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Krishna Priya
Associate Manager - Talent Acquisition at Wiz Freight, Chennai
https://www.iimjobs.com/r/161603-krishna-priya
Wiz is the fastest-growing digital cross-border supply chain startup in emerging markets. Wiz is using cutting-edge technology to solve hard problems in the USD 2 Trillion global supply chain space, helping businesses in emerging markets win globally with competitive cross-border logistics. The tech-led full-stack operations offer superior visibility, reliability, and efficiency to all stakeholders involved in the cross-border supply chain. Demand/Supply forecasting, dynamic pricing, AI-driven rates/schedules parsing, IoT-based visibility solutions, route/cargo optimization models, OCR based document processing are some of the areas where Wiz is applying deep technology solutions to create impact in an otherwise archaic low-tech industry. Wiz is deeply committed to making global logistics sustainable and will work at the intersection of themes including carbon offsetting, low-emission fuels, EV vehicles, etc.
The startup has grown profitably from 0 to USD 80M annualized revenues in less than a year since inception. With a rapidly growing team of 250+ with offices across 10+ locations, Wiz is looking to expand its operations in Southeast Asia, China, the Middle East, and Africa over the next 12-24 months. The company is looking to invest in world-class leadership talent across its HQs in Singapore, Dubai, and India. The company is looking to enter 10+ new markets including China, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania, and Egypt. Wiz plans to increase its headcount to 1000+ over the next 24 months with most of the hiring across sales, operations, and tech. The company expects to become a unicorn in 12-18 months and a decacorn by 2025 with USD 5Bn+ annualized revenues with operations across 20+ countries.
Wiz was founded by Ramkumar Govindarajan (Ram G) and Ramkumar Ramachandran (Ram R). Ram G is an alumnus of NUS, Singapore, and has worked at Rocket Internet in their Singapore office where he helped them with the rapid scale-up of portfolio startups in Southeast Asia including Lazada, Zalora, and Food Panda. He then went on to join Lynk, an Uber-for-trucks startup in India where he was a founding team member and the Chief Product Officer helping the company grow from 0-350+ team members across 5+ locations serving 1 Mn+ SMEs with their last mile deliveries. Ram R is a veteran of the shipping industry with more than 25+ years of experience having run multiple global businesses as MD/CEO with operations spanning 1000+ employees. In his last entrepreneurial stint, he sold PL shipping to M+R Spedag group, a multi-billion-dollar Swiss logistics conglomerate.
The startup has grown profitably from 0 to USD 80M annualized revenues in less than a year since inception. With a rapidly growing team of 250+ with offices across 10+ locations, Wiz is looking to expand its operations in Southeast Asia, China, the Middle East, and Africa over the next 12-24 months. The company is looking to invest in world-class leadership talent across its HQs in Singapore, Dubai, and India. The company is looking to enter 10+ new markets including China, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania, and Egypt. Wiz plans to increase its headcount to 1000+ over the next 24 months with most of the hiring across sales, operations, and tech. The company expects to become a unicorn in 12-18 months and a decacorn by 2025 with USD 5Bn+ annualized revenues with operations across 20+ countries.
Wiz was founded by Ramkumar Govindarajan (Ram G) and Ramkumar Ramachandran (Ram R). Ram G is an alumnus of NUS, Singapore, and has worked at Rocket Internet in their Singapore office where he helped them with the rapid scale-up of portfolio startups in Southeast Asia including Lazada, Zalora, and Food Panda. He then went on to join Lynk, an Uber-for-trucks startup in India where he was a founding team member and the Chief Product Officer helping the company grow from 0-350+ team members across 5+ locations serving 1 Mn+ SMEs with their last mile deliveries. Ram R is a veteran of the shipping industry with more than 25+ years of experience having run multiple global businesses as MD/CEO with operations spanning 1000+ employees. In his last entrepreneurial stint, he sold PL shipping to M+R Spedag group, a multi-billion-dollar Swiss logistics conglomerate.
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3-7 yrs
Mumbai
15/11
