Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 · 2 yrs

• I am very grateful to lead Upwork's flagship business - Talent Marketplace ($650M+ revenue, X00 employees), which contributes ~90% of Upwork's GSV
• I get to oversee several amazing product releases that drive growth in new and repeat users, and ensure these users satisfactorily find what brought them to Upwork, the world's largest work marketplace
• Everyday I get to manage several high performing teams including product management across growth initiatives; ads products; subscriptions and pricing products; new user acquisition and conversion products, and customer success
• I had the privilege to successfully drive the #1 company priority in 1H23, which helped land the largest single-day increase in our share price (~45%) in company history, and help Upwork beat and raise guidance in consecutive quarters in 2023
• Our product wins across 2023 are expected to generate $X00M in earnings, turning around business health and achieving record levels of health KPIs
• I am also the designated company leader for 2 out of the top 4 priorities (including #1) for 2024

Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 · 2 yrs · Menlo Park, California, United States

• I'm the function leader for all Metaverse business units (called Reality Labs collectively), supporting product management and GTM across software (gaming, social, media, fitness, and work) and hardware (VR, AR, Mobile, Desktop, Tablet, Consoles)
• Product Strategy at Meta drives mid / long term Product Management, with the goal to shape the best strategic directions including monetization (revenue (direct and indirect), cost reduction, subsidies) and competitor differentiation roadmaps in direct collaboration with Mark Zuckerberg and Meta C-suite
• Member of core Metaverse leadership team

Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 · 1 yr · Palo Alto, California, United States

• Merged AllyO with HireVue, forming a 500+ FTE company of $1B+ value
• Managed ~110 FTE global team to oversee 95% of existing revenue and all customers
• Converted customer needs into our product and service roadmaps
• Exceeded gross and net retention targets for all quarters

Jan 2016 – Jan 2020 · 4 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

• Founded and scaled AI / ML SaaS company from idea to $X00 Million value, growing team to 225 employees across 3 continents
• Successfully sold business to Carlyle Group, merging it with their portfolio company HireVue
• +3x YoY growth for each year of operation, delivering human-less recruiting for the largest employers such as Walmart and Hilton, that experienced 60% reduction in time / cost to hire
• Voted HR Tech Product of the Year in 2018 & 2019, and voted Best Place to Work in 2020

Jul 2013 – Aug 2016 · 3 yrs 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area

• Focused on organic and inorganic growth of technology product companies, public and private
• Top rated in every review cycle
• Projects included:
• Pre-acquisition diligence and post M&A integrations of product companies valued $50B+, combined
• GTM in Asia overseeing 180 sales FTEs, generating more revenue than all of rest of Asia
• Re-pricing 90 products generating a $0.4B revenue lift despite severe competition
• Transformation from price to value based SaaS selling, doubling sales conversion in 3 months
• Strategic planning and goal setting, and rolling out strategic plans across functions

Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 · 0 mo

• Part of LinkCycle, one of fourteen companies chosen as part of Spring 2013 batch
• Fundraising, product development, sales, and hiring

Jan 2010 – Jan 2013 · 3 yrs

• Led all functions including Product Management, GTM, and Business Operations
• Led product management from scratch to gate, including product design, user research, feature prioritization, and product strategy
• Designated a top 5 startup to follow by City Councilor of Cambridge
• Founded and grew energy management SaaS company to 10+ customers including 3 Fortune 500 companies
• Invented methodology to disaggregate energy consumption using big data in place of physical meters
• Led first round of funding from Techstars, a leading startup accelerator
• Featured in 150+ articles in public media; invited to present to US DOE Secretary

Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 · 0 mo

• Served CalRecycle, a large medical device company, and an oil refinery, on sustainability strategies, e.g. design for environment, waste management, and sustainability marketing and branding
• Represented client in key meetings to present analyses on regulatory threats to client’s flagship product
• Convinced board of 10+ executives, to pursue defensive strategy of collaborating with competition

Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 · 1 yr

Jan 2007 – Jan 2012 · 5 yrs

• 1000+ citations of published literature
• Created operational efficiency roadmap for global manufacturing to meet energy targets set by IPCC
• Highlighted fallacies in traditional energy saving practices of the ~$50B US remanufacturing industry
• Created tools for carbon abatement and investment analysis of technology adoption for cement industry
• Featured on MIT homepage twice, ScienceDaily, Technology Review, IEEE, ASM, and 500+ other websites
• Lectured on corporate sustainability and energy management to industry professionals and undergraduates

Jan 2005 – Jan 2007 · 2 yrs

• Nanoparticles: Synthesis and Applications
• Lead author (by invitation) of book chapter in the Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (http://www.aspbs.com/enn/).

Jan 2005 – Jan 2006 · 1 yr

• Effect of surface roughness on the wetting behavior of diamond-like carbon (DLC) and perflorinated resin polymer coatings, PERC 2006 IAB meeting
• Atomic Level Planerization of Wide Band Gap Semiconductors, E-MRS 2006 Spring Meeting

Jan 2003 – Jan 2007 · 4 yrs

• Influence of synthesis and sintering parameters on the microstructural, mechanical and electrical properties of nano titania synthesized by sol gel
• Best thesis award
• Vidya Bharathi Prize 2007, awarded to top materials engineering undergraduate student in India (http://www.iim-india.net/images/31_12_2012_IIM_Awards_Winners.pdf)