Jun 2025 – Jun 2025 · 0 mo

Nov 2023 – Jun 2025 · 1 yr 7 mos

May 2022 – Nov 2023 · 1 yr 6 mos

Jan 2019 – May 2022 · 3 yrs 4 mos

• India Investment lead, managing $75mn+ deployed across various sectors including Content, Commerce, Mobility & Fintech
• Investments led:
• WorkIndia(India) - Leading Blue Collar Recruitment Marketplace
• Mylo(India) - Pregnancy and Parenting Community & Commerce Platform
• Prophesee (France) - Neuromorphic vision sensing platform
• Portfolio Observer
• Sharechat - India’s first social media platform in Indic languages, serving the next billion internet users
• Chalo - India’s #1 bus transport technology company
• Bobble - World’s first Conversation Media Platform
• Also leading Deep Tech related Investments in Europe & Israel focusing on Smartphone related technologies

May 2018 – Dec 2018 · 7 mos

• Responsible for planning and executing Xiaomi’s entry in new markets in South Asia - Bangladesh, Nepal & Sri Lanka
• Set up distribution partners, both online and offline to ensure PAN nation coverage
• Devised GTM, Product Portfolio, Supply Planning & Pricing Strategy
• Helped in setting up the local team in each country

Nov 2017 – May 2018 · 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Joined Hike’s CEO office, post its CREO’s acquisition and subsequent merger of teams.
• Responsible for strategic alternatives, acquisitions, fund raising, alliances & market research
• Led Operations & Business Strategy for ‘TOTAL, built by hike’. TOTAL is a refined version of Android targeted at simplifying the smartphone and internet experience for the next billion.

Dec 2015 – Nov 2017 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bangalore

• Part of Senior Leadership, heading Finance & Strategy at a consumer internet startup, CREO - Formerly backed by Sequoia Capital, India Quotient and Beenext Ventures.
• CREO was acquired by Hike Messenger.
• Helped close $3mn funding from Sequoia Capital, India Quotient & Beenext Ventures
• Managed CREO’s successful exit to Hike Messenger
• Worked with the CEO on various cross functional initiatives apart from my core CFO responsibilities

Jan 2014 – Dec 2015 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Member of the TMT M&A and Private Equity advisory practice at Signal Hill Capital Advisory India, a privately-held investment banking partnership with a sole focus on growth companies.
• Deal Lifecycle Management: Experience across the entire deal lifecycle from sourcing, pitching, deal documentation, investor reach outs and deal closure. Expertise in developing transaction process marketing collateral, valuation documents, financial / strategic outreach, due diligence, contributing to deal execution and business development.
• Industry Analysis: Closely tracked industry trends and companies in consumer internet and B2B SaaS sectors
• Closed Transactions:
• US$15mn fund raise for Knowlarity Communications, India’s largest cloud telephony company
• Series B fund raise for a leading mobile marketing platform across emerging markets

Mar 2012 – Dec 2013 · 1 yr 9 mos · Mumbai

• Learned the ropes of investment banking, covering diversified industrials sector across the EMEA & APAC region
• Key Transactions:
• Advised a major cement manufacturer (India) in key restructuring initiatives
• Manutencoop – An Italy based facility management firm’s debut EUR425mm senior secured notes offering

Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 · 1 yr · Bangalore

• Functional Consultant supporting Citibank’s Commodity Trading Desk (London)

Jun 2010 – Dec 2010 · 6 mos

• Project: BOLT (BSE on Line Trading) system
• BOLT is an on-line trading system to facilitate its users to do trade in Bombay Stock Exchange on
• real-time basis. The project included addition and improvement of modules in a front end
• application, and design of a new order entry window for BSE