Akhilesh Bhangre
Program & Product @ MasterCard | MBA PGPx IIM Ahmedabad | Bridging crucial gap between product vision, engineering delivery, and customer service | Indian Navy Veteran (fighter jet techie)
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Market Research🤝
Business Development📣
Product Marketing💻
Product Development💻
Product Lifecycle
Pune, India
Excellent strategist in product & programs having large team technology operations. Tenure with UBS India for IT Risk Management, post-MBA Product Marketing & Business Development with Falkonry (Manufacturing AI SaaS), and current engagement in payment technology with Mastercard, empowered through my business leadership development on TOP Indian B'School flagship MBA, enhanced with big passion for people management, strategy, market research, revenue generation. 10 years in Navy Aviation (Fighter Jet Squadron, Head of Air Base Tech Dept.)
Lead Technical Program Manager, Mastercard
July 2022 - Present
Pune, Maharashtra, India
- Product lifecycle management for Mastercard prepaid program, Product assessment and improvements via cross-functional drive
Project Director (Government G2P Disbursements Enablement), Mastercard
February 2023 - June 2023
Pune, Maharashtra, India
- Comprehensive global market research and intelligence, providing actionable insights that informed the development of a disbursement engagement guide utilized by country-level business development teams
Senior Growth Marketing & BD Manager (Self Learning AI), Falkonry
May 2021 - June 2022
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Contributed to a comprehensive go-to-market strategy for our Predictive Analytics AI SaaS Software, resulting in a 30% increase in new customer engagements & increase in brand awareness
Associate Director of Technology, UBS
April 2019 - March 2020
Pune, Maharashtra, India
- Implemented Agile framework to manage portfolio of 12 global IT risk projects, resulting in a 20% increase in project completion rate and a 15% decrease in project timelines
Technology Officer - Lieutenant Commander, Indian Navy
January 2009 - January 2019
Pan India / Aircraft Carrier
- Managed highly skilled cross-functional teams (20-250+ members) to deliver asset objectives in the fast-paced complex operational environment of fighter squadron
- Analyzed business requirements and tasked technical teams for change management, QA/UAT testing, and acted as release authority for certifying airworthiness
- Analyzed business requirements and tasked technical teams for change management, QA/UAT testing, and acted as release authority for certifying airworthiness
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Education
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Business Administration and Management, General
2020 - 2021
Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad
Armed Forces Program Certification, Business/Commerce, General
2018 - 2019
Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad
Master of Technology (M.Tech.), Aeronautics
2011 - 2013
Cochin University of Science and Technology
Navy Orientation Course
2009 - 2009
Indian Naval Academy, Eazhimala
Bachelor's degree, electronics and telecommunications
2004 - 2008
Savitribai Phule Pune University
