Jul 2025 – Present · 8 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · On-site

• Visiting Professor – LEAD Startup Program | Undergraduate Startup Lab
• Taught Lean Startup principles to early-stage founders as part of the LEAD Startup Program (Cohorts 1 & 2), focusing on customer discovery, MVPs, and validation. Designed and delivered a semester-long Undergraduate Startup Simulation Lab, enabling students to experience the journey from idea to scale through structured curriculum and hands-on problem-solving with real startups.

Oct 2024 – Present · 1 yr 5 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · Hybrid

• Building a community-first, membership-driven platform that empowers aspiring entrepreneurs and early-stage founders to go from idea to launch with speed, clarity, and actionable insights.
• Our network provides hands-on support, educational resources, and collaborative opportunities across ideation, validation, and MVP stages to help founders scale effectively.
• Focused on nurturing entrepreneurial journeys, Founders First Network fosters growth through curated programs, gamified learning, and exclusive access to tools and resources tailored for startup success.

May 2022 – Oct 2024 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · On-site

• Heading Product and Growth at PublicVibe (Verse - Parent of Dailyhunt, Josh and PublicVibe). Part of the Leadership Team building and scaling multiple products and taking new initiatives at PublicVibe.
• PublicVibe - Hyperlocal News Media App that serves millions of users across India.
• PoliticalVibe - Political Intelligence Platform for Political Parties and Leaders
• LocalStar - Mobile News Studio App that empowers reporters and creators on the ground create and publish studio like content in minutes.
• Ads - Ads Platform to enable advertisers reach to millions of hyperlocal users across India.
• Internal Products - Managing multiple internal Products for PublicVibe as well as collaborating with Dailyhunt and Josh.
• PublicVibe YouTube Channels - Building PublicVibe YouTube Channels and enhancing social media presence.
• Responsible for handling Product, New Initiatives and driving Business Metrics and Avenues to Grow Revenue.

Aug 2021 – Jan 2022 · 5 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

• Training over 600+ students them through the entire Lean Startup Methodology, Content and Application of the Principles.
• Working with 120+ Teams in pursuing their startup ideas and helping them validate during the duration of the course.

Oct 2020 – Apr 2022 · 1 yr 6 mos · Pune Division, Maharashtra, India

• Taking a 2 Credit Course on Lean Startups
• Training them through the entire Lean Startup Methodology, Content and Application of the Principles
• Working with students realtime in pursuing their startup ideas and helping them validate during the duration of the course.

Nov 2019 – May 2022 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

• Building an all in one community management SaaS platform that helps you run, manage, engage and grow your community in your own private space hassle-free. It's your own private social network exclusively for your organization or community.

Jan 2019 – May 2024 · 5 yrs 4 mos · Pune Area, India · Hybrid

• Taking a 2 Credit Course on Lean Startups for students pursuing 2 year MBA in Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
• Training them through the entire Lean Startup Methodology, Content and Application of the Principles
• Working with 15 Teams realtime in pursuing their startup ideas and helping them validate during the duration of the course.

Oct 2017 – Jul 2019 · 1 yr 9 mos

• Joint Secretary and Chairman of Initiatives Committee for Alumni Association, UCE,OU

Sep 2015 – Sep 2017 · 2 yrs

• Executive Board Member and Chairman of Initiatives Committee for Alumni Association, UCE,OU

Nov 2016 – Nov 2017 · 1 yr · Hyderabad Area, India

• Building a startup incubator from scratch and developing the team, processes and program for establishing a high quality Technology Business Incubator in University College of Engineering, Osmania University.

Sep 2016 – Nov 2016 · 2 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

• Streamlining the business model and processes for scaling CareMotto.

Feb 2016 – Oct 2019 · 3 yrs 8 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• Leading the marketing and operations efforts in developing a curated platform for discovering latest products and startups with focus on Indian ecosystem.

Sep 2015 – Mar 2016 · 6 mos · Hyderabad

• Highly selective six month program with 25 other startups as a part of SLP Hyderabad (class of 2015-2016) that is aimed at nurturing startup leaders.

