Experience

Big Red Ventures

• United States
• Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Associate

  • Dec 2022 - May 2023

  New York, United States Conducting due diligence and identifying opportunities for investment in the student led fund.



Ikigai

• India
• Hospitality

• Founder

  • May 2018 - May 2023

  Mumbai Area, India A co-working brand integrated with serviced conference, event and meeting spaces and bundled ancillary services for business and entertainment. • Vision: Conceptualized, Designed (partly) and part funded the project and received great reviews for this new aged workspace. (Google reviews may be viewed for Ikigai Connect) • Conducted and conceptualized events to generate leads and create a brand. • Financial Planning: I was able to make Ikigai cash flow positive within 2 months of… Show more A co-working brand integrated with serviced conference, event and meeting spaces and bundled ancillary services for business and entertainment. • Vision: Conceptualized, Designed (partly) and part funded the project and received great reviews for this new aged workspace. (Google reviews may be viewed for Ikigai Connect) • Conducted and conceptualized events to generate leads and create a brand. • Financial Planning: I was able to make Ikigai cash flow positive within 2 months of operations in and achieve profitability within the first 2 years. I was also able to figure out how to generate revenue by lowering risk. • Operations Lead - Conducted feasibility studies, brand partnership research and independent ROI reports for an asset light business. - End to End management of the workspace, sales, brand, standard operating procedures with monthly dashboards providing data analytics. - Managing external partnerships with services, catering, disinfection, cleaning supplies to support home based women entrepreneurs and MSMEs - Technology tracking full time and part time workspace and event members, helping optimize workspace offerings and workspace partnerships. - Co-ordinating experiential events like photo/product shoots, stand-up, poetry as well as non-profit and altruistic events with Rotaract, NGOs. - I negotiated brand launches and collaborations with Ikigai of upcoming disruptive ideas, products and start-ups. • Community Outreach and Facilitation - Coordination with Social Clubs like Rotary, BNI, Lions and corporates to facilitate building communities. - Helping Fundraising efforts for aspiring start-ups by connecting them to venture capitalists and organizing panel discussions and curated events. - Events on venture incubation providing ancillary services like legal, branding, marketing, accounting helping boost the local start-up ecosystem. - Networking events with local networking communities which help boost local businesses. Show less



Cinecita - India

• India
• Media Production

• Office of the CEO

  • Sep 2015 - Dec 2018

  Mumbai, Maharashtra, India Created financial models and valued business verticals to restructure assets, making the loss-making entity profitable Increased ARR by focusing on enterprise sales resulting in increased free cash flow Optimized real estate portfolio by leasing to Enterprise clients to improve profits Increased revenue and profitability by developing ancillary vertical for HNW clients and corporate institutions Restructured organization to a portfolio comprising real estate, cinema equipment &… Show more Created financial models and valued business verticals to restructure assets, making the loss-making entity profitable Increased ARR by focusing on enterprise sales resulting in increased free cash flow Optimized real estate portfolio by leasing to Enterprise clients to improve profits Increased revenue and profitability by developing ancillary vertical for HNW clients and corporate institutions Restructured organization to a portfolio comprising real estate, cinema equipment & equity investing, mitigating overall risk Show less



Fidelity Investments

• United States
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Engineer Developer

  • Jun 2015 - Aug 2015

  Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area Support and Development of Billing and Brokerage applications Project Manager for server migration project completing timely documentation, configuration of servers, updating files and environments for large scale distributed systems supporting Fidelity applications that bill clients Supporting batch processing including providing production support after hours, regulating installs and triaging incident tickets working with informatica, SQL, ksh and control-m to process large data sets… Show more Support and Development of Billing and Brokerage applications Project Manager for server migration project completing timely documentation, configuration of servers, updating files and environments for large scale distributed systems supporting Fidelity applications that bill clients Supporting batch processing including providing production support after hours, regulating installs and triaging incident tickets working with informatica, SQL, ksh and control-m to process large data sets which include financial data and transactions occurring daily Actively work with Windows and Linux servers

• Associate Software Developer

  • Jul 2013 - Jun 2015

  Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area Working on technologies to interface Java and excel for accounts. Trained with C#, Java, Spring, SQL, XML, SOAP UI to build a web service as a part of a case study learning teamwork and deploying webservices. Support large scale billing applications and fix bugs to enable smooth functionality for customers. Provide reports to consumers for applications supported. Support server migration for 7 applications including on-call, triaging, server configuration, scripting and data transfer



Georgia Institute of Technology

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• CS Mentor

  • Mar 2012 - May 2013

  Mentor incoming freshmen easing their transition to college by directing them to resources and help solve their problems.

• Tutor

  • Jan 2012 - May 2013

  Tutored students for the Advanced Data Structures and Algorithms Course

• Peer Leader

  • Jan 2011 - May 2013

  Greater Atlanta Area http://www.housing.gatech.edu/ Resident Assistant in Freshmen Dorms managed a floor of 40 people and supported a community of 200 Supported large scale move-ins and move-outs for over 2000 people and fostered a community with over 400 freshmen Organized programs and events, emergency support to help freshmen adapt to college gaining leadership abilities

• Undergraduate Research Assistant

  • Sep 2010 - Dec 2010

  Atlanta, Georgia, United States for Public Policy Assisted Professor John Walsh (Public Policy) provided 300 data samples for his project Searched for articles, papers and provided contact information of relevant scientists to help participate in a survey Performed research, learned how to locate scholarly, scientific articles, papers, understand different resources while researching



ONTOGOLF – ATLANTA

• Project Manager

  • May 2012 - Jul 2012

  (http://www.ontogolf.com/) Provided reporting modules using MySQL and outputting in Excel/Csv for Ontogolf users helping to increase productivity by 35% Redesigned software for iPad compatibility and integrated the golf management application to be replicated on golf machines learning how to lead a project. Provided GUI and mobile application design for new golf management software raising efficiency for end users