Dec 2024 – Present · 1 yr 3 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• It is a privilege to be invited to the board of Tanla and join the board comprising of Founder Chairman Uday Reddy, Chief Business Officer Deepak Goyal and industry veterans Dr. RS Sharma , Sanjay Kapoor, Francois Ortalo-Magne and Rahul Khanna.
• Tanla Platforms Limited (NSE: TANLA; BSE 532790) transforms the way the world collaborates and communicates through innovative CPaaS solutions. Today, as one of the world’s largest CPaaS players, Tanla enables communication between enterprises and their customers through multiple channels including SMS, Voice, email, RCS, OTTs such as WhatsApp, FB messenger, and push notifications. Tanla processes more than 800 billion interactions annually and about 70% of India’s A2P SMS traffic is processed through its distributed ledger platform-Trubloq, making it the world’s largest Blockchain use case.

May 2024 – Present · 1 yr 10 mos

• Appointed Independent Director at Welspun Living Ltd (WLL), part of $5 Bn Welspun World. WLL is a global leader in Home textiles. With a distribution network in more than 50 countries and world-class manufacturing facilities in India, Welspun is strategic partner to top global retailers. WLL is driven by its differentiation strategy based on Branding, Innovation, and Sustainability.
• Welspun Living has 5 business lines: Retailer Solutions, Hospitality Solutions, Welspun Retail, Flooring & Advanced Textiles. Welspun is also known for its industry leading commitment to ESG and inclusion of women in the workforce: a mission driven by its top leadership and amplified at all levels.
• Welspun Living has a diversified brands and license portfolio comprising of marquee names such as Christy, Spaces, Welspun Flooring, Welspun, Martha Stewart, Welhome and Spun. The global team is 20,000+ members strong.

Mar 2024 – Present · 2 yrs · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• Tech Entrepreneurs Association of Mumbai (TEAM) is a non-profit, independent industry association formed with the mission of accelerating the $100 BN Mumbai Tech Ecosystem. Formed by some of the city's most successful tech founders, TEAM is the representative body to promote Mumbai as the hub for tech entrepreneurship. Its 46 members are founders from Mumbai-based tech companies.
• As an elected member of the Governing Council, I will be supporting its 3 areas of focus:
• Build and enhance the narrative for cementing Mumbai as a global hub for the venture and startup ecosystem and support India’s potential to be a trillion dollar digital economy.
• Create a strong local community of technology founders, investors & engineers/researchers to foster entrepreneurship and innovation
• Collaborate with the government & corporates to further tech-startup infrastructure & skilling opportunities in Mumbai

Mar 2024 – Present · 2 yrs · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• Invited on to the 3 member advisory board to help the leadership team at Steer navigate its product and commercialisation cycle.
• STEER World has pioneered cutting edge innovative technologies that transform materials in pharmaceuticals, plastics, food & nutraceuticals, biomaterials and biorefining.
• Steer has 500 engineers and scientists, serves 50 countries & holds 90+ patents.
• https://www.aninews.in/news/business/announcement-naiyya-saggi-vipul-parekh-and-sachin-oswal-join-steerworld-strategic-advisory-board20240321183135/

Sep 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 6 mos · India

• Invited member to the National Taskforce on Startup Regulatory Issues set up by the DPIIT, Ministry of Commerce India.
• The taskforce comprises of distinguished members and veterans from the Government , Industry, Entrepreneurship & Venture Capital and are tasked with drafting recommendations to the Government on the evolution of ESG, Good Governance, Taxation and Ease of Doing Business in India.

Apr 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 11 mos

• I back entrepreneurs I believe in and in sectors hungry for a 100x better solution. Some of the companies I have backed include Even Health (Subscription based model to cover healthcare needs, backed by Khosla Ventures and Founders Fund), MagikLabs (Cross-Border Payments API using Crypto Infrastructure, YC'23), Binks (India’s 1st Personal Fashion Brand for Women, YC'19), Hoop (India’s first new-age brand for daily pains and fatigue), Mysa (automated compliance and banking platform for new age companies in India), WTF fitness (OYO for Gyms) amongst others.
• I am also a backer of Kwaish Ventures (a Venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments founded by Anand Chandrasekharan (ex Facebook, currently at General Catalyst).