Sep 2015 – Jan 2016 · 4 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

• Consulting technology business incubator at International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad on defining and executing a strategy to shape the incubator into a strong player in deep tech and high tech ventures.
• Responsible for identifying and executing on strategic partnerships (Corporate, CSR, Mentors, Investors, Support organizations) and developing new initiatives in line with the vision of the incubator and evolving needs of incubatee startups.

Jun 2013 – Mar 2015 · 1 yr 9 mos · Portland, Maine Metropolitan Area

• Successfully led internal consulting engagements with US, UK and APAC executive teams and presented my recommendations on go-to market strategies that were implemented for furthering current businesses as well as identifying and executing on new products and businesses with focus on payments in travel industry ecosystem.
• Conducted market research and developed numerous business cases assisting the management for board presentations.
• Built expertise in virtual payments working cross functionally with product management, strategic sales and partner organizations to validate opportunities and define future strategies for two new WEX emerging industries.
• Led the initiative to research, analyze and develop the business plan for WEX Innovation program aimed at building sustainable processes and channels for sourcing, evaluating and executing on ideas from employees and customers.

Jul 2012 – May 2013 · 10 mos · Portland, Maine Metropolitan Area

• Conducted market research on telematics industry and built a business case on Data solutions strategy that outlined recommendations for leveraging data analytics to broaden current value proposition of WEX fleet business offering.
• Identified trends and expansion opportunities in virtual payments business for online travel agencies in WEX travel.
• Developed good understanding of card payments and closed loop payment networks working with WEX Fleet team.

Aug 2011 – May 2013 · 1 yr 9 mos · Greater Boston

• 2 Years Full time MBA program with focus on Marketing, Strategy and Entrepreneurship.
• Co-President, Babson Technology Club.
• Director of Sales, Babson Entrepreneurship Forum 2012

Aug 2011 – May 2013 · 1 yr 9 mos · Greater Boston

• Selected as a Graduate Fellow with a scholarship at Babson Center for Career Development.
• Conducted a benchmarking Analysis of top 63 business schools and presented a recommendations report to the entire career center executive team, many of which translated into action items over the last 1 year.
• Key Member of the communications committee and International Committee to bridge the gap between the career center and student community for enhanced communications and relationship management in addition to expanding Babson's International employers footprint beyond US.
• Conducted focus groups, resume reviews, Video interviews and Generated marketing material in close collaboration with the team.
• Provided numerous recommendations for enhancement of CCD operations and development over the span of 2 years working with various Associate Directors.

Jan 2011 – Aug 2011 · 7 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

• Franchisee head for Edubotix Hyderabad. Edubotix is a division of Gridbots Technologies Private Limited - Supported by CIIE-IIM Ahmedabad.
• Initiated and established company operations in South India by building a five member team from scratch.
• Drove business development successfully by promoting Robotic Education into various schools and Engineering colleges.

Jun 2010 – Aug 2011 · 1 yr 2 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

• Initiated and led the Non- profit initiative to build the University alumni association targeting 30,000+ alumni.
• Consolidated a database of 3000 alumni within a year, working with students, alumni and college management.
• Built the foundation for a working board by convincing nearly 20 eminent CEO’s and Directors to be an active part of this initiative and investing their efforts towards formulating the structure and vision for the association.
• Developed the digital marketing strategy for the association and organized three alumni reunions in a year.

Sep 2008 – May 2010 · 1 yr 8 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

• Worked on numerous internal and external US client projects in close interaction with US counterparts as a part of the apex technology team for SAP in Deloitte Consulting practice globally.
• Researched, documented and tested cutting edge technology in SAP and cloud offerings in association with premium partner firm SAP to sustain Deloitte’s technological eminence supporting the consulting practice.
• Collaborated across service lines, mentored new hires, and supported around 160 SAP servers worldwide.
• LEAD, Event Management, SAP Basis Centre of Excellence, Deloitte Consulting

Jun 2007 – Aug 2008 · 1 yr 2 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area