Jan 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 2 mos

Jan 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 2 mos

Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 · 2 yrs

• Key leader for Alibaba Group’s expansion outside China since 2016; led $1.7 billion in tech investments across India and Middle East achieving a 44% IRR and a 7.4x MOIC, transforming Alibaba’s presence in emerging markets.
• Key investments : Paytm, Paytm Mall, Big Basket, XpressBees, Trendyol, Zomato; additional portfolio management : Tokopedia, Synagie, Masan, Ninjavan
• Operational Leadership: As Chief Business Officer at Lazada Vietnam, managed P&L across Marketplace, Retail, and Cross-Border segments.
• Impact: Help establish Alibaba’s presence in India, South East Asia and Middle East with investments led expansion across diverse sectors; Financial gains with 44% IRR and 7.4x MOIC on invested capital of about USD 2bn

Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 · 1 yr

• Chief Business Officer for multi billion dollar e-commerce business of Lazada Vietnam. P&L leader for 3 business units of marketplace, retail and cross border

Jan 2016 – Jan 2022 · 6 yrs

• Role required managing multi-billion dollar investments in India; leading new investments/ strategic alliances and building ecosystem in India; Alibaba Group representative in Paytm, Paytm Mall, Xpressbees, BigBasket board meetings
• Alibaba's India ecosystem included of Payments (Paytm), B2C e-commerce (Paytm Mall, Big Basket, Zomato, AliExpress), B2B e-commerce (Alibaba.com), logistics (Xpressbees), UGC (Vmate), Browser (UC Web), and Alibaba Cloud
• Led newer investments in global markets (primarily Turkey and MENA) and portfolio management in SEA (Tokopedia, Synagie, Ninjavan, Masan)

Jan 2018 – Present · 8 yrs 2 mos

Jan 2018 – Jan 2023 · 5 yrs

Jan 2018 – Jan 2022 · 4 yrs

Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 · 3 yrs

Jan 2017 – Jan 2022 · 5 yrs

• Board Observer for Paytm, Paytm Mall, Big Basket, Xpressbees

Jan 2017 – Jan 2022 · 5 yrs

Jan 2017 – Jun 2021 · 4 yrs 5 mos

Jan 2011 – Jan 2016 · 5 yrs

• Advised and helped CXO's in Technology, Digital, Media and IT industry in achieving their strategic and operational aspirations; primary focus on strategy, operations transformation and leadership development; served clients in India, US and SE Asia

Jan 2009 – Jan 2011 · 2 yrs · Singapore, India & US

• Senior Consultant with the Strategy and Operations group focusing on Corporate Strategy and Process Improvement; completed various engagements in Singapore, US and India

Jan 2008 – Jan 2008 · 0 mo · Greater London, England, United Kingdom

• Part of the team carrying out multi-billion dollar real estate buyouts in Europe and Asia from London; created valuation models, conducted due diligence and prepared investment cases for a number of large size deals

Jan 2005 – Jan 2007 · 2 yrs · Bangalore

• ITC Limited is a USD 70 bn Indian conglomerate with diversified interests; selected under prestigious AUT program (fast track management program); responsible for appraisal, planning and execution of capital expenditure projects