Akash Nemani

Head of CPG, Luxury, Beauty & QSR at Meta for Middle East and Africa

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

About

Technology and Business professional having over ten years of high-quality experience in entrepreneurship, sales, strategy and business development with Facebook and three innovative start-ups across Asia and USA. Worked on Operations, Data & Analytics, Product Management now leading Client Relationships at Facebook. Unique experience as Founding Team Member of one of Singapore’s most well known startups and as Country Head and Business Development Manager for one of Asia’s fastest growing startups. Undergraduate degree in Computer Engineering from National University of Singapore and a minor in Technology Entrepreneurship from Stanford University, USA.

Experience

  • Meta (12 yrs 8 mos)
    • Head of CPG, Luxury, Beauty & QSR
      Mar 2020 - Present · 6 yrs 4 mos

    • Head of Client Solutions (FMCG, Luxury and Beauty), Middle East and North Africa
      Oct 2016 - Mar 2020 · 3 yrs 6 mos

    • Product Manager
      Mar 2016 - Sep 2016 · 7 mos

      Building Meta’s Internal CRM tool for the Sales Organization. Patented a Feed Ranking algorithm.

  • Business Development Manager at Dropsuite
    Apr 2012 - Oct 2013 · 1 yr 7 mos

    Technology start-up headquartered in Singapore, offering cloud-based email backup solutions to individuals and small businesses globally; Rapidly growing with over 650,000 users in just a few months; Offices in 7 countries • Managing the online and offline marketing, sales, business development and customer acquisition (India and SEA) efforts for the company, including Optimization of online marketing and customer acquisition strategy, Collaborations with telecom partners, Mobile Value-Added-Services and solution providers and Relationships with tech blogs, print media companies and affiliate partners. • Assisting the CEO in fund-raising activities by identifying key venture capital investors in the region and pitching the company’s investment proposition to them. • Collaborating with the Product Manager to determine the product roadmap based on technology feasibility, market research, customer feedback and competitor analysis.

  • Founding Team Member at iTwin
    Jun 2010 - Apr 2012 · 1 yr 11 mos

    Technology start-up headquartered in Singapore, focused on developing innovative data security products and solutions for global markets; Awarded prestigious industry recognitions; Raised over US$5 million in Series A and B venture capital investment rounds. Techno-commercial role with responsibilities across product development, marketing and sales functions; More specifically: • Designed the back-end infrastructure for the company’s flagship data security product, iTwin, for the Amazon cloud platform; The product’s architecture was chosen as one of the featured examples in Amazon Singapore launch’s PR collaterals. • Led the web development team to create a comprehensive eCommerce solution by integrating the third party fulfilment center and shipment tracking systems. • Framed and implemented the Singapore launch followed by the global launch for iTwin. Managed to secure reviews and product mentions in some of the elite technology blogs, newspapers and magazines such as TechCrunch, Engadget, NYTimes, WSJ and PCWorld. • Collaborated with the VP. Of Marketing & Sales to create a sales plan and tracking process for distributor and retail based sales in America, Europe and ANZ region. • Setup the Customer Helpdesk and Feedback department of iTwin to handle customer issues and feedback globally.

  • Teaching Assistant for "The Business of Software" at National University of Singapore
    Aug 2011 - Dec 2011 · 5 mos

    • Assisting the Proferssor in a masters level course at NUS School of Computing named "The Business of Software" • Managing and contributing on the blog of the course to help facilitate discussions on the topics taught in the class.

  • National University of Singapore (10 mos)
    • Teaching Assistant and Module Coordinator, Software Engineering
      Jan 2010 - May 2010 · 5 mos

      • Conducted a lecture on the current software engineering practices in Start ups and Agile methods of software engineering. • Evaluating the student projects and providing regular feedback to further improve on them. • Managing all the administrative tasks for the module including scheduling tutorials, group meetings, managing the teaching materials and monitoring the module forum.

    • Teaching Assistant and Module Coordinator, Human Computer Interaction
      Aug 2009 - Dec 2009 · 5 mos

      • Conducting lab and tutorial sessions for the Human Computer Interaction module at the School of Computing. • Contributing to the materials for the lab and tutorials sessions.