Apr 2020 – Apr 2020 · 0 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Mentored Idea and Early-stage startups participating at the Techstars Global Online Startup Weekend - Unite to Fight Covid-19 an initiative aimed at innovations to tackle the challenges created by the global pandemic.

Jul 2019 – Oct 2020 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Joining TCF was an opportunity to build an accelerator firm from scratch, allowing me to continue creating new, exciting, unheard-of things all the time. As a founding member, I wore multiple hats and led key strategic initiatives to establish Foundry as a brand in the global startup & investment ecosystem. I led two key verticals - Investments and Growth.
• On the investments side, I led strategic sourcing & evaluation of investment opportunities, negotiations, and closures of deals for our India & US cohorts run by self and in partnership with our universities partners - Yale Institute of Global Health, Brown University & Columbia School of Engineering.
• On the growth side, I established and nurtured tech and corporate innovation ecosystems to build scale at the portfolio level and achieve growth on invested capital. I managed a portfolio of 25+ solid B2B companies supporting them in the achievement of their financial and strategic objectives.

Jun 2018 – Jul 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo

Jul 2018 – Jun 2019 · 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Conceptualized and led the re-launch of 'strategic alliances and partnerships' business vertical at CoWrks. Repositioned our outlook to creating a member-centric, tech-enabled services hub bringing together partners & coworking members together to transact for business and personal services. Had the opportunity to collaborate with 200+ organizations that became an active part of our intentionally built external partner community.

Dec 2016 – Jun 2018 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Furthered Zeta's enterprise proposition of making employee tax benefits a 100% digital and paperless process in India - through customer acquisition and stakeholder management among enterprise customers. Being at the cusp of demonetization and the early evolution of Fintech, it was a pioneering effort to drive mindset shift across enterprise stakeholders (the board, employees, and third parties) to adopt efficient digital systems over inefficient, paper-intensive processes.

Apr 2015 – Nov 2016 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Led enterprise customer acquisition, assessing their risk exposure on one hand and working with insurance companies - private and public sector both on the other hand to mitigate business risks by executing tailor-made insurance products in - Health, Asset & Liability verticals.

Apr 2014 – Jun 2014 · 2 mos · Pune Area, India

• I love motorsports! With nine years of motorsport history in India, Volkswagen Motorsport continues to be the only OEM directly involved in motorsport in the country. I'm happy to have been a part of the marketing team, leading and closing key sponsorship conversations for our flagship race events - VW Polo R Cup & VW Vento Cup.