akhilesh.kejriwal

Founder's Office · Strategic Projects · Business Analysis

I turn founder priorities into working systems.

I'm Akhilesh Kejriwal — a PGDM (IMT Ghaziabad) operator who has spent 3+ years inside Founder's Offices. I lead enterprise system implementations end to end, design performance and process systems from scratch, and increasingly build the tools that run them. Gurugram, India · open to relocate.

Akhilesh Kejriwal
13
states live on Salesforce SFA
4
enterprise systems implemented end to end
60+
employees on a performance system I built
95%+
data readiness at migration
300+
pages authored & designed

Selected work · Priyagold & Surya Global Flexifilms

Eight things I built, and what they were for.

Priyagold (Surya Food & Agro Ltd.) is one of India's established biscuit and FMCG groups; Surya Global Flexifilms is its B2B packaging-films business. I lead the Founder's Office across both, and these are the programmes that came out of it.

01

Salesforce SFA — field-sales transformation across 13 states

Priyagold · Business lead & analyst
The problem

A general-trade field force running on paper and phone calls, with distributor and territory records scattered across regional spreadsheets in as many formats as there were regions.

What I did

Business lead for the implementation end to end — requirements, solution design, UAT, change requests and go-live. Separately owned the master-data migration: wrote the data standard the programme now runs on, built an AI-assisted validation pipeline to test every state file against it, and ran the correction cycle with regional teams until the files cleared.

Impact

Live across 13 states at 95%+ data readiness on upload, followed by post-go-live adoption, residual migration and change management.

02

A new Distributor Management System

Priyagold · Programme lead
The problem

An ageing distributor management system that the network had outgrown.

What I did

Led the replacement from a blank page: ran discovery across sales, supply chain and finance, drove the business requirements through to sign-off, and designed both the approval workflow and the shared distributor identity that lets the new DMS and the SFA platform operate as one system rather than two.

Impact

Taken from discovery to an approved, build-ready design with every pre-development dependency closed.

03

Centralised order platform + management analytics

Priyagold · Business owner
The problem

B2B orders arriving through uncoordinated channels, and no single view of the business for leadership.

What I did

Business owner for two linked internal builds — a centralised order platform and the analytics layer over it. Ran the scope definition, interface and data-schema reviews, commercial evaluation, and delivery coordination across external partners and internal teams.

Impact

Two builds specified, costed and coordinated into a single connected system rather than two disconnected tools.

04

A KRA–KPI performance system, built from scratch

Surya Global Flexifilms · Designed & built end to end
The problem

No performance management system existed. Targets sat in inconsistent spreadsheets, reported numbers had no verification step, the scoring mathematics didn't hold up under scrutiny, and a variable-pay cycle was already due.

What I did

Designed the whole system — one standard scorecard format, a master register of roughly 200 KPIs each classified by how measurably it can be tracked and tied to a defined data source and verifier, a maker–checker layer so no score is self-certified, the scoring and payout logic, and the monthly-to-quarterly operating calendar around it.

Then built the software. A working role-based web portal — separate employee, manager and admin experiences, submission and approval flows, an audit module that flags broken weightings and unscorable KPIs, and management dashboards with drill-down — designed and built by me using Claude Code, with no technical background and no developer.

Impact

60+ employees covered by a system with verified numbers, defensible payout logic and a management review rhythm — replacing spreadsheets nobody trusted.

05

A 187-page onboarding & process handbook — written, designed and printed

Surya Global Flexifilms · Author & designer
The problem

A management trainee intake arriving with no induction material of any kind — and a manufacturing process, the core of the business, that had never been documented for a non-technical reader.

What I did

Interviewed the plant line heads, transcribed the recordings offline on my own machine so nothing sensitive left the device, verified every technical term against published industry sources, and wrote the book. Then designed it myself — layout, illustrated machine diagrams, an integrated trainee workbook — and produced print-ready files to commercial print specification.

Impact

187 pages, plus a 107-page general edition for every new joinee and a dedicated print variant. The company's first end-to-end process documentation, and now its induction standard.

