Sai Sreekanth

Current

• Senior Product Manager, Emerging Markets at Yahoo

Past

• Technology Development Manager, Emerging Market Solutions at HP
• Chief Technology Officer at Axcend India Private Limited
• Senior Project Manager at Siemens Public Communication Networks Ltd

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Education

• Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore
• UVCE, Bangalore

Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Sai Sreekanth’s Summary

• Versatile executive with deep experience in creating and launching innovative new technology products and services in Emerging Markets. Conceived and rolled out several technology and online consumer products/services in the areas of city/neighbourhood portals, mobile services, social networking, local language media sites, development services in the areas of governance, agriculture, education and health at Yahoo! and HP.

• Have passion, empathy and broad background in technology, business strategy to create a large impact in the area of technology for development in emerging markets. Intimately understand emerging market economies, their socio economic conditions, user needs and understand the Indian (South Asian) context particularly well. Have managed the development of an extensive set of locally appropriate scalable, replicable set of solutions. Have established partnerships with best of breed solution providers, NGOs, community organizations to deliver holistic solutions.

• A technology management professional with over 15 years of work experience in large multi-national software and telecom product companies (Yahoo!, HP and Siemens). Adept at understanding user needs, preparation of business cases, strategy, high level concepts, product development, product marketing, go-to market strategies, to enter and grow new/existing product/service areas.

• A business administration graduate from IIM, Bangalore and computer science engineering under graduate from UVCE, Bangalore with an excellent academic record all through. Among the top 5 of the class throughout. Good analytical skills, excellent verbal and written communication abilities and a strong team player.

Sai Sreekanth’s Specialties:

Product Management, Product Marketing, Technology for Development, Technology for Emerging Markets, Online consumer services industry (Internet, Telecom), India technology services industry, India and Emerging Markets expertise

Sai Sreekanth’s Experience

• Senior Product Manager, Emerging Markets

  Yahoo

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; yhoo; Internet industry)

  September 2005 — Present (4 years 4 months)

• Technology Development Manager, Emerging Market Solutions

  HP

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; hpq; Information Technology and Services industry)

  April 2003 — September 2005 (2 years 6 months)

  Responsible for technology development, deployment for emerging markets. Understanding needs, conceptualisation, design and development of technology solutions for the underserved emerging markets

• Chief Technology Officer

  Axcend India Private Limited

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

  October 2001 — March 2003 (1 year 6 months)

  Axcend was a Canadian Mentor Capital(very early stage investment with mentoring) company that invested in early stage Telecom product/Intellectual Property (IP) companies based in India. Along with the CEO of the company, I have evaluated over 200 investment opportunities in one and half years with the company. My responsibilities included providing the technology understanding within the company, initial scouting, technology feasibility analysis, understanding of the concerned markets, study of competition, assessment of team capabilities and covered detailed due diligence of short listed deals. Have had constant interaction and built relationships with students and professors from academia (covering IISc, IITs, IIMs, IIIT-B), senior IT professionals in Bangalore and peers in the investment community.

• Senior Project Manager

  Siemens Public Communication Networks Ltd

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  August 1994 — October 2001 (7 years 3 months)

  I was managing carrier grade telecom software product development. My achievements are in the areas of product conceptualization, product version management and deployment, creation and management of large project development teams together with customer and market requirement-based studies, all of which spread across multiple development centers in different geographies. These products were predominantly in the area of operator service systems covering billing, call processing, performance management and provisioning employing Microsoft Technologies. My responsibilities allowed frequent interactions with telecom service provider clients (Deutsche Telecom, Mannesmann (since taken over by Vodafone), Telegate, Radio Mobile, and HonduTel to name a few) and Siemens colleagues in Germany, Belgium and Austria and visits to the same. Each of the product versions typically required development effort exceeding 75 staff years and strictly followed ISO software engineering standards.

Sai Sreekanth’s Education

• Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore

  PGSEM , 1998 — 2001

  Among Top 5 of the class.

• UVCE, Bangalore

  Bachelor of Engineering , Computer Science and Engineering , 1990 — 1994

Additional Information

Sai Sreekanth’s Groups:

•    IIMB Alumni Association
•    India Product Management Forum
•    Yahoo Employees

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