Vipul Kumar

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About Vipul Kumar

Top 10 list on me: 1. Veteran: Twenty Two years of career experience surviving many shocks including Y2K hype, internet bubble and the great recession (laid off from work twice). Achiever (Heart, Body and Soul): Over ten years experiencing lots of success but also great deal of failures as well. Biggest learning is how to keep persistence in low and difficult times. Roaming Feet: Got wonderful opportunity to travel to eleven countries for both work and fun. Look forward to experience many more. What I Understand of myself: Have taken considerable amount of time in understanding my mission, which is making a significant difference in the environment where I contribute. Toughest question to Answer: What is your best achievement? Work – Life (Do I really know how to handle?): Love golf, audiophile, loves cross country drives and family time [Work like a demon, Party like a devil and Sleep like an angel] 7. Always grateful: To a wonderful bunch of colleagues, great mentors, tough clients, awesome management team and support of a large family fraternity. What I do best: Technology, product, go to market, sales, talk, motivate, create, drive, result. What I can’t do (learning a lot, still lagging): Diplomacy, ideation. Journey ahead: Self assessment tells me of a long road ahead. It took me more than a decade to achieve the “private victory” of 7 habits (proactive, first thing first, begin with the end in mind). Now focusing on achieving “public victory” My BOSI DNA check is attached for ref. Basically it stats - What to watch out for in "High Growth Builder" individual. My Primary DNA -"Builder" a) Strategic planning and problem solving b) Designing systems for scalable growth c) Recruiting investors, partners, employees and customers Secondary DNA -"Innovator"- is the part of me that comes up with breakthrough ideas and product. It gives me an almost limitless innovation pipeline