Manoj Swaminathan

Overview

Founder of Plume Mobility (climate analytics). 23 years of building before that. Signed 74 paying customers, 11 of them enterprises. Previously built and sold a small climate analytics company. Before that: Meesho and Tata Motors. Learning to sail.

Experience

1. Founder & CEO

   May 2023 - Present
   Plume Mobility · 3 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Visakhapatnam, India
   • Signed 328 paying customers, 5 of them enterprises.
   • Grew the team to 29 people across 3 countries.
   • Previously built and sold a small climate analytics company.
2. Principal Product Manager

   Jun 2020 - May 2023
   Meesho · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Visakhapatnam, India
   • Backed 42 founders at pre-seed and seed.
3. Group Product Manager

   Apr 2019 - Jun 2020
   Tata Motors · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Visakhapatnam, India
   • Cut time-to-first-value for new marketplace customers from 20 days to 1.
4. Product Manager

   Sep 2017 - Apr 2019
   Wipro · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Visakhapatnam, India
   • Took creator activation from 33% to 47% in three quarters.
   • Ran 57 customer interviews before writing the first spec.
5. Director of Product

   Apr 2014 - Sep 2017
   Amazon · 3 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Visakhapatnam, India
   • Cut time-to-first-value for new payments customers from 12 days to 3.
   • Took payments activation from 26% to 36% in three quarters.

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Education

1. ISB Hyderabad

   MBA, Business Administration
   2006 - 2008
2. Delhi Technological University

   B.Tech, Economics
   1999 - 2003