Raj Akula

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Raj K. Akula

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Biography

Northern Kentucky University - Computer Science

Product Management at Samsung Electronics America
Consumer Electronics
Raj Kiran
Akula
Mountain View, California
Experienced Product Management leader with a demonstrated history of working in advertising, consumer goods, finance, healthcare, and technology firms.


Experience

  • Northern Kentucky University

    Adjunct Professor, Computer Science - College of Informatics

    First graduate student to teach 2nd year undergraduate course.

    Taught class sizes of 20-40 students Java, Object Oriented Programming II.

  • Verizon Media

    Principal Product Manager

    Developing a Product Roadmap for end to end campaign planning tool, that manages $2B+ in yearly sales.

    Includes:
    Integrating with different ad platforms, upstream, downstream system for sellers and account managers to plan advertising campaigns and generate one IO or contract for a sale in one unified system.

    Defining and creating new feature sets that help drive efficiency for operations, finance, sellers, and account managers.

  • Samsung Electronics America

    Product Management

    Raj worked at Samsung Electronics America as a Product Management

  • Transworld Systems

    Director of Product Management

    Revamped entire dev team (15 USA and 6 Manila head count) by establishing an agile development methodology and upgrading existing talent with new skill sets(training and hiring).

    Created a new pricing strategy for our payment services and products using a value based approach versus a traditional cost plus strategy; presented results to the Chief Strategy Officer and Chief Marketing Officer.

  • Procter & Gamble

    Finance Manager

    Built business case to increase investments in developing online sales for the Family Care Category which accounted for 1% YOY sales growth for the category.

    Identified intervention tactics at Club Retailers to ease sales declines and created an action plan that reversed the trend.

Education

  • The University of Chicago Booth School of Business

    Master of Business Administration (MBA)

    Economics, Finance, and Strategy

  • Northern Kentucky University

    Master of Science (M.S.)

    Computer Science

  • Northern Kentucky University

    Bachelor of Science (B.S.)

    Mathematics and Computer Science

  • Northern Kentucky University

    Adjunct Professor, Computer Science - College of Informatics


    First graduate student to teach 2nd year undergraduate course. Taught class sizes of 20-40 students Java, Object Oriented Programming II.

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