Mar 2023 – Present · 3 yrs · India

• On a mission to help leaders & entrepreneurs leverage AI to 10x their impact.
• Followed regularly by 250K members across channels who love us for high-quality educational AI newsletters and videos.
• Advise businesses on crafting their GenAI adoption strategy.
• Speaker at leading Business & Tech events.
• Help companies building in GenAI get greater exposure through our content.
• Always on the lookout for hiring rockstar team members & exploring partnership opportunities to accelerate the responsible adoption of GenAI.

Nov 2021 – Mar 2023 · 1 yr 4 mos · India

• On a mission to empower early stage entrepreneurs to make their dent in the world.
• Building very exciting platforms & really deep relationships to serve this mission.

May 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 10 mos · India

• Invest in early-stage startups in GenAI & cutting-edge domains.
• Help founders with insight, capital & networks.

Apr 2020 – Aug 2020 · 4 mos · India

• Mobilized an emergency response team to serve migrant labourers during the 2020 COVID lockdown crisis.
• Completely voluntary & non-profit initiative driven by some of the sharpest and driven people from all walks of life - a large team of 100+ IITians, CAs, Lawyers, Students & more.
• Know more - www.iitians4india.org.

Feb 2019 – Sep 2020 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Led the New Initiatives team to test & set up new business models within Meesho.
• Led the Category Marketing team to maximize GMV across all categories.
• Grew orders from 75k/month to 900k/month while doubling margin per order for Home & Decor department.

May 2017 – May 2018 · 1 yr · Mumbai Metropolitan Region · On-site

• Agricxlab built one-of-a-kind & innovative automated food quality assessment tools with the use of the latest advancements in Smartphone Imaging, Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence.
• We raised seed capital from one of India's leading VCs.
• Led the development of the two core products on Android - ARC Enterprise & ARC Certification
• Pivotal in charting the product & strategy roadmap and raising funds for the company
• Performed the necessary market research needed to drive business and product decisions
• Managed customer relationships, gathered requirements and ran product demonstration trials with the CEOs and MDs of some of the biggest names in the food processing & trading industry
• Designed and documented guidelines for operations, training data management and performance testing
• Managed the patent application process for the proprietary artificial Intelligence algorithm for food quality assessment using smartphone imaging

May 2016 – May 2017 · 1 yr · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• Simpal built a product ecosystem of Financial and Aadhaar utility services for Indian smart cities, centered around an NFC smart card similar to Oyster in London, Octopus in Hong Kong and EZ-Link in Singapore. The team had built one of the cheapest NFC & Iris Android phones in the world to enable Aadhaar based services on the NFC smart card and had developed a range of Android Apps for services like Citizen Identity, Public Transport Ticketing, Banking, Utility Payments and Retail Services.
• Led the development of the over 5 different products on Android involving the use of NFC and Iris imaging technologies
• Worked directly with the clients and the founders to translate the business requirements into actionable projects for the development team
• Product Owner of our flagship offering called SmartStor which offered a brand new way of retail invoicing, Aadhaar payments & advertising for the Kirana shops, their customers and FMCGs respectively
• Introduced agile project management tools & methodologies in the team for effective collaboration and timely delivery

Jan 2016 – May 2016 · 4 mos · Mumbai, India

• ListUp is an auction-based P2P mobile marketplace for pre-owned goods in India.
• Defined and documented the product requirements as detailed user-stories and mockups
• Introduced multiple new features for social sharing, improved buy-sell experience to improve user engagement
• Collaborated with the Marketing Head to run successful campaigns to improve the acquisition and retention metrics
• Employed analytics tools like Clevertap & Google Analytics to track user behaviour and drive design decisions

Jul 2015 – Dec 2015 · 5 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

• At VectorX, we were building the next-gen of tech-enabled intercity logistics marketplace that would highly increase transparency and reliability of delivery for the customers and at the same time, significantly enhance the inventory utilization and revenues for the vendors.

Aug 2014 – Jul 2015 · 11 mos · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

• GulfTalent is one of the leading online job boards in the Middle East, a marketplace for courses and a salary benchmarking service. It is used by over 8,000 businesses & 7+ million registered professionals across the world.
• Handled a variety of projects in Product, Marketing Research and Sales
• Owned the complete product life cycle from conceptualization, creating technical requirements, user acceptance testing to release (Agile methodology with bi-weekly releases)
• Designed the product UI/UX based on user needs and latest technology trends
• Collaborated with Engineering and QA team for timely development and delivery
• Assisted the Sales Lead with insights from monthly & quarterly sales performance data

May 2013 – Jul 2013 · 2 mos · Mumbai

• Boston Analytics is a strategy consulting firm which serves Fortune 1000 clients seeking powerful insights from data to drive their strategic decisions on entry and growth in emerging markets.
• Designed complex models and automated macro-economic data feeds in MS Excel to assist consultants with better market research
• Developed a custom toolbar of over 30 add-ins in MS Powerpoint and MS Excel to ease the compliance of standard design guidelines and other practices for the consultants