Abhishek Agrawal

About Abhishek Agrawal

A Seasoned Business and Product Management Leader (having supervised over a cumulative product release cycles) with proven track record of leading successful consumer products and consistently delivering on key consumer and business metrics. Expertise in working in a fast-paced, iterative, agile work environment and vibrant ecosystems.Have led large 100+ member multi-functional teams, as well as lean 10-member tiger product teams.Have excelled not only leading large mature products and P&L (with ~$1B GMV, 100M+ Users, 4M+ annual Transactions, 2B+ monthly API requests), but also setting up new products from scratch and building them up from zero lines of code base and zero lines of business plan.Known for a good mix of product and business acumen (having led both P&L and product metrics), building agile strategy & systems that adapt to ever-changing ecosystem, organizing great teams, and cultivating bias for action and data-driven decision making.Believe team is core to success and have consistently hired professionals who went on to become top performers in the organization. Actively spend 15% time on hiring and have devised a robust hiring process that draws from experience of having interviewed over 300 product management candidates.In 2013, I was recognized as among ‘Top 35 Young Leaders in Travel Worldwide’ by PhocusWright Research, USA – the widely quoted and leading travel research organization.

Experience

1. Board Member

   Wakanow

   Jan 2019 — Present

   Wakanow is one of the largest Travel Company in Africa and has raised $40M investment from The Carlyle Group (Private Equity, CG on NASDAQ).I serve on the Board of Wakanow as a Non-Executive Director/Board Member.

Education

• Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

  M.Tech, Computer Science & Engineering

• Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

  B.Tech, Computer Science & Engineering

Skills

• Product Management
• New Business Development
• Team Management
• Entrepreneurship
• Analytics
• Strategy
• E-Commerce
• User Interface Design
• Product Development
• Web Analytics
• Sem
• Lead Generation
• Digital Marketing
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• User Experience
• Social Media Marketing
• Online Travel
• Business Planning
• Business Analysis
• Competitive Analysis
• Start-Ups
• Civil Aviation
• Product Marketing
• Leadership
• Management
• Internet Products
• Airlines
• P&L Responsibility