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Ashwin Padbidri

Summary

Dynamic growth strategist with a proven track record spearheading market expansion and corporate innovation across various sectors. Leveraged expertise in growth strategies and collaborative leadership to create over 50 commercial opportunities. Excelled in synthesizing actionable insights and driving over 20 successful PoCs at Plug and Play working with over 15 Fortune 500 companies.

Overview

4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Startup Growth Lead

Rainmaking APAC (Part of Bain & Company)
07.2024 - Current
  • Act as a fractional co-founder to work with startups across a variety of industries including healthcare, sustainability, financial services and enterprise AI to build and execute market expansion and growth strategies creating over 50 commercial opportunities

Program Manager

Plug and Play
11.2021 - 06.2024
  • Manage multiple outcome driven accelerator programs across Fintech, Insurtech and Health verticals including capturing corporate pain points, sourcing of relevant startups and solutions globally , PoC management as well as event coordination for some of the worlds largest companies resulting in over 20 PoCs
  • Drive corporate innovation by collaborating with innovation teams and cross-functional business units across organizations to execute pilots and manage startup collaboration to demonstrate value to key stakeholders
  • Evaluate startup technologies and regional landscapes to synthesize actionable trends, insights and thought leaderships for corporate strategy teams

Innovation Analyst

Roche
12.2020 - 11.2021
  • Developed assessment frameworks and analyze Startups for collaboration to solve a wide range of business challenges within the organization including product launches & improving market access across the value chain
  • Implemented design thinking methodologies to work with business units to formulate actionable problem statements for 5 major projects
  • Project coordinator for Roche's digital health accelerator Startup Creasphere including evaluation of technologies to operational execution

Education

Bachelor of Science - Biomedical Science

Newcastle University
United Kingdom
07-2019

Skills

  • Growth Strategies
  • Corporate Innovation
  • Market Expansion
  • Sales and Business Development

Certification

  • Diploma in Innovation Management [2021]
  • Professional Diploma in Leadership & People Management [2016]

Timeline

Startup Growth Lead

Rainmaking APAC (Part of Bain & Company)
07.2024 - Current

Program Manager

Plug and Play
11.2021 - 06.2024

Innovation Analyst

Roche
12.2020 - 11.2021

Bachelor of Science - Biomedical Science

Newcastle University

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