Jan 2026 – Present · 3 mos · Hybrid

Sep 2025 – Present · 7 mos · Hybrid

• The Mastery of Systems Leadership program has been beautifully designed to look at both inner and outer dimensions of systems change and skillfully navigates the tension between understanding the complexity of systems and discovering the agency to bring about systems change.

Sep 2024 – Jun 2025 · 9 mos · Hybrid

• Unified Agricultural Interface is a community-led local open agriculture network with the farmer at the center.
• It will enable farmers, FPOs/ FPCs and various service providers, each having their own platforms (across agri-inputs, services, advisory, output, logistics, etc), to discover/ transact with each other, and build trust/ reliability in transactions involving farmers.
• The network leverages beckn protocol and aims to be eventually inter-connected/ integrated with other national open networks like ONDC and Vistaar.
• UAI is doing its first field test in Nashik based on strong support from local agri community (FPOs/ FPCs and startups)

Oct 2023 – Mar 2024 · 5 mos · Hybrid

Jun 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 10 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

• I run KrishidotSystem, an agritech research, and consulting firm. I write a popular newsletter of the same name. The free edition goes out to 45K+ subscribers.
• In the past, I invested and + advised a handful of agritech startup founders with my "Cofounder as a Service" offering. I also work with agritech Venture Capital Firms as a research partner, and with a few agribusiness/agritech firms as a digital agriculture consultant across India and Central America.

Oct 2019 – Present · 6 yrs 6 mos · Worldwide

• When I quit my full-time job as an agritech product manager in 2019, in hindsight, I wanted to become a venture capitalist who will back my pet ideas in the power-law world.
• At Gigyasa Labs, I manage a small portfolio of bets in the domains of product management, culture and agriculture. I design courses, do consulting, teaching and writing.

Jan 2018 – Jan 2024 · 6 yrs · Across the world where Indic languages are spoken

• Mandram is an initiative to bring back native languages into modern discourse for the 99%.
• Mandram is a platform to curate innovative ideas, insights and concepts in native languages through inclusive public discourse.
• Mandram is a forum to foster creative imaginations in indic languages. It is an experiment to explore deep, beautiful thoughts in native languages. Without polarizing politics. Without seducing advertisements. Without amusements and disguised vanity vehicles we take for granted in public discourse.
• We invite Scientists, Linguists, Writers, Economists, Technologists and everyone else to share what they have discovered in their lives and hold an open dialogue about the questions they provoke in us. We strive to share the videos of the talks across the breadth of the country and promote vibrant, meaningful, intelligent conversations in many ways.
• Please check our Channel to see our videos, links to see our coverage, and deck attached to learn more about us.

Dec 2017 – Sep 2019 · 1 yr 9 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

• iConcept is one of the pioneers in building platforms across the entire value chain for the agri-input industry. I was instrumental in launching the platform- neoInt Agribusiness Intelligence Platform-in the market and onboarded world’s leading agrochemical firms as customers for their traceability needs.

Jun 2017 – Nov 2017 · 5 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

• Do you remember that old parable about blind men and the elephant?
• In APAC markets, I help clients grope the elephant in their room - "Digital Transformation" - staring at them, threatening to take them towards the way of the dinosaur.
• Recent Engagements:
• Client: India's Largest Gold Financing Player.
• Question: How to cross-sell home loan offerings to gold loan customers?
• Phenomena: What touch-points would enable gold loan customers transition to home loans? Outcome: In Collaboration with Design Agency, Studied Gold Loan Ecosystem to increase cross-selling by 10%. Identified key conversion barriers and transition journeys.

Jul 2016 – May 2017 · 10 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

• I owned the Business Development cycle for a) Enterprise Collaboration b) Digital Workplace c) Community Building solutions. I led the client conversations and framed their problem contexts and proposed solution approaches/frameworks based on my understanding of their context.

May 2014 – Jun 2016 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Greater Hyderabad Area

• Solve customer pain points using social technologies
• Engage in sales dialogue with the clients through consultative selling approach to understand their pain points about social technologies and build frameworks and thereby recommend appropriate social strategy & road-map to suit clients' business goals.
• Internally evangelize Enterprise Social offerings to generate leads, showcase value proposition & market differentiation.
• Collaborate with Account teams to create Enterprise Social point-of-views, build customized solutions for Consumer Goods, Insurance, IME ( Information, Media & Entertainment), Communications, Retail, Travel & Hospitality industries.
• Key Engagements:
• Client: Medical Devices Manufacturer in Singapore. Question: How to drive Corporate Innovation Leadership beyond Town-halls?
• Phenomena: How to design virtual communities which reinforces organizational culture and make silos permeable?
• Outcome: Designed and Led 120 member Community Pilot to grow active engagement reply/post ratio by 2.1. Identified structural collaboration challenges to drive engagement and participation.

Mar 2013 – May 2014 · 1 yr 2 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

• Responsible for advising Media, Publishing, Higher Education & Entertainment Clients across North America & APAC regions on emerging technologies.
• Representative engagements:
• Developed Online Community Strategy & Roadmap for leading ocean shipping e-marketplace provider. Helped in the facilitation of visioning workshop for the client’s shipping e-marketplace community. Determined the technological capabilities for community and subscription billing platforms and conducted assessment of the leading community platforms and subscription billing solutions available in the market.
• Developed To-Be Business Process Architecture and Reporting Inventory requirements as a part of Business Transformation Pre-Planning exercise for a higher education client in APAC region. Conducted Fit-Gap Analysis for the proposed COTS software product against the client business requirements. Designed the proof-of-concept as an accelerator to demonstrate key functionalities-product flexibility, process efficiencies and reduction of ensuing work effort for overall implementation project
• Developed Client Account Engagement Plans for a large, leading UK based educational publisher.

