Jay Patel
Co-Founder of ubiCabs. Previously a Process Specialist at Google, & Consultant at IBM. MBA from London Business School, MS Biotechnology from University of Pennsylvania & BS BioEngineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Work status: | Living The Dream |
| Industries: | Biotech, Health, Internet, Lifestyle, Mobile, Travel |
| Skills: | Engineering, English, French, Languages |
| Location: | London, UK |
| Groups: | London Business School Entrepreneurship Club |
| Interested in: | Advising startups, Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding engineers, Finding mentors, Finding team mates, Getting press, Helping friends, Meeting new people, Mentoring, Participating in a competition, Promoting my startups, Raising money, Receiving feedback, Recruiting for my startup, Starting a company |
| Schools: | London Business School, Loyola University Chicago, University of Illinois System - Urbana-Champaign, University of Pennsylvania |
FEATURED STARTUP
ubiCabs
ubiCabs
ubiCabs smartly connects customers with local taxi and minicab companies through location based applications. Call, quote, book! ubiCabs applications for all you needs.
- Startup type: Company
- Status: Active
- Stage: Beta
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Google, London, UK |
| Position: | Process & Compliance Specialist |
| Time period: | December 2006 - November 2008 |
| Description: | • Negotiated with executives, global and European directors to decentralise decision making, decreasing the average internal deal approval times for low risk deals by up to 80%
• Pioneered a new standardised advertising contract type, creating the first iteration for the future model of high value advertising deals • Designed an innovative sales process managing the risk for an estimated $35M per year of revenue • Managed and improved internal sales processes minimising risk for $300M of revenue • Spearheaded the creation of a support tool for top level sales people to decrease support time and the number of low level support questions into the Process & Compliance group |
| Employer: | IBM - Global Business Services, Chicago, IL, U.S.A |
| Position: | Consultant |
| Time period: | December 2003 - November 2007 |
| Description: | • Defined a sales strategy for a biotechnology start up and implemented an IT system
facilitating an increase of the sales force's productivity by up to 35% • Analyzed, improved and scaled a top biotechnology firm's safety processes to a global scale, ensuring successful regulatory agency approval and life-saving response times to clinical trial issues • Motivated and led a cross-functional client team in the successful redesign of a major business process, exceeding expectations and delivering results ahead of schedule • Facilitated client interviews and workshops to acquire key information used to develop strategic and operational recommendations • Communicated with client executives to ensure stakeholder buy-in throughout the life of the project • Mentored a junior consultants through projects, reducing their acclimatisation time and maximising their contribution to client engagements • Achieved top 15 percentile performance rating every year at the #1 ranked CRM consultancy |
| Employer: | Ethicon Endo-Surgery (A Johnson & Johnson Company), Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A |
| Position: | Engineering Co-op (long Term Internships) |
| Time period: | December 2000 - November 2003 |
| Description: | • Designed Pressure testing system, Tissue thickness measuring device and Visual data
acquisition system for sterile surgical suites enabling the Engineering R&D teams to test their instruments more accurately • Interpreted, produced and presented engineering study data reports to optimize product design |
EDUCATION
| University: | London Business School |
| Time period: | 2007 - 2010 |
| Degree: | MBA |
| University: | University of Pennsylvania |
| Time period: | 2002 - 2004 |
| Degree: | Biotechnology, MSc |
| University: | University of Illinois System - Urbana-Champaign |
| Time period: | 1999 - 2002 |
| Degree: | Bioengineering, BSc |
| University: | Loyola University Chicago |
| Time period: | 1997 - 2000 |
| Degree: | Biology (Partially complete - Transferred to UIUC), BSc |
INFORMATION
| Sports: | • Extracurricular: Medal winner with Chicago Field Hockey Club
- Wapping Hockey Club |
| Clubs: | • LBS Clubs & Volunteer work: Consulting, Healthcare and Entrepreneurship Clubs.
- Organising Committee member: Healthcare and Entrepreneurship conferences - Business Adviser to Young Enterprise company • Entrepreneurship: Initiated a new venture while in graduate schol delivering location based services over the mobile Internet after recruiting a team of 3 engineers - Founder & President, Alpha Chi Rho Fraternity Colony, UIUC |
| Awards: | • Academics & Honours: GMAT 760
- Dean's List: Spring '99, Spring '01 - Inducted to The Order of Omega (Leadership & Academic honorary society) • Leadership: Team leader of winning case competition team, LBS |
Jay's Startups (1)
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ubiCabs
ubiCabs smartly connects customers with local taxi and minicab companies through location based applications. Call, quote, book! ubiCabs applications for all you needs.
Jay's Contacts (7)
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Brett Prior
American, Senior Analyst at Greentech Media focusing on solar energy. MBA graduate from London Business School.
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Huw Edwards
Mathematics graduate from Oxford, currently pursuing MBA at Harvard and working at Bridges Ventures.
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