Lokesh Jithin Shankar

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Founder at Plume Ops | ex-Hindustan Unilever

Plume Ops
Hyderabad, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
15+ years experience
IIIT Bangalore
English, Hindi, Telugu
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Overview

Founder of Plume Ops, working on B2B payments. Grew the team to 40 people across 3 countries. Most at home with healthcare and B2B sales. I speak at conferences a couple of times a year.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Second opinions on B2B sales decisions
  • Questions about B2B payments
  • Early customers and design partners
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  • Fundraising consultants
  • Offshore staffing offers

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Skills
B2B salesfundraisinghealthcarefintech

Experience

  1. Founder
    Jul 2022 - Present
    Plume Ops · 4 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Signed 344 paying customers, 4 of them enterprises.
    • Grew the team to 110 people across 4 countries.
    • Previously built and sold a small B2B payments company.
  2. Consultant
    Jun 2020 - Jul 2022
    Hindustan Unilever · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Ran commercial diligence on 38 deals.
  3. Senior Consultant
    Jun 2018 - Mar 2020
    Samsung R&D · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Delivered 24 engagements across 9 countries.
    • Ran commercial diligence on 34 deals.
  4. Engagement Manager
    Oct 2014 - Jun 2018
    InMobi · 3 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Led a cost programme that saved a client $196 million.
    • Ran commercial diligence on 22 deals.
  5. Engagement Manager
    Oct 2011 - Oct 2014
    Dream11 · 3 yr · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Led a cost programme that saved a client $150 million.

Projects

Write-up: B2B payments in practice
2025

A long-form guide to B2B payments for people starting out.

Conference talk: lessons from company
2023

What went wrong and what worked while scaling B2B payments.

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Education

  1. IIIT Bangalore
    M.Tech, Engineering
    2013 - 2015
  2. IIT Kharagpur
    B.Tech, Engineering
    2007 - 2011

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