Vik Venkatraman
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Vik is an entrepreneur, author, and investor. Founded and sold Clothes Horse, a recommendations product in the apparel space. Prior to Clothes Horse, he played a key role in building the $50MM Business Insights unit at American Express, and engineered the savings or growth of over $50MM in value for clients at Deloitte Consulting. Additionally, he built a beverage company, Star Power, to a business with over 500 accounts on no outside financing, and even published a book, Inspired (Wiley, 2008). He was once a brand manager at Red Bull, and is an avid (and shrewd) real estate investor. He can often be found cooking molecular gastronomic concoctions in his Upper East Side apartment, in a classic charcoal suit, often spiced up with jeans, a waistcoat, or both. Vik graduated from Columbia University Engineering, with honors. His expertise lays in his ability to step into nightmare issues with calmness and finess, and cleanly interpret large amounts of information insightfully to his clients, partners and team. Specialties: Idea generation, Business Model Development, New product development, Strategic deal making