Aug 2025 – Dec 2025 · 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Heading Openly, with an aim to make it one of the topmost Emotional Support app in India and abroad. When loneliness is becoming a pandemic, and you are alone in crowd, Openly provides you a safe space to express your feelings

Jun 2025 – Aug 2025 · 2 mos

• Strengthening rural commerce in India, connecting demand and supply across the ecosystem. With rural population contributing $359B (almost 57%) in retail, this space is only going to get bigger. And 1Bridge with 21,000+ advisors across more than 40-50 cities, and 2500+ last mile delivery partners, is equipped well to cater to this demand

Jun 2025 – Aug 2025 · 2 mos

• Building a robust rural entrepreneurship ecosystem in India, especially women entrepreneurs, directly impacting lives of 70% population staying in rural India.
• India has immense potential. And there is no dearth of talent in rural India. All they need is little hand holding and could potentially unlock huge MSME opportunities for the Indian economy.

Sep 2024 – Present · 1 yr 7 mos

Jul 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Started Reevoly with a mission to change perception of people towards the content and creators of UP & Bihar, and showcase the richness of the culture & language to the native and diaspora.
• Completely bootstrapped, ~20K user base, 500+ truly vernacular talented creators live on app
• Worked with 25+ leading Brands across FMCG, Pharma, Food D2C, B2B Saas, Fintech, Retail, Mobility, Govt, Education and more - for their hyperlocal brand building narratives and brand collabs in UP, Bihar, Jharkhand
• If you want to build a brand narrative in UP & Bihar, through brand collabs with niche creators (specifically creators and NOT influencers), reach out to us at hello@reevoly.com.
• We have 15,000+ hyperlocal creators with us ranging from food vloggers, travel vloggers, mom & parenting influencers, poets, storytellers, community influencers, local artists, regional singers, local cultural pages, educators, real estate influencers, msme influencers and more.
• We have worked with some of the leading FMCG, Travel, Retail, Pharma, and FinTech brands on their brand building, product integration, brand visibility and CTA oriented campaigns so far.
• As part of our content creation service, we also produce micro dramas, web series, music videos and movies - end to end (story ideas, scripting, casting, pre production, shoot, post production edits, dubbing etc.)
• If you are a potential client, partner, investor or mentor for us, please inbox me. Let's Chat

Feb 2023 – Jun 2023 · 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Building both the supply (user acquisition) and the demand side (onboarding companies for placement of students) of the ecosystem for Invact, for their upskilling course in Finance. Unlocked couple of very high intent user acquisition channels for them, at almost zero CAC. Exploring other growth avenues for them at present.

Jan 2023 – Jul 2025 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Apr 2020 – May 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Mar 2020 – Feb 2023 · 2 yrs 11 mos

• Building Dailylearn - with a mission to provide easy access to quality education across the length and breadth of India, impacting ~300M+ K12 students. Ideated, built and scaled to 100K+ registered users, ~5K paid users, and INR 1 Cr+ ARR in just over a year with minimal resources. Produced ~10 District Toppers from Bihar Board. Tied up with Super 30 faculties to provide a seamless learning experience to the state board students. Shut it down with unfulfilled dreams after we could not raise funds.

Sep 2019 – May 2022 · 2 yrs 8 mos

• Driving the product and content strategy in the Education segment for Dailyhunt & Josh. Ideated and building Dailylearn, the true blue EdTech platform for the students of Bharat. Hit me up if you are equally passionate to bring an impact in the lives of millions of students through affordable access to quality Education for all.

Apr 2019 – Sep 2019 · 5 mos · New Delhi Area, India

• On a contractual role, helped them shape up the B2C Online Learning business from scratch. Also partnered with Google for integrating G-Suite for Education with Knimbus platform.
• Knimbus is a comprehensive digital library solution that integrates multiple e-resources on a single platform, enabling libraries to build their online presence and meet the demands of the users who are migrating online to consume knowledge content.
• Knimbus curates learning content from 500+ national and international publishers, covering 70,000+ journals (full text+abstracts), 5 million+ e-books, 1,50,000+ online courses & learning videos and 10 million+ research articles covering all subject areas such as Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, Arts, Science, Commerce, Medical etc.
• Knimbus helps 500+ libraries in India, UAE and Sri Lanka, to increase their online user base by building a comprehensive mobile app and E-library for them. Their client list includes Niti Aayog, VTU, NIT-Suratkal, Sharda University, CREDAI, RAKMHSU UAE etc.

