Akshay Ramen
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Tech-to-Business Pivot | Ex-McKinsey & iOS Engineer | M&A Strategy
Studied at University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
Worked at McKinsey & Company
Available tomorrow at 5:00 PM UTC
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Akshay’s Career Coaching Qualifications
Experience level: Manager
Welcome to my profile! With a robust background in corporate strategy and development at Monotype and a dynamic tenure as a Senior Business Analyst at McKinsey & Company, I bring a wealth of experience in driving innovation and strategic growth. My journey from co-founding a successful startup to leading AI strategy initiatives has equipped me with unique insights into the tech and business landscapes. I am passionate about helping professionals navigate their career paths, leveraging my expertise in pricing, growth strategy, and digital transformations. Whether you're looking to break into a new industry or accelerate your career growth, I'm here to guide you every step of the way. Let's connect and chart a course for your success!
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Work Experience
Manager, Corporate Strategy & Development
Monotype
November 2024 - Present
-Lead GenAI strategy across the organization, partnering with AI engineers and researchers to drive innovation in dynamic text rendering, typographic agents, new AI RAG/MCP font licensing, and fontless systems amid the rise of LLMs • Spearheaded platform integration strategy, embedding Monotype’s fonts into 30+ leading design and AI tools, catalyzing a rapid shift toward platform partner focused revenue model vs. traditional customer font licensing • Directed ‘Mission Whitespace’ efforts to evaluate how and where to AI assisted glyph generation to expand non-Latin inventory in markets where demand outpaces inventory • Created and assisted implementation of new, standardized customer success model to improve GRR & NRR • Conducted diligence and financial modeling for three foundry & tech M&A deals ($xM+ each), collaborating cross-functionally to assess strategic fit and financial impact
Senior Business Analyst
McKinsey & Company
September 2022 - August 2024
Industries: TMT, Retail, LEAP/FUEL (McKinsey's startup incubator), Healthcare, Industrials, Manufacturing Functions: Pricing, Growth Strategy, Operations, Digital & Financial Transformations, Due Diligence Business Operations, Analytical Skills and +5 skills
Co-founder
Fiesta
January 2020 - October 2022
-Fiesta is an app that we created from the ground up that aggregates and reports real time nightlife information through a rating system, allowing users to gauge key metrics like crowd, length of line, and service speed when determining which bars or breweries to go to -1k+ users in the Chicago & Minneapolis Area -Secured $6k in funding from selective University startup course but the rest was 100% bootstrapped Organizational Development, Legal Document Preparation and +11 skills
Software Engineer
Target
September 2021 - September 2022
-Developed critical frontend and backend features (full stack) on the core team that worked on the newly released Gift Registry feature in the Target iOS app used by over 25 million customers -Debugged and updated vital functionalities used by customers in checkout from cart in Target iOS app Objective-C and Swift (Programming Language)
Researcher
University of Minnesota
September 2019 - December 2021
-Writing a self-driving rideshare allocation simulation in Java that should maximize the number of passengers getting a ride and minimize wait times using a mathematical model imported through the Cplex API -The model and simulation results will be used in an in-progress research publication that will have a large impact on future of the rideshare market companies such as Uber and Lyft Microsoft Excel, Algorithms and +3 skills
Education
University of Texas at Austin
Master's degree, Artificial Intelligence
2026 - 2027
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science, Minors in Mathematics and Statistics
2017 - 2021
Activities and societies: Honors Student, Alpha Kappa Psi Professional Business Fraternity (Director of Membership and Executive Board Member), Student Researcher, Atland Ventures (Partner and Director) 3.80 GPA
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