Vinay Kumar

Current

Founding CEO at StratosHear (www.stratoshear.com)

Past

Sr Vice President or Director at Times Internet Ltd (TIL), India
Director at Microsoft USA
Director at MSN USA

Software Design Engineer at Tata Unisys Ltd
SOFTWARE engineer at Uptron

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Education

Wharton Business School
Birla Institute of Technology and Science

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Vinay Kumar’s Summary

Over 20 years of industry experience in the Internet, Mobile, Tech industry with 9 years at Microsoft Corporation in a variety of general management roles in Redmond USA with global responsibility. Educational background includes an MBA from Wharton Business School and undergrad in Computer Science from BITS Pilani, India.

Moved to New Delhi, India in 2006 as Director / SVP, Corporate Strategy Group for Times Internet Ltd, part of Times of India Group. After a short while, left Times Group to start my own venture.

Vinay Kumar’s Experience

Founding CEO

StratosHear (www.stratoshear.com)

(Telecommunications industry)

June 2007 — Present (2 years 7 months)

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Sr Vice President or Director

Times Internet Ltd (TIL), India

(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Media Production industry)

December 2005 — May 2007 (1 year 6 months)

TIMES INTERNET LTD (THE TIMES OF INDIA GROUP), DELHI (INDIA)
Sr. Vice President (Indian Title: Director) -- Investments/Alliances, Business Incubation/P&L, Products
Times Internet Ltd (TIL) is the digital venture of India’s largest media house – The Times of India Group. The primary businesses for TIL are online portals (indiatimes, timesofindia.com, economictimes.com), mobile value added services (e.g. music, games, mobile portal), rich media products (e.g. games, multimedia content), e-commerce and small business online solutions. Reporting to the CEO and MD as part of the Executive Management Team, I am responsible for Business Incubation, Investments and Strategic Alliances.
Director

Microsoft USA

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

January 2002 — November 2005 (3 years 11 months)

Director, Emerging Markets – Windows Client Division

Provided thought leadership, incubated new product ideas, created innovative business models and forged alliances to spearhead expansion strategies for the $10B+ Windows Division in emerging nations including India, China, Brazil.

Provided vision and authored a strategy document for extending computing solution to emerging market customers by innovating on new business models for the computing industry. Championed and sold the vision internally to senior management. The product was launched in May 2006 as the industry’s first pay-as-you-go personal computing offering and was powered by Microsoft’s FlexGo technology.

Completed a successful year-long market trial of pay-as-you-go offerings in Brazil with leading national retailer Magazine Luiza. Selected partners, negotiated contracts and developed plans for next round of pay-as-you-go trials in Brazil, China, Hungary, India, Mexico, Russia, Slovenia and Vietnam
Director

MSN USA

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Wireless industry)

November 1999 — January 2002 (2 years 3 months)

Group Product Manager/Director, MSN Mobile Business Incubation
Defined the worldwide business strategy for MSN Mobile (wireless portal for MSN). Gained approval of the comprehensive business and marketing plan from senior management and executed the plan worldwide. Drove business development discussions with wireless carriers in the US, Europe and Latin America. Signed portal deals with various wireless carriers, including Sprint, Nextel, Bell Mobility and AT&T.

Incubated the MSN Mobile business to a $3M business and increased MSN Mobile user base by 30% (from 4.6m to 6m) and MSN Mobile notification user base by 60% in 1 year
o Increased MSN Mobile wireless carrier partnerships from 1 to 5 partners
o Launched MSN Mobile 3.0 wireless services
Software Design Engineer

Tata Unisys Ltd

(Public Company; Internet industry)

1999 — 2001 (2 years )
SOFTWARE engineer

Uptron

(Internet industry)

1987 — 1988 (1 year )

Vinay Kumar’s Education

Wharton Business School

MBA , General Management , August 1994 — May 1996
Birla Institute of Technology and Science

M. Sc. (Tech) , Computer Science , 1983 — 1987