Akshay Gambhir

Have worked on projects related to rural livelihoods, impact investment, strategy, and philanthropic collaboratives. Have coached several nonprofits on designing a strategy and investing in talent.

Market-led Agricultural Interventions
Building marketing focused agri-business models for income enhancement of small holder farmers, under initiatives in Rural Livelihoods Portfolio

Open Source Fisheries Initiative – Impacting Rural Livelihoods through Inland Aquaculture
Developed long-term pan-India strategic roadmap of the initiative
Led execution through field teams directly impacting 7000 households across two states
Established digital monitoring and project management… Show more

Market-led Agricultural Interventions
Building marketing focused agri-business models for income enhancement of small holder farmers, under initiatives in Rural Livelihoods Portfolio

Open Source Fisheries Initiative – Impacting Rural Livelihoods through Inland Aquaculture
Developed long-term pan-India strategic roadmap of the initiative
Led execution through field teams directly impacting 7000 households across two states
Established digital monitoring and project management solution across all three states

Digital Transformation of Food Grain Delivery under PDS
Led digitization of food grain delivery to 10 lakh beneficiaries through Aadhar authentication based system in all 660 delivery shops in Lucknow, UP.
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TAS (Tata Administrative Services) is the flagship leadership programme for young talent that grooms them for leadership at the prestigious Tata Group, which includes over 100 independent companies.

Roadmap for Co-Creating Urban Mobility Solution Through Crowdsourcing
- Identified broad target segments and nature of ideas to be crowdsourced from them
- Devised offline and online engagement touchpoints to create brand building and promotional opportunities through the process
- Defined plug-in points to feed crowdsourced ideas into new product development process

Standards for Board Governance Processes
- Analysed processes for business function review by Board of Directors for the following:
- Capex Approval
- Risk Management
- Board Calendar Planning
- Quarterly Performance Review by (BoD)
- Identified Board and management touch points through which oversight could be streamlined
- Developed best practice standards for Board governance of key management functions

Project 1: Establishing an online network of businesses to increase external M&A revenue for M&M
- Benchmarked 10 global online M&A networks to analyse their service offerings
- Defined service blueprint and collaborated with vendors to build beta version for the network
- Created revenue-making touch points from the network for Mahindra’s M&A Cell

Project 2: Finding potential strategic alliance partners for clients of M&A team at M&M
- Analysed customer and product… Show more

Project 1: Establishing an online network of businesses to increase external M&A revenue for M&M
- Benchmarked 10 global online M&A networks to analyse their service offerings
- Defined service blueprint and collaborated with vendors to build beta version for the network
- Created revenue-making touch points from the network for Mahindra’s M&A Cell

Project 2: Finding potential strategic alliance partners for clients of M&A team at M&M
- Analysed customer and product portfolio of 60+ companies in 7 countries to identify synergies
- Recommended 21 potential strategic partners to 3 clients of Mahindra & Mahindra
- Designed a standard process and criteria for M&M to shortlist potential partners for clients Show less

- Worked with Corporate & Investment Banking team focusing on Europe and Middle East on projects involving most of the top 10 global corporate & investment banks
- Provided in-depth research and advised engagements teams on multiple industry specific topics
- Identified issues in corporate banking units of European banks via competitive analyses
- Guided junior colleagues on industry knowledge, research methods and internal processes

- Advised on purchases and inventory management at the largest oil refinery in the world
- Analysed business processes of client and advised measures to mitigate transactional risks
- Plugged gaps worth Rs 3 cr in purchase process through analysis of purchase orders