Apr 2017 – Jun 2019 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• Worked at Nexus and was part of 9 new investments in a little over 2 years. Invested in SaaS Companies (Observe.ai, Moveinsync, Pando, Squadcast, Maximl, Livehealth, and Culturegrade); Consumer companies (Rapido - 2-wheeler ride-sharing platform); Agri-tech (Intellolabs) and spent a lot of time on Gaming and new age consumer brands.
• About Nexus: Nexus invests in early and early growth stage companies across sectors. Nexus operates as one team between two markets: the US and India. With almost a decade of experience, Nexus manages $1.5 billion across all funds. Partner companies include Postman, Snapdeal, Druva, Delhivery, Cloud.com, Clover, Unacademy, Gluster, H2O.ai, Kaltura, etc.

Jan 2016 – Dec 2016 · 11 mos

• Focused on growth strategy for technology companies, new market entry and evaluating product market fit. Led an inbound and outbound sales transformation with the leading SaaS start up from India and delivered over 40% growth in SaaS sales in 9 months. Worked on disruptive technologies in Telecom (global wifi using satellites) and Network Function Virtualization space.

Sep 2014 – Jan 2016 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Focused on growth strategy for technology companies and evaluating new product strategies

Aug 2013 – Sep 2013 · 1 mo · São Paulo Area, Brazil

• I worked at Emprego Ligado as a product manager and growth hacker over the summer.

Apr 2013 – Aug 2013 · 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Working with the Energy Investment Team to come up with investment ideas. Worked on many mid stream and up stream company valuation models. Over this period, made 4 investments in US energy companies and built supply demand model for NGLs. Also created an overview of main oil and gas plays in US and did comparative analysis of players to find relative leaders.

May 2012 – Aug 2012 · 3 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• I worked at Ascent Capital as a summer associate as a pre-MBA internship. I worked on a deal in education space and closely worked on the investment in India's leading online grocery company. I learnt a lot about investing in the emerging markets during this summer experience.

Jan 2010 – May 2012 · 2 yrs 4 mos

• Worked on one of the biggest and the most innovative Energy project in Oil & Gas space. It is Shell's biggest single largest investment ($20 Billion) till date. I set up and managed task forces for water management, steam management and other utilities site wide. It was one of the most phenomenal experience in terms of managing people and expectations. I moved back to India once I was admitted to Stanford GSB and worked on future investment opportunities for Shell.

Jul 2008 – Dec 2009 · 1 yr 5 mos

• I worked on a number of upstream projects in countries like Brunei, Gabon, Malaysia, Australia, Iraq and Oman. Along with that, I was involved in the new technology capability development effort at the Bangalore technology center for CCS and CBM.

Apr 2009 – Jun 2012 · 3 yrs 2 mos

• Worked with the leaders of PAN IIT to evaluate and execute projects and decide the future strategy of PAN IIT

May 2006 – Jul 2006 · 2 mos

• I was working on a project to improve the Dehydration Column in one of the plants and resulted net savings of 8 crore/year using my Aspen Plus simulations.

May 2005 – Jul 2005 · 2 mos

• Here I did a research consulting project under Prof. Vivek V. Ranade to improve the energy efficiency of cement plants. It was a great experience of working in one of the best fluid dynamics lab in India and apply concepts of classroom to real industry.