06

Management Trainee programme & AI enablement

Surya Global Flexifilms · Designed & delivered
What I did

Designed the trainee programme and its immersion journey through each business function. Wrote and ran the first progress assessment — 100 marks, question paper and answer key. Then designed and personally delivered an "AI at Work" session to the batch: practical prompting, AI inside the tools they already use, where it fails and how to catch it, and the data-safety rules that protect the business — followed by a hands-on build challenge.

Impact

A programme, an assessment and an AI capability the batch could use from day one — taught from work actually built that way, not theory.

07

An AI-native Founder's Office

Priyagold · Self-initiated
The problem

In a Founder's Office, context is the asset — and it usually lives in one person's head.

What I did

Built the office's own operating layer using Claude Code: a structured knowledge base, a single source of truth per project, reusable playbooks and automated routines. Taught myself the tool from zero, with no coding background.

Impact

Any project can be picked up cleanly by anyone, on any day — and it's the reason the data pipeline, the performance portal and the handbook were possible at all.

08

Sales governance infrastructure

Priyagold · Built & handed over
What I did

Built and handed over the sales organisation's review and governance infrastructure: a scalable review tracker covering compliance, MIS and escalations; an incentive and scheme framework; and a hiring-approval process that links every new sales role to a business case and measurable targets before it is opened.

Impact

Ad-hoc reporting replaced with a standing governance rhythm the function still runs on.

Side project

Chief of Staff, part-time — two consumer health brands.

Jan – Apr 2026

Moksa & Twiee

Two early-stage D2C brands under one founder — Moksa in plant-based health and wellness, Twiee in CBD-based health products. Taken on as a project between roles, while managing a family emergency.

Built the marketing function from nothing. Defined the go-to-market and launched every direct-to-consumer channel — Shopify storefront, Meta and Google Ads, SEO, e-commerce and quick-commerce listings — and managed the agencies behind them.

Implemented Zoho One as the operating backbone, and drew up the org structure, workflows and strategic roadmap the company didn't yet have.

Case files · Jun 2024 – Dec 2025

Founder's Office, Skootr Global

Skootr is a premium managed-office and fit-out business. I joined as the inaugural and sole member of its Founder's Office, working directly with the Co-founders and Board Advisor — and was rated 'A' (Top 5%) in my first appraisal. Most of what follows I proposed rather than was assigned.

Akhilesh Kejriwal at the Skootr Global office
01

ERP implementation, end to end

Oracle NetSuite · Self-initiated
The problem

Three months of analysing how work actually moved through the company surfaced process gaps no system was closing.

What I did

Proposed an internal ERP; management approved it and appointed me central coordinator. Built the requirement document with every department, shortlisted implementation partners, ran the demos and negotiated scope and commercials, then carried the full cycle as single point of contact — action plans, data sampling, testing, module refinement, migration, internal training, go-live and adoption.

Impact

Self-initiated, approved, and delivered through go-live and adoption.

02

Zoho CRM revamp & customisation

Self-initiated
The problem

A sales CRM nobody used, poorly configured and bypassed in favour of spreadsheets.

What I did

Redesigned every core layout — leads, deals, contacts, accounts, properties — using layout rules, conversion mapping, formula fields and linked custom modules, then built a management reporting dashboard from scratch.

Impact

An abandoned system turned into the sales team's daily operating tool.

03

Centralised data management & live reporting

The problem

Business-critical files living on personal devices and individual cloud accounts — a data-loss and handover risk — with the same numbers reconciled by hand in several places.

What I did

Set up a governed central storage system with defined formats and controlled access, then designed a single live reporting layer to replace the duplicates: master registers for clients and projects, status trackers across project, design, procurement and payment, and visual management sheets for inventory, occupancy and vacancy.

Impact

Company data moved off personal drives into one governed source of truth.

04

Process standardisation framework

The problem

No standard process meant errors in costing and planning, and commitments on timelines, budgets and scope that couldn't be met — with delays and cost overruns following.

What I did

Ran a full process analysis, developed a standardised workflow framework, and refined and formally implemented it with management and department heads — then built a project profitability model with Finance, tied into the new data and workflow systems.

Impact

A standardised project workflow formally adopted company-wide.

05

Beyond the projects

Rated 'A' (Top 5%) in my first-year appraisal as the inaugural, sole member of the Founder's Office. Conceptualised the ideal Founder's Office team structure — approved by management and put into motion. Represented Skootr at the GCC Connect Summit & Awards, Hyderabad. Managed and mentored an intern within a year of joining.

