Krishna Kumar

Current

• Director - Business Development at mKhoj Solutions Pvt.Ltd

Past

• Subsidiary Product Marketing Manager at Microsoft
• Associate Director - Mobile Services at Rediff.com India Ltd.
• Regional Head at Cellnext Solutions Ltd.

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Education

• Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning

Recommended

18 people have recommended Krishna

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Wireless

Websites

• Mobile VAS
• http://www.facebook.com/people

Krishna Kumar’s Summary

Passionate, Thoughtful and Self driven with Business acumen and Entrepreneurial zeal. I want to leverage my skills, experience and strengths towards building and growing business with aggressive velocity.


Career Summary:

Result-oriented business leader with 11+ years of experience in the areas of Business Development, Product Management, Sales, Alliances, Strategy and Execution in the Wireless, Internet and Software services space.

Career Mission:

To build/lead an organization providing world class services to its customers through an enjoyable work culture. An organization whose stakeholders (Employees, Customers, Investors, Business Associates, Government, Society) are proud to be associated with it.

To contribute in the overall growth of 3P’s - Profit, People & Processes of an organization through a process of continuous learning.

Krishna Kumar’s Specialties:

Mobile Entertainment, Mobile VAS, Mobile Content, Strategy Formulation, Execution, Business Development, Account Management, New Products and Services conceptualization and roll-out, Negotiation, Deal closure, Team Building.

Krishna Kumar’s Experience

• Director - Business Development

  mKhoj Solutions Pvt.Ltd

  (Wireless industry)

  December 2008 — Present (8 months)

  In this challenging economic scenario I help people in making money.
  Any one who has a mobile site and wants to make money through it please drop me a mail
  
  kk at mkhoj dot com

• Subsidiary Product Marketing Manager

  Microsoft

  (Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

  November 2006 — December 2008 (2 years 2 months)

  - Business Development: Defining and executing strategy for MSN’ D2C mobile business for India. This involved revenue forecasting; evaluating business model; partner alliance, service road map, and launch.
  
  - Product Management: End-to-end execution of MSN mobile browse portal product for Indian market, involving conceptualizing, designing, developing, deploying and launching.
  
  - Cross Group Collaboration: Working with cross functional team.
  
  - Strategy: Building business strategy along with senior leadership team for WEMMA project.

• Associate Director - Mobile Services

  Rediff.com India Ltd.

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; NASDAQ : REDF; Wireless industry)

  May 2004 — November 2006 (2 years 7 months)

  Strategy Formulation and Execution: Formulating and Executing strategy for mobile business by managing a team of Business, Operations, Content and Online.
  
  Business Development: Closely working with the Marketing team of all operator circles across India for achieving revenue targets and services rollout.
  
  Revenue Target: Setting and achieving revenue target for the business.
  
  Additional Responsibility: Team build up (Recruitment, KRA setting, Training and Development). Process Management. Design, Development and Roll out of new products and services.

• Regional Head

  Cellnext Solutions Ltd.

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Wireless industry)

  August 2001 — April 2004 (2 years 9 months)

  * Business Development: Independently planning and executing sales.
  
  * Revenue Assurance: Closely working with operator’s marketing and technical team for growing and maximizing revenue potential. Understanding needs of individual operators.
  
  * New Products and Services: Conceptualization, Development, Deployment and Launching of revenue generating new products and services with cellular operators. Feature enhancements to existing products and services.
  
  * Additional Responsibilities: Coordination with Delivery and Customer support team for operations. Managing high level of customer satisfaction. Auditor for ISO implementation.

Krishna Kumar’s Education

• Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning

  MBA , Management, Marketing, , May 1995 — March 1997

  CGPA: 4.65/5

  Activities and Societies:

  Public Speaking, Dramatics, Management Forum

Additional Information

Krishna Kumar’s Websites:

• Mobile VAS
• http://www.facebook.com/people

Krishna Kumar’s Interests:

Reading, Writing, Public speak, People Development

Krishna Kumar’s Groups:

* Member, Laxmi Devi Dhiran Kanya Society, Nagpur. Its an education society which runs 5 educational institutions in Nagpur having a combined strength of over 2500 students.

•    Mobile Marketing Association
•    TEN - Top Executives Net
•    MobileMonday
•    Mobile Monday India
•    Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning
•    Mobilists (Innovators in mobile industry - 3900+ members)
•    The Indus Entrepreneur
•    Social Media Marketing Intelligence

Krishna Kumar’s Honors:

* Organising committe member MobileMonday, Mumbai Chapter.

* Guided group of 6 students from Symbiosis Institute of Telecom Management on the Project Mobile Value Added Services. (2004-2005)

* Published article in Express Computer on ‘Mobile Value Added Services’. http://www.expresscomputeronline.com/20031201/technology01.shtml

* Resource person for Hindustan Times for conducting workshop on soft skills for school students in New Delhi. Year 2002.

* Volunteer at National Association for Blind, New Delhi for recording books. Year 2002.

* Won over a score of individual and team prizes in various public speaking and dramatic competitions at National, State and Regional level.

* Kulpati's Best Student Award for the year 1994-95 at Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan.

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