{"id":20294,"date":"2021-08-16T15:12:20","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T15:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mp.moonpreneur.com\/blog?p=20294"},"modified":"2024-09-18T08:34:00","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T08:34:00","slug":"vik-ekambaram-joins-moonshot-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mp.moonpreneur.com\/blog\/vik-ekambaram-joins-moonshot-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"Moonpreneur Welcomes Vik Ekambaram as an Investor"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"20294\" class=\"elementor elementor-20294\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-45b11b7 elementor-section-stretched elementor-section-full_width elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"45b11b7\" data-element_type=\"section\" 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elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Data Driven Organizations have 7x faster growth than the global GDP but 67% of leaders say they are not comfortable accessing or using data.<\/span><\/i><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vik Ekambaram has joined force Moonpreneur to open new horizons for expansion and lead the organisation through the 4th Industrial revolution (IR 4.0).<\/span><\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/vekambar\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Vik Ekambaram<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is the Sr. Director of Innovation Consulting at Tableau (a Salesforce company). He works at the intersection of data, technology &amp; transformation while advising customers on the strategy, operating model &amp; capabilities they need to build a data culture. Prior to Tableau, Vik spent most of his career at Microsoft and Oracle in sales and technical leadership roles.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cCompanies went into 2020 with a plan. As Covid-19 spread and disrupted all aspects of life, companies had to create new plans. We followed 20th-century processes for decision making, and that won\u2019t cut it in the 21st-century, ever-changing landscape\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>&#8211; Vik Ekambaram<\/b><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In his 8 years at Tableau, he has served at 7 different roles (across Sales, Partners, Customer Success, and Innovation) and 5 of these roles did not exist before the year he joined. He understands how the industry is changing and the revolution IR 4.0 is round the corner. Moonshot\u2019s mission to Transform Curious Minds ties in directly to Vik\u2019s core beliefs and experience. According to Vik, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe jobs our kids will be doing do not exist today and teaching kids entrepreneurial skills is essential for them to thrive in the world of tomorrow.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAll Nobel laureates in the sciences practice some form of art as adults.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>&#8211; The Medium report 2020<\/b><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Art is vital to developing problem-solving skills and now is the right time to inculcate the same for future entrepreneurs and the workforce. Vik is on the Advisory Board of New York Destination Imagination, a non-profit organization, that teaches kids creative, collaborative problem-solving skills using STEAM techniques through a challenge-based approach. Vik is also on the Advisory Board of Pace University\u2019s Disruptive Leadership Program.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/alokkjain\/\">Alok Jain<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>,<\/strong> Moonpreneur CEO and Co-founder, welcomes Vik Ekambaram on board saying this association will help turn the industrial revolution tide in the favor of organizations through Moonpreneur\u2019s sought-after services- <\/span><strong>Innovator Program, <a href=\"https:\/\/moonpreneur.com\/mooncamp\/\">MoonCamp<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, &amp; <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/moonpreneur.com\/eldp\/\">ELDP<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alok said, \u201cWith the implementation of the Education 4.0 module and holistic learning, Moonpreneur is on the track of reducing the skill set gap amongst future generations. Vik Ekambaram\u2019s involvement as an investor will boost Moonpreneur&#8217;s scope of expansion in new markets, strengthen our tech elements, refine our education impartment module, and much more.\u201d<\/span><\/p><h3><strong>About Moonpreneur, Inc.<\/strong><\/h3><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Moonpreneur Inc<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. is a start-up that is remodeling the concept of empowering today\u2019s innovators and turning them into tomorrow\u2019s entrepreneurs through project-based learning and product development experience. Our community strives to uncover and nurture the STEAM skills in students and young adults with the help of our innovation and entrepreneurship-centric, SaaS-model-based program.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moonpreneur is on a mission to disrupt traditional education and future-proof the next generation with holistic learning solutions. 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