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Syed Muhammad Miqdad

Experienced International Business Manager

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  • Headed Go-to-Market operations and strategy for a growing mobile-based health technology startup currently shortlisted by Microsoft for Startups (MENA)
  • Led qualitative market research to identify high potential verticals and provide insights to the Product team
  • Developed the sales pipeline and SOPs for a growing sales team along with integrating a CRM platform
  • Onboarded doctors to the platform and collaborated with stakeholders to develop new features and solutions for clinics
  • Headed business operations of a $150M-valued Pakistani clean technologies startup aiming to provide cheap, off-grid water solutions to 10M people in developing countries
  • Developed international sales channels to secure pre-launch sales of $0.7M which prompted an $8M VC investment, largest in the history of Pakistani startups at the time
  • Negotiated MoUs for technology collaborations with leading global chemical suppliers, manufacturing partners and academic institutions in Singapore and China to strengthen supply chain
  • Catalyzed capacity building through strategic partnerships with UNICEF, Akhuwat Foundation, Government of Punjab, and the National Disaster Management Authority to develop countrywide clean water access projects
  • Led incisive quantitative and qualitative market research to analyze the household mindset around water usage in 4 major cities of Pakistan using a custom-built cloud-based platform to cut costs by 73%
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  • Led qualitative market research in East Africa to generate key market insights for new market entry in the household water market
  • Developed organizational frameworks to facilitate international expansion in East Africa and South East Asia
  • Scouted and onboarded stakeholders for international sales worth $1M in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania
  • Developed a plan to launch a $150M technology-centric brand powered by IBM-Watson for a multi-billion dollar FMCG client to target millennial consumers using psychographic segmentation and virtual product prototyping
  • Conducted in-depth segmentation of the medical rehabilitation industry for an innovative medical technologies company to identify most profitable verticals and recommended a growth strategy to increase sales by 21%
  • Identified key sales drivers for a boutique e-commerce platform by analyzing data and recommended a new product launch based on consumer behavior and preferences with a projected revenue increase of $2.55M