Jan 2021 – Aug 2024 · 3 yrs 7 mos

• Business responsibility for the Emeritus India & APAC business.
• I setup and scaled this business from 0 to 25,000 paid learners with an annual revenue run-rate of USD 65 Million.
• My responsibilities included partnering with the best Universities in India, Singapore, Australia and the US, creating and launching online programmes, driving marketing & sales and ensuring revenue and profit growth.

Aug 2017 – Dec 2020 · 3 yrs 4 mos

• Business leader of two business units
• 1) EMERITUS global business
• 2) India Schools business
• My responsibilities include
• 1) Identifying global business opportunities in executive education
• 2) Creating business strategy to address the identified business opportunity
• 3) Executing business strategy, launching business and products, delivering on revenue and profit
• 4) Developing next level leaders to run business lines as the business expands
• 5) Driving and preserving company culture
• 6) Driving innovation to ensure Emeritus retains its leadership in executive education

Nov 2015 – Aug 2017 · 1 yr 9 mos

• Chief Product Officer at Manipal ProLearn. Responsible for Product & Revenues. Worked on scaling revenues, products, industry partnerships, placements.
• Achieved 30,000 paid learners. A fully digital learning experience. Learner transformation stories. Integrated Manipal's Tech and Datascience academies under the Manipal ProLearn brand. Built a new partnership with EY. Extended the Google partnership into the Digital Unlocked course.

Sep 2012 – Oct 2015 · 3 yrs 1 mo

• Responsible for Product Management & Engineering of Manipal's Digital Education platforms which spans course discovery, learner acquisition, learning delivery and assessments. I lead innovation, adoption, product management, engineering, analytics and mobility for the Digital Education platform. Manipal is among the world’s largest digital education companies with revenues of USD 250 million.
• Key achievements
• 1) Transformation of ICICI Bank's campus teaching to a fully digital model. This project won ICICI Bank The Asian Bankers International Awards 2016 for Best Employee Engagement Initiative. The project has been replicated across 10+ other banks.
• 2) Acquisition/integration of an online software programming simulator that serves as the core of Manipal's online learning offering to IT Services companies. This simulator helped Manipal kick start revenues from IT Services companies.
• 3) The Digital Education platforms and content capability enabled the launch of Manipal ProLearn, a fully online certification business in 2015.
• 5) The platforms I have created deliver over 5 million+ transactions each year and serve 300,000+ students

Jan 2011 – Sep 2012 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Manipal Education Malaysia is a subsidiary of Manipal Global Education, which serves 250,000+ students across the world.
• I lead the launch of GlobalNxt University, a 100% online University in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. GlobalNxt University launched on December 20, 2012.

Dec 2001 – Jan 2011 · 9 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

• Co-founded MeritTrac (www.merittrac.com), India's largest online assessments company which today is a 100 Crore+ revenue company.
• Director on the Board and Chief Delivery Officer responsible for Pre-Sales, Product Management, Engineering & Service Delivery for 300 customers through a 150 member team. Achieved a near 100% customer retention.
• Led solution selling for USD 1 Million+ accounts that MeritTrac acquired. MeritTrac works with 300+ customer accounts across Education, Corporate, Government and Retail verticals, delivers 5 million exams each year
• Led exam delivery for CAT 2010, among the largest online examination in the world with 250,000 online exams done over 20 days (7000 concurrent examinations)
• Conceptualized, developed and product managed 3 assessment technology platforms for exam delivery - OnTrac, UADP and SpeechTrac which have delivered 5 million+ assessments to date.
• Built an exam center distribution channel across 100 cities in India.
• MeritTrac was awarded NASSCOM Innovation Award for assessment technology platform + exam center distribution channel.

Jun 1999 – Dec 2001 · 2 yrs 6 mos · London, United Kingdom

• Developed technical solutions for Citibank's Core Banking System
• Developed and Maintained on Citibank's Forex and Money Markets trading platform.
• Headed Technical Support for CitiDocs - Citibank's Document Management solution for South America, EMEA and Asia regions

Jun 1995 – Apr 1997 · 1 yr 10 mos · Vadodara Area, India

• Worked at L&T Power - Engineering, Procurement & Construction. Worked in Presales responding to large scale Power Plant RFPs.