Obvi

Co-Founder, Chief Brand Officer

Junglee Inc.

Advisor

Chew On This

Chew On This Podcast/Media/Events

Digestible DTC Content via podcast and newsletter

Media arm focused on working with particular SAAS companies to amplify their go to market efforts to Shopify brand founders.

An event arm focused on curating events and conferences to bring founders together

Co-Founder

Official Member

Ghost3Media

ALOHA.com

ALOHA
Digital Creative Lead
May 2016 - October 2016

Drove all aspects of creative experience on the web and digital ends of the company ensuring delivery of high quality creative to increase brand awareness and increase online sales.

Since joining average ticket price, revenue, and social reach have all increased, while cutting spend in the marketing budget from $600,000 a month to just roughly $200,000 a month.

Managed all organic social media platforms by approving all designs/content and creating posting schedules. Also managed paid media campaigns on Pinterest, Twitter, and Instagram while being the point of contact with our 3rd party marketing agency that handled media buys on Facebook.

Took over as the lead of acquisition and helped segment email lists to target individual customers based on interests and intent to purchase. After implementing these new sales funnels, email campaigns became the number one leading source of revenue on the digital end.

Digital Creative Lead

Shredz Supplements & Affiliate Companies

Fit Life (Shredz Supplements, Skinny Bunny Tea, Flavor God)
Creative Director
April 2013 - May 2016

Designed all material in Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign used across all social media, web, website and merchandise platforms including apparel, web advertisements, product pictures, email campaigns, model photography, packaging, and all creative requirements or opportunities.

Managed and directed a team of 6 designers, 3 photographers, and 2 video editors to complete all necessary tasks on the digital and print end for all 3 brands.

Designed and/or directed completion of all advertisements on 6+ social media accounts that had reach of over a combined 20 million users.

Designed all expo and show booths and was awarded the best designed booth at the Olympia 2013 Expo in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Analyzed content reporting and adjusted strategy and layouts to make sure each piece of content was being optimally used for revenue growth.

Worked directly with the CEO to come up with each month’s marketing and new product launch strategies through each revenue stream.

Created the brand book and style guide for Shredz Supplements, Skinny Bunny Tea, and Flavor God.

Creative Director

FlavorGod

Co-Founder + Chief Brand Officer at Obvi | Forbes Featured

Ankit has for most of his career carried a renowned achievement to which his work continues to add to that achievement year after year. Ankit has gone on to craft the vision, brand elements and even build brand assets for nearly 20+ brands in his 7 year tenure as a designer, which has amassed to nearly 9-figures in sales for all the brands combined.

Ankit’s impact on the different brands he has creatively directed has been one that is everlasting, but his impact on the industry is what sets him apart to be a creative director with a lot of recognition behind his work. Ankit’s work with Obvi today brings him to an elevated role where he not only gets to drive the creative vision of the brand but also manage the voice and story of the brand. Ankit’s day to day may encompass creating the brand assets for Obvi, but his long term vision is to tell Obvi’s story to every potential consumer through his work.

Ankit Patel

Informa

Lead strategic partnerships and investor relations across aviation, automotive, engineering, construction/real estate, agriculture, licensing, fashion, and health and wellness portfolios.

Senior Commercial Executive, North America

Lead brand partnerships at FounderMade (acquired by Informa)

CPG/D2C brand accelerator, resource platform, and events company building the future of commerce [ACQUIRED by Tarsus / Informa Markets] 

Accelerate your brand with FounderMade. We provide strategic connections, resources, and education both online and in person to support high growth CPG and D2C founders and brands. Our community consists of founders, buyers, retailers, investors, media, influencers, and so much more. Our annual invite-only events are attended by the "Who's Who" in the consumer industry. P.S. 80% of our brands end up in mass retail, and roughly 15% of our portfolio gets investment. 

I help founders scale by helping them fundraise, scale revenue operations, and build high-impact partnerships. Please reach out to me if you need help with: 
✔️ Scaling consumer brands at trade shows with go-to-market strategies
✔️ Fundraising & venture capital strategy 
✔️ Facilitating Executive networking/matchmaking & investor relations 
✔️ Securing retail distribution for high-growth brands 

If you are high growth CPG brand, consumer investor, and/or lifestyle influencer, please email christina@foundermade.com for more information.

www.foundermade.com

Head of Brand Partnerships

AURASWELL COLLECTIVE

www.auraswell.com
Subscribe to The Journal: https://auraswell.substack.com/

A CURATED COMMUNITY AND AGENCY for select wellness founders, investors, and influencers. 
Invite-only social impact & wellness networking community of entrepreneurs, investors, and influencers. We host curated luxury wellness experiences in unique spaces and provide growth consulting to accelerate wellness founders, brands and provide them with community and access to capital.

INQUIRE ABOUT GROWTH CONSULTING (for select brands): 
Specialties: Revenue/Sales Optimization, Curated Events, Retail and Luxury Real Estate, Pitch Support, Fundraising Support, Investor Events & Relations, Growth/GTM Strategy, Influencer Relationships, Community-Building/Retention Strategies, Creative Marketing, Exit Strategies, Partnerships

Founder

Sakara Life

Brand Ambassador

Ganas Ventures

Investment thesis: Community based businesses

Deal Partner

FounderMade

Consultant

B6 Real Estate Advisors

Investment Sales broker for middle-market CRE properties, Chief of Staff on CEO's deal team. 
Led Business Development, Marketing, Communications, Investor Relations, Corporate Strategy

Chief of Staff to CEO

T3 Advisors, A Savills Company

Founded in the UK in 1855, Savills is one of the world's leading property agents. Our experience and expertise spans the globe, with more than 600 offices across the Americas, Europe, Asia Pacific, Africa and the Middle East.

