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Damo Baliga

Director Commercial and Marketing at Global Village Consulting

Maidenhead, England

Overview 

Damo Baliga is a Strategy and Investment Management Professional based in Maidenhead, England, currently serving as Director at BridgeForever Limited. With a background in management consulting and leadership roles at companies like Ness Global Services and VentureDirector, he specializes in business strategy, outsourcing, and product management, while also actively investing in various sectors like Material Science and Digital Health. Baliga's career highlights include his role as Managing Director at VentureDirector and Vice President positions at Ness Global Services, where he led software product labs and strategic initiatives, demonstrating his expertise in driving business growth and fostering strategic partnerships across industries.

Work Experience 

BridgeForever Limited

  • Director

    2009 - Current

    BridgeForever is a Sales, Marketing and Operations management consultancy set up to address the needs of the SME Sector to help take their products/ services to market in a 'sustainable' manner, by leveraging the global market place.

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Boundary Capital Partners LLP

  • Associate Partner

    2011

    Boundary Capital provides a unique funding solution to businesses in various situations using its unique ability to source from a wide pool of investing directors “Venturers” who are industry experts or serial entrepreneurs from wide variety of industry sectors who co-invest alongside. Responsible for Deal Origination and Fund Raising for AngelPlus Fund with a current (2017) AUM of £12 million

Global Village Consulting

  • Director Commercial and Marketing

    2011

    GVC helps non-UK domiciled businesses with strategy and implementation services to establish a strong presence in UK. Helped several businesses from India and Eastern Europe gain a foothold in UK. Responsible for Finance and Marketing functions.

VentureDirector

  • Managing Director

    2011

    Venturedirector is business which helped identify and develop start-up businesses through a 3 Stage Validation process to improve their Investment Worthiness using a network of experts called Venturers.

East Berkshire College

  • Co-opted Member (Learning & Curriculum Committee) - Voluntary Position

    2011 - 2012

    Advised and helped adopt processes to impact students lifetime career prospects as opposed to limiting the curriculum to skills and knowledge development.

Ness Global Services

  • Vice President & Head of Software Product Labs Business Unit

    2005 - 2009

    Developed an ecosystem of Software product companies in UK/ Europe and evangelised business transformation, creating Product IP and custodial services of IP developed exploiting round-the-clock product development through multi-location, multple time-zone operations that were setup. Managed the P&L (250 virtual employees) for the newly carved out business unit which served as the extension of the R&D and Software product engineering capability of clients. Awarded the ‘Win-Win’ award in 2007 for excellence and over-achievement of business units goals by implementing a mix of pricing and margin improvement initiatives.

  • Vice President - Strategic Initiatives

    2001 - 2005

    A member of the 'Top 50' senior management team at Ness which worked on the 5-year Strategic Plan and achieved the shared objectives of growing and taking the company Public in 2004.

Ness Global Services Limited (Formerly Apar Infotech Limited)

  • Vice President - Operations (India)

    1999 - 2001

    Member of the start-up team that establish the offshore Recruitment Division for Ness in India. Developed systems, structures, people and processes to recruit over 750 resources to be deployed to client projects in 6 countries - UK, US, Singapore, Malaysia, Canada & Australia.

TNS India Private Limited (Formerly MBL RCG Private Limited)

  • Head of Offshore Research Services Center

    1998 - 1999

    Established a greenfield division, Overseas Research Services Center (ORSC) for TNS India to study the consumer behaviour and develop tracker products on behalf of clients in UK, US and Asia. This was a pioneering effort in the BPO industry and the institutionalized processes served as platform for future growth for TNS India.

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ITW Signode India Limited

  • Senior Manager - Speciality Chemicals Business Unit

    1996 - 1998

    Key Leader of the Speciality Chemicals Group that led and turned around the business unit and generated US$ 1 Million in profits within one and half years from level of negative contribution. Developed the business case and executed transfer of the factory operations to a Tax Holiday zone which contributed to long term sustainability of the business.

ITW specializes in the fields of industrial machinery, engineering, operations, sales, marketing, finance, and accounting.

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INDAL (a subsidiary of ALCAN)

  • Engineer

    1990 - 1994

    Key Member of Team that developed Speciality Alumina Hydrate and Alumina based products for over 20 end-user segments and generated revenue of over US$ 2 Million by undertaking application engineering with anchor customers.

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