Jan 2015 – Aug 2025 · 10 yrs 7 mos · New Delhi, Delhi, India

• Angel/Seed investor in early stage tech startups >> Yulu, Locus, Bobble, LetsVenture, Tracxn, Safe Security, Khatabook, Open, Crediwatch, Lal10, JaiKisan, Pepper, Terra.do, Adpushup, Squad, Jodopay, Marigold Health, etc. Also an LP in some VC funds.
• Advisor to AngelList India, LetsVenture, other startups
• Volunteer at industry bodies like iSpirt (#IndiaStack), Nasscom. Mentor at various startup incubators & accelerators.
• If you are a startup and want to reach out to me for angel funding, please drop me a mail (email shared in LinkedIn contact info).

Jan 2015 – Aug 2021 · 6 yrs 7 mos · New Delhi, Delhi, India

• DigiLocker, a key component of #IndiaStack, is a project under Digital India, the Indian Government's flagship program aimed at transforming India into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy.
• The project's goal is to build a national federated data & document network for India's 1.3 BN citizens. This will function as an inter-operable public-private ecosystem for paperless service delivery by digitizing citizen records and enabling their digital usage. Indian citizens are issued various documents & certificates over their lifetime by diff government agencies (e.g. Passport, PAN Card, Driving License, Voter Card, school & college certificates). DigiLocker is aimed at digitizing these citizen records, issuing them electronically to Indian citizens (via their Aadhaar number) as verifiable credentials, and enabling a digital transaction ecosystem to minimize (or eliminate) paper usage. Added benefits: transparency, reduced bureaucracy, corruption, besides cost savings.
• Current project status & other details available here https://digilocker.gov.in/. More #IndiaStack details at http://indiastack.org/

Jan 2015 – Jul 2021 · 6 yrs 6 mos · New Delhi, Delhi, India

• OpenForge is an open source initiative from the Govt of India. It aims is to build a national software source code sharing platform for collaborative development of egovernance applications. The goal is to promote archiving, reuse, sharing and remixing of egovernance application source code. Added benefits are reduced project costs, faster development cycles and improve quality/security through transparency and mass peer review. The Govt of India wants OpenForge to be a catalyst in collaboration between Govt departments / agencies and private organizations, citizens and developers to spur the creation of innovative e-governance applications & services.
• OpenForge is modeled functionally on the lines of international platforms like Github/SourceForge, but focuses on Indian egovernance applications. Current project status available at https://openforge.gov.in/.

May 2012 – Jan 2015 · 2 yrs 8 mos · New Delhi - San Francisco

• SlideShare was acquired by LinkedIn in 2012. The acquisition resulted in the merger of the world's largest professional network and the world's largest professional sharing community. I was deeply entrenched in various dimensions of the M&A - organizational, financial, legal, product, techology, people, cultural, change mgmt etc.
• Post acquisition, I continued heading SlideShare's Delhi office and running its operations as a LinkedIn company... this was till Jan'15, when I exited it.

Jun 2004 – May 2012 · 7 yrs 11 mos · New Delhi - San Francisco

• CoFounded SlideShare, the world's largest community for sharing professional content. SlideShare is like "Wikipedia for Professionals" - it's vision is to empower the world’s professionals through knowledge centric content. With 100MN+ monthly visitors across desktop & mobile (Nov'14), SlideShare ranks in the world's top 125 websites and gets counted amongst the most impactful social media platforms on the web. Businesses use SlideShare as a content marketing platform.
• I headed SlideShare's New Delhi office & ran its operations here. Traveled frequently to our San Francisco headquarters. Had a finger in every pie @SlideShare since inception - ideation & prototyping, product, design, technology, finance & legal, human resources, talent management, marketing etc.

Apr 2003 – Apr 2004 · 1 yr

• Based out of the PepsiCo India headquarters, I handled the national key accounts for their snacks food division (Frito). Forged & managed partnerships with key customers like CSD, modern trade chains like Big Bazaar & Food World, high visibility accounts like Barista, PVR etc. Responsible for product marketing promotions, in store branding & merchandise etc.

Apr 1999 – Mar 2003 · 3 yrs 11 mos

• Asian Paints is the largest Indian paint company and ranks amongst the top 10 paint companies of the world. I joined Asian Paints after MBA and handled their business units across multiple locations over my four year stint - Kanpur, Orissa, New Delhi & Lucknow. Had end-to-end responsibility for achieving sales & marketing objectives - dealer network management, demand generation activities, project/institutional sales, marketing campaigns etc. Also responsible for business processes like sales collections, transaction processing systems, godown & warehousing management, office administration etc.

Apr 1996 – Jun 1997 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Godrej is one of the oldest Indian conglomerates. I worked as a Sales/Service Engineer with Godrej & Boyce Manufacturing Company at their Delhi office. Was part of their Material Handling & Equipments Division, which deals in material handling & automation machinery- forklift trucks, palletized carriers, container handlers, specialized lifting cranes etc.