Meet the team

Bhakti is the Founder and CEO of BigSpring, a work readiness platform focused on moving people from test ready to job ready. The AI-powered platform enables companies to rapidly create and retool talent for business growth at pace with changing market needs. BigSpring measures outcomes (versus seats or hours), to establish investing in people as essential. Google, Uber, Facebook, AXA, Tata have adopted BigSpring across their ecosystem of teams, partners and customers. BigSpring has been selected by the World Economic Forum (WEF) as a Technology Pioneer 2020, joining a select group of companies that are poised to have a significant impact on business and society.

Bhakti also serves on the Board of Governors for JA Worldwide. Previously, Bhakti worked as an Engagement Manager with McKinsey & Company leading client engagements for the High Tech and Corporate Finance practices. She started her career in product development in Silicon Valley with Siebel Systems. Bhakti is a Computer Engineer with University Honors from Carnegie Mellon University, where she was among the first women from India to attend. She earned an MBA from The Wharton School, where she was a Joseph Wharton Fellow.

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Arun is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at BigSpring. Previously, Arun was Director of Engineering at Uber and Site Lead for the NYC office. He helped build and scale Uber Eats which is now a large global business.

At Google, Arun was a tech lead on the Developer Platform team that enabled external developers to build compelling experiences. Prior to Google, Arun spent almost a decade at a Boston area company leading a team building a cross-platform mobile application development framework for large enterprises. Arun has a BS in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University.

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Alison Kreuch is the Partnerships Director at BigSpring. Previously, she was Head of Client Partnerships at Arianna Huffington’s Thrive Global where she developed relationships and grew revenue with leading blue chip enterprise customers across both their SaaS and media solutions.

Prior to Thrive, Alison spent over a decade at Hungry Girl building a multi-media platform that includes a social media network, a TV show on the Food Network, multiple New York Times Best Sellers, a magazine and more. Earlier roles include Nickelodeon, Disney and Ogilvy. Alison graduated from Smith College with a BA in Psychology and concentration in Art History.

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Chetna is Director of Customer Operations at BigSpring. Previously, she was the Head of Growth for Digitally Native and SaaS businesses in the ASEAN region at AWS where she worked on strategic initiatives to grow product footprint within existing customers as well as migrating Greenfield customers to the cloud.

Prior to that, she was the New Product Strategy Lead for the APAC Uber Eats business where she led the incubation, launch and scale of new business verticals for the region.Chetna has a Masters in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology and an MBA from INSEAD.

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Mike is the Director of Marketing at BigSpring. Previously, he was Senior Creative Director at Quartz where he led their in-house integrated digital agency.

Prior to that he was Director of Digital Experience Strategy at the Economist, where he led the UX, strategy, build, development and design for integrated global marketing campaigns. Michael Dolan has studied English Literature at Rutgers University.

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Rajesh is the Head of Engineering, ML at BigSpring. Previously Rajesh worked with Oracle Corporation where, as Senior Director of Engineering, Rajesh managed a distributed global team of engineers and engineering managers working on Oracle’s flagship ERP product, known as Oracle E-Business Suite. He specifically worked on cloud adapters for Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS), various other integration tools, data analytics, UI framework, cloud migration tools, mobile infrastructure etc. During his tenure at Oracle Rajesh was awarded six US patents.

Rajesh is a Graduate in Engineering from Jadavpur University. He has also done an Executive General Management Program from Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore and Advanced Strategic Management Program from Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode.

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Yin is Director of Operations at BigSpring. Previously, she was a founding member and COO & Head of Customer Success at COMPAS Global, which built global expansion software for ambitious B2B startups, at least one of which has become a unicorn. She has spent over a decade in Silicon Valley holding various global growth positions in cleantech and SaaS, after starting her career with The Boston Consulting Group in Berlin, Germany and Beijing, China.

Yin is Founder and Board Member of the Qian Zheng Memorial Scholarship, which supports underprivileged female STEM students in China through funding, programming and mentorship. She attended the University of Pennsylvania and its Wharton School, where she obtained her MBA, BS in finance and BA in international studies in 5 years. 

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