Sep 2021 – Aug 2024 · 2 yrs 11 mos

Jul 2021 – Jul 2024 · 3 yrs

• MyGlamm and BabyChakra merged in 2021 and I joined MyGlamm as Co-founder & Board Member of the group. MyGlamm is a direct-to-consumer beauty company selling makeup, skincare and personal care products via a multi-brand strategy, backed by Amazon, Accel Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, Wipro and L’Occitaine en Provence. At MyGlamm, I am responsible for leading the Mom-Child vertical with BabyChakra at the core, and also for building out Product & Data backed Virtual Communities across the Group's platfoms.

Mar 2017 – Apr 2020 · 3 yrs 1 mo

• Mentor at Facebook's flagship program to support and accelerate Indian women founders in Tech.

Jan 2015 – Jun 2022 · 7 yrs 5 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• At BabyChakra (www.babychakra.com) ( bit.ly/1P9K2Ok) we empower parents to make the right maternity & childcare decisions. We are also bringing the massive maternal and childcare industry online to the digital economy. Think of us as an OS for families.
• We are obsessed with solving a big problem that affects families globally. Launched in 2015, we have rapidly become the largest platform for young mothers in India. Our app is the #1 Parenting App on Google Playstore in India and we have a community of 25 million mothers and 10,000 doctors on our platforms.
• We are backed by Google's prestigious Launchpad Accelerator, Microsoft Ventures, Facebook Start and were shortlisted from India by Y Combinator for their Winter 2017 batch. We are venture backed by top angels and funds in India and the US including Anand Chandrasekharan, Ananth Narayanan, Arihant Patni, Maninder Gulati, Gideon Marks and Round Glass Partners, Equanimity Ventures and Mumbai angels.

Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 · 0 mo

Jun 2012 – Jun 2013 · 1 yr · Boston

Aug 2010 – Jun 2012 · 1 yr 10 mos

• Scholarships received:
• Fulbright Scholar (2010-2012)
• JN Tata Endowment Scholar (2010-2012)
• Positions held:
• Co-Chair, The Hauser Centre for Non-Profits Student Advisory Board (2011)
• Co-Chair, The Harvard India Conference (2012)
• Panel Manager, The Social Enterprise Conference (2011)
• Member: Healthcare Club; Social Enterprise Club (2011)
• Publications:
• Regina E.Herzlinger, Amit Ghorawat, Meera Krishnan and Naiyya Saggi. "Hub and Spoke, Health Care Global, and Additional Focused Factory Models for Cancer Care." Harvard Business School Case 313-030, August 2012.
• Naiyya Saggi, Athena Lao, "Can Nonprofits Win the War for Talent? Some First Steps". Blog, Harvard Kennedy School, Centre for Public Leadership, March 2011.

Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 · 2 yrs

Jul 2009 – Jan 2010 · 6 mos

• Fundraising & Business Development Lead

Jan 2007 – Jan 2009 · 2 yrs

• Projects with multiple domestic and international clients. Sector focus predominantly healthcare, education and ITES. Projects included:
• Building India's child nutrition and maternal health strategy for a Global foundation addressing Maternal and Child Health outcomes. This has since become the template for all future work undertaken by the Foundation globally. This also led to creating a McKinsey white paper on maternal and child health in India.
• Scaling an ambulance service network from 1 city to 10 states. For our work with the client, our CST was nominated to represent India at McKinsey's Practise Olympics (a firm-wide presentation of the most impactful client projects by McKinsey that year) ;
• Creating a national policy for an international (large African nation) government on improving their country's competitiveness in ITES.

Jan 2007 – Mar 2007 · 2 mos

• OXFAM NOVIB research fellow on the Intra Governmental task force on child labour in Maharashtra.
• Research published on OXFAM-NOVIB website

Jan 2005 – Mar 2005 · 2 mos

• Awarded ‘The International Bar Association Educational Trust Scholarship’
• Assisted Executive Director of the IBA, Mark Ellis, and head of the Human Rights Department, Fiona Paterson
• Research on the Rule of Law in Iraq (applied in the core-training program on International Law for the judges of the Iraqi Special Tribunal)