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Adithya Raghunathan

Leading product team at Rapleaf, worked previously as Director of Product Mgmt at Symantec. MBA/MPA with experience in e-commerce, finance, and international development.

Headline: Entrepreneur
Work status: Employed Full-Time
Industries: Gaming, Information Technology, Media, Mobile
Skills: Business, Entrepreneurship, Languages, Leadership, Management, Public speaking, Software Engineering, Spanish, System Administration, Unix, Writing
Interested in: Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities
Schools: Harvard Business School, Princeton University

WORK EXPERIENCE

Employer: Rapleaf
Position: Head of Product
Time period: February 2010 - Present
Description: Lead strategy, product, and planning for Rapleaf.

Employer: Greencherry – financial technology startup
Position: Advisory Board Member
Time period: January 2007 - December 2008

Employer: Symantec – global software development firm
Position: Director of Product Management
Time period: January 2006 - December 2009
Description: Led product management team for $30M CommandCentral (CC) storage management software family. Delivered 50% revenue growth for two fiscal years in a row while halving cost structure. Won Storage BU Achievement Award for Business Results in FY08 and FY09, presented by CEO in FY09.Secured leader position for CC family in Gartner 2009 Magic Quadrant for Storage Resource Management. Launched unprecedented R&D collaboration between security, storage, and archiving business units to complete Symantec’s brand promise and claim thought leadership in data classification space.

Drove CC Enterprise Reporter product through prototype, OEM integration, launch, and customer adoption coordinating across product development, sales enablement, support, consulting, and marketing functions. Crystallized market requirements, technology vision, pricing, and roadmap for CC family from meetings with Global 5000 customers, industry analyst briefings, customer conferences, and trade shows. Drove cross-functional strategic initiatives across Symantec enterprise business units.Orchestrated “Stop Buying Storage” worldwide sales campaign that became Symantec’s single executive rallying cry to drive revenue amidst the economic downturn across $2B storage and backup software portfolio.
Championed process innovation including agile development, exit criteria, and “day in the life” usability study.Managed business development and OEM relationships with Brocade, Oracle, IBM, and NetApp.

Employer: JWM Partners, LLC – quantitative global investment management firm
Position: Program Manager, Financial Trading Applications
Time period: January 2001 - December 2003
Description: Designed financial software to enable timely financial analysis and decision making in global market trading. Delivered and managed global risk management reporting infrastructure for $5 billion investment portfolio.Launched swap option pricing application used in $50 million in global mortgage volatility trades. Designed and automated daily P&L reporting application for top management.

Employer: trilogy – enterprise software firm
Position: Software Consultant
Time period: January 2000 - December 2001
Description: Architected enterprise software solutions for business process automation for Prudential, Ford and IBM. Restored customer satisfaction on $5 million Prudential Group Insurance workflow automation project by architecting a solution for major performance bottleneck by liaising with R&D, marketing, and customers. Prototyped, validated and presented new business opportunity in consumer banking.

Employer: MICROSOFT – global software development firm
Position: Program Manager, Windows 2000 Security
Time period: June 1999 - August 1999
Description: Designed and managed implementation/testing of Kerberos Ticket Logon module for Windows 2000.Published “Kerberos Interoperability Solutions” whitepaper to facilitate secure migration from Linux/UNIX.

Employer: Digital Divide Data
Position: Operations Consultant
Time period: December 2005

Employer: bridges.org
Position: Technology Policy and Entrepreneurship Advisor
Time period: December 2003

Employer: MindSpeak
Position: Marketing & Technology Manager
Time period: December 2002

EDUCATION

University: Harvard Business School
Time period: 2003 - 2006
Degree: Business Administration, Public Administration

University: Princeton University
Time period: 1996 - 2000
Degree: Electrical Engineering, BSc

PUBLICATIONS

Articles: Economic Advantage of Wireless Infrastructure for Development

INFORMATION

Sports: capoeira, running
Hobbies: world music, travel. yoga

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