Suneet Bhatt

Current

Co-founder at Dream Village
Founding Partner at Social Symmetry, LLC

Past

Management Consultant at GlobalGiving
Managing Associate at Hagerty Consulting, Inc.
Leader, Customer and Product Strategy at D&B

VP/AVP, Customer Interaction at Prudential Securities
Management Associate at Prudential
Management Associate at Prudential

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Education

Duke University - The Fuqua School of Business
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey-New Brunswick
Triton Regional High School

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Suneet Bhatt’s Summary

Making a positive social impact requires the responsible pursuit of efficiency and productivity. On a sector-by-sector basis, even an organization-by-organization basis, those outcomes will vary tremendously.

> In the private sector it can mean aligning your mission with a relevant charitable organization or pursuing eco-friendly materials for production.

> In the public sector it can mean identifying the ideal private sector partner to help meet the broadest needs of your constituent base or increasing the transparency with which you make and communicate decisions.

> In the nonprofit sector it can mean expanding your "funding" strategy to include earned-income projects or restructuring your organization so you can provide consistent feedback to donors on the specific impacts of their contributions.

Positive social impact requires a focus on positive social outcomes. Social Symmetry helps you balance those outcomes with your mission and objectives to ensure that both your organization and its decisions are sustainable over the long-term.

Suneet Bhatt’s Specialties:

Visit our Website to see the full range of activities our organization is involved in: www.socialsymmetry.com.

To understand more about what we think and what we believe, visit our blog: insearchofsymmetry.wordpress.com

Suneet Bhatt’s Experience

Co-founder

Dream Village

(Education Management industry)

October 2008 — Present (10 months)

Dream Village educates children about important social, economic, and environmental issues by combining illustrated children’s picture books with a fun and interactive web portal. Best of all, the children choose how and where Dream Village makes its charitable donations. With Dream Village, children learn, interact, and then affect real-life positive change.
Founding Partner

Social Symmetry, LLC

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Management Consulting industry)

August 2007 — Present (2 years)

Social Symmetry is a management consultancy that helps public, private and nonprofit organizations identify strategies and implement tactics to drive positive, sustained, measurable social impact.
Management Consultant

GlobalGiving

(Management Consulting industry)

2007 — January 2008 (1 year)
Managing Associate

Hagerty Consulting, Inc.

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Management Consulting industry)

August 2006 — September 2007 (1 year 2 months)

Redesigned the “Hagerty” brand. Successfully redirected and managed efforts resulting in an overhaul of all marketing and customer-facing materials, including a brochure, case studies, letterhead, and the Website.

Developed a robust business plan, then designed, launched and evaluated a pilot program to determine the viability of a real estate-related nonprofit (under evaluation since 2003). Secured pro-bono support from key external stakeholders to minimize pilot development/ma and management costs. Expedited approach helped the firm arrive at a recommendation for no further action in less than 6 months: 1homematters.org.

Researched, developed, and proposed a solution to help a major federal agency capture learnings and monitor the performance of ~$500m pilot program launched without these considerations. Secured approval and funding within four weeks of joining the project.
Leader, Customer and Product Strategy

D&B

(Public Company; Financial Services industry)

February 2003 — June 2004 (1 year 5 months)

Directed all product and customer-oriented decisions for SBS, a Web-based business focused on serving the credit and risk management needs of Small Businesses.

Researched, designed and implemented 20+ new Web-based products and services which grew in-year revenue by over 20%, and increased rolling 12-month revenue projections by over 125%.

Designed, developed and instituted a customer research process to support decision-making (via focus groups, surveys, and conjoint analysis). Secured executive support to implement a research-based development approach which served as the basis for future product development efforts, from redesigning existing products to the development of new products. Culminated in the development of the retail businesses’ new premium, high-end product, the Comprehensive Insight Report Plus.
VP/AVP, Customer Interaction

Prudential Securities

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Financial Services industry)

June 2000 — December 2002 (2 years 7 months)

Managed a cross-functional team of 23 people responsible for defining/implementing a platform used to develop individual Websites for each of Prudential’s 10,000 Financial Representatives.

Managed a team of three people who researched, coordinated, and developed products and strategies including search engine optimization, personalization, electronic statements, content management, and a Web style guide.
Management Associate

Prudential

(Public Company; Management Consulting industry)

1998 — 1999 (1 year)
Management Associate

Prudential

(Public Company; Management Consulting industry)

1998 — 1999 (1 year)

Suneet Bhatt’s Education

Duke University - The Fuqua School of Business

MBA , 2004 — 2006

Activities and Societies:

Noted Distinctions:
Graduation Speaker – Class of 2006 Commencement (as elected by Class).
Awarded – Distinguished Service Award (Fuqua’s 2nd highest leadership award). Executive Officer, Student Life – Executive Cabinet.
Teaching Assistant – Microeconomics, Management Communications.
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey-New Brunswick

BA , English , 1993 — 1998
Triton Regional High School