Aakash Chandra

• Led a team of three analysts to provide daily strategic insights and help shape the multi-Billion-dollar portfolio • Attend global conferences to evaluate and benchmark against competitors and industry trends – devised innovation strategies with the client’s leadership team • Conceptualized and built a first-of-its-kind drug development prediction tool to help the client strategize R&D investment, saving $50M and 8-10 years with each output • Provided mentorship and training to analysts and interns

• Worked on projects across market-entry, market opportunity evaluation, process optimization and growth strategy for multinational companies • Analysed pre-launch survey data to arrive at key insights to highlight the product USP and to direct the product positioning in the $7B market • Crafted and implemented an internship program with my alma mater to facilitate industry working experience to yet-to-graduate students • Prepared case studies and proposals for new project bidding

• Conceptualised industry landscape and conducted due diligence on companies • On-demand research for clients involving market sizing, growth and trends analysis, technology and business evaluation • Authored research reports on companies, emerging innovation and sub-sectors • Analysed and benchmarked licensing deals using different metrics such as phase, technology and payment options • Prepared from scratch the strategies for onboarding ESOP holders for TracxnSecondary platform for transaction

• Head of Marketing, Venture Capital Club • Team Lead, Negotiation Club • CEO-for-1-month (Adecco Group) - Amongst top-100 out of over 4000 candidates • Operations Team Member, Accelerate Conference • DAAD-Stibet scholarship recipient twice

• Elected member of the Union Council - Student's Union; • Batch Representative - Pharmaceutical Society