Nov 2025 – Present · 4 mos

• The Foxnut Factory is started by an engineer and ex-Amazon person. They are sourcing foxnuts directly from farms in Bihar and selling globally

Jun 2025 – Nov 2025 · 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Jan 2024 – Sep 2025 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

• SuperPe is solving for credit card acceptance in India

Sep 2022 – Dec 2024 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• Locus.sh became a super efficient route optimization tool for enterprises and on demand delivery platforms in India, SEA and US over 2020-2022.
• I had done work for the founder earlier, wanted to get back into the trenches and took it on to open a new market for them. Worked very successfully with channel partners to open Mexico but there some larger internal issues because of which we scrapped Mexico + several other markets

Aug 2019 – Jun 2020 · 10 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Strategy & operations, fundraising, investor relations for one of the 1st dedicated route optimization SaaS solutions globally

Jun 2020 – Aug 2022 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Ankur Capital is founded by 2 amazing women - Ritu and Rema. They are driven by making changes in the lives of the next billion Indians (through digitalization solutions) + deeper problems that the planet faces in terms of energy efficiency, climate change and rapid urbanization. To achieve this, they back bold founders building on the edge of what's possible and have landed up taking many contrarian yet successful bets

May 2018 – Jul 2019 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• All aspects of Financial management
• Successful advisory on overseas expansion – Saudi Arabia and US markets
• Angel investing for the proprietor in early stage startups driven by a research based investment strategy. Investments include rural cinema, construction and grass root level innovation

Dec 2016 – Mar 2018 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bangalore

• Aggregating supply and B2B demand in the food space.
• We got acquired by Zomato, rebranded to Hyperpure and are currently Zomato's highest grossing business unit. Yes, even more than its delivery arm.

Jan 2016 – Sep 2016 · 8 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• Strategic alliances to enhance ecosystem, headed domestic enterprise sales and led investment by Mr Ratan Tata Trusts

Mar 2013 – Dec 2015 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• My work at the Welspun Group was for their renewable energy startup called Welspun Energy. All our assets were acquired by Tata Power
• Strategic liasing
• International BD in select MENA and CIS regions
• Conceptualized and led communication strategy for lenders, international investors and government agencies
• Seven Uncommoners, my first book, a biographical account of 7 first generation entrepreneurs launched in October 2014 and became a bestseller within months by selling 23,000 copies

Mar 2012 – Aug 2013 · 1 yr 5 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• International fund raising. Equity, Quasi Equity, and Debt from PEs, MDBs, DFIs.

Mar 2011 – Mar 2012 · 1 yr

• Cross border tax planning structures, trading, licensing, financing and leasing transactions
• Succession Planning and Asset Protection

Apr 2010 – Mar 2011 · 11 mos · New York/Mumbai

• Ran cross border advisory mandates in PE capital raise and M&A
• Sectors worked on include education, clean tech, steel processing, print and online media

Jan 2006 – Mar 2010 · 4 yrs 2 mos · New York

• We were a fund of funds which invested in the likes of Carlye, KKR, Apollo, Clayton Dubulier, etc. 5-10% of our positions were in direct or mezzanine investments. I took responsibility, from a financial reporting and investor relations perspective, for five funds that ranged in size from $500 million to $5 billion.

Jan 2005 – Dec 2005 · 11 mos

• Worked with three prominent serial entrepreneurs (Alex Mashinsky, Malcolm Elvey and Adrian Alexander) in their start-up doing a roll up of the town car industry in the Tri-State region. Our target list date was 2007.