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Karthik Bhat
Co-Founder, Advisor @ Yogi's Multi-cuisine Vegan restaurant
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Karthik Bhat

Co-Founder, Advisor @ Yogi's Multi-cuisine Vegan restaurant
Versatile leader bringing 10 years of experience as a serial entrepreneur & wellness+fitness practitioner. Strategic problem solver, change manager and visionary leader with success implementing plans to meet current and future needs. Key expertise in the Wellness industry.
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Yogi's Multi-cuisine Vegan restaurant
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University of Southern California
Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Professional Background

  • Current status
    Employed
  • Profession
    Project / Product Management
  • Fields
    Software
  • Work experience
    More than 15 years (10-15 years relevant)
  • Management
  • Skills
    Communication Skills
    Teaching Skills
    Mentoring
    Problem Solving
    Automation
    Team management
    Product Management
    Customer Development
    Design
    Functional fitness
    Kalaripayattu
    Plant based chef
    Mindfulness Meditation
    Teaching kids through play
  • Languages
    English
    Professional
    Hindi
    Professional
    Kannada
    Native or Bilingual
  • Highest level of education
    Master

Job search preferences

  • Desired job type
    Part-time
    Remote Only
  • Desired positions
    Coding Teacher
  • Desired work locations
    Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
    Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
    San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Freelance
    Part-time freelancer

Work Experience

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Co-Founder, Advisor

Dec 2019 - Present
Helped bootstrap & launch Yogi's - a rooftop multi-cuisine plant based restaurant. Advised on menu, pricing, branding & promotions. Have worked as part-time waiter & dish washer as well ;)
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Co-Founder & Customer Developer

Jan 2018 - Present
Developed the company vision & mission to attract & collaborate with two senior executives as co-founders. Led the Customer development activity to interview 100 potential Customers & 20 experts to validate the customer hypotheses for the wellness problem space & solution space. Successfully ran a pilot to further validate the solution hypotheses. Led product management to develop the 1st version of the Web App for the wellness platform.
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Space Developer

Jul 2019 - Feb 2020
8 mos
Conceptualised & developed a unique co-working / co-living space near Auroville. Designed mindful work, living & rest elements across the space to nudge our clients to be more self aware & centered while they are in the space.
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Co-Founder & Business Developer

Apr 2015 - Dec 2017
2 yrs 9 mos
Onboarded the e-Services platform & Analytics team, ramping up the team to 15 members. Conducted campus drives & Hackathons to spot Data Sciences talent & onboarded them as interns in the org. Closed 5 platform deals over 1 year across Healthcare, Wellness, Lifestyle & Enterprise verticals. Successfully managed & executed on the platform projects for the clients. Was instrumental in creating a project estimation framework & testing automation framework for our e-Services Platform.
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Director, Data Science CoE

Jul 2013 - Mar 2015
1 yr 9 mos
Onboarded the Data Sciences & Analytics team from scratch. Successfully evolved the Sales intelligence platform for VMWare Channel Sales team as the client. Closed a Data Sciences platform deal with GOQII and successfully built a wellness e-Coaching platform. Conducted Data Sciences workshops at NITK, Surathkal and conducted a nation wide Data hackathon called "Karnataka Crime Prediction" contest. Helped the team in California to go on a roadshow for a new Analytics platform called Real Time Analytics Platform.
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Sales Intelligence Consultant

Sep 2012 - Mar 2015
2 yrs 7 mos
Responsible for defining & managing Business Intelligence for a Mid-Market Channel Sales team.
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Channel Sales Analytics Program Manager

Mar 2009 - Sep 2012
3 yrs 7 mos
Defined and drive development of the Analytics transformation architecture for the Partner Led Sales Finance Team @Cisco. Drove Automation efforts for key Analytics workflows to achieve high ROI on Analyst hours.
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Co-Founder & Customer Developer

Feb 2009 - Dec 2010
1 yr 11 mos
Drove Customer Development cycles, managed Product Sprints with offshore team, Measured KPIs, Product Design, and everything in between.
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Sales & Marketing Intelligence Analyst

Oct 2007 - Jan 2009
1 yr 4 mos
Drove Market Intelligence initiatives to help identify opportunities in Healthcare, Public Sector & Real Estate segments.
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Design Engineer

Aug 2005 - Oct 2007
2 yrs 3 mos
State Diagram, Pipeline design applied towards Micro-architecture design, RTL Design, Verification and bring up activities for Integrated GPU Chipsets IP.
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Teaching Assistant

Aug 2003 - Jul 2005
2 yrs 0 mos
Taught, graded & assisted with the following courses - Probabilistic Methods for computer systems modeling, Computer networks, Computer systems design.

Education

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Master of Science (MS)
Computer Engineering
2002 - 2005
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Bachelor’s Degree
Electrical Engineering
1998 - 2002