May 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 10 mos · Dubai, United Arab Emirates · On-site

• Independent consultant in cases across multiple sectors focusing on Tech & Strategy in Dubai and Abu Dhabi
• Largest Semi-government real estate developer: Directed competitive market, business, and financial feasibility assessments, driving strategy for multiple asset classes for a new island catering to UHNWI segment. Oversaw project governance and partnered with global advisors to launch innovative AI enabled urban development initiatives.
• Leading UAE educational institution focused on cultural and social enrichment: Spearheaded the launch of grad programs at portfolio university, benchmarking top global and GCC universities. Developed a prioritization framework to guide the university’s 3-year grad program roadmap in-line with changes happening in global AI knowledge curriculum
• National federation serving eSports: Served as strategic advisor, developing content on tech enablement within esports and driving executive partnerships, sponsorships, and formalizing collaboration with global organizations for the national eSports launch with 120 eSports events.

Nov 2019 – Apr 2022 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Greater Delhi Area

• Built the Talent analytics & insights vertical for eightfold from scratch. Worked with operations, sales, product, customer success & engineering to enable GTM for the same.
• Hired to setup the Talent Analytics & Insights function within Eightfold AI, working at the cross section of product management, sales support & Customer success while leveraging the underlying data of ~100Mn public profiles on the platform
• Devised 3 different strategic talent insights offerings (Talent readiness assessment; Talent Benchmarking; Skills taxonomy) for existing and new customers; setup the pricing, delivery and GTM for the same
• Structured and led end to end engagements with fortune 100 clients leading a team of multiple associates/ analysts, customer success managers, product managers & software engineers on above offerings
• Setup individual playbooks to deliver offerings from data extraction, insights generation & client communications thereby scaling up Talent Insights
• Worked with Product management & engineering team to productize delivery of Talent insights and make it self serve for customers
• Hired, coached & managed a team of 5 analysts/ associates for Talent Insights delivery
• Supported sales process for legacy platform products (Talent Acquisition, Talent Management) with prospect specific insights by leveraging public employee data & stitching it to eightfold value proposition; supported
• Led Talent thought leadership across industries (Telco/5g, Semiconductor, Pharma, BFSI, Oil & Gas) to support marketing efforts

Dec 2018 – Nov 2019 · 11 mos · Gurgaon, Haryana, India

• Working with global CEO and leadership team to drive strategic initiatives across the globe.
• Formulated a 10x strategy with implications along sales, org, leadership & GTM for top enterprise prospects
• Helped hire key leadership positions reporting directly to CEO

Jun 2016 – Dec 2018 · 2 yrs 6 mos · India

• Organization sizing for an upstream Oil & Gas player
• Financing & fundraising to build new capital city in South India
• Global PE Fund: Due diligence in Payments space for one of the largest startup investment of 2017
• Global PE Fund: Outside-in due diligence of a solar power plant to assess returns (>500 MW)
• Indian PE Infra fund: Financial engineering to enable investor suited investments in cluster of small airports & operating roads
• Strategy for a large indian family house to setup a digital healthcare ecosystems
• Sales, marketing & digital procurement diagnostics for 2 major indian steel companies
• Setting up a risk based decision gate framework for one of largest Pharma players in India
• Mining operations transformation for a large Indian conglomerate to improve production
• Cobalt Strategy for a major copper-cobalt mining company to leverage cobalt revenue streams owing to high demand in EV batteries
• Advanced analytics led Yield, energy, throughput (YET) improvement diagnostic to identify levers for 2 chemical plants in a global chemical producing company

Apr 2016 – May 2016 · 1 mo · Bangalore

• Looking after Marketing, Business Strategy & Product Improvement

Jun 2015 – Jul 2015 · 1 mo · India

• Organizational sizing for an upstream Oil & Gas player

Nov 2013 – May 2014 · 6 mos

• Providing Financial Risk Consulting Services to clients in GCC countries.

May 2012 – Nov 2013 · 1 yr 6 mos · Greater Delhi Area

• # Improved Market Serviceability in the North Indian Market (India's leading food products company)
• # Deployed a Route Optimization Model to reduce transportation costs (India's leading courier company)
• # Led a team of analysts to continuously fulfill primary order requirements across major metro cities (Global Foods Company,Indian Operations)
• # Built a MATLAB based Promotion Analytical Toolkit to explain the effect of trade promotions on sales in the middle east market.(Global FMCG company)
• # Master Data Management (South East Asian Arm, UK based FMCG major)
• # Implementing a Business Intelligence framework for supply chain stakeholders to help make quick & improved decisions & take actionable insights (Indian Arm, UK based FMCG Company)
• # Deployed Image Identification Algorithm to filter out disputable voter IDs in the Delhi Assembly Elections 2013 (Election Commission, India)

May 2010 – Jul 2010 · 2 mos · Dehra Dun, Uttarakhand, India

• # Pilot operations in an ACE Fluid Catalytic Cracking Plant
• # Analyzed various Bio-friendly substituents to crude oil
• # Maximized production of Gasoline & LPG from Soybean Oil