Narayanan Hariharan

About Narayanan Hariharan

Civil engineer by education. Hands-on entrepreneur by choice. No-nonsense human being in general. I enjoy building high quality scalable sales teams. With extensive knowledge of sales principles and practices, and a proven ability to coach and build high performance teams of various sizes. Outside of work, I am an avid traveller(12 countries, 24 states, 4 union territories, and counting), F1 enthusiast, and a volunteer at the Blue Cross. In my most recent stint, I was advising the founding team of BigFday, and helped them scale their event services business to 650+ events in FY19/20. Prior to that I was heading sales at Pickyourtrail, where I hired, trained and managed a team of 25+ travel consultants and grew revenue 2.5X in 12 months Earlier as an entrepreneur, I bootstrapped and built Effect Works, a boutique design and product development agency. From helping startups such as Indix, Freshdesk, KissMetrics build their MVPs to creating effective business pitches for large conglomerates such as CTS, Atlas Copco, The Times Group. Grew the team to a 35 member team with almost zero attrition in 8 years. Launched NFN labs for the love of apps. Went on to build and launch apps in IOS and Android. Our apps were ranked in the Top 10 in the Apple App Store in over 30 countries, and were covered by global tech media such as The Verge, Mashable, The Next Web, and MacStories amongst others.

Experience

1. Startup Mentor

   Wadhwani Foundation

   Oct 2014 — Present

Education

• St. John's Matric

  High School, Computer Science

  1999 — 2001

• Anna University, Chennai

  B.E., Civil Engineering

  2001 — 2005