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Karan Pinto

  • An entrepreneur & consultant with 8 years of experience in creating value through disruptive technology & business model innovation
  • Core skills: Company building, Deep tech commercialization, Business development & Value investing
  • Fields of Interest: Sustainability, Investment Management, Quantum Computing & Ventures

Work experience

Oct 2020present

Quantum Lab Lead

SIa Partners Quantum lab
  1. Differentiated Capability Creation. Built a global offering dedicated to helping corporates across sectors benefit from quantum computing through products & advisory services
  2. Product Development. Co-leading the design, build & sales of 2 hybrid quantum computing powered products around Collateral Optimisation & Computational Fluid Dynamics 
  3. Business Development. Successfully built an ecosystem & sales pipeline through a self-created lead origination system, resulting in a pipeline contribution of €750k

Press links: Quantum.Tech | Quantum London

Dec 2019present

Senior Venture Builder

Sia Partners Growth & Innovation
  1.  IP Growth Strategy x Go To Market.  Created ~$1.7 m of revenue opportunities in steel manufacturing, surgical scheduling & workforce optimisation over 2 years
  2. Business Cases x Energy & Utilities x Quantum. Successfully secured a new big technology client & led projects for their customers aimed at accelerating the clean energy transition
  3. Sales Pipeline x Disruptive Tech. Led the business development & tactical pipeline build of a workforce optimisation product resulting in 23 new sales opportunities for the  client
  4. Strategy x Healthcare: Leading the value proposition build & the US/CA market entry strategy development for a firm looking to innovate in the personalised patient treatment space
  5. Venture Design x Healthcare. Developed a drug discovery business & helped set up the capability partnership leading to paying customers in < 2 years
  6. Business Model Innovation x Utilities. Successfully lead the reinvention of a long-standing water research firm resulting in enhanced member value & improved sector positioning
Feb 2019Dec 2019

Growth & Innovation Consultant

Inzenka
  1. Data Strategy x Healthcare. Helped a UK health organization understand the power of data transparency & systemize the use of data insights for strategic decision making
  2. Growth Strategy x Pharma. Helped craft a Growth Strategy for the Diabetes business of a multinational healthcare company suffering from a legacy portfolio & new medical device disruption 
  3. AI Strategy x Energy. Helped develop & validate 9  value propositions for a British energy company to improve the experience of their 6 million customers through personalisation & automation
  4. AI x IP Commercialisation. Helped create packaged industry solutions for a firms' existing AI computer vision offering, resulting in 3 partnerships & 2 PoCs on inspection for offshore windmills & automotive paint
Jul 2017Jan 2019

Industry X.0 Innovation Hub Lead

Accenture Technology
  • Showcased emerging technologies like Blockchain, IOT and Cobotics to 1115 visitors from C-suite clients to school children
  • Successfully delivered on change management & process improvement sprints for a multi-billion dollar project in the Nuclear Industry
  • Worked with IBM Watson to conduct advanced analytics and build demonstrators that use computer vision and machine learning

Links: Video Tour by me

Aug 2016June 2017

The Mayor of London’s Low Carbon Entrepreneur

Greater London Authority

Press link here

Jan 2015July 2017

Co-Founder

The Gregory, The Mario Jude & The Bombay Cutting
  • Designed and built the UI and UX for the online stores and optimised it through market research, customer interviews and user testing
  • Streamlined the value chain by effectively managing inventory and collaborating with international manufactures
  • Continuously iterated on product design by integrating customer feedback and implementing improvements post user data analysis
  • Strategically executed a marketing strategy to boost market penetration, increasing operating profit by 24%
Aug 2016Dec 2016

Race Car Design Assemblage Engineer

Roborace
July 2015Jan 2016

Market Research Intern

Hubble