Apr 2019 – Mar 2024 · 4 yrs 11 mos

• Cholamandalam Investment and Finance Company Limited (Chola) is a market-leading, publicly listed company, incorporated in 1978 as the financial services arm of the Murugappa Group, with assets under management above INR 47,700 Crores. Chola commenced business as an equipment financing company and has today emerged as a comprehensive financial services provider offering vehicle finance, home loans, home equity loans, SME loans, investment advisory services, stock broking and a variety of other financial services to customers.
• As a Board Member (Independent Director) at Chola, I had the privilege and honour of advising the company and management on technology and IT strategy, and sought to help them leverage technology, phygital (physical + digital) and new-age business innovations which could drive future success and growth of the organisation.

Jan 2018 – Mar 2019 · 1 yr 2 mos · Panaji, Goa

• I founded Infidreams (http://www.infidreams.com), a mission-driven initiative that stands for Infinite Dreams and aims to make the world infinitely better through technology by harnessing our collective, unlimited positive potential.
• Think of Infidreams as essentially a dream factory, helping you dream up and then actually build the most beautiful world you can imagine. It is an inspiration-to-action tech-enabled platform which helps you verbalise, visualise, and get inspired by your dreams, hopes, goals, ambitions, wants, needs etc. and then move down the path of actually making those dreams come true through easy and effective planning, action, monitoring and collaboration.
• Current focus area for Infidreams is the Infidreams App (http://www.infidreams.com), which allows you to realise all your personal, professional and social dreams i.e helps you make all your dreams, missions and goals come true - whether those dreams are for yourself, for your loved ones, for your work place or educational institution, or for the world at large. Infidreams has been built to make the world better, and it starts by helping you make your own life and world better.
• Personal dreams are your individual, private dreams and those that you share with no one except yourself, or at most, certain trusted family members, friends and loved ones.
• Professional dreams are those dreams, goals, missions, targets, objectives etc. that you have for your workplace, business, school, organisation, institution etc. and that you share with others who belong to the same organisation.
• Social dreams are those that you have for the community, society and world around with you and which you likely share with many others.

Dec 2015 – Jan 2022 · 6 yrs 1 mo · New Delhi Area, India

• I was the earliest investor and advisor in Visit Health, a phenomenal company led by amazing founders with a vision to provide quality healthcare to everyone, anywhere, anytime. Visit's other investors include MapmyIndia, Biz Stone (co-founder of Twitter), Karthee Madasamy (ex-Qualcomm Ventures), Muthu Murugappan (Murugappa Group), Alagu Periyannan (Blue Jeans Network CTO), and Kunal Bahl and Rohit Bansal (Founders, Snapdeal). Visit was acquired by Policybazaar.
• Visit (http://www.getvisitapp.com) is an AI-driven healthcare startup. Visit was founded with one goal in mind - to give immediate access to high-quality doctors to those in need, anywhere, anytime. Visit lets you talk for free with a qualified doctor, and lets you do video and voice consultations with specialists. Visit and the doctor care team it provides to you, follow up with you and provide various ancillary services to help you become and stay healthy. With Visit, you can speak in a privacy-safe and convenient manner to qualified and high quality general physicians, nutritionists, dermatologists, psychologists, gynaecologists, sexologists etc about your various health queries and medical problems.
• Visit's AI chatbot amplifies capabilities of human doctors to serve the healthcare needs of all people around the world, by engaging in intelligent conversations with patients about their symptoms and increasing the quality and quantity of doctor care and advice to patients.
• Doctors partner with Visit to enhance their quality of care and ability to serve patients better, digitally (cashlessly) and remotely. Organisations sign up Visit as their healthcare partner to offer their employees the best employee healthcare and wellness service. Learn more at http://www.getvisitapp.com

Jun 2014 – Sep 2014 · 3 mos · Seattle, WA

• Planned and specified future product strategy for Microsoft's leading B2B Customer Relationship Software (across SaaS / Cloud / Mobile / On-Premise / Hybrid platforms), with a clear focus on succeeding in an increasingly mobile world.
• Recommended organic and inorganic routes to achieve internally specified objectives by top management.
• Specified features, requirements and user scenarios/stories from product side, as well as recommended architectural and implementation suggestions from engineering for mobile and cloud platforms.

Jun 2006 – Aug 2006 · 2 mos · Palo Alto, CA, USA

• As a summer business analyst in the SFO office, I got a chance to work on a couple of very interesting studies - the first was a due diligence of a multi-billion dollar semiconductor company in Europe, and the second was a roadmap planning study for a coalition of non-profit foundations in California with regards to public health.

Jul 2005 – Sep 2005 · 2 mos · Santa Clara, CA, USA

• At Intel, I interned in the physical verification / physical design group, and helped re-design Intel's physical chip layout and design tool. I helped improve performance by >10x and achieve memory savings of >5x by implementing a novel real-time on-demand algorithm.