Ishan Bhat

• Circular economy business developer at Green Worms (re-/up-cycling & climate action). • Driving the roadmap for new circular solutions (including circular textiles). • Writing detailed technical business requirements for business and product teams. • Handling CSRD & ESRS compliance, as well as GOTS, GRS standards. • Presenting Green Worms as sustainability specialist at industry events in Europe. • Active engagement with industry associations- incl. Circular Berlin, IHK, Ellen McArthur Foundation.

Identified & evaluated open-source models for the vertical-farming community product at Planto-Systems. • Market tested & developed strategic business cases towards product-market fit in the sustainable food growth systems. • Mentored startup teams on product-market fit & systemic sustainability in the hardtech accelerator at MotionLab.

• Developed strategic analytics dashboards and built homologation/digital-COC database to provide key customer, market & regulatory insights to CXOs. • Led product management for Digital Connected Companion with a 10-member team. • Co-built MVP with design & led trainings/workshops for sales, marketing & operations. • Managed suppliers & inventory/costs for SCR 2.0 (hardware) development. • Created sales content. • Presented Scrooser to Audi DenkWerkstatt, VW Forum, VELOBerlin, EUREF, Invest-India Group.

- Led Product Management tasks for the navigation and location based services aspects of a sustainable mobility solution from 25ways.

- Managed functional requirements, both from customer-collaboration and internal Routing R&D team perspectives. - Led the planning, build-up, grooming and prioritization of the Routing product backlog for key automotive customers. - Improved stakeholder transparency of Routing product management through effective dashboarding & reporting on 30-60-90 backlog planning and product roadmap.

- Led a team of 6 to deliver a UBI (Usage-Based-Insurance) solution, targeting the six billion USD UBI market in North America - Trained and led a new team of 10 to implement a highway taxation solution for multiple US States (Oregon, California, and Illinois) - Managed business requirements by building an actionable set of user stories and grooming the product roadmap - Proposed Big Data solutions to resolve pinching business performance issues. Hired relevant talent to progress forward.

- Conceptualized a marketing analytics platform that offers business intelligence to optimize the marketing efforts of businesses with data driven insights into consumer behavior through actionable reports. - Identified a potential shift of 30% of marketing expenditure from offline to online channels for improved consumer experiences through trial runs on consumer transaction data and conversion reports. - Onboarded three new customers across healthcare and insurance sectors through product pilots.

- Enhanced customer competitive edge with actionable data insights by developing and managing a robust & highly scalable Big Data analytics platform. - Identified and mapped customer needs into product-level requirements and managed agile product backlog. - Engaged with three key customers in Berlin, Chicago and UK, and led customer process improvements, with $120,000 cost savings for customers. - Led a KPI framework for quality improvement. Helped reduce the defect rate from 40% to 15% within a month.

- Led product design, development and customer support for mobile applications and value added services. - Handled key customers- US Cellular, Virgin Mobile, and Sprint Telecom through product support and training.

Corporate and Business strategy, Strategic leadership, Managerial decision making, Marketing, Customer Insights, Entrepreneurship, Corporate finance, Quantitative analysis, Managing and developing people, Business and corporate strategy, Sustainable business, Bringing technology to market.

Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Entreprensurship, Economics