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Anasuya IyerAI

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About Anasuya

  • English

    Native or bilingual

Can work on-site
London (up to 50km)

Experience

  • Ballast AI
    Director
    January 2026 - Today (7 months)
    • ● Advise organisations on practical AI adoption, with a focus on embedding Claude into commercial and operating workflows
  • Octopus Money
    Chief Commercial Officer
    January 2021 - January 2026 (5 years)
    • ● Founding employee and member of the leadership team building a new technology-enabled operating model from zero
    • ● Managed a team of 25 across strategy, proposition, sales, marketing, customer success and operations
    • ● Partnered closely with product and engineering to translate market insight into shipped product, influencing roadmap, feature prioritisation and release sequencing
    • ● Enterprise Licensing (B2B SaaS Platform – GM):
    • ● Ran a B2B SaaS platform licensing our technology to enterprise clients under their own brand, with end-to-end ownership of sales, delivery, product and tech roadmap
    • ● Built and closed a sales pipeline with tier 1 enterprise clients
    • ● Owned P&L, pricing, margin profile and cost-to-serve
    • ● Built to ~£4m ARR forecast pipeline prior to strategic wind-down
    • ● Workplace (B2B2C - GM): Built and scaled a technology-enabled workplace financial wellbeing platform
    • ● Built the firm's primary distribution engine from scratch, designing the B2B acquisition model and B2B2C engagement model
    • ● Owned commercial strategy, pricing, customer journey and customer economics for the channel
    • ● Owned the CRM and revenue operations stack, driving automation, reporting and early use of AI to improve efficiency
    • ● Scaled to ~300,000 users across major enterprise clients including Sky, Santander and BNP Paribas
  • Octopus Investments
    Chief of Staff to the CEO
    January 2019 - January 2021 (2 years)
    • ● Joined during a period of leadership transition and strategic reset, operating as an extension of the CEO across product, technology, M&A, growth, capital allocation and organisational transformation
    • ● Drove modernisation of the technology stack, working with product and engineering to improve CRM capability and digital journeys
    • ● Built a new growth engine from scratch - conceived, launched and scaled a new product line to £100m AUM
    • ● Led acquisition of a founder-led fintech - originated and executed the deal, ran diligence across product, technology and commercial viability, and built the post-acquisition governance and operating model that turned an early-stage business into a scaled division
    • ● Redesigned board governance and reporting architecture to support institutional-grade growth

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Education

  • MBA
    London Business School
    2019
    MBA
  • B.A. (Hons)
    St. Stephen's College, University of Delhi
    2007
    B.A. (Hons)

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