Aug 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 9 mos

• I advise high-growth brands, startups, and individuals. I initiate strategic partnerships, lead community-driven experiential marketing (e.g. curated events), launch and build out content products (newsletters, podcasts, articles), and deliver specialized content (speeches).
• If you’re building out your brand strategy or launching a product, service, content product (book, podcast, etc.), or yourself, feel free to get in touch.
• Past clients include: various D2C brands (F&B, beauty, etc), startups, authors, and more.

Jul 2021 – Aug 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo · New York, United States

• The Former Chairman and CEO of PepsiCo and Author of My Life in Full

Jul 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 10 mos

• A media company, community, and agency dedicated to elevating leading South Asians. Visit us at SouthAsianTrailblazers.com
• + Check out our eponymous podcast that dives deep into the journeys of trailblazing South Asians. Guests include: Actor Kal Penn & ClassPass Founder Payal Kadakia.
• + In addition to elevating the stories of South Asian leaders, we’re also dedicated to convening them through community events: intimate industry dinners, networking mixers, and live podcast recordings.
• + Check out our newly-launched Trailblazers Agency. If you’re a company looking for extraordinary speakers for your next Event, or to represent you in your next Brand Campaign, reach out.
• Our partners: McKinsey, Republic, Brown Girl Mag, and more. Learn more at SouthAsianTrailblazers.com!

Jul 2020 – Jul 2021 · 1 yr · New York, United States

• Paperwork is a seed-stage media startup, incubated out of Create Venture Studio, that builds hyper-targeted content and communities for niche audiences of executives.
• I joined as employee #1 to lead and design our niche diligence process. I ideated/gave form to 2 of our 3 publications, as well as others in the pipeline. I also managed operations around publication launch, wrote for our publications, built our early financial models, and engaged in other big-picture strategic endeavors.

Jul 2020 – Jun 2021 · 11 mos

• Yard Ventures is a VC firm and community of Harvard alumni investors, executives, entrepreneurs, and innovation enthusiasts. They raise capital from Harvard alumni and invest in alumni-led startups. Every year, they build a portfolio of 20-30 companies spanning industry, stage and geography.
• I was selected to join their annual Fellows program. I participated in a year of deep-dive, educational programming on venture capital. I also actively worked with the Yard Ventures team, specifically oanalyses relevant to their investment theses around the media/gaming industries.

Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 · 1 yr · Boston, Massachusetts

• I developed experience spanning portfolio management and new deal diligence:
• I covered 3 active portfolio companies in tech and consumer, working with interal deal teams and our C-suite partners on operational and financial analyses, as well as add-on acquisition integration processes. I also conducted diligence for new potential investment opportunities, for prospective platform companies and add-ons with experience spanning: software, CPG, industrials, other B2C/B2B consumer products, etc.

Jun 2018 – Aug 2018 · 2 mos · New York, New York

• M&A / Restructuring Summer Analyst (Generalist Program)
• Worked on a live sell-side transaction in healthcare M&A; received return offer for full time

Jul 2017 – Aug 2017 · 1 mo · Greater Boston Area

• Summer Analyst in High Yield Fixed Income
• Prepared credit investment recommendation for a major consumer discretionary retailer with issuance in high yield index; built financial models, analyzed fundamentals, and conducted comparable analysis; exposed to qualitative analysis of an LBO opportunity

May 2017 – Jun 2017 · 1 mo · University of Pennsylvania, Wharton

• Completed selective 4-week training program focused on core investment concepts and skills taught by Wharton Business School professors and investment professionals
• Coursework and case studies covered accounting, valuation, financial modeling, asset allocation and presentation skills

Jun 2016 – Aug 2016 · 2 mos · Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina

• Assisted with strategic planning for Estamos Comprometidos, a social enterprise-based incubator for entrepreneurs between the ages of 18 to 29 from Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, and Paraguay; created marketing campaign, planned mentorship opportunities, and selected finalists

Jun 2015 – Jul 2015 · 1 mo

• Human Rights Research Intern for the Permanent Mission to India
• Conducted research to assess current and past UN resolutions made in an effort to address human rights issues and the structure of supranational bodies governing over human rights-related working groups