Anil Aktaran
Sr. Manager, Product Management at Honey
Product Lead at Honey (joinhoney.com)
Product leader with deep experience building B2B2C products and marketplaces with tens of millions of participants. I am passionate about transforming the way people work and conduct commerce, and have been fortunate enough to hone my craft at industry-changing companies like LinkedIn and Honey.
Honey
https://www.linkedin.com/company/honey-inc-
I lead a team of PMs who work on our Cashback Rewards & Offers products, which enable tens of millions of shoppers to earn $100M+ of rewards every year and help thousands of merchants acquire customers at unrivaled efficiency. 

Between 2018 and 2021, I led our Offers team to deliver on our long-term vision to build the most-effective market making platform for shoppers and merchants. In addition to crafting frictionless deal discovery experiences & a real-time price-optimization platform that converts ad spend into targeted SKU-level deals, I had the pleasure of leading enterprise go-to-market planning and building a brand new ad insights & operation discipline at the company. We grew the product from 0 to $XXM of revenue and 1M+ users within one full year of launch, and tripled revenue in our second year. 

Between 2018 and 2020, I also led our Discovery & Personalization teams. Highlights included: 

--Launching the homepage & userfeed experiences on the iOS Honey Smart Shopping Assistant, which debuted as the #1 app on the App Store and has been used by tens of millions of shoppers since launch.
--Category classification models for use in our discovery experiences and personalization models. Included standardizing over 200K unstructured categories from 1K+ stores. We classified over ten millions of products with 95%+ precision. 
--Personalization models that leveraged dozens of intent signal types from different Honey platforms to drive deal and Offer recommendations on all of top-of-funnel surfaces.
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
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Sr. Manager, Product Management
Self
Freelance Consultant
Mave
Santa Monica, CA
Product Manager
LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/company/linkedin
I work with a lean team of world-class engineers and analysts to develop internal data products that revolutionize the way sales is done. We aspire to make every person in our salesforce wildly successful at their job and to transform our customers' business with actionable insights they can only get through LinkedIn. Over the past year, the LinkedIn salesforce has used our products to prepare for and close tens of thousands of deals worth ~$1B. Highlights: 

Merlin for LinkedIn Talent Solutions (PM). Our flagship product with intelligence on over 1M companies. 80% of LTS salespeople visit Merlin every week to engage customers & prospects with compelling insights they can use to transform their business. 

One Magic Wand (PM). An application to generate sales presentations that are tailored to the user and the company they are engaging. Used for over 150K sales conversations annually. One Magic Wand has driven boiler-plate pitch-decks to extinction at LinkedIn: our users have created 30K unique narratives since the inception of the product and every single presentation includes insights that are specific to the company/person seeing it.

Talent Analytics and Audience Insights (PM, Designer & Developer). Research reports that enable talent acquisition professionals and executives to optimize their hiring strategy using LinkedIn insights. Includes 15K auto-generated research reports for popular audiences and a pilot templating/ETL platform analysts leverage to make their analyses infinitely scalable. 

InMoments (PM & data developer). A hackday project that turned into one of the most successful marketing campaigns in LTS history. Final project consisted of a web app & email campaign that celebrated the individual achievements of 50K LinkedIn recruiter users with personalized stories & data.
San Francisco Bay Area
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Program Manager
LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/company/linkedin
Worked on 1-3 month projects to drive revenue for LinkedIn Talent Solutions through insights content & data product prototypes. Highlights: talent migration data framework that is now used for dozens of engagements with governments/cities, platform for analysts to automate audience insights, first campaign with personalized insights in field marketing, “Billion Dollar Startup” award winner for an initiative to pilot LinkedIn Recruiter solution at scale.
San Francisco Bay Area
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Senior Insights Analyst
LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/company/linkedin
Created custom research reports derived from LinkedIn data to further our relationship with the largest Talent Solutions customers in Eastern US. Leveraged SQL, Hadoop, Tableau & Python. 

Created the go-to-market narratives for the Staffing vertical. Revamped our core quarterly ROI narrative for existing customers, which has since been used 70k+ times. Set up the initial analyses that formed the backbone of the narratives & scaled the ETL to 1M companies and 250M members on Hadoop.
San Francisco Bay Area
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Insights Analyst
Glass, Lewis & Co.
https://www.linkedin.com/company/glass-lewis-&-co-
Conducted research on the corporate governance practices of U.S.-based public companies, with an emphasis on executive compensation.

Development and maintenance of quantitative and qualitative models used by the U.S. and European teams for analyzing compensation issues and for consistent data-collection. Oversight of the verification and analysis of compensation data generated by the models.

Developed Python-based “model builder” application to standardize creation of analytical models for use in markets requiring advisory votes on executive compensation.  

Trained and supervised a team of proxy research associates.

Worked on white papers and special reports that leveraged data collected for thousands of companies. 

Participated in conference calls with institutional investor clients, public company executives, and general counsels regarding Glass Lewis's executive compensation policies and research papers.
San Francisco, CA
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Senior Research Analyst
Duke University Press
https://www.linkedin.com/company/duke-university-press
Managed the submission and peer-review process for several editors in the Books Acquisition department.
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Senior Editorial Assistant
BA
Literature
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Duke University
https://www.linkedin.com/school/duke-university/
High School
TEVITOL
https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-guttman-63b8543
Thousand Oaks, CA
Michael Guttman
Cloud and Software Architect
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rochellelchan
San Francisco, CA
Rochelle Chan
GTM, Sales Strategy & Planning @ Snowflake
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaisor
Anaheim, CA
Jordan Marinov
Director Of Engineering at Honey (PayPal)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alix-dejernett-24217258
New York City Metropolitan Area
Alix DeJernett
Insights Program Manager at LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/hart-clervil-b909b0a0
New York City Metropolitan Area
Hart Clervil
Data and Analytics Manager at Twitch
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lyntran37
New York, NY
Lyn Tran
Data Analytics & Insights @ LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessine
New York, NY
Jessine van As
Senior Insights Program Manager at LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tatianagalzy
New York, NY
Tatiana Galzy
Insights Manager at LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/katiestohs
Denver Metropolitan Area
Katie Stohs
Insights at LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ana-pinto-00
Brooklyn, NY
Ana Pinto
Insights Analyst at LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/elysia-shaw-850b03a0
San Francisco Bay Area
Elysia Shaw
Program Manager at LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidporche
Greater Chicago Area
David Porche
Insights at LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/iuliastefan
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
iulia stefan
Sr Insights Program Manager at LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/pascalezaki
San Francisco, CA
Pascal Ezaki
Insights & Analytics Leader at LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurenengelke
New York, NY
Lauren Engelke
Global Strategic Accounts Insights Analyst, Marketing Solutions at LinkedIn
https://cn.linkedin.com/in/sherryfan
Beijing, China
Sherry Fan
Product Manager at Tantan (探探)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/willhamlin
San Francisco, CA
Will Hamlin
Product Lead at Pinterest
https://www.linkedin.com/in/camerongore
Hermosa Beach, CA
Cameron Gore
Product Manager at Amazon
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Duke University Alumni Network
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DukeGEN - The Duke Global Entrepreneurship Network - Main Group
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Music at LI
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