“Sustainable businesses are driven by self-propelling teams with a high degree of ownership.”

Your Strategic

Coach & Mentor

Vasanth Kumar is Business Advisor at Wooqer(a SaaS company), Business Mentor for startups Procucev and Vedaanta Senior Living. He also served as MD & CEO of Lifestyle International and Max Fashion.

He currently works with Founder-CEOs to scale up their companies profitably through his Strategic Coaching methodology.

Certifications &

Recognitions

CERTIFIED:

Practitioner Business Model Coaching (Tim Clark and Bruce Hazen)
CEO Coach (Coaching Foundation of India)
Stakeholder Centric Coaching - Team Coach (Marshall Goldsmith)
Corporate Director (Institute of Directors & IICA)

RECOGNITION:

Recognised amongst the ‘TOP 100 Retail Icons over the past 25 years’ by IMAGES in 2019
'Retail Professional of the year’ by CMAI in 2015, for outstanding growth of Max Fashions India
‘Retail Leadership’ award at Indian Retail Congress.

Corporate Career

Timeline

2020-2021

Mentor - Landmark India

2018-2020

Managing Director, Lifestyle International

Led the Lifestyle and Homecentre retail chain, including ecommerce, as Managing Director in India. Successfully restructured the retail formats for continued leadership and profitable growth.

2005-2018

Executive Director, Max Fashion India

Conceptualised and led the brand’s aggressive growth plan since its inception in 2005. Max is now the largest omni channel mono brand in the ‘Value Fashion’ segment with over 400 stores across 120 cities.

2014-2018

Executive Director, Easy Buy

Conceptualised Easybuy retail format, a home-grown value apparel concept for Tier II cities and mentored it to become profitable with a network of over 100 stores.

1995-2005

Vice President & SBU Head - Madura Garments (Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail Ltd)

Handled premium fashion brand portfolio and successfully established Peter England as one of the largest selling apparel brands in India.

1992-1995

Promoted as National Head for Foods and Dairy Fats. Was earlier Area Sales Manager South for Brookebond Lipton beverages division.

1989-1992

Product Manager for Prestige Kitchenware

1984-1987

Joined as HAL Management Trainee and became Unit In charge at Jaguar Aircraft Division, Bangalore.