Apr 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 11 mos · 🌍

• Co-creating the world’s most influential NFT collective on the Solana blockchain.

Jan 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 2 mos

• FNDX build long-term high-quality exposure to crypto/web3 for its proprietary capital through a pioneering first-principles-based, thesis-driven multi-strategy approach.
• FNDX is not open to outside capital. Nothing on LinkedIn or any online/other platform is a solicitation of investment.

Jan 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 2 mos

• Advisor to EF's India 🇮🇳 portfolio companies in the crypto/web3 and fintech space.

Aug 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 7 mos

• BlockSurvey's products enable Demonstrably Private data collection for Web3 products and traditional businesses. BlockSurvey is built on the Stacks blockchain with support for dapps on multiple chains.

Aug 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 7 mos · India

• Optimising local delivery for the hundreds of millions living in Tier 2 + Tier 3 cities India 🇮🇳 where the current metro-optimised hyperlocal experience breaks down.

Jul 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 8 mos

Mar 2021 – Present · 5 yrs

• I advise Cube Wealth's leadership on matters across verticals, including growth, product, technology, business development.

Jan 2016 – Mar 2021 · 5 yrs 2 mos

• Cube brings HNI-class advisory, assets and assistance to busy professionals to build great wealth over their careers.
• Great asset classes: equity/debt, India/international
• India's best advisors: USD ~3bn in assets, thousands of HNI families
• Personalised human support.
• I've been with Cube from before day one.

Mar 2021 – Mar 2022 · 1 yr

• Human-curated lists to read, watch, listen for niche interests. In a world where algorithms optimize for engagement, not satisfaction. Early investor.

Dec 2014 – Jan 2016 · 1 yr 1 mo · Mumbai Area, India

• Making it super simple to pay and manage your money with Citrus'​ mobile apps.
• Managed small, fast, growing team across design, product, engg, mktg and bizdev
• Scaled Citrus Cube from 0-1 million users in 7 months, including peak usage of 125,000 monthly active users.
• Check out Citrus Cube (http://ctrs.co/cube) & Citrus Cash (http://bit.ly/1PS8V31)

Dec 2012 – May 2014 · 1 yr 5 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• Netcore's first head of Product; built and grew practice from scratch.
• # Product Leadership
• Responsible for 20+ enterprise mktg products across email, mobile, web with INR 100+ cr in annual sales across ~2000 clients
• Instituted product culture in the organization (earlier "tech+sales"):
• (1) standalone product mgmt & mktg teams
• (2) processes for mkt positioning, prospect targeting, customer feedback, competitive analysis for all products & key features
• # Innovation + Execution
• Moved portfolio beyond commodity messaging with one new differentiated product every quarter.
• Q4 12-13: 2FA: pioneered missed call as OTP alternative. Used by e-comm. clients for COD verification
• Q1 13-14: Falconide: email delivery as-a-service. Key clients: 2 of top5 banks; 2 of top5 insurance cos.
• Q2: Sonnet: enteprise social network with deep email integration
• Q3: RadiusCode: data-as-a-service for prospect identification built atop India's electoral rolls. Clients: national FMCG beverages co; top national political party
• Q4: Triggerware: 1st-party-web behaviour tracking + rule-based triggers
• # Organization
• Aligned all production functions (product, UX, engg, mktg-comm, client servicing) with company's quarterly product plan
• Instituted formal Sales enablement process for new products/features: internal intro, demo, training, collateral
• Part of the company's quarterly board presentation and discussion
• On advisory committee of the company's early-stage demand-side platform (DSP) partner

Nov 2009 – Dec 2012 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Mumbai Area, India

• Responsible end-to-end for Netcore's consumer mobile business, reporting directly to Rajesh Jain, Netcore's founder and MD.
• Set up and managed Product, Engg., Mktg., Payment ops, Content ops and Customer support for the two consumer products: MyToday and Phone.cc
• # MyToday (2009-11)
• India's first operator-independent digital media marketplace
• Introduced several features unique to local mkt: free trials, bundles, scratch-cards for digital content, discovery & subscr. mgmt over both web & SMS
• Grew marketplace to peak of 300+ products, 1000+ SKUs, 30+ publishers, 250,000 subscribers
• Operated 9 different payment methods including innovative ATM cheque deposit and scratch card/missed call - with a blended collection cost of ~15%
• MyToday's launch: http://goo.gl/4AkB
• # Phone.cc (2011-13)
• Mobile identity, communication and content service modelled on Japan's i-mode
• Managed partnership with Verisign to bring digital identity to anyone with a mobile number, using a <phone#>.cc domain (e.g. http://9876543210.cc)
• Negotiated payments + distribution partnership with a top-3 telecom operator to monetize its non-VAS subscribers
• Seeded catalog with 100+ products: news, entertainment, in-browser games
• Public API for developers for profile, publishing, payments
• Phone.cc press: http://goo.gl/lTqcgN

Jun 2008 – Jul 2009 · 1 yr 1 mo · Hyderabad Area, India

• Briefly, advised major telecommunications company looking to provide cloud computing services.

Mar 2008 – Mar 2009 · 1 yr · Mumbai Area, India

• Pikumoney was the pre-smartphone Mint.com of India to track and budget your monthly expenses. It predated expense management apps by 7+ years and was built for the SMS-centric 2000s India.
• ~ Pikumoney read SMS input via a natural language processor a decade ahead of its time.
• ~ It tracked cash and credit card expenses.
• ~ It monetised using recommendations based on purchase patterns, like its inspiration Mint.com
• Pikumoney failed to provide enough value up-front for people to keep using it. The delayed gratification inherent in its design made 30- and 60-days retention a challenge.

Mar 2007 – Jun 2007 · 3 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• During IIMK's summer break; built the company's Affiliate Marketing business unit from scratch, closed first set of leads, hired own successor.

Jul 2004 – May 2006 · 1 yr 10 mos · Pune Area, India

• Youngest elected member of the Tech. Experts' Council (TEC mandate: improve 'technical vitality' at IBM)
• Lead Technical Mentor, IBM ExtremeBlue Program 2005 and 2006 (internship program for tech/biz schools). Each project awarded one published patent.
• On the development team of a distributed file system proof-of-concept (part of IBM's TotalStorage product line).