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Girish Pashilkar

Sloan Fellow at Stanford GSB. Business leader with 13 years of experience. Planning to acquire a business services company through the search fund route and scale it by building a technology and global sourcing platform

Headline: Entrepreneur
Work status: On Sabbatical
Skills: Business, English, Languages, Management, Negotiation
Location: Stanford
Interested in: Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Raising money, Recruiting for my startup
Tags: business process outsourcing, health, knowledge process outsourcing, search fund, software as a service, Technology and Globalization
Schools: Stanford University

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Sloan Fellow at Stanford GSB. Business leader with 13 years of experience across US, Europe and India with Arthur Andersen and Infosys. Managed P&L with teams of over 100 personnel and revenues exceeding $ 70 mm. Proven track record of leading transformation initiatives across multiple industries and geographies

Planning to acquire a business services company through the search fund route and scale it by building a technology and global sourcing platform. Particular interest in healthcare sector.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Employer: Infosys Technologies
Position: Global Account Leader
Time period: January 2004 - December 2007
Description: • Led global relationship for Cisco Systems; largest technology sector client for Infosys.
• Grew group revenues from $ 35 to $ 75 mm in 24 months; increased revenue productivity by 10%;
• 7 direct reports and team size exceeding 100; Reduced Days Sales Outstanding from 65 to 45 days.
• Negotiated rate contract for services impacting revenue base of $ 50 mm per year.
• Doubled client’s annual savings through outsourcing from $ 50 mm to $ 100 mm.
• Led relationship for Tesco; largest retail client in Europe for Infosys
• Grew revenues from $ 1 mm to $ 10 mm in 18 months; Outsourced over 1000 roles to India.

Employer: Infosys Technologies
Position: Principal
Time period: January 2000 - December 2004
Description: • Redesigned supply chain processes across Europe and Africa for an agrochemicals company in Belgium; identified potential savings of over $ 2.5 mm per annum.
• Led first project for National Health Service, UK to convert health records into electronic format.
• Led solution design and implementation for UK’s largest loyalty card system with over 12 mm users.
• Defined 5 year IT strategy for manufacturer in Switzerland; reallocated $ 200 mm of IT budget.
• Speaker at European logistics summit, eChain 2001.

Employer: Arthur Andersen
Position: Senior Consultant
Time period: January 1996 - December 2000
Description: • Redesigned notes and coins distribution system for Indian Central Bank (Reserve Bank of India); savings exceeded IRS 400 mm ($ 10 mm).
• Defined India entry strategy into liquefied petroleum gas for a Japanese conglomerate and in over the counter drugs for German Pharmaceutical company.
• Defined India entry strategy and structured JV with Indian partner for Dutch logistics company.
• Defined premium pricing strategy for a major European Pharmaceutical company.

Employer: Blue Star Limited
Position: Sales and Construction Engineer
Time period: January 1992 - December 1994
Description: • Sold and implemented turnkey air-conditioning projects in India leading teams of 25 to 40 personnel.

EDUCATION

University: Stanford University
Time period: 2007 - 2008
Degree: Business

INFORMATION

Sports: • Certified small boat sailor and golfer

Girish's Contacts (2)

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  • Brijesh Mehta

    Neurologist, health 2.0 entrepreneur

  • haitao qi

    Offshore outsourcing consulting&management in china;The portal website of china outsourcing,haitao.qi@gmail.com