Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Delight - that's the one word I aspire for while creating something, be it the consumer products I build today as a Product Leader OR my art works that adorn the walls of Harvard and Stanford. Award winning product leader at Intuit, have advised consumer tech and financial service CXOs at McKinsey, invested in public consumer and retail cos. at Earnest Partners ($25B AUM) and learnt a LOT about leadership while managing people of 70+ nationalities in the toughest conditions in Iraq and Saudi Arabia. A self-trained (and youtube inspired) artist, I use my artworks to raise funds to support charities that help educate underprivileged kids. You can find select works at www.gifttalisman.com Earned an MBA from Harvard Business School and graduated as a Gold Medalist from IIT Madras (awarded only 5 times in the institute's 65 year history).
Scaling our best in class fintech stack to the world, and innovating along the way to delight our customers - globally! We're hiring - do reach out!
Angel Investor/ Advisor for multiple startups (outside of HBS alumni angels group) since pre-seed/seed rounds: + Pre-seed: LA based D2C comfort apparel startup with >$1M ARR (consumer journey, influencer mktg) (Consumer/ Apparel) + Pre-Seed (now Series A): Meme based consumer social startup ~5MM users [follow on by Elevation] + Seed (now Series B): CA based Early stage women's health telemedicine provider >$3M ARR (Consumer/ Health tech) [backed by Ulu ventures] + Seed (Exited): India based Wellness + health coaching/tracking for national/international athletes/coaches (Consumer / Sports tech) + Seed: CA based AI powered Service-as-a-Software startup (founded by ex-Founder of GreyOrange), backed by RTP Global + Seed: India based medical devices and post OPT care platform (founded by IIT KGP/ HBS alumni) + Series A: US based financial prosperity platform (acquired) + Seed (Now Pre-Series B): India based Cross-border payments (backed by Elevation and Susquehanna capital)
Supporting a wonderful organization in its mission - growing the glass arts community, through marketing and fundraising.
2023 Brad D Smith Award winner - awarded by Intuit CEO Sasan Goodarzi for leading and launching a product line contributing $.X B to Intuit revenues. Youngest member to win the award in Intuit history Building Intuit's AI-driven expert platform, the fastest growing revenue product in Intuit's history ($XB in <5 years, growing 80% YoY). Come join us! The Expert Platform is a 2-sided marketplace connecting Customers with Financial experts across Intuit's "Live" products (eg Turbotax Live, Quickbooks Live) and has increased prosperity for >10 Million Customers and creating additional income ($XXX M) for >30K Experts! Led and launched multiple products across Growth and Retention to improve Expert side of the marketplace, for whom Intuit represents a significant portion of household income! For our inventions, got to file 5 patents (and hopefully more to come!)
Latest research and ideas on Millennial and GenZ consumers in India focused on D2C, Branding and Customer Experience