Experience

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  Dent Education

  • Faculty Member, Design Thinking & Innovation
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  Dent Education

  • United States
  • Education Management
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • Board Member

    • Mar 2023 - Present

  • Co-Founder, CEO

    • Jan 2017 - Mar 2023

    Dent Education promotes equity by empowering under-resourced youth to discover and develop their innate creative potential to shape the world around them. Our hands-on curriculum is based on three pillars: design thinking, making, and entrepreneurship. Through the experience of community engagement, learning from failure, iterating, and eventually building real solutions, students realize their capacity to create real change and make a dent in the universe.

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  Root Ventures

  • San Francisco Bay Area

  • Associate

    • Jun 2016 - Sep 2016
    • San Francisco Bay Area

    Evaluated deals and supported portfolio companies at early-stage, hardware venture firm. Highly thesis driven with select areas of focus:- Connected devices and low cost robotics- Tools that enable engineers- Data Science that closes the loop

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  ATÖLYE İstanbul

  • Istanbul, Turkey

  • Summer Intern, Design Thinking Lead

    • Jun 2015 - Aug 2015
    • Istanbul, Turkey

    Built Design Thinking programs for Istanbul's leading creativity hub. Established internal “Design Thinking Institute”, designed curriculum for 14-week university course that is currently being taught, developed offerings of three other Design Thinking programs.

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  Asia Leadership Trek

  • China, South Korea, Malaysia

  • Fellow, Design Thinking and Social Entrepreneurship

    • Jul 2014 - Sep 2014
    • China, South Korea, Malaysia

    Conducted workshops on Design Thinking and social entrepreneurship, delivered TED-style talks, and held career mentoring sessions with over 2,000 students and young professionals in over ten cities across Asia.

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  Deshpande Foundation

  • Hubli Area, India

  • Workshop Organizer and Facilitator

    • Jun 2014 - Jul 2014
    • Hubli Area, India

    Designed and facilitated workshop on Design Thinking, fabrication (rapid prototyping, Arduino, 3D printing), and entrepreneurship for 25 engineering students. Five teams created real products and business plans, one team graduated their project into an operational startup, several other students ...

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  Embrace Innovations

  • Gujarat, India

  • Business Development Manager

    • Sep 2012 - May 2013
    • Gujarat, India

    Introduced Embrace infant warmer to new state market (Gujarat), led four-person sales team, sold over 500 units to private, government, and NGO hospitals.

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  Embrace

  • Bangalore, India

  • Product Manager, Founding Team Member

    • Jun 2009 - Sep 2012
    • Bangalore, India

    - Co-invented and led development of Embrace infant warmer through design, manufacturing, and up to market release. Product has since impacted and saved the lives of over 250,000 babies across 20+ developing countries.- Collaborated with over twenty suppliers and manufacturers in India, USA, and ...

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  W. L. Gore & Associates

  • Sunnyvale, California

  • Research and Development Intern

    • Jun 2008 - Sep 2008
    • Sunnyvale, California

    - Developed protocols and fixtures to test durability of neurovascular catheter tip.- Re-designed the catheter tip to maximize efficacy and reduce damage of catheter during clot lysis.