delivering reports and Dashboards in Tableau to end-users and Management Team on a regular basis.
•	Closely working with the project delivery team and enabling them with different tools to achieve quicker delivery times for internal and external projects.
San Francisco Bay Area
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Senior BI Engineer
Financial Engines
https://www.linkedin.com/company/financial-engines
Working as Sr. Software Engineer in Analytics Applications Team. Our team is focussed on building new applications and products using various Business Intelligence tools like OBIEE Answers, BI Publisher and SSIS to implement BI solutions.

As an integral part of the team I am responsible for building these applications as per the business requirements and come up with design proposals and solutions to trivial and complex issues.

Some of my main responsibilities include:

1) Requirements gathering from business counterparts.
2) Understanding the requirements and coming up with a design solution for the same.
3) Implementing the solution depending on the scope of the project.
4) To build a complete solution all end to end coding starting from writing stored procedures and SSIS packages to build the final report.

Possess extensive report development experience using BI Publisher 11g. The latest available tool in OBIEE suite. Using BI Publisher 11g we have developed pixel perfect reports to data intensive reports required by the sales team.
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Senior Software Engineer
Infosys
https://www.linkedin.com/company/infosys
Currently working with Infosys Technologies Ltd as Business Intelligence Professional, implementing Data warehousing Solutions for different clients. 
On Technical Front i am proficient in DataStage and Informatica as an ETL Tool and Cognos for Reporting. Also quite comfortable in PL/SQL, Unix Shell scripting and creating medium to complex queries in Oracle.

My current work profile includes responsibility of both ETL and Reporting domain and also active involvement in Requirements Gathering analysis and providing deep analysis for a project to roll out.
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Sofware Engineer
B.Tech
Electrical Machines,Telecommunications,Electronics
Mahraja Agrasen Institute Of Technology
St.Francis De Sales School
One of the most recent projects I have undertaken is IRA Onboarding. Financial Engines launched IRA services sometime last year and Onboarding was the interface between Financial Engines and the end customers. 

I was deeply involved in this project and was a critical member of the project team. We used SalesForce platform for this implementation and introduced SalesForce in Financial Engines. 
During the project my work revolved greatly around developing the UI application for Onboarding and I implemented a lot of that using Apex and Visualforce.

The final outcome of the product was highly appreciated by internal and external customers and given the limited knowledge we had with the technologies made it even more challenging and exciting to work on.
IRA Onboarding
Reach and Impact report is one of the key client facing reports for the company. This report visually and statistically describes to the customers the value of service provided to them by Financial Engines.

I was deeply involved in designing and developing the report using BI Publisher 11g.  To develop this report BI Publisher 11g was imployed and there was no prior expeirence in the company with that tool. I stepped in at that time and undertook the report implementation module using BI Publisher 11g and achieved very complicated UI requirements for the report.

The project was a huge success and we received a lot of appreciation internally and also from Oracle on extensive and out of the box usage of BI Publisher 11g. 

Reach and Impact Report is one of the most appreciated reports by the customers and has set new benchmarks of reporting internally.
Reach and Impact
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San Francisco, CA
Jon Logan
Director of Program Management at ServiceNow; ex-eBay, ex-Symantec; 10+ years at startups… I put Jacuzzi on the Internet
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Dublin, CA
Sandhya Gopalan
Chief of Staff, Netskope
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San Francisco Bay Area
Rajasekhar Konda
Data Infrastructure Engineering  (Machine Learning Platform) at Apple
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United States
Christina Yeung
Marketing Strategy & Analytics at Salesforce
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Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex
Shameem Syed
Senior Member Of Technical Staff at Salesforce
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San Francisco Bay Area
Siddhi Vakil
Personalization & AI product manager  at Zillow
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San Francisco, CA
Sergio Sa Filho
Manager at Accenture
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Sacramento, CA
Jimil Patel
Software Engineer | Student Assistant | Teaching Assistant | Master's in Computer Science
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San Francisco, CA
Karin Flores
Vice President, Strategic Events, Customer Experience Center and Programs
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New York, NY
Kushal Dalal
Strategy & Operations at Slack
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Palo Alto, CA
Deepak Masand
Global Head of Growth Marketing - HP Inc.
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San Francisco Bay Area
Abhishek Shende
Principal Software Engineer at Zillow Group
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Hyderabad
Eswar Kumar Mudigonda
Consultant/Digital Transformation at Infosys
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Los Angeles, CA
Kevin Siegel
Vice President at Sard Verbinnen & Co
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Greater Seattle Area
Vibhore Agarwal
Strategy and Analytics at Google
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Denver Metropolitan Area
Shawn Rogers
VP Analytics Strategy and Corporate Marketing at TIBCO
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Gilbert, AZ
Akbar Jaffer
B2B Marketing Leader | Startup Advisor | Expert in technology-driven Marketing transformation | Brand, Product and CRM Data Expert | Chief Marketing Officer/VP Marketing
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Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area
Pramod Singh
Chief Analytics Officer, Vice-President Data Sciences and Analytics
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        I’ve had the pleasure of working with AK on critical analytics for our corporate events over the past year and have found in him an engaged, trusted, and strategic partner. As we worked through transitioning from physical to digital events, AK was an indispensable partner in analyzing performance and predictive data we needed to drive our strategic evolution. AK is engaged, dependable, and takes the time to fully understand his stakeholders’ business needs in order to deliver sound analysis.  Christina Yeung
      
          



            
              
        
              
  

    
        I’m lucky to have worked with Aakarsh, a manager who is not only interested in helping the company move forward, but who is also invested in his directs' professional growth’s. Because he has many years of experience in analytics across various lines of businesses, he knows how to bring a strategic lens to problem solving while leveraging data to do so. He also knows how to motivate the team by inspiring and mentoring the team members and you’d be lucky to have him on your team!
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