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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

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

Work experiences

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Co-Founder, Advisor

Yogi's Multi-cuisine Vegan restaurant

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

Turia Wellness Solutions Private Limited

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

The Karma Space

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

Dataphi Labs Analytics Solutions Private Limited

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

Global Touchpoints Inc.

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

VMware

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

Cisco

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

Nurall

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

Cisco

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

NVIDIA

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

University of Southern California

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.

Educations

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University of Southern California

Master of Science (MS)
Computer Engineering

2002 - 2005
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National Institute of Technology, Surathkal

Bachelor’s Degree
Electrical Engineering

1998 - 2002
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