Lakshmi Shankar

Twitter Strategy & Operations Lead, Product • Lead the Twitter Consumer product strategy and operations, with responsibility for driving audience engagement, product innovation and growth globally. • Responsible for the strategy, execution, operational excellence and GTM plans orchestrating the effort of over 2000+ people across Product, Engineering, Design, Research, Marketing, Sales & Finance. • Delivered 25% CAGR YoY in audience growth & engagement over the last 10 quarters, making Consumer a growth engine for the Company. // Previous roles at Twitter: Senior Director, Head of Twitter Operations Effectiveness • Responsible for strategic direction, growth and operational excellence, working on Twitter CEO priorities. • Accountable for driving Twitter’s multi-year strategy & investments, business rhythm, execution rigour, operational process & systems and cross-organizational strategic initiatives, to scale the company. • Supporting the growth in all 5 top line company metrics for the last 2 years - audience growth, revenue growth, velocity, profitability and talent diversity & retention. • Additionally grew and managed a team of 100+ team globally to build out the Strategy & Operations and Technical Program Management capabilities @ Twitter. Director, Twitter Video Product • Product Lead for Live Event Experience, building Twitter’s core Video experience, across Video-on-Demand (VoD), Profession Live and User Generated Content (UGC). • Led the build out of the Video org at Twitter, a global team of nearly 200 across Product and GTM, oversaw $150M cost base, GTM strategy, sales and partnerships with NFL, Apple and Disney. Video now contributes to revenues of $1.5Bn+ (40% of Twitter revenues). Corporate Development & Strategy Lead, reporting to the office of CFO. • Led the acquisition integration of Magic Pony, a UK based Machine Learning start-up. • Led shutdown of Vine. • Led the carve-out and sale of Fabric, Twitter’s Developer Platform to Google.

The Stanford Sloan Program is a 1-year, full-time Masters program for mid-career executives. The program’s objective is to transform people and prepare them to change lives, organizations and the world. Notable electives: • Strategic Thinking • Strategic Management Technology and Innovation • Leading Growing Organizations • Human Centered Design and Design Thinking • Negotiations • Interpersonal Dynamics • Startup Garage • Entrepreneurial and Venture Capital Program details: http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/sloan

Ernst & Young is a multinational professional services firm headquartered in London, UK. EY is the third largest Management Consulting firm in the world by revenue in 2014 and is one of the "Big Four" audit firms. Key Engagements Corporate Development • Led the strategy evaluation for a Hi-Tech business, specifically looking at B2B market growth opportunities. Developed and presented the board paper for acquisition targets of strategic fit. Engaged a multi-disciplinary team from Engineering, Operations, HR and Legal to conduct the due diligence for a $600m acquisition of a target. Led the SPA drafting, deal structuring and anti-trust clearance. Setup the integration programme to deliver to $150m in revenue and $100m in cost synergies, over 3 years, against budget of $110m. Business Strategy • Led the full profitability and cost review of a PE backed Digital Entertainment business. Led to portfolio realignment, enhancing multi-channel sales, alternate pricing strategies, among other initiatives to increase profitability by 30% within 1 year. Post Merger Integration • Led the global technology infrastructure integration for a $20bn pharmaceutical company across Americas, EMEA and Asia in 49 countries to deliver cost synergies of $200m over 24 months period. Managed a cross-border, multi-disciplinary team of 120 members globally. Standardised IT infrastructure platforms, centralised support functions, rolled out common SAP ERP templates and outsourced non-core services. Divestiture • Led the divestiture of Europe's largest electricity distributor in an $8bn transaction. Managed transitional services setup, staff transfer and implementation of standalone OpCo across front office and back-office functions. Key Practice Responsibilities • Directed over 50 transactions, 20 diligences and five $5bn+ integrations. • Part of the leadership team with P&L responsibilities. • Grew the team from ten to 120 consultants, creating the largest M&A practice in Europe.

Lead for IBM’s UK Retail Practice, developing large scale solutions for the Retail and CPG sectors, using IBM e-Commerce, m-Commerce, Multi-channel and Merchandising solutions.

Worldwide Product Development Lead for IBM’s Master Data Management (MDM) Service Offering. Responsible for product direction and future product road map, product architecture and feature set, balancing sales/ marketing priorities with engineering constraints and supporting technical diligence for acquisition targets.

Responsible for developing IBM Webspehere and Java technologies (Revenue $3bn worldwide) at IBM Hursley Labs. Later became Websphere Product Release Manager, coordinating product development and delivery effort of Websphere 6.0 and 6.1 across IBM worldwide developments labs in US, UK, India and China.