Sep 2023 – Dec 2025 · 2 yrs 3 mos · New Delhi · Hybrid

• Collaborate with the Founders to ensure the successful execution and scaling of key initiatives.
• Actively contribute insights, leveraging a deep understanding of the sports sector, to refine and elevate Push Sports' brand offerings.

Sep 2021 – Dec 2025 · 4 yrs 3 mos

• Collaborate closely with the CEO, board, and senior leadership to set and drive the company's vision, operational strategy, and hiring priorities, ensuring alignment with India's dynamic gaming landscape and fostering sustainable growth.
• Oversee end-to-end gaming operations, optimized processes, and workflows to enhance user experience, ensure regulatory compliance (GST & TDS), and achieve business milestones.
• Steering responsible gaming initiatives, ensuring platform features and policies promote player well-being, and align with India's regulatory standards, emphasizing ethical and safe gaming experiences.
• Spearheading organization-wide goal setting, performance management, and annual operational planning, ensuring seamless workflows, peak performance, and the achievement of strategic milestones.
• Managing investor relations with precision, addressing inquiries from both current and prospective stakeholders, and effectively articulating SportsBaazi's value proposition, growth trajectory, and industry positioning.

Jun 2019 – Aug 2021 · 2 yrs 2 mos

• Crafted and executed both short-term and long-term category strategies for the Fantasy Sports Gaming Ecosystem, aligning with global market trends and dynamics.
• Assembled and directed a proficient data analytics team, arming departments with dynamic dashboards, strategic reports, and data-driven business case analyses to bolster efficiency and foster innovation.
• Cultivated strong relationships with the investment community, successfully securing SERIES A funding of $4M, and consistently communicated SportsBaazi’s (Formerly BalleBaazi) strategic vision, achievements, and future prospects to stakeholders and investors.
• Proactively identified market opportunities, solidifying new revenue streams (contributing 30% to the revenue in the first year), and orchestrated innovative partnerships (contributing 7% to the revenue), thereby cementing SportsBaazi's position in the Indian online gaming industry.

May 2018 – May 2019 · 1 yr · Delhi Area, India · On-site

• Initiated the development of a centralized data repository and spearheaded the creation of an in-house real-time analytics dashboard “DEXTER”, facilitating seamless access and data democratization across all teams.
• Utilized big data analytics to understand player behavior, optimizing in-game experiences and driving up engagement metrics such as Average Session Duration, Retention Rates, ARPU and LTVs.
• Established a system to gather, analyze, and act upon player feedback, ensuring our game evolves in line with player preferences and market trends.
• Mentored and guided the data analytics team, adopted state-of-the-art data tools and platforms, ensuring our team remains at the forefront of gaming analytics.
• Spearheaded the integration of data analytics tool such as “CleverTap”, “Google Analytics” & “Branch.io” into the business, ensuring data-driven decision-making processes across all departments.

Jan 2017 – May 2018 · 1 yr 4 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• Executed projections for the CCAR schedules across regulatory and internal scenarios
• Identified and provided commentary on utilisations for increase in value of higher order risk
• Actively participate in working group/ implementing committees of key regulatory projects such as LPA and IRC
• Liaising with senior risk managers to develop new forward-looking scenarios for stress testing
• Analysed scenario risk moves for clusters explaining underlying risk dynamics & drivers under varying market conditions
• Empirically Analysed and monitored the risk limits for all trading activities using quant measures such as Var and Stress tests
• Successfully migrated LPA reporting and analysis for Illiquid positions (Private equity & Hedge funds) from London office

May 2016 – Dec 2016 · 7 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• Monitor adherence to limits for all trading activities using VAR and Stress Tests
• Deliver detailed scenario risk reports & analysis to Trading desks & Regulators
• Developed a model to convert Fed template shocks to Internal template; reduced time required by 80%
• Achieved over 40% reduction in cycle time of multiple internal processes via automating several bespoke models in excel
• Promoted in the 4th month of joining for exceptional performance

Aug 2014 – Feb 2015 · 6 mos · Himachal Pradesh, India · On-site

• Summited Mt. Shitidhar (17,369 ft) & Hanuman Tibba (19,626 ft)
• Trekking across the Dhauladhar and Pir Panjal ranges and summiting 5500 m+ peaks was a deeply formative experience. It pushed me beyond my comfort zone and taught me one of life’s most valuable lessons — how to back yourself when no one is watching. This journey not only strengthened my belief in the power of perseverance but also instilled a mindset that with grit and determination, nothing is impossible.

Aug 2014 – Aug 2014 · 0 mo · Tokyo, Japan

• One among 30 Delegates selected across 100 nations to attend the Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations (HPAIR) Conference 2014 at Tokyo under the Finance panel.

Jul 2012 – Jun 2014 · 1 yr 11 mos · Kolkata Area, India

• Key Deliverables/Responsibilities:
• Actively traded US Treasury, Gilts and Bunds futures using Stellar trading platform
• Analysed market charts and graphs to identify profitable trading opportunities
• Participated in training programs to develop understanding of interest rate markets
• Developed excel spreadsheets to be utilized in daily trading
• Reviewed and validated weekly and monthly profit and loss statements
• Responsible for preparing and running meetings reporting on trade strategies, research, market status, upgrades/downgrades, guidance, top headlines, indicators, and corporate actions
• Market Experience:
• Economy: Eurozone and US : Fiscal and Monetary Policy Developments
• Interest Rate Markets: Gilts (U.K), Bunds (Germany), Treasuries (U.S.A) & Foat (France)
• Exchanges Exposed to: CBOT, LIFFE, EUREX, and NSE
• Interest Rate Curve Trading : Spreads, Butterflies, Momentum trading and Credit spreads
• Technical analysis : Candle stick patterns, Bollinger bands, Fibonacci, Moving Averages
• Technical Analysis Software’s : Bloomberg, Reuters Eikon