Lokesh Jithin Shankar
SFounder at Plume Ops | ex-Hindustan Unilever
- Plume Ops
- Hyderabad, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
- 15+ years experience
- IIIT Bangalore
- English, Hindi, Telugu
Messaging unavailable
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
Please don't message about
- Fundraising consultants
- Offshore staffing offers
Replies on weekday evenings
Skills
B2B salesfundraisinghealthcarefintech
Experience
- FounderJul 2022 - PresentPlume 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.
- ConsultantJun 2020 - Jul 2022Hindustan Unilever · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
- Ran commercial diligence on 38 deals.
- Senior ConsultantJun 2018 - Mar 2020Samsung R&D · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
- Delivered 24 engagements across 9 countries.
- Ran commercial diligence on 34 deals.
- Engagement ManagerOct 2014 - Jun 2018InMobi · 3 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
- Led a cost programme that saved a client $196 million.
- Ran commercial diligence on 22 deals.
- Engagement ManagerOct 2011 - Oct 2014Dream11 · 3 yr · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
- Led a cost programme that saved a client $150 million.
Projects
Write-up: B2B payments in practice
2025A long-form guide to B2B payments for people starting out.
Conference talk: lessons from company
2023What went wrong and what worked while scaling B2B payments.
References
No references yet.
Education
- IIIT BangaloreM.Tech, Engineering2013 - 2015
- IIT KharagpurB.Tech, Engineering2007 - 2011
Details
Compensation expectations
What they are targeting for their next role.
Visible to connections
Direct contact details
Direct email and a scheduling link.
Visible to connections