Koyel D.

Frontier AI Startup GTM | Monetization & Partner Strategy | Building the future, at work & at home

Fremont, California, United States
Amazon Web Services (AWS)ex-EYex-Simon Business School, University of Rochester

I partner with the world's most ambitious AI startups — foundation model builders, MLOps platforms, and AI infrastructure companies to scale on AWS.

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Currently a Partner Development Manager on AWS's Frontier AI Startup team, working with venture-backed companies to accelerate go-to-market, co-sell, and Marketplace growth. My career spans AI commercialization, cloud migration strategy, SaaS modernization, and partner-led GTM , across startups, ISVs, SMBs, and Fortune 500s. I operate at the intersection of business strategy and deep technology, with a track record of driving multi-million-dollar My toolkit includes SQL, R, Tableau, and strategic frameworks that drive cross-functional execution in Agile environments. I’m known for aligning technical capabilities with customer priorities, and building internal momentum across product, engineering, and field Outside of work, watching my 5-year-old learn to read and write, noticing where his learning mirrors how a model trains, and where it's beautifully, fundamentally different.

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GTM Index

  1. AMAZON WEB SERVICES (AWS)JOB
    1. Sr. Frontier AI Startup PDM
      3M
    2. GTM, Principal Advisor
      11M
    3. Sr. SaaS/AI Product Strate…
      10M
    4. SaaS Strategist
      2Y 4M
  2. WOMEN IN AI ETHICS™JOB
    1. Women in AI Ethics Fellow
      11M
  3. EYJOB
    1. Mgr
      7M
    2. Senior Management Consultant
      2Y 1M
  4. SIMON BUSINESS SCHOOL, UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTERJOB
    1. Graduate Teaching Assistan…
      3M
    2. Graduate Teaching Assistan…
      1M
    3. Graduate Teaching Assistan…
      2M
    4. Graduate Teaching Assistan…
      4M
  5. CONSTELLATION BRANDSJOB
    1. Product Management Consult…
      11M
  6. TAKEDA PHARMACEUTICALSJOB
    1. Commercial Leadership Deve…
      2M
  7. XEROXJOB
    1. Digital Product Strategy C…
      3M
  8. SIMON VISION CONSULTINGJOB
    1. Project Mgr - Product Stra…
      6M
  9. DELOITTEJOB
    1. Product Management Consult…
      3Y 11M
    2. Business Analyst
      1Y 11M
  10. ACCENTUREJOB
    1. Senior Programmer - Module…
      2Y 11M
    2. Associate Software Eng
      2Y 11M

