Aug 2018 – Sep 2018 · 1 mo

Aug 2014 – Jul 2018 · 3 yrs 11 mos

• Aspada is a holding company backed with a significant commitment from the Soros Economic Development Fund. Aspada backs disruptive market leaders solving hard problems in India and invests across a range of sectors, including fintech, agricultural supply chains, edtech, and healthcare delivery. In addition, Aspada Capital Advisors is also the manager to the SONG Fund, which is a collaboration between Soros Economic Development, Omidyar Network, and Google.
• A selection of our portfolio companies:
• Reverie Language Technologies - Building the "Rosetta Stone" in India's local languages. Language as a Service (LaaS) to enable any developer to offer their app/website in multiple Indian languages.
• Dunzo - Aims to make the experience of completing offline local tasks completely seamless
• Xamcheck - One of India's fastest growing edtech companies that provides comprehensive testing and personalised content to affordable private K-12 schools
• NeoGrowth and Capital Float - Two of India's undisputed leading fintech small business lenders
• Be Well Hospitals and Eye-Q - Two leading healthcare chains in secondary care and eye-care
• EM3 Agri Services - India's first pay-per-use farm mechanization service
• LEAF, InI Farms, SV Agri, Allfresh - Collectively a leading and large, branded, traceable fresh fruit and vegetable supply chain firm.

Aug 2018 – Mar 2024 · 5 yrs 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Setu wants to empower every company to become a fintech company. We do this by enabling fast, reliable, and secure access to banking systems via APIs. Setu partners with financial institutions, enables account creation and management, routes payments across networks, and absorbs the complexity of regulations for businesses who want to offer financial services to their customers.
• Setu offers open APIs across four categories - bills, savings, credit, and payments. Any developer can access our sandbox to build an application, and go through a rigorous developer certification program to go live. This makes it easy for all companies to plug-and-play financial services, rather than spend significant effort and time for one-off integrations.

Aug 2017 – Jun 2018 · 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Writing the Bharat Rough Book: A fortnightly column on building businesses for the mass market of India.
• See more here: http://www.livemint.com/Opinion/acYXkyavl8MbIldelSSqdI/The-Bharat-Rough-Book-manifesto.html

Jan 2016 – Jul 2025 · 9 yrs 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Core team member with the IndiaStack team. I work to draft policies and liaise with several government departments and industry leaders. Furthermore, I evangelize the impact of the IndiaStack across industry events and conferences.

Jul 2013 – Sep 2014 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Magnet Works built both hardware and software for the Industrial Internet. We built systems to monitor and control enterprises from anywhere. Using wireless RedBox RTUs (Remote terminal units) connected to a wide variety of sensors, meters and PLCs—data is transported directly to the Magnet Cloud platform. Data would be analyzed and presented visually through real-time dashboards that can be accessed from anywhere on any device.

Aug 2012 – Aug 2013 · 1 yr · Bangalore

Jul 2011 – Apr 2012 · 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Ezetap builds mobile Point of Sale (m-PoS) terminals with proprietary hardware and software. Managed hardware development from prototype to production. Identified and negotiated with component suppliers, EMS Vendors to set up mass production for 5000 units per month. Responsible for translating customer requirements into software specifications and testing end product against the same

Jul 2010 – Jul 2011 · 1 yr · New Delhi Area, India

• Managed scale up and operations for the UIDAI contact center. During my tenure the contact centre grew from 10 to 120 agents handling 10,000+ calls per day
• Created and executed multiple tenders for the UIDAI (including the tender for the Department of Posts as a Registrar)
• Worked on the UIDAI telco policy: Co-ordinated with the Ministry of Home Affairs and Department of Telecom, to establish Aadhaar as sufficient KYC for issue of a SIM Card
• Wrote a white paper on UIDAI authentication as a platform for application development

Aug 2008 – Jul 2010 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Telecommunications - Sales performance transformation
• Oil and Gas - Medium term cash release strategy
• Oil and Gas - Procurement operations improvement
• Outsourcing and Offshoring - Strategic cost reduction (Service operations)