About

Palak Jagwani is an experienced business development and growth strategy professional with a demonstrated history of working in the retail and fashion industry, as well as tech startups. She is skilled in entrepreneurship, negotiation, requirement analysis, business development, and sales. Palak has worked in IT, retail, B2B sales, procurement, and merchandising. She holds a PGDM degree focused on marketing from IMT Ghaziabad. Currently, Palak is the Head of Strategic Partnerships at Pataa Navigation Pvt Ltd, where she provides professional consulting to establish strategic B2B alliances (private and government) for solving India's complex and unstructured addressing problem, which costs the country more than 10 billion dollars annually. Palak's past experience includes serving as the Head of Merchandising at OYO, India's largest wedding company, where she launched Weddingz Retail business across the country. Her responsibilities included strategy formulation, AOP formulation, owning P&L, merchandising, buying, vendor management, team building and management, designing organizational structure, training and development, scouting for retail properties, and heading end-to-end process/operations for starting 100 retail stores in different cities of the country. She also built a strong network across Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Surat, and Indore for wedding apparels and imitation jewellery along with the real estate brokers and leaders. Palak has also worked in non-profit organizations, where she has written and directed short films for various social issues and projects like Smart city and Swachh Bharat. Her work has been shared and published by multiple content websites along with bureaucrats and leaders like the collector and mayor of Indore. Palak's education history includes a PGDM in Marketing from Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad, an MBA in Marketing from Kedge Business School, and a Bachelor of Engineering in Instrumentation & Control from Shri Vaishnav Institute of Technology & Science. Overall, Palak has 9.70 years of relevant experience in various industries and is skilled in content creation, script writing, and film making.