Our scale gives us wide-ranging specialist and local knowledge, and we take pride in providing best-in-class advice as we help individuals, businesses and institutions make better property decisions.

Director of Business Development & Marketing, VC Funds/Tech/BioTech Companies 

GoingVC

GoingVC is a multifaceted organization built around the idea of making venture capital education, investing, networks, and talent more accessible to those with the desire to succeed.

GoingVC’s flagship program has trained several hundreds of members and alumni globally in the business of VC, and its angel education program provides access to vetted angel investment opportunities, tools, and frameworks to help them become more effective investors.

GoingVC also funds early-stage startups through GoingVC Partners, which has invested in companies backed by leading venture capital firms including Insight Venture Partners, Bain Capital Ventures, Founders Fund, and many more.

Partnerships Lead (Part Time)

CBRE

CBRE Group, Inc. is the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with 2018 revenues of $21.3 billion and more than 90,000 employees (excluding affiliate offices). CBRE offers a broad range of integrated services, including facilities, transaction and project management; property management; investment management; appraisal and valuation; property leasing; strategic consulting; property sales; mortgage services and development services. 


•Served as the New York City marketing team lead supporting ~300 CBRE real estate brokers and other C-Suite executives as clients
•Managed a team for all marketing and strategy dedicated to leasing and selling commercial retail, office, industrial, and capital markets/investment properties for all of New York City 
•Led project initiatives as the representative for New York in national leadership meetings
•Nominated to be the Marketing/Communications Chair for the TriState Asian Pacific Network, 
 the East Coast Marketing Chair for the Global Asian Pacific Network, and a Founding Member of the National Marketing Diversity Council (Lead Diversity Discussions) 
•Led bi-weekly meetings, ensuring impactful campaign strategy, while also presenting KPIs and future recommendations of marketing materials 
•Spearheaded the implementation of new project management processes through Function Fox software, led team training, helped the team with troubleshooting, collected data for future project strategies, led testing initiatives, managed ongoing vendor and client partnerships, and reported on sales and marketing strategy 
•Analyzed market research and project developments, determined and managed vendor relationships to drive future sales strategy for broker/sales teams’ go-to-market strategy as SPOC for all projects 
•Oversaw YoY budget approvals, ensured employee compensation was distributed fairly based on performance and overall expectations, managed all vendor invoices and team expenses

Manager, NYC Regional Lead

Condé Nast

Condé Nast is a global media company producing the highest quality content with a footprint of more than 1 billion consumers in 32 markets through print, digital, video, and social platforms.

•Launched Allure Beauty Box
Owned and developed strategic 360 digital multi-channel marketing campaigns for beauty/fashion brands Vogue (main client), Glamour, Allure, Allure Beauty Box, GQ to drive revenue through digital channels (on-site, email, editorial, organic social) 
•Contributed to 45%+ total revenue growth YoY from leading large-scale development projects with production, graphic designers, marketing, operations, senior executives and brand leads to collaborate on intricate campaigns and testing opportunities like new landing pages, order page builds, site payment enhancements (PayPal, Apple Pay, Amazon Pay), and email landing page tests
•Analyzed and evaluated data from end-to-end customer experience, drafted weekly reports that focused on KPIs (OR, CPM, CTR, CVR) and overall revenue, helped the team conclude data that informed future campaigns from tracking performance with Google Analytics, Quantum Metrics, and internal data system
•Led A/B tests to gain consumer insights on optimizations that increased overall subscriptions, leveraged brand creative and messaging for all assets and managed a team of graphic designers 
•Conducted quarterly reviews of campaign performance and competitive analyses that helped shape future campaign initiatives, helping senior leadership with overall brand strategy
•Assisted team with project management – organized all projects into meticulous timelines and campaign test learnings into a tracker consolidated all brand events/pillar moments and upcoming tests in a shared master calendar
•Spearheaded Conde Nast Intrapreneurs to promote internal entrepreneurship and learning opportunities, networking, and community

Manager, Digital Marketing for Vogue, GQ, Glamour, Allure & Beauty Box

Entrepreneur || Growth & Partnerships Leader || Candidate for Global EMBA at CBS & LBS

Creative strategist and seasoned business development/partnerships professional who enjoys:

-Sourcing, negotiating, and closing B2B partnerships and deals 
-Connecting founders to resources and developing strategic roadmaps to grow a customer base
-Helping high growth founders accelerate their companies with GTM strategies and access to capital
-Brainstorming and implementing growth ideas with data-backed solutions 
-Consulting on strategic branding, influencer partnerships, revenue operations, community building, membership programs, overall launch and growth strategies 
-Storytelling through strategic content to help brands fundraise and pitch to investors 
-Optimizing digital marketing tactics and strategies, with emphasis on social media & email marketing 
-Analyzing marketing data to measure against and surpass KPIs, while creating new KPIs 
-Researching and executing on strategic and tactical recommendations, including competitive analysis
-Planning and presenting creative projects to clients to meet strategic business goals
-Establishing and nurturing client, customer, B2B, investor relationships
-Leveraging market research to craft strategic proposals/memos and presentations 
-Organizing events through creative strategy, vendor management, contract negotiation, operations 
-Leading impactful campaigns that engage with the audience through testing and optimizing on customer learnings, accelerating through optimization 

My previous and current experiences involve growth strategy and marketing, revenue operations, sales, fundraising, partnerships, branding, account management, marketing/PR serving client leaders in wellness, financial services, fashion, media, CPG/retail, real estate and travel/hospitality. 

Motivated to go above and beyond for the client, and believe strongly in hard work and enthusiasm to deliver results. I enjoy strengthening and building client relationships, conducting research for strategic projects, and providing creative solutions to meet client needs. Always looking forward.

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