Oct 2025 – Present · 6 mos

• I am a Founding Advisory Board Member, AI‑DOME – a global, cross‑continent think‑tank conceptualised with Talview’s AI expertise to shape the future of secure online examinations through thought leadership, policy guidance, and integrity‑driven standards, focussing on AI led interventions

Oct 2024 – Present · 1 yr 6 mos

May 2022 – Nov 2023 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• OpenSesame is a world leader in high quality off the shelf e-learning content aggregation. My mandate was to build a presence for the brand in the region through strategic reachouts to learning leaders with the unique value proposition and building a reseller partner network.

Apr 2021 – Oct 2023 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Oct 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Helping Corporates realise true value of Human Resources through Cognitive Diversity and Total Inclusion practices

Jul 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 9 mos

Oct 2019 – Jul 2020 · 9 mos

Nov 2018 – Oct 2019 · 11 mos

Jun 2016 – Nov 2018 · 2 yrs 5 mos

Jun 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 10 mos

Nov 2016 – Jun 2020 · 3 yrs 7 mos

Jan 2017 – Jun 2017 · 5 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

Sep 2016 – Oct 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Helping establish an India strategy

Jul 2016 – Sep 2018 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Human Capital Measurement Advisory and EdTech Mentorship.

Jun 2016 – Present · 9 yrs 10 mos

Jun 2016 – Jun 2018 · 2 yrs · Bengaluru Area, India

• Product creation for scientific career guidance

Apr 2016 – Nov 2018 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• With over 10 years of experience in the Human Capital Measurement space, I believe my expertise and advisory services can be useful for assessment companies as well as organizations looking to optimize and innovate their candidate and employee evaluation processes.
• Human Capital Measurement is set to undergo significant changes both in design and delivery and how quickly and efficiently companies adapt to this will determine the level of optimization in employee productivity that can be achieved. With wide exposure to multiple practices in assessment creation and innovative use of assessment technology and delivery, I am able to provide a practical insight in making assessment practices attuned to the best practices in the industry

Apr 2012 – Apr 2016 · 4 yrs · Bangalore

• As Head of Corporate and International sales, accountable for sales revenue from engagements with Corporates. I am involved in strengthening the position of MeritTrac as a leader for assessments in the corporate market and in establishing new markets overseas for assessment services from India. These include building, establishing and securing outsourced evaluation services which has opened up potentially a massive opportunity for MeritTrac and India in this area.
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• As Head of Innovation and Product Management, have been actively involved in creating and nurturing innovative assessment & assessment delivery concepts into successful business solutions for MeritTrac.Conceptualized and built off shored marking business at MeritTrac, India's first large volume off shored marking services for exams.
• MeritTrac has several international partners ( RM plc, Carnegie Speech, Findly Talent Assessments, ETS, City&Guilds, Cambridge English and Assess International) whose products are resold or merged with inhouse products/service offerings . I handle all such alliances and have been responsible to identify such partners and build strategic relationships.
• As a member of the Leadership team at MeritTrac, closely involved in strategizing and implementing plans to achieve long term and sustainable objectives

Jun 2009 – Mar 2012 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Bangalore

• I look after the Innovations function at MeritTrac. Involves identification of opportunities for new products/solutions & managing the process from conceptualization to commercialization. Also handle product management in terms of feature changes, upgrades etc., in line with market feedback. Evangelization of innovation within the organization & aid in creating a culture of thinking out of the box to find solutions to real life problems in the assessment industry.
• Some of the new products introduced successfully include
• 1. SpeechTrac- India's first automated spoken English engine based on a completely indigenously developed framework.
• 2. CGT- A unique career decision assessment framework for students that provides inputs on both interests & cognitive abilities.
• 3. AuthenTrac- Patented biometric authentication service using a wireless registration device for paper based large offline exams

Jan 2006 – Jun 2009 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Bangalore

• Head the Southern region at MeritTrac that contributes a significant, even lopsided, percentage in terms of revenue & number of clients.

Jun 2002 – Nov 2005 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Kochi and Hyderabad

• Ownership of sales targets for the branch. Hyderabad branch was the second largest in the country in value, volume & diversity.
• Product management, product mix enforcement in line with guidelines, customer feedback collation & inputs for product changes
• Channel management to ensure adequate stocks are available at retail counters

Dec 1996 – Apr 2000 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Bangalore

• Industrial sales, exports co-ordination, customs documentation, after sales service and channel management.