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SHIVANANDAN PARE

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Expertise in setting up & scaling businesses, getting CEO/CXO-Level & Board buy-in, building A-class team, P&L ownership, bringing consumer centricity & enhancing consumer experience and growing businesses both organically & In organically.I am a general management professional with 19+ years of experience across consumer businesses, corporate strategy and investment banking. 13+ years of those were spent in conceptualising, building and growth hacking consumer Internet businesses. In my last assignment at Aditya Birla groups fashion & lifestyle company ABFRL I wore many hats including the set up of one of the largest e-commerce fashion destination from scratch. As head New Digital Business I drove their omnichannel and digital transformation efforts.Prior to joining Aditya Birla Group I spearheaded the corporate strategy team of Reliance group & led the groups foray into Media & Entertainment - broadcasting (radio & television - RBNL - BIG FM & BIG TV), content ( motion picture - Reliance Entertainment - cinema production, distribution and exhibition) and Internet ( gaming - Zapak, streaming - Bigflix & social networking - Bigadda).I started my career with Onkyo and was instrumental in increasing B2B business & setting up of their retail experience stores in India. Subsequently I set up the southern operations out of Chennai for UK based boutique Investment banking firm œMeghraj Financials, where I was instrumental in bagging & executing multi million dolloar fund raising plus debt restructuring mandates across infrastructure, retail as well as pharma Industry.