Time in market 17Y 9MOpen 4Closed 17Stints 21

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  1. Job: Amazon Web Services (AWS) — Sr. Frontier AI Startup PDM · 2026-07 – present · 1 mo
  2. Job: Amazon Web Services (AWS) — GTM, Principal Advisor · 2025-08 – 2026-07 · 11 mo
  3. Job: Amazon Web Services (AWS) — SaaS Strategist · 2022-05 – 2024-09 · 2y 4mo — Engage with AWS partners to transform their product portfolio to SaaS solutions based on AWS. Play a critical role in the AWS SaaS Factory program which provides a broad range of business and technical enablement resources for building, migrating, and optimizing software-as-a-service (SaaS) on AWS Drive C-level and product leader relationships with partners developing SaaS solutions with AWS Responsible for influencing and accelerating SaaS solution development on AWS by establishing and growing business through depth partner engagements, speaking opportunities and content development Understand the fundamentals of SaaS from a business and technology perspective and the broader transformati…
  4. Job: Women in AI Ethics™ — Women in AI Ethics Fellow · 2025-11 – present · 9 mo
  5. Job: EY — Manager · 2021-09 – 2022-04 · 7 mo
  6. Job: EY — Senior Management Consultant · 2019-08 – 2021-09 · 2y 1mo — I am experienced in designing strategies to improve organizational performance, customer experience, and employee experience. I focus on product strategy and management, go-to-market strategy, customer insights, customer profitability analysis, operating model design, organizational planning, pricing, and commercial analytics as well as sales and service effectiveness. I contribute to offering development and business development activities. I also dedicate time to leading efforts to build a stronger community (Lean In, sector communities). My role includes: • Lead engagements and teams to drive value for clients • Complete project management and stakeholder management activities • Develop…
  7. Job: Simon Business School, University of Rochester — Graduate Teaching Assistant, Product Management · 2019-03 – 2019-06 · 3 mo
  8. Job: Simon Business School, University of Rochester — Graduate Teaching Assistant, Consumer and Brand Research · 2019-03 – 2019-04 · 1 mo
  9. Job: Simon Business School, University of Rochester — Graduate Teaching Assistant, Operations Management · 2019-01 – 2019-03 · 2 mo
  10. Job: Simon Business School, University of Rochester — Graduate Teaching Assistant, Information Systems for Management · 2018-08 – 2018-12 · 4 mo
  11. Job: Takeda Pharmaceuticals — Commercial Leadership Development Program Intern · 2018-06 – 2018-08 · 2 mo — Marketing Strategy Intern focusing on competitive intelligence in specialty drugs Conducted in-depth comparative analysis of the IBD (auto-immune disease) competitive landscape in the US, including clinical profiles, commercial tactics and positioning, payer positioning, and market dynamics and movement Strategized with cross-functional teams and provided actionable insights for go-to-market strategy for Entyvio (IBD drug)
  12. Job: Xerox — Digital Product Strategy Consultant · 2018-01 – 2018-04 · 3 mo — • Worked closely with Xerox's leadership team • Conducted primary and secondary research • Conceptualized and Ideated a new Database Management system for global Xerox team, with expected revenue of $2.4MM
  13. Job: Simon Vision Consulting — Project Manager - Product Strategy · 2017-10 – 2018-04 · 6 mo — • As part of the pro-bono consulting job, worked with a client from the hydraulic industry. • Spearheaded a team of six. • Compiled and analyzed data using a modern and traditional method. • Created M&A models to analyze the different scenarios as a potential exit strategy, and presented the scenarios to clients. • Analyzed industrial, manufacturing, aerospace and related industries, located the future developing trends and market demand. • Recommended suitable techniques and methods to analyze quantitative data including building Excel Models. • identified exit strategy of $30M+ for a manufacturing industry startup through acquisition including $26M all-cash buyout
  14. Job: Constellation Brands — Product Management Consultant · 2018 – 2018 · 0 mo
  15. Job: Deloitte — Product Management Consultant · 2014 – 2017 · 3y — • Led roadmap meetings with C-level team for a B2B product that helps foster employee engagement and improves employee productivity • Spearheaded product strategy by prioritizing backlogs, determining clients to launch new functionalities and pricing new product • Lead the customized system demonstration and discovery call to Fortune – 500 clients, translating the technology offerings into business values • Developed the Request for Proposal documents for clients across industries for digital transformation projects • Led digital transformation projects to develop and implement a cloud ERP system • Developed and deliver the project status presentation to all the stakeholders • Provided reco…
  16. Job: Deloitte — Business Analyst · 2013 – 2014 · 1y — • Conducted fit-gap analysis, defined the new HR business processes following the best practices, and owned system rollouts • Owned product end – to – end, wrote user stories, designed prototypes, and wrote BRDs to develop the ERP system • Led engineering, and quality assurance team, across geographies, and conducted business requirement analysis with the client to develop and implement a cloud ERP system, accessible on desktop and mobile, for 130K+ users • Defined new compensation system for 50K+ sales professionals by leveraging data from the legacy system • Collaborated with the senior leadership to cross-train and scale up resources by mentoring fifteen junior team members • Liaisoned w…
  17. Job: Accenture — Senior Programmer - Module Lead · 2011 – 2013 · 2y — • My responsibilities included designing and implementing ERP systems for a nuclear energy client • Designed and migrated legacy ERP applications to responsive and scalable technologies • Developed training materials for the new ERP system • Designed, built and launched the client’s internal employee master data system for 10,000+ user base as a sole designer • Proposed and implemented a system to automate QA testing, improving testing efficiency by 5X
  18. Job: Accenture — Associate Software Engineer · 2009 – 2011 · 2y — • My responsibilities included the validation and the performance analysis of CRM application of one of the biggest telecom client • Leveraged QC 10.0 to analyze and develop insights from huge amounts of historical data to benefit the client in designing future campaigns • Developed new effort estimation framework
  19. Job: Amazon Web Services (AWS) — Sr. SaaS/AI Product Strategist · 2024-09 – 2025-07 · 10 mo
  20. School: University of Rochester - Simon Business School — Master of Business Administration - MBA, Product Management and Pricing Strategy
  21. School: Netaji Subhash Engineering College — Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Applied Electronics and Instrumentation

Skills

Product Launch PlanningGo-to-Market StrategyBusiness MetricsSubscriptionsStatistical AnalysisProduct VisionBusiness ConsultingB2B SoftwareInterpreting DataProduct Road MappingBusiness AnalysisBusiness Process ImprovementRequirements AnalysisReporting & AnalysisAgile MethodologiesPublic SpeakingProject ManagementData AnalysisEnterprise Resource Planning (ERP)Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

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