Aug 2020 – Aug 2023 · 3 yrs · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Mar 2020 – Present · 6 yrs 2 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana

• AM Innovations is a social enterprise that is focused on empowering the marginalized in rural and semi-urban markets.
• We make efforts to create livelihood opportunities for the rural unemployed youth, getting rural women to become self reliant and helping farmers understand business life cycles and ways to adapt to them.
• We have solid understanding of the 'bottom of the pyramid' markets and have deep access to semi-urban and rural markets of AP and Telangana. We are also working on building our 'rural' expertise in markets of Jharkhand and Odisha.
• Our team is constantly in the lookout for partners/manufacturers/service providers that offer goods/services to the 'bottom of the pyramid' markets. We help our partners find a market for their solutions.
• If you have a product targeted towards the rural markets and are looking to sell to the rural folks but have no access to the markets, reach out to me. We are open to white labelling/private labelling partnerships as well as to 'brand building' opportunities.

Feb 2019 – Jun 2019 · 4 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• Had a very short stint with Centre for Organization Development as Associate Director. COD is a ‘Not-for-Profit’ organization operating in the Executive Education and Management Consulting space.
• During my short yet very hectic stint I developed COD's Executive Development Program strategy for 2019-20 and beyond with focus on contemporary themes like innovation, design thinking, strategy, governance, leadership, industry 4.0, entrepreneurship, environment, etc. Designed 199 open programs and 177 customized programs.
• Also, conceptualized and designed a brand new long duration niche offering - Executive Management Program (E-MBA) for working professionals. Structured the entire EMP offering with six top class differentiating innovations making it 'one of its kind' program globally. Designed curriculum for seven EMP specializations viz., Biotechnology Management, Entrepreneurship, Technology Management, Real Estate Management, Oil and Gas Management, Manufacturing Management and Transport Management.
• Streamlined systems and processes to collate, process and generate relevant database to support the sales function.
• Designed COD's digital marketing strategy and initiated the process of using various digital marketing tools and platforms to reach out to a larger target audience.

Mar 2018 – Mar 2021 · 3 yrs · Visakhapatnam

Oct 2014 – Jun 2018 · 3 yrs 8 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• AIMS is a networking organisation of business schools in India. Founded in 1988 as a registered society, the Association of Indian Management Schools (AIMS), a non–profit professional organization, has since grown into a powerful network of over 700 top management schools of national and international repute in the country. It is the second largest network of management schools in the world and the official representative of Indian Management Schools in India as well as in some important International forums.

Aug 2014 – Jun 2015 · 10 mos · Helsinki Area, Finland

Feb 2013 – Present · 13 yrs 3 mos

• I offer strategy and innovation advisory to firms that operate in IP-driven industry ecosystems. In addition, I am engaged in market scoping exercises for private fund deployment via securitized and non-securitized private placements, and price and demand discovery for private OTB, OFS and swap instruments in Central Asian markets. I operate both on the supply and demand sides.
• Currently operating from Central Asia and India, I help firms from either geography unlock their value by opening up my vast network in both regions.
• I also offer end-to-end advisory to startup universities. Right from conducting visioning exercises to setting up institutional performance dashboards to curating forward looking UG/PG and diploma programs to training academic staff in contemporary pedagogical engagement models to designing assessment rubrics to brand strategy to setting up incubators and entrepreneurship cells -- my range of advisory spans multiple functions across the university governance spectrum. I have hands-on curriculum designing and implementation experience on contemporary technology and business themes in Executive Education and Higher Education space.

Feb 2013 – Sep 2020 · 7 yrs 7 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• Consulting firm offering innovative education and L&D solutions and strategy/innovation advisory both in the B2C and B2B segments.
• LemonBridge was at the forefront of bringing in a paradigmatic shift in the way training is imparted to learners, levels notwithstanding.
• At LemonBridge we conceptualized, designed and developed an innovative pedagogical model – LemonScope – that creates real learning experiences for B-School students through experiments, games and project simulations. Our learner engagement model is highly experiential and full of customized experiments.
• Exited after selling LemonScope and LemonScope Accelerator - our two marquee products.

May 2012 – Apr 2013 · 11 mos · Machilipatnam Area, India

Jul 2011 – Sep 2015 · 4 yrs 2 mos · Hyderabad

Apr 2006 – Feb 2013 · 6 yrs 10 mos

• Infosys is a global leader in the IT industry and provides business consulting, information technology, software engineering and outsourcing services.
• As head of the Thought Leadership Publishing/Marketing track in Infosys Labs, the R&D wing of Infosys I managed a portfolio of reputed thought leadership products like Infosys Labs Briefings (formerly SETLabs Briefings), Infosys Press and Infosys Technology Leadership Series.
• The position called for bridging the gap between technological research output and business needs through high level techno-business communication.

Jan 2004 – Jan 2005 · 1 yr

Jun 2003 – Dec 2004 · 1 yr 6 mos

Apr 2003 – Present · 23 yrs 1 mo

• Subjects taught/teaching:
• Corporate Governance, Entrepreneurship, Strategic Management, Digital Economics, Digital Business Models,, Leadership, Organization Behavior, Marketing Management, Consumer Behavior, Industrial Economics, Business Ethics, Business Laws, Corporate Finance, Innovation Management and Services Marketing.
• I have cross-disciplinary academic interests and have Masters degrees in Business Administration, Literature, Philosophy and Psychology. In addition, I am also a qualified lawyer. My exposure to various disciplines helps me connect diverse conceptual dots in real quick time. As an academician with years of industry experience, I bring with me a well-rounded understanding of business issues and offer a breadth of practical and first hand insights in all discussions.
• I am a big believer in creating healthy learning engagement for students. I am adept at technology and use different contemporary technological tools to keep the engagement levels high.
• I have also authored a book on Corporate Governance published by Taylor and Francis.

Jan 2001 – May 2003 · 2 yrs 4 mos

• Won University Grants Commission's Research Fellowship Award and also cleared UGC-NET in Management.