Damo Baliga
Director Commercial and Marketing at Global Village Consulting
Damo Baliga
Director Commercial and Marketing at Global Village Consulting
Maidenhead, England
Overview
Work Experience
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Education
Executive MBA
2009 - 2011
Certificate of Completion
2010 - 2011
PGDM
1994 - 1996
Bachelor of Engineering
1986 - 1990
Pre-University Education
1984 - 1986
Secondary School Leaving Certificate
1974 - 1984