Sep 2017 – Jul 2018 · 10 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

• Helping Dakshana - one of India's foremost not for profit organizations in education - chart out their technology agenda.

Sep 2012 – Mar 2025 · 12 yrs 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Led the development of population scale AI for India, resulting in global recognition and several patents.
• Raised over $240 million in funding to support the mission of creating a systemic shift in education towards more access, lower cost, and better quality.
• Focused on empowering teachers and students through deep educational expertise, stunning content, design, and engineering.
• Impacted over 200 million students and scaled the solution to over 14,000 schools before successfully merging with India's largest strategic group Reliance Industries Limited.

Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 · 1 yr · Wilmington, Delaware

• Extensively evaluated the US mobile commerce and payments space for partnership opportunities, including diligence on several high-growth startups encompassing mobile, social, local and digital commerce.
• Contributing to overall mobile business strategy. Led the design of the first business cases on monetization of mobile commerce.
• Led the launch of the of the first commercial cloud based mobile payments pilot in the US.
• Part of the Global Leaders Program at Barclays

Sep 2010 – Sep 2011 · 1 yr · London, Dubai, Sub Saharan Africa, Mauritius & Seychelles

• Worked on Barclays Africa's turnaround plan with new CEO.
• Led revamping of the mobile banking platform deemed critical to success of retail strategy across 10 African markets. Repositioned channel from being a distribution cost item to being a revenue generator with attractive unit economics serving the retail and corporate bank.
• Re-engineered the product design, features and user experience for high-volume adoption; integrated best practices from successful wallet solutions like M-Pesa.
• Responsible for the handshake of Barclays Bank with Mobile Wallets in Africa. Negotiated and closed technology, product development and co-marketing contracts with mobile operators. Established a pan African aggregator model to enable one of the first bank-led, real-time bill payment solutions in the market creating new business opportunity for the Cash Management team.
• Mobilized country teams to deliver business readiness for pan-Africa rollout in record time and got the bank to shake hands with mobile wallets!

Jan 2009 – Jan 2009 · 0 mo · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

• Early stage growth strategy advisor to TCS iON On Demand ERP Solutions (then TCS SMB) - a ground breaking pay as you grow solution for the small and medium enterprise market.

Jan 2006 – Jan 2008 · 2 yrs · United Kingdom

• Led new business efforts for water utility sector in the UK, supervised global pre sales and account teams of 2-50 employees.
• Originated TCS' largest technology (application support, development and business intelligence) outsourcing deal in the utilities sector in 2007 worth over $200 mn. Set up the Scotland office!
• Also originated two strategic sales, opening new business areas for TCS in the utility KPO space: an engineering KPO services deal helping the client make capex prioritization decisions for 5-25 year business cycles, and one of the first legal process outsourcing deals in the UK water sector.

Jan 2003 – Jan 2005 · 2 yrs · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

• Earned Six Sigma Green Belt and rationalized account billing management processes for the GE Offshore Delivery Center in Noida.

Jan 2009 – Jan 2009 · 0 mo · Singapore

• Conducted commercial due diligence on a Malaysian education target for a European PE client.
• Consulted with a large sovereign wealth fund based in the Middle East regarding sales planning for a large real estate investment in South East Asia.

Jan 2005 – Jan 2006 · 1 yr · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

• Led a 21 member internal consulting and process reengineering team focusing on performance of 1,500 Associates.
• At the time, youngest person in Tata Group nominated to attend the Tata Business Excellence Champion Program training in Tata Management Training Center, Pune. Nominated to be part of 18 member Global Business Business Excellence team. Contributed to the drafting of the TCS Business Excellence Application to the Tata Group and led a company wide vision, mission and business communication campaign as part of the Corporate Assessment Year 2006.

Jan 2002 – Jan 2002 · 0 mo · Gurugram, Haryana, India

• Developed an open loop superimposed control system as part of the Power Generation Automation New Product team.

Jan 2001 – Jan 2001 · 0 mo · Greater Delhi Area

• The R&D division for AIMIL Instrumentation, India. Focused on developing low cost medical and other instrumentation for rural India.