Lokeya Venkatachalam

• Developed and instituted data-driven decision making strategies for supplychain product portfolio.
• Led team on end to end product development, improving logistics, manufacturing efficiencies and cost optimization across product segments.
• Developed comprehensive revenue growth model and product strategy to grow profits by 30%.
• Identified new segments for product growth and developed sales strategy taking into account the nuances of emerging market characteristics.
• Collaboratively developed a financial management and implementation plan with CEO, CFO and other leaders to effectively manage & communicate with VC's and onboard new investors.

• Global lead responsible for developing and executing the global digital & data strategy to ignite growth across all ecommerce channels: travel, tickets, electronics, apparel, home, fitness and beauty.
• Lead the digital team in identifying new opportunities to grow existing channels and pursue new channels.
• Managed 30+ ecommerce API integrations in perks at work marketplace from Priceline, Expedia, Bestbuy, Walmart, Samsung, Hertz and more.
• Global lead for all strategic partnerships including the launch of Google PerksAtWork and grew them to top 3 clients within 6 months of launch.
• Developed data & personalization strategy for site, emails, new user onboarding growing overall traffic.
• Managed all aspects of customer experience like Site UX, digital marketing, merchandising and CS system.
• Mentored team of product managers, product evangelists, software engineers and designers.

• Reporting to CEO, Co-led revenue operations for E-Commerce business managing engineering, product, sales, marketing and CS departments.
  
• Managed 2 Billion+ marketplace and grew the business and profits by 20% for 3 consecutive years.
  
• Built out team of high performing operations leaders in sales, marketing, CS and finance.
  
• Developed forecast models with finance, marketing, sales and product teams to create quarterly and annual projections for business growth.
  
• Created pricing strategy to test new product monetizations; restructured contracts to ensure scalability with the business leading to 20% increase in profits across multiple channels.
  
• Presented metrics and KPI analysis in quarterly board meetings and in weekly staff meetings.
  

• Developed roadmap and led the implementation of Hotels & Flights API from Priceline, Expedia & Hertz.
• Introduced a new personalization algorithm for hotel listings which led to 25% increase in the bookings.
• Integrated vacation rentals API into travel channel my leading team of product manager, engg and designer.

• Architected a sophisticated email platform sending 1 million emails/hour using open-source technologies. Saved the company $10M+ by implementing this in-house email marketing system.
  
• Implemented Google search solution into ecommerce site to optimize search capabilities of Perks site.
  
• Development and maintained internal tools for CS, sales, merchandising site offers and dashboards.
  
• Lead development of transactional APIs for email system, data tracking & transaction notifications.
  

• Developed a unified SOA platform that encapsulates web and communication application services. Built API's to integrate telephone focused business service into Google maps to show the resource availability in the retail stores. Implemented prototype applications, “self-service kiosk” and “DHL dispatcher”.

• Built a secure messaging system leading to a robust messaging infrastructure and integrated with healthcare affiliates. Managed “enterprise object model tool” facilitating authentication and access for users.

• Developed a data-mining tool for healthcare executives to obtain snapshots and KPIs. Designed ETL, dimensional modeling, integrated with Oracle BI.