Akshay Akshay Menon

Overview

Building Cairn Foods in Nashville - vertical SaaS for clinics. Raised $25 million across 2 rounds. Before that: Databricks and KPMG. Most at home with go-to-market and fundraising.

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Experience

1. Founder

   Aug 2023 - Present
   Cairn Foods · 3 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Nashville, TN
   • Grew the team to 59 people across 5 countries.
   • Signed 191 paying customers, 19 of them enterprises.
   • Took Cairn Foods from zero to $2 million ARR.
2. Senior Consultant

   Jan 2021 - Aug 2023
   Databricks · 2 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Nashville, TN
   • Ran commercial diligence on 25 deals.
   • Led a cost programme that saved a client $130 million.
3. Engagement Manager

   May 2019 - Jan 2021
   KPMG · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Nashville, TN
   • Delivered 14 engagements across 5 countries.
4. Senior Consultant

   Jul 2015 - May 2019
   Nvidia · 3 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Nashville, TN
   • Designed the operating model for a 14 thousand-person transformation.
   • Led a cost programme that saved a client $52 million.
5. Business Analyst

   Oct 2013 - Jul 2015
   Meta · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Nashville, TN
   • Reduced cloud spend on real-time by 20% in two quarters.
   • Brought on-call pages for real-time down from 38 a week to 3.

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Education

1. UT Austin

   BS, Computer Science
   2004 - 2008