Ravi Kant Singh: A Pioneering Business Leader Withun Paralleled Business Wisdom And Fore Sight
Ravi Kant Singh
Managing Director
An IIM Alumnus, Ravi Kant Singh has been steering the company’s growth since 2016. In his 18 years’ journey, he has always been a great learner and has been contributing a lot to the firms he has worked in. For his contributions during his career, he has received many recognitions like-‘Best Employer in Manufacturing Sector’ by Employer Branding Awards in 2014.
Ravi Kant Singh engages in an exclusive interaction with CEO Insights.
Throw some light on your background and experiences. What inspired you to start your professional journey in the business development and project management domain?
It has been an exciting and fulfilling journey filled with massive learning that enabled me to mould my personality to match the business world. In my 18years of career’s journey, I worked in 5 different companies and met many great
leaders who influenced me and helped me in my growth.
I am a passionate leader who puts great deal of effort on people engagement and relationship management and lot of credit for this goes to two of my IBM Managers. My first manager identified my true potential early in my career and exposed me to do things beyond my role, and my second manager picked me up from there and pushed me towards business and clients. I held 9 different roles in my five-year stint with IBM and that speaks a lot about the exposure I got there. There is a quote from Jim Rohn saying, “You are average of 5 people you spend the most time with”. While not entirely true, it does have an interesting thought to ponder over, and I do feel that I was learning from some of the great minds early in my career who helped me develop as a leader.
What are the learnings and experience that you had acquired from IIM Calcutta and how do you apply them in your current role?
Joining IIM-C was an important part of my educational and professional journey, the institute skilled me with the traits that are required to excel in life. Knowledge of Business and Analytics in their isolation won’t help you acquire the relevant Business Analytics skill and IIM-C was fantastic in connecting the bridge between them. I truly understood the concepts beyond the books and was sharp enough to think of business use cases of the skill. Knowing the fact that how Data Science, AI and ML is prevalent in market right now, I feel quite fortunate enough to be an early adopter of the knowledge. I thank all the great faculty and the fantastic curriculum they had that helped me gain some great insights in this field. Another massive learning was
I am a passionate leader who puts great deal of effort on people engagement and relationship management and lot of credit for this goes to two of my IBM Managers. My first manager identified my true potential early in my career and exposed me to do things beyond my role, and my second manager picked me up from there and pushed me towards business and clients. I held 9 different roles in my five-year stint with IBM and that speaks a lot about the exposure I got there. There is a quote from Jim Rohn saying, “You are average of 5 people you spend the most time with”. While not entirely true, it does have an interesting thought to ponder over, and I do feel that I was learning from some of the great minds early in my career who helped me develop as a leader.
Experience doesn’t come from the number of years in tenure; it comes from the challenges you’ve faced in those years
What are the learnings and experience that you had acquired from IIM Calcutta and how do you apply them in your current role?
Joining IIM-C was an important part of my educational and professional journey, the institute skilled me with the traits that are required to excel in life. Knowledge of Business and Analytics in their isolation won’t help you acquire the relevant Business Analytics skill and IIM-C was fantastic in connecting the bridge between them. I truly understood the concepts beyond the books and was sharp enough to think of business use cases of the skill. Knowing the fact that how Data Science, AI and ML is prevalent in market right now, I feel quite fortunate enough to be an early adopter of the knowledge. I thank all the great faculty and the fantastic curriculum they had that helped me gain some great insights in this field. Another massive learning was
towards the networking I built with other great people from the institute who came from different educational and professional backgrounds and a regular interaction with them was very insightful.
Define Bridgetree as an organization and where is it positioned in the industry? What are the company’s greatest strengths and unique propositions that it offers to its clients?
Headquartered in Fort Mill, SC, Bridgetree is a 28-year-old Marketing Consulting and Service oriented company with an established customer base across several industries including retail, insurance, health care, entertainment, and banking. The focus of the firm is leveraging data to make marketing work better. After 25 years of comfortable business, we changed our business strategy and now we are working on a solid growth trajectory with aggressive goals that will enable us to post a 400% growth over next 10 years.
The first office in India was opened in 2000 which is based out of Whitefield, Bangalore, it has seen phenomenal growth and is about to double up its India strength in the last 4 years. Focusing on
Ravi Kant Singh, Managing Director, Bridgetree
An ardent business leader who loves to add value and solve problems, Ravi Kant Singh has come a long way in the 18 years of his career journey so far and he is success fully taking Bridgetree to newer heights every day since 2016
Hobbies–:Reading, Driving, Camping
Favourite cuisine–Anything continental
Favourite Book–The Martian, Project Hail Mary, Early Indians, Zero to One
Favourite Travel Destination– New Zealand,(and Mars, if Elon Musk makes it possible in my lifetime)
Define Bridgetree as an organization and where is it positioned in the industry? What are the company’s greatest strengths and unique propositions that it offers to its clients?
Headquartered in Fort Mill, SC, Bridgetree is a 28-year-old Marketing Consulting and Service oriented company with an established customer base across several industries including retail, insurance, health care, entertainment, and banking. The focus of the firm is leveraging data to make marketing work better. After 25 years of comfortable business, we changed our business strategy and now we are working on a solid growth trajectory with aggressive goals that will enable us to post a 400% growth over next 10 years.
The first office in India was opened in 2000 which is based out of Whitefield, Bangalore, it has seen phenomenal growth and is about to double up its India strength in the last 4 years. Focusing on
Ravi Kant Singh, Managing Director, Bridgetree
An ardent business leader who loves to add value and solve problems, Ravi Kant Singh has come a long way in the 18 years of his career journey so far and he is success fully taking Bridgetree to newer heights every day since 2016
Hobbies–:Reading, Driving, Camping
Favourite cuisine–Anything continental
Favourite Book–The Martian, Project Hail Mary, Early Indians, Zero to One
Favourite Travel Destination– New Zealand,(and Mars, if Elon Musk makes it possible in my lifetime)