
Assistant Vice President at CPA Global
India

Assistant Vice President at CPA Global
India
Rahul is an innovation driven leader with innate ability to build, motivate and run high performing multi-disciplinary teams. He thrives on delivering results with limited resources, driving innovation to adapt to change and taking decisions through consensus building. He brings a rich experience of scientifically driven operations management, complex product ideation and development, business development, and relationship with C-suite executives. He has built and run both value-led and volume-driven businesses. He believes in helping his clients, his company and his people succeed.
He joined CPA Global in Jan 2006 where he built and now has the overall responsibility of a multi-disciplinary operations team comprising engineers and technologists, statisticians, software developers and IP valuation professionals.
He has a proven track record of providing superior consulting related to IP Portfolio Optimization.
In addition to providing Intellectual Property Strategy consulting to clients in US and Europe, Rahul's team is is building patent-pending, world-leading methodologies related to assessment and valuation of Intellectual Property.
Rahul is also responsible for supporting other large (multi-million GBP) businesses providing Patent, Trademark, Plant Rights & Design Data Verification service - a one of its kind service in the world.
Rahul also leads internal corporate development projects e.g. assessing location attractiveness of Indian cities from development of an Offshore Research Centre (ORC) perspective; conceptualization-to-implementation of an India based telemarketing channel for Knowledge services (KPO and LPO); Process Mapping and Re-engineering; and Metrics Development for Knowledge Services.
Intellectual Property Research, Analytics, Intelligence, Monetization, Commercialisation, Patents, Patent Strategy, Outsourcing, LPO, Strategy, Portfolio Optimization
(Privately Held; Legal Services industry)
February 2009 — Present (11 months)
Broadly, my responsibilities include:
o Recruitment & Training
o Delivery
o Business Development & Client management
o Product Ideation and Development
o Team management
o ISO 9001:2008 compliance in all aspects of operations management
(Partnership; Legal Services industry)
January 2006 — January 2009 (3 years 1 month)
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Legal Services industry)
March 2005 — January 2006 (11 months)
Rahul was hired in 2005 by Pangea3, the leader in Legal Process Outsourcing services, as their first employee in the Intellectual Property division. Along with the Vice President of Intellectual Property sales, Rahul grew the Intellectual Property practice providing sophisticated patent research, analysis and litigation support services from absolute scratch to about 20 people in less than a year.
(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Management Consulting industry)
2004 — 2005 (1 year )
Rahul worked on complex Competitive and Technical Intelligence projects involving Patent Landscaping, Technology Standards mapping, Whitespace discovery, Patent Drafting, Prior Art search, Invalidity search, Freedom-to-Operate search, Patent Due Diligence, Product Coverage, Claims Construction, Claims Mapping, Patent Product Mapping, Literature Research projects.
(Public Company; INFY; Information Technology and Services industry)
July 2002 — January 2004 (1 year 7 months)
Severed several large clients including SBC Telecommunications and ING, North America. Got an award from Practice Unit Head for development of defect repository and search engine. My role involved Scope Analysis, Estimation, Impact Analysis, Design, Coding and Testing of the System Service Requests.
Executive Program on “Strategic Intellectual Property Management” , 2007 — 2007
B.E (Honors) , Computer Science , 1998 — 2002
Rahul runs an award-winning, globally recognized blog on Legal Process Outsourcing, called Legallyours http://legallyours.blogspot.com. The blog won the ABA Journal Blawg 100 contest in the Lawyer’s toolkit category in Jan 2008. The blog is also featured among Alltop.com’s “Best of the best” in the Law category.
Rahul has been interviewed by American, Canadian, British and Indian media on numerous occasions. The features varied from talent acquisition in the IP offshoring space, Legal Process Outsourcing, speaking computers making intelligent conversations in Hindi, etc.
Rahul is often consulted by corporations, law firms, private equity firms, and research firms on Legal Outsourcing.
Other awards and recognition includes:
1. Medal for Best Undergraduate Project in the graduating batch of 2002
2. Award for topping Infosys training batch
3. Spot award and best project award at Infosys
4. Mentioned on Rediff, cover story of Siliconeer and project covered by BBC