Oct 2025 – Present · 5 mos

Jul 2025 – Present · 8 mos

Dec 2024 – Present · 1 yr 3 mos

• Startup Policy Forum is an industry alliance for India's new-age economy with several of India’s largest and fastest growing startups as its members. It acts as a trusted advisor to founders and policymakers and works to support new age companies across three pillars — policy advocacy, community building and global expansion. The combined valuation of its 60+ members exceeds $90 billion.

Aug 2020 – Oct 2024 · 4 yrs 2 mos · New Delhi, Delhi, India

• Peak XV (former Sequoia Capital India) is among the largest venture capital firms in Asia with $9 billion assets under management (AUM)
• ~ Worked closely with several external stakeholders including regulators and policymakers to drive the public policy agenda for the venture capital industry and the firm’s portfolio companies.
• ~ Built trusted relationships across the ecosystem - founders, VCs, government officials, regulators and media
• ~ Represented the firm at several external engagements and engaged closely with industry bodies and think tanks to help devise progressive policies and make representations on relevant policy and regulatory issues.
• ~ Led extensive engagements with all regulators and policymakers including financial regulators like RBI, SEBI, IRDAI and key ministries including Ministry of Finance, MEITY, DPIIT & Commerce Ministry, Invest India and others.
• ~ Devised the firm's reputation management strategy and engaged regularly with all key media stakeholders.
• ~ As Chair of VC Committee of IAMAI, led the policy agenda for the VC and PE ecosystem

Aug 2020 – Jun 2023 · 2 yrs 10 mos · New Delhi, Delhi, India

• Setting up and formulating the public policy and government relations role at Sequoia Capital India, a pioneering role for the venture capital ecosystem.
• Trusted advisor to government stakeholders and regulators on all policy matters related to PE/VC ecosystem, startups and portfolio companies.
• Working across a range of regulatory and policy issues including taxation, fintech regulations, capital market regulations among others
• Helping drive consensus among stakeholders on contentious policy and regulatory issues

Dec 2017 – Aug 2020 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Greater Delhi Area

• The role included:
• Setting up and building Salesforce's government affairs and public policy function in India
• Positioning Salesforce’s corporate profile, values and policy positions with key government stakeholders -- central government ministries; Prime Minister’s Office, National Cyber Security Cell, state governments; NITI Aayog, Reserve Bank of India and other regulators, think-tanks, industry bodies, civil society
• As Co-Chair, India Policy Committee, BSA (The Software Alliance) led the policy agenda for the cloud computing and tech industry
• Provided regular advice and inputs to Salesforce’s leadership team on legislative and regulatory developments in India, including risk analysis of upcoming policies
• Worked closely with business leaders to help unlock regulatory bottlenecks and support the next chapter of growth
• Worked closely with key business associations, bilateral forums and industry bodies including US India Business Council (USIBC), US India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF), BSA, Nasscom, Ficci, CII, ITI, Asia Cloud Computing Association (ACCA)
• Collaborated with counterparts across tech firms to develop policy positions for the industry
• Partnered government-led institutions to promote targeted delivery of Salesforce's skilling platform Trailhead
• As Co-Chair of FICCI’s Ed-Tech Committee; member of FICCI’s Higher Education Committee; worked towards policies that promote the skilling and Ed-Tech ecosystem
• Worked with Salesforce Ventures to ink government partnerships to support startups in India
• Executive Advisor, Salesforce Women’s Network India; Represented Salesforce at the Women Leaders Global Forum at Reykjavik, Iceland in November 2018
• Member, UN India Business Forum that works with business leaders to achieve UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in India
• Chaired the India Session at the UN Global Compact Leaders Summit attended by 20,000 participants

Sep 2017 – Present · 8 yrs 6 mos

Oct 2016 – Nov 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo · Gurugram, Haryana, India

• Head of Public Policy for Uber India & South Asia; Led a 10-member team of public policy professionals and lawyers across India and South Asia.
• Responsible for Uber's relations with policy makers, regulators, government officials, think tanks, NGOs, industry bodies, private sector, political parties and research organisations.
• Focused on creating a favourable regulatory and policy environment for urban mobility.
• The role included enhancing the understanding of Uber and the ridesharing business with multiple stakeholders including Central government ministries, NITI Aayog, state governments, industry bodies.
• Worked closely with internal business partners to push growth of Uber in India and South Asian countries including Bangaldesh & Sri Lanka; including helping in the launch of various products across various cities
• Worked closely with policymakers to draft regulations for ridesharing industry in India & Bangladesh
• Addressed policy challenges for the ridesharing industry including safety, price caps and supply caps
• Worked closely with State Governments including Maharashtra, Delhi, Telangana, Karnataka, West Bengal, Punjab to address state-specific regulations for the ridesharing industry
• Worked closely on partnerships with the government around Digital India, Startup India, Skill India
• Thought leadership on urban mobility, sharing economy, skilling, digital transformation, women in tech

May 2005 – Sep 2016 · 11 yrs 4 mos · New Delhi, Delhi, India

• Responsible for business news coverage across NDTV 24x7 and NDTV Profit.
• Received several awards including Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism by President Pratibha Patil in June 2010 and the Business Standard - Seema Nazareth Award for Young Print Journalists under 25 by President KR Narayanan at the Rashtrapati Bhawan in February 2001.
• Other awards include the Young Women Achievers Award (April 2013) by FICCI Young Ladies Organisation, Assocham Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism (2014), Broadcast Journalist of the Year by PRCI (2016), News Television Award for Best Business News Programme – We Mean Business (2013), Business Communicator of the Year (2011) by ABCI, Dr S Radhakrishnan Award for Excellence in Electronic Journalism (2011), News Television Award for Best Business News Programme – B-School Budget (2011) and the News Television Award for Best Business Talk Show – The Game Changers (2010).
• Completed specialised courses for financial journalists at the Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia and INSEAD Business School. As a recipient of British Chevening Scholarship for Young Print Journalists, Istudied at the University of Westminster and worked at The Sunday Times, London in 2003.
• Invited by the United States Government under its Fulbright Scholarships program for the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) for Business Journalists in 2007.
• Among 8 Indian journalists invited to attend the Indian Leaders Program hosted by the Spain India Council Foundation in Madrid & Barcelona in May 2013.
• Selected among the 45 Young Global Leaders from 27 countries to attend the Asian Forum of Global Governance organized by Germany’s ZEIT Foundation and Observer Research Foundation in November 2013.

Jan 2003 – Jan 2005 · 2 yrs · Greater Delhi Area

Jan 2002 – Jan 2003 · 1 yr

Apr 1999 – Mar 2001 · 1 yr 11 mos · Greater Delhi Area

Apr 1998 – Mar 1999 · 11 mos · Greater Delhi Area