Staying as close to the frontier of value creation as possible is my personal motto. My MBA experience made it clear that building and shipping with AI is where value increasingly sits. This insight drove my decision to make a career pivot.
Independent
Four client engagements, seven products of my own
ai build partner, independent2026 - present
Returned to a former employer, a $90M consumer foods brand, to build and deploy two AI tools in three months on a shared retrieval engine over 15,000+ customer verbatims: Mill, a consumer intelligence dashboard where every claim traces to source, and Kernel, an agent that turns a product hypothesis into a sourced case for and against. Pitched and built a weekly donor pipeline brief for Share Our Strength (India), ranking who to approach across 60 donors and 18 organisations with the warm path in and a drafted opener, and a funding coverage cockpit for the CFO of an education nonprofit, with a grant-cliff radar and a matched prospect for every gap. Alongside that, shipped seven AI products of my own end to end, including Prizerv, Lever and Hop.
Consulting ends at the recommendation. Building it yourself means finding out whether you were right.
The Akshaya Patra Foundation
2.3M school meals a day, 72 kitchens, 16 Indian states, 6,000+ staff
associate lead, new initiatives2024 - 2025
Working to the Chief Growth Officer on new product strategy and fundraising, designed a first-of-its-kind endowment fund targeting $200M by 2030. Led product design, scale-up and GTM for a flagship youth engagement product, mobilising 50+ students and raising $300K in six months. Led the Singapore chapter launch, building the website and a donor outreach system with AI tools toward $1M in annual donations, and engaging UK and US diaspora communities with the global team.
For both non profits and for profits, a promise gets you the first cheque. Evidence gets you every one after.
Zomato
The world's second-largest food delivery platform by market value
associate brand manager2023 - 2024
Convinced the CMO to back an aggressive push into the top 5% of GMV cities, moving market share 2% in three months. Led and project-managed an AI-driven merchant ads campaign to $1.5M in incremental revenue and a Founder's Award, took food delivery into 12 Delhi cinemas in two months, and advised business heads on positioning for two new business lines.
The AI was the interesting part. The business case was the part that got it approved.
Schbang
One of India's largest independent creative agencies, 1,000+ people across four offices
associate account lead2021 - 2023
Partnered with C-suite to found the Delhi office, converted 50% of brand strategy and GTM pitches, and lifted viewership 25% for a top-3 global OTT client. Took the only double promotion given among 100 employees. Teams I led won a Gold Shorty Impact Award and a Bronze MMA Smarties.
You don't just sell the idea, you sell it to the person across the table. Win the person and you win their business.
Slurrp Farm
The brand that built the healthy baby food category in India
marketing associate, brand delight2020
Founded the consumer insights function, running 20+ customer calls a day into the CMO, driving a 20% improvement in product and marketing, 25% more social following and 30% more site traffic.
Treating customer centricity as non-negotiable builds brand love. Brand love builds the business.
Epigamia
The brand that built the Greek yogurt category in India
marketing associate2019
Built a brand content strategy across agencies and touchpoints that lifted brand recognition 25%, and drove ecommerce work to 40% more social engagement and 28% growth in online conversions.
The closer a brand's voice is to its customer's voice, the better the brand does.