A senior colleague's review: "the go-to person for getting things done."

How I work

Four things that show up in everything above.

Find the gap before you're asked.

The ERP, the CRM revamp, the data governance system, the AI operating layer — all of them started as something I proposed, not something I was handed.

Build the system, not the fix.

A tracker solves this month. A process, with an owner and a rhythm, solves next year. I'd rather spend the extra week.

Get to the real number.

Self-reported data isn't data. Verification belongs in the design, not in a follow-up email six months later.

Leverage over hours.

A 187-page book, thirteen states of data, a working portal — because I treat AI as a working tool, not a novelty. I'm not technical; I've just stopped letting that be the reason something doesn't get built.

Toolkit

What I work with

AI & automation

Claude CodeClaudeChatGPTGeminiMicrosoft 365 CopilotPrompt designAI-enablement trainingWorkflow automation

Self-taught, from a non-technical background — used to build data validation pipelines, a working performance portal, and print-ready publications.

Enterprise systems

Salesforce — SFA & DMSOracle NetSuite — ERPZoho CRMZoho OneShopifyHROneSlack — design & adminTrelloMicrosoft 365

Data & analysis

Excel — live reporting systemsMaster-data migrationData governanceDashboard & MIS designRequirement documentation & BRDsUAT management

Business craft

Founder's / CEO's Office operationsStrategic project managementBusiness analysisProcess design & SOPsPerformance management — KRA/KPIOrg designVendor negotiationStakeholder managementKey account management

Marketing & growth

D2C go-to-marketMeta AdsGoogle AdsSEOE-commerceQuick commerceAgency managementBrand storytelling

Beyond work

Himalayan trekkingPersonal mentoringHuman psychology

I mentor people one-to-one on communication, career direction and performance at work — and read a lot of psychology to do it better.

Proudest build · IMT Ghaziabad, 2022–24

Limelight — the official oratory club.

There was no platform on campus for learning to speak with confidence — in a business school, of all places. So I built one. Ideated it, pitched it, made it official, recruited the team, ran the events, handed it on. It still runs.

Akhilesh Kejriwal hosting the Triwizard Oratory Competition
The idea, on stage
Felicitating a guest at a Limelight event
The events
The Limelight team on stage
The team it took
Limelight club jacket reading Akki, Founder
Something lasting, from zero

Beyond work

Where I go to reset.

Akhilesh Kejriwal on a Himalayan trek
Passionate about trekking and the mountains — they help me recharge and return with renewed energy to perform at my best!

Off the trail, I mentor people one-to-one — communication, career direction, and how to actually perform in an office — and read a fair amount of psychology to keep getting better at it.

Timeline

Career & education

  • Apr 2026 – Present

    Lead Business Analyst — Founder's Office

    Priyagold (Surya Food & Agro Ltd.), Greater Noida / NCR

    Leads the Founder's Office team of 5 across Priyagold and Surya Global Flexifilms.

  • Jan – Apr 2026

    Chief of Staff (part-time)

    Moksa & Twiee — consumer health brands

  • Jun 2024 – Dec 2025

    Assistant Manager — Founder's Office

    Skootr Global, Gurugram

    Rated 'A' (Top 5%) in first appraisal.

  • Jun 2022 – Mar 2024

    PGDM

    Institute of Management Technology (IMT), Ghaziabad

    Summer internship — IndusInd Bank (2023) · Best Delegate, Model United Nations (2022) · Founder, Limelight

  • Apr 2019 – May 2022

    Career break — family business & MBA preparation

    Stepped in to support the family firm through a difficult period, then prepared for and cleared the MBA entrance exams.

  • Aug 2018 – Mar 2019

    Security Executive

    Vistara (TATA SIA Airlines)

    Topped the training batch — 97/100 in the BCAS Basic AvSec examination.

  • Aug 2015 – May 2018

    B.Com (Honours)

    University of Calcutta

Get in touch

Let's build something that outlasts the quarter.

I'm looking for roles in a Founder's, CEO's or Chairman's Office, strategic programmes, or business analysis — anywhere the job is to make life easier for founders and their teams. Based in Gurugram · open to relocation.