RAJIV KOHLI
Chief Business Officer
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Profile Summary
Personal Details
Date of Birth: 14th July 1974
◆ An astute Business Leader having 27 years of experience with highly
accomplished track record of achieving revenue, profit, and business
growth objectives by managing very large teams in complex,
competitive and rapidly changing B2B and B2C environments in
array of industries (Print Media, EdTech, Consumer Durables,
Telecom, Cable TV & Broadband, Healthcare, FMCG/Wellness)
Address:CM-4/903,
Supertech Cape Town,
Sector-74, Noida
◆ Successfully demonstrated ability to develop businesses especially start-
ups by setting up and managing operations across country, building, and
maintaining collaborative partnerships, influencing outcomes & gaining a
buy-in of large multi- skilled teams.
◆ Innovation focused change agent with success in transforming business
by adopting excellence in execution approach, contributed to enhancing
organizational processes through initiatives which are people centric,
adopting technology to improve sales productivity & customer
experience.
◆ Enterprising and dynamic with a strong will to win possess strong planning,
analytical & problem-solving skills excellence in identifying, recruiting &
directing cross- functional teams and leading them to deliver results.
Career Timeline (Recent 5)
Vice President
Aakash Digital-
Regional Head
TATA DOCOMO-
C.B.O
Aayu Chemist
2022-To date
2022-To date
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National Sales Head
DEN Networks-
Core-
Competencies
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◆ Strategic Leadership
◆ New Business Development / EBITA
& Revenue Growth (B2B/B2C/B2B2C)
◆ Stakeholder Engagement &
Relationship Management
Senior V.P
Raj. Patrika-
◆ Market Roll Out & Expansion
◆ P&L Management /
Budgeting & Forecasting
◆ Go to Market Strategy-P.O.C.
to roll out
◆ Cross Functional Collaboration
◆ Process Excellence
◆ Product innovation Development
◆ Leadership & Team Building
& Launch
Notable
Accomplishments
Medcords Healthcare, Delhi-Chief Business Officer
◆ Revenue grew by 50X in flat 18 months to 12 crores A.R.R.
◆ Driving topline growth of multiple D2C brands like: Mojocare, Clensta, Mamaearth,
Vagad Khadi, Lemmebe, GHC, BeatO
◆ Significantly reduced burn from 92 Lacs per month to 10 Lacs per month
◆ Successfully lead field sales & CC team to 5X revenues via Chemist SaaS offerings,
Brand sales revenues vs their fixed cost within 6 months of joining the
organization
◆ Co-created outsourced omni channel GTM platform for new age D2C companies for
E2E ownership of revenue delivery within predefined budgets
Rajasthan Patrika, Jaipur-Senior Vice President, Circulation
◆ Revenue bounce back to pre-COVID levels ahead of competition (Annually
114 crores lead by remapping of TG wise content & design offering during
lockdown period thereby leading to 50% subscription revenue growth despite
reduced subscriber base in urban markets due to shift to digital for their daily
mode of news consumption)
◆ Successfully lead drive to reduce trade commission budgets 5 crores annually
via enablement of direct commission credit to hawkers in their bank accounts
◆ Lead design & execution of Motivational Webinar of 5K channel partners & 300
sales force team members on “Winning Back Consumers Trust & Showcasing
Power of Journalism During Peak Pandemic Period “
Aakash Educational Services Limited, Delhi-Vice President Aakash Digital Business
◆ Robust revenue growth from 17 Crore per annum in FY16-17 to 50 Crore in
FY 18-19 (EBIDTA margins at 23%)
◆ Authored omni channel GTM strategy of highly potential markets launch
phase wise for B2C, B2B2C & B2B verticals as well as AOP structure for each
market by potential/target market share
◆ Lead revamp of product & channel road map for Aakash Digital Business to
derive revenue Acceleration across channels and products
◆ Orchestrated profitable channel partner model - An Industry First in Digital
Ed Tech space in India- An indirect model built on the philosophy of
leveraging local coaching institutes on revenue share model to get direct
access to Schools as well as convert call centre lead locally via home
counselling model
Den Networks Limited, Delhi-Sales Head (A.V.P.) DEN Broadband Business
◆ Managed direct sales, channel sales, digital sales & marketing for DEN Broadband
◆ Achieved 100 crores annual revenue with EBIDTA break even with in flat 30
months of launch
◆ Achieved monthly sales growth from 1200 pm in Dec’14 to 10K per month in
Oct’16
◆ Acquired market leadership in ISP space with share of gross ads at 25% thereby
beating Airtel ISP during- FY
◆ Led B2C sales force of 1000 in the country for sales/BTL promotions/KYC of STBs
Previous
Experience
◆ Sept’19 to June’21: Rajasthan Patrika, Bhopal as Senior Vice President Circulation
◆ Apr’17 To Aug’19: Aakash Educational Services Limited, Delhi as Business Head-
Academic Details
◆ P.G.D.B.M. (Marketing) from I.M.T. Ghaziabad, Dec’99
◆ B.Sc. from Delhi University, Jul’95
Digital
◆ Sep’11 to Apr’17: Den Networks Limited, Delhi as National Sales Head, DEN
Broadband
◆ Dec’14 to Apr’17: Jan’10 to Sep’11: Tata Docomo, Delhi as Regional Distribution
Head
◆ Oct’07 to Jan’10: Reliance Communication, Nagpur as Cluster Head
◆ Nov’05 to Oct’07: Airtel Broadband & Wireline Services, Jaipur as Sales Manager
◆ Oct’02 to Oct’05: Reliance Infocomm, Delhi as Cluster Post Paid Lead
Feb’99 to Oct’02: Titan Industries Limited, Jaipur & Delhi as Sales Executive