Sandeep Chivukula
Electrical Engineering graduate from University of Michigan, with MBA from Harvard. Currently working as Principal (Management Consultant) at The Parthenon Group.
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Work status: | Employed Full-Time |
| Skills: | Electrical Engineering, Engineering, English, Languages, Spanish |
| Location: | San Francisco, CA |
| Groups: | BASES, HBS Entrepreneurship Club |
| Interested in: | Consulting opportunities, Employment opportunities, Finding business partners, Finding mentors, Helping friends, Joining a startup, Meeting new people, Offering Expertise, Participating in a competition, Professional opportunities, Raising money, Starting a company |
| Schools: | Harvard Business School, University of Michigan System - Ann Arbor |
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | The Parthenon Group, Boston, MA |
| Position: | Principal (Management Consultant); Private Equity Practice |
| Time period: | December 2007 - Present |
| Description: | Provided strategic advice to private equity clients with portfolio companies in industrial goods and business services
• Assessed market size, growth and potential share gain through secondary research, surveys/interviews with industry experts, and by analyzing company product and customer data • Studied industry value chains, market composition, and historical transaction trends to advise clients on attractive “hunting grounds” for targets that are best positioned to grow out of the current economic climate • Planned and managed the day to day execution of project work stream for two pre-MBA analysts • Managed the internal content creation and third-party vendor delivery of the firm’s first worldwide webcast |
| Employer: | Working Solutions, San Francisco, CA |
| Position: | Board Member |
| Time period: | December 2004 - November 2007 |
| Description: | Benchmarked capital sourcing efforts against similar micro-finance organizations |
| Employer: | Hands on Bay Area, San Francisco, CA |
| Position: | Outreach Team Leader Hands on Bay Area Day |
| Time period: | December 2002 - November 2006 |
| Description: | Coordinated five person outreach team, negotiated cross promotional effort with friendster.com delivering over 1200 people to 51 projects across the bay area |
| Employer: | Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA |
| Position: | Various positions |
| Time period: | December 1999 - November 2006 |
| Description: | 2006 Customer Marketing Manager, Mobile Platforms Group (Notebooks)
Managed customer executive relationships and implemented Intel’s technical and marketing initiatives at customer • Established a new executive relationship with the third largest U.S. retail notebook vendor 2004-2006 Senior Marketing Strategist, Mobile Platforms Group (Notebooks) Tracked and improved product line competitiveness for Intel’s highest revenue division- Centrino • Collected and analyzed retail sales and customer data to determine competitive performance • Negotiated resources from worldwide engineering teams to provide competitive analysis support • Led ad-hoc teams of 2-10 technical engineering specialists to rapidly analyze new competitor products and presented findings to senior management to drive short and long term product and/or marketing changes • Published comprehensive quarterly competitive data and weekly updates on selected competitor actions • Regained over $35 million in revenue with targeted sales force training to respond to competitor initiatives 2002-2004 Technical Marketing Engineer, Enterprise Platforms Group (Servers) Marshaled internal sources to solve customer technical and marketing issues to for Itanium server products • Led design and validation engineering teams to resolve complex technical issues at four U.S. & international customers to enable an on-time product launch of Intel Itanium 2 processor based platforms • Developed and implemented a specification change management process across 200 person division • Saved $3 million over project lifetime through a program designed to detect issues earlier in design cycle • Awarded Intel Japan Quality Award for “outstanding customer support of Japanese server customers” 2000-2002 Rotation Engineering Program Rotated through three business units in chip design, system design and a marketing strategy roles |
EDUCATION
| University: | Harvard Business School |
| Time period: | 2005 - 2008 |
| Degree: | MBA |
| University: | University of Michigan System - Ann Arbor |
| Time period: | 1996 - 2000 |
| Degree: | Electrical Engineering, BSc |
INFORMATION
| Hobbies: | Enjoy hiking, backpacking, travel, landscape and macro photography |