Feb 2018 – Mar 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo · New Delhi Area, India

• Growth Hack through strategic alliances and partnerships. Helped identify and execute a win-win business model for us and our partners.
• ~50K to 1 lakh new users on-boarded per month through strategic alliances at zero cost, leveraging various innovative channels of growth hack.
• Also helped expand the Franchise business for Testbook. Scaled it to 100+ new Franchise centers across 7 states in 3 months.
• Testbook is India's topmost online test platform for Govt Job preparations. ~75 lakh students have taken ~1.5 crore tests on their web and mobile platforms covering 70+ Govt Job exams

Sep 2017 – Present · 8 yrs 7 mos · Bangalore

• Managing the strategy, partnerships, and promotions for Puruaa - a crowdfunded charitable trust-cum production house aimed at improving the image of Bhojpuri entertainment, through quality short films and music videos. That's the least we could have done to give back to the community. Scaled it to 5M+ Youtube views for the channel in just 3 years without any budget - strategically utilizing the freely available channels. We have produced 100+ videos including 8 short films and multiple music videos so far.

Jan 2015 – Feb 2018 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

• Led the ExamPrep business for Dailyhunt. Helped build the ExamPrep business from scratch and scaled it to 50K DAUs.
• Led various functions in the journey - Product Roadmap, Publisher Acquisitions, Content Conversion, Storefront Management, New user acquisition, User retention and engagement, Push notifications, business analytics and broader level business strategies.
• Dailyhunt, our flagship product is the most downloaded and used mobile application in India by an Indian Company (as per AC Nielsen Survey), providing news & e-books to the end users; with more than 15 Crore user base, and 300 Crore + page views every month.
• Dailyhunt Exam Preparations is one of India's topmost competitive exam preparation app, with current affairs updates, exam alerts, study notes, e-books, online tests, mock tests, and other content helpful for the aspirants, for exams such as Bank PO, Clerk, Railways, UPSC, UGC, TET, LIC, NDA, CDS, State PSCs, IIT, NEET, CLAT etc.
• Download it from Google Play store -
• https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.dailyhunt.examprep

Mar 2012 – Dec 2014 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• I worked here in varied roles simultaneously:
• 1. National Marketing Manager - responsible for streamlining and strengthening a marketing function within the firm and its publishing partners. The role included campaign management, web marketing, event marketing, exhibitions/seminar participation, alliance management, market research, training to team and end users, preparing marketing collateral etc..
• 2. Product Marketing Manager (e-books, India Business Insight, InfoBooks) - responsible to market and achieve the targeted subscription sales of a portfolio of e-books by publishers such as Knovel, IET, EBSCO, Cambridge University Press, Pearson etc. Also responsible for subscription sales of India Business Insight (a unique Indian Business database tailored to meet the needs of faculties and students for their case studies & projects); and InfoBooks, an e-book hosting, marketing and selling platform, which aggregates e-books from leading publishers, and market & promote them in local and global academic and corporate market.
• Key responsibilities:
• Coordinating with the publishing partners; and planning & strategizing their targeted content subscription sales within academic institutions and corporate
• Managing the sales team across the country to achieve targeted sales of e-books portfolio
• Planning and executing the inbound, outbound e-mails, social media and event marketing campaigns for lead generation.

Apr 2010 – Nov 2011 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• I worked on providing strategic consulting services to the global clients within security, energy, and PLC information domain to assist them in achieving operational efficiency and cost effectiveness.
• The projects typically included market sizing, competitive landscapes, industry and regional deep dives, mergers & acquisition due diligence, industry profiling, company profiling, financial research, SWOT analysis, PESTEL analysis, feasibility analysis etc.

Feb 2010 – Mar 2010 · 1 mo

• Author of one of the best selling fiction titles of 2011 titled "Love was never Mine..."
• It has been consistently ranked as one of the top selling books in various stores and e-commerce sites such as flipkart, landmark etc.
• http://tiny.cc/ynr16y

Feb 2009 – Mar 2010 · 1 yr 1 mo · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

• Being its 4th employee when it started, I worked with MarketsandMarkets in varied roles:
• 1. Leading its Business Research Practice for FTE Engagements (6 months) -
• Set up the business research division and managed its P&L account
• Identified prospects within potential geographies and industries, set up BD process
• Identified and tied up with related conferences and media partners for cross promotions & sales
• End-to-End Project Management - connected with clients to understand their end research purpose, project time, budget and cost estimations; defined the research methodology and the various data sources used for the purpose; delivered the research
• Handled a team of business development managers, executives, and contact database team
• 2. Research Manager (6 months)
• Handling a team of senior research analysts, analysts, research associates and trainees for publishing research reports across healthcare industry
• Set up and stabilized research report publishing process within the firm

Jan 2007 – Jan 2009 · 2 yrs

• I have worked as a Senior Business Analyst in Evalueserve for its Consumer Goods & Retail vertical. I worked on various business research projects which typically included SWOT analysis, PEST Analysis, Benchmarking, Market Study, Market Sizing, Risk Assessment, New Market Entry, Competitive Assessment, Industry Profiling etc. Successfully managed a FTE client as a Project Manager, leading a team of 10-12 Business Analysts for their projects. Secondary research through Google, journals, paid reports and paid databases like Hoovers, One-Source, Thomson One Bankers, ISI Emerging Markets, Reuters, Bloomberg, Capital IQ etc.

Sep 2006 – Nov 2006 · 2 mos