Nishant Mani
Founding Organizer at LA Climate Week
Nishant Mani
Founding Organizer at LA Climate Week
Los Angeles, California
Overview
Work Experience
Advisor
2024 - Current
Chief Business Officer
2020 - 2024
Ran revenue growth, data, finance, and vertical P&Ls to enable the company's mission to get 100 million people working in climate by 2030.
Advisor
2020 - 2020
Founding Organizer
2024
Partner, Climate Capital Syndicate
2022
Lead investments in early stage climate startups across sectors and geographies that are innovating on the deployment problem i.e. scaling market-tested technologies and business models in climate solutions. Investments: Lumo, Sust, Packsmith, Ezra Climate, Dispatch Goods, Sheru, Terraform Industries, Boxpower
Board Member
2020
Advisor
2020 - 2022
Advisor
2020 - 2021
Chief Marketing Officer
2018 - 2020
• Built and managed several business functions with top-tier talent, including performance and organic marketing, analytics, brand & PR, growth product and design • Grew customer base by several orders of magnitude for Fabric's suite of products across life insurance, wills, college savings, and other family finance apps • Developed product strategy and diversified revenue streams across a broad suite of fintech products tailored to new parent financial security • Led a head-to-toe rebranding of the company to reflect the entire val prop, showcase stellar design and experience, and have genuine conversations with the new parent target • Built channel, comms and growth product stack on the foundation of a complex audience targeting engine that combined insurance risk assessment across several dimensions including socio-economic and health risk • Raised multiple successful fundraising rounds with the rest of the executive team
Advisor
2017 - 2018
Chief Marketing Officer
2016 - 2018
• Ran the direct-to-consumer subscription business for a top 50 US wine company, leading the marketing, customer experience, analytics, and content teams • Increased new subscriber growth by 50% and early member retention by 15% within 6 months, through channel diversification (digital, direct mail, streaming audio), customer referral growth, and digital product/experience revamp • Created new brand identity & tone pillars for Winc and implemented it across all customer lifecycle touchpoints; developed pillars from 1st & 3rd party consumer intelligence data and company SWOT • Lifted operating margin by 20% through price segmentation and tiering while maintaining retention and engagement, helping turn the company to EBITDA profitability • Developed and managed a wide slate of brand partnerships across companies like Penguin Randomhouse, Shell, and CB2, driving subscriber growth as well as brand awareness • Built internal ops to improve company productivity and morale; transitioned the company to KPI-driven agile pods and streamlined shared service prioritization processes
Mentor
2016 - 2018