Apr 2016 – Present · 10 yrs 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area

• Investor in Unshackled Ventures (seed stage firm focused on immigrant founders), MoneyTap/Freo (neo-bank and B2C consumer lending), YourIKA (AI based math teaching platform) - exited, App Academy (Coding bootcamp, pioneer in the Income Share Agreement model), Akash Systems (Gallium Nitride (GaN)-on-Diamond based communication chips that power high speed internet satellites), Oscilla Power (Energy converter to harness wave energy), Plantible (plant based protein).

Jun 2015 – Aug 2016 · 1 yr 2 mos

Sep 2006 – May 2015 · 8 yrs 8 mos

• Built Canvera from an idea to India’s #1 online photography company selling high quality printed products and running India’s largest online classifieds for professional photographers. Grew the company to 1100+ people while raising $20M+ in Venture Capital money. Built a high performance culture that led to one of the lowest attrition rates in the core team. Highlights:
• Deployed unique B2B2C business model custom built for India; sold to professional photographers while building brand with consumers.
• Named twice to India’s top-10 most influential people in photography list
• Sold to photographers through a 400+ person feet on street sales organization physically present in 200+ cities
• Printed products produced in a 200+ person manufacturing facility fully owned and built by Canvera
• Printed products awarded numerous Asia-Pacific awards
• Ran multiple TV ads & offline and online marketing campaigns to build brand

Oct 2004 – Sep 2006 · 1 yr 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• I was employee #2 at this B2B software company that developed software & solutions for deploying and measuring multi-channel marketing campaigns. I was responsible for developing the product and managing delivery of projects to clients. Clients included Canon, Charles Schwab, Pitney Bowes etc.

Mar 2000 – Sep 2004 · 4 yrs 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• I joined Shutterfly a few months after it was founded.
• I was part of a very small core R&D/engineering team called Imaging Science & Lab Systems that built and managed the entire print fulfillment & imaging workflow operations for Shutterfly, the main revenue stream of the company.