Contact
8888799569 (Mobile)
dilip.thosar@gmail.com
www.linkedin.com/in/dilip-
thosar-5990353 (LinkedIn)
Top Skills
Busines Strategy
Business Consulting
Quantitative Modelling of Business
Problems
 
Dilip Thosar
Investor, Mentor and Startup NextNew
Pune, Maharashtra, India
Summary
: IIT, IIM, 28years. Ecommerce, Sales/Marketing, IT delivery,
Entrepreneurship, Human Resource Management, Academics,
Leadership Coaching
Strengths
• Business Unit Leadership
• Cross-functional business process optimization
• Team motivation, performance and management.
• Analytical abilities and Lateral thinking.
• Domain Knowledge of IT software services and Management
Education
What Dilip can do well
• Acquire and retain customers.
• Conceptualize and deliver innovative solutions (services and
products)
• Facilitate learning of business leadership paradigms
• Define, engineer and optimize business processes
Academic Qualifications
• B.Tech., I.I.T. Kharagpur, Specialization in Mechanical
Engineering
• P.G.D.M., I.I.M Ahmedabad, Specialization in Marketing and
Finance
Experience
NextNew
Budding Entrepreneur, Investor and Mentor
November 2018 - Present 
Pune Area, India
Seen three decades of corporate life, own business and startup ecosystem.
Now setting off on the next new startup. Product validation on. Market fit
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follows. Looking forward to and working for wide and deep, and yet profitable,
social impact.

Symbiosis Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Sec8Co.

Startup Technology Business Incubator
CEO
November 2016 - November 2018 (2 years 1 month)
Pune Area, India

Initiated the Incubator: Under an academic aegis, defined the vision and
mission and the PoA for the incubator
Ran the incubator: Incubated early stage 8 startups, 3 of which are funding-
ready. Got the TBI (Technology Business Incubator) certification with a Rs.
11 crore grant (in a Rs. 18 crore 5 year project) from DST/NSTEDB under its
NIDHI/TBI scheme. Built a network of investors and mentors.

Serendipity Infolabs Pvt.Ltd.(Taxiforsure, part of the Olacabs group)

Branch Head
September 2014 - August 2016 (2 years)
Pune

Grow Transaction numbers at very high growth rates in an unprecedented

market (Service Ecommerce) with rapidly shifting business paradigms using
the power of analytics. Won the Best Branch Award overtaking established
branches within 6 months of starting, retained the status. Continuing the
branch growth at top rates.

Positivebee
CEO
2008 - 2014 (7 years)
Management Consultancy (Strategic Market Research, Business Analytics)

Amplify Mindware
Dean Placements, VP Corporate Liaison
2007 - 2011 (5 years)

Hexaware Technologies
Global Head, Resource Management
2007 - 2007 (1 year)

Otis ISRC
GM (Head, Dev.Centre)
2004 - 2006 (3 years)
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Hindustan Construction Company HCC Infotech Ltd.

COO
2002 - 2004 (3 years)

Dataview Corporation
Business Head
1994 - 2002 (9 years)

Persistent Systems Pvt. Ltd

MD of Persistent Dataview Pvt. Ltd.
1994 - 1996 (3 years)

Onward Technologies Limited

Regional Manager
1991 - 1994 (4 years)

Wipro Infotech
.
1987 - 1992 (6 years)

Education
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
BTech, Mechanical · (1979 - 1984)

Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad

 · (1985 - 1987)

IIT

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