Dec 2016 – Apr 2017 · 4 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• Warning: This is an "anti-resume" story.
• I built a prototype of a B2B Community of Technology Implementation Consultants who could come together to provide advice to large Enterprises on technology buying.
• The broader thesis was around building an peer-driven, enterprise social network which connects Tech Implementation experts with Enterprise Tech Buyers. My prototype wasn't selected and it didn't go through the funding for various reasons.
• I tested out my hypothesis by writing a deliberately provocative two-part series of posts on Gartner and the future after Gartner. I courted controversy and gained a lot of valuable insights from the
• community through this dangerous experiment.
• I learned a helluva lot about the industry context through these posts.

Aug 2016 – Nov 2016 · 3 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

• I taught "Content Strategy and Analytics" for the Advertising and Digital Marketing specialization students. I covered the following topics a) Digital Storytelling b)Content Modeling c) Content Measurement & Analytics. We did few hands-on workshop sessions exploring story boarding, content modeling as well.

Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 · 0 mo · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

• 30 hour course on "Social Media in Human Resource Management" for the 2014-16 MBA-HR students.

Apr 2015 – Sep 2015 · 5 mos · Singapore

• Worked closely with APAC Leadership team to flesh out Leadership Collaboration Community Strategy aligned with Business Objectives and build Collaboration Platform based on the road map agreed.
• Conducted "Collaboration Connect" Sessions for the Leadership Team to showcase employee collaboration using workplace collaboration tools
• Managed and moderated the community conversations through seeding content and building relationship with key Community Influencers.

Jun 2011 – Feb 2013 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Responsible for helping clients understand and leverage Social Media for their business objectives.
• Created Social Listening and Online Reputation Management reports for several clients across diverse sectors. Analyzed Social Media conversations in multiple languages for Brand Sentiment Analysis, Customer service effectiveness, Influencer tracking, Event Impact Analysis using Radian6, People Browsr, Net base and other social media monitoring tools.
• Designed use-cases for leveraging social data in process and operations management. Designed industry specific use-cases for leveraging in-memory computing capabilities of SAP HANA with unstructured social data and M2M applications.
• Designed Integrated Marketing Campaigns for clients in the Consumer Food Products Industry. Worked on Social Branding Strategy for a global shoe manufacturer and retailer firm.
• Conducted training sessions on Social Media Usage and Monitoring to client pursuit teams. Developed course content modules for 1) Making sense of Social Dashboards 2) Queries and Report Development

Dec 2010 – May 2011 · 5 mos

• I blogged at various conferences organized by Virtue Insight across Social Media, Cloud & Telecom industry sectors. I have also conducted interviews with thought leaders & lead speakers at these conferences. Along with blogging, I also worked on the marketing campaigns of these events

Apr 2010 – Jun 2010 · 2 mos

• Conducted Strategic Analysis of FM stations in Chennai to examine decline in listenership (-7.41%)of Radio Mirchi vis-à-vis competitors as per IRS (Indian Readership Survey) Q1 2010 study
• Radio Mirchi saw 1.5 % increase in listenership in the next quarter after my recommendations were implemented.
• Designed Social Media Strategy to build engagement through crowd-sourcing and leverage audience relationship with the advertisers.

Jun 2007 – May 2017 · 9 yrs 11 mos · India

• My blog is my learning laboratory. I play with stories for various purposes.
• Recent Engagements:
• Client: US Department of State and COVA, a local NGO based in Hyderabad.
• Question: How to counter online radicalisation among youth?
• Phenomena: Which hero archetypes do Muslim youth identify to narrate the story of their identity?
• Outcome: Conducted Hero's Journey Workshop to facilitate self-reflexive introspection. Workshop rated 95/100 NPS by the participants.
• Client: Enterprise SaaS startup, based out of Denver,US
• Question: How to improve the product's collaboration workflows?
• Phenomena: How to transition workflows from being process-driven to to outcome-driven?
• Outcome: Identified barriers in existing workflows and designed new customer journeys. Tied improvements in product stories to a measurement framework overlaying website analytics with product metrics.

Jun 2007 – May 2009 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Implemented several compliance certification processes such as ISO 270001, SAS 70, HIPAA for projects to provide secure environment to deliver high-quality services to clients
• Guided project managers successfully to put in place best-in-class Business Continuity Management systems to facilitate company’s award of BS25999 certification, the first certificate issued in Asia by BSI (British Standards Institution) society
• Won the Accenture Celebrates Excellence- People Developer Award for guiding my team members in obtaining technical certification through training and knowledge sharing sessions

Jan 2000 – Sep 2019 · 19 yrs 8 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

• I've been playing Mirudangam, a south indian classical percussion instrument since my child hood. I learned for 10 years under Shri. Rangarajan, son of Mridangam Maestro Shri. Madurai Krishna Iyengar.
• I play Mirudangam, Kanjeera and all things percussion for a local band in Hyderabad called "Terrasen Cafe". Our genre of music is Carnatic fusion. We regularly jam during the weekends in a vegan cafe called "Terrasen Cafe" here in Hyderabad.