Experience

MobiCom America LLC

• Founder & CEO

  • Aug 2015 - Present

  MobiCom is the luxury lifestyle experiences and commerce platform, networking an exclusive audience of prestigious private clubs and their affluent members, worldwide.Luxior™ aggregates and delivers luxury lifestyle products, services and experiences, with tangible value and extraordinary benefits, directly by our brand partners and lifestyle service providers to the connoisseur customers of MobiCom.MobiCom aggregates prestigious private clubs and its members worldwide through a network of Platinum Clubs® and Private Clubs on its respective proprietary fintech platforms, PlatinumClubNet™ and OneClubNet™.



Touche Golf Sports Pvt Ltd

• Spectator Sports
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Founder & CEO

  • Oct 2009 - Present

  After a two-year sabbatical from the hectic work life and having spent adequate quality time with my family, I set up Touché Golf in partnership with Rohith Shetty and Harish Shetty, two of my best friends from the private club industry. We set up a private golf school and golf club with a dedicated driving range and full-fledged practice facility, together with a fitness center and a 9-hole golf course. Touché Golf in Bangalore had Asia's first Motion Golf facility and a first-of-its-kind club fitting center set up by Bo Hodnett, a renowned club fitter from Dallas, TX. Touché taught the game of golf to over 6,000 students at age groups of 7 to 70 years, breaking the barrier of the need to be a member of an elite golf club in India, to learn the game. Professional golfers like Anirban Lahiri, Abhishek Jha, Udayan Mane, Chikkarangappa and Anisha Padukone were among the students of the golf school. The Golf Club was affiliated to the Indian Golf Union to enable us issue handicap certificates to the members of the club. Touché Golf is now the exclusive distributors of HONMA Golf, the world’s most luxurious golf equipment manufacturer, for the Indian Subcontinent.



Flex

• Paraguay
• Advertising Services

• Managing Director, India & Vice President Worldwide

  • Nov 2005 - Oct 2007

  In 2005, the business of Federal Technologies was acquired by Flextronics, USA and I set up their digital multimedia Original-Design-Manufacture [ODM] business division under Consumer Electronics. Over the next 2 years, this business division grew from zero to U$1.4 billion in revenue with 9,700 employees at manufacturing facilities in Doumen (China), Zalaegerszeg (Hungary) Chennai (India) & Guadalajara (Mexico) and design houses in Monza (Italy) and Bangalore (India). In 2005, the business of Federal Technologies was acquired by Flextronics, USA and I set up their digital multimedia Original-Design-Manufacture [ODM] business division under Consumer Electronics. Over the next 2 years, this business division grew from zero to U$1.4 billion in revenue with 9,700 employees at manufacturing facilities in Doumen (China), Zalaegerszeg (Hungary) Chennai (India) & Guadalajara (Mexico) and design houses in Monza (Italy) and Bangalore (India).



Federal Technologies Private Limited

• Founder & CEO

  • Jun 1999 - Oct 2005

  The opportunity to aggregate multiple technology and solution providers in a single entity to deliver diverse products, solutions, and services to customers, got me to set up Federal Technologies. I observed that small to medium size technology companies in India lacked the ability to leverage their vertical business strengths, to deliver specialized products, solutions, and services to customers worldwide. Along this journey, I incubated a mechatronics design house with embedded technology to design consumer electronics and automobile products. The business subsequently focused on creating turnkey ready-to-manufacture-reference-designs of various digital multimedia products with customized industrial design, printed circuit board design and system software design including user interface. Over the span of 6 years, these reference designs were licensed on a design fee and royalty revenue basis to original equipment manufacturers across Asia Pacific who manufactured and sold digital multimedia products more than $300 Million. Flextronics reached out to us when we were contracted by Philips Electronics to not only design, but manufacture and sell their high-end pause-tv based television. I sold Federal technologies business to Flextronics in 2005.



Federal Securities Private Limited

• Founder & CEO

  • Apr 1992 - May 1999

  Leveraging over a decade of experience in accounting and financial services, I ventured into the merchant banking and investment banking, setting up Federal Securities. The business focused on primary and secondary capital markets and managed 6 successful Initial Public Offers (IPOs) as advisors for companies pan-India. Over the span of 7 years, the company established its prowess in corporate restructuring and equity/debt gearing from institutional financing and private equity. Federal Securities went public with an IPO in India in 1996. I made a strategic exit from this business in 1999 to set up Federal Technologies.



Online Share Management Services Pvt Ltd

• Director

  • Sep 1990 - Dec 1998

  I cofounded Online Share Management Services Pvt. Limited with a team of three chartered accountants and professionals as Registrars and Share Transfer Agents for Public Issues, operating out of Mumbai and Bangalore in India. As a SEBI registered entity, we handled over 150 public issues with listing across various stock exchanges in India. I made a strategic exit from this business in 1998. I cofounded Online Share Management Services Pvt. Limited with a team of three chartered accountants and professionals as Registrars and Share Transfer Agents for Public Issues, operating out of Mumbai and Bangalore in India. As a SEBI registered entity, we handled over 150 public issues with listing across various stock exchanges in India. I made a strategic exit from this business in 1998.



NBS & Co., Chartered Accountants

• Partner

  • Jun 1985 - Apr 1995

  I joined NBS & Co. as a Partner heading Bangalore operations of the firm handling Statutory and Internal Audits, Direct and Indirect Taxation, Financial, Accounting and Management Consultancy Services with customers in Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, and Bangalore. In 1995, I decided to quit professional practice and focus on setting up a business in primary and secondary market securities business in India. I joined NBS & Co. as a Partner heading Bangalore operations of the firm handling Statutory and Internal Audits, Direct and Indirect Taxation, Financial, Accounting and Management Consultancy Services with customers in Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, and Bangalore. In 1995, I decided to quit professional practice and focus on setting up a business in primary and secondary market securities business in India.



Brahmayya & Co., Chartered Accountants

• India
• Accounting
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Articled Clerk

  • Jun 1981 - May 1985

  Undertook statutory and internal audits of public limited companies including MICO & NGEF, and a host of private limited companies and family run businesses. Established in 1932, Brahmayya & Co is one of the oldest and largest Chartered Accountants in Southern India. Undertook statutory and internal audits of public limited companies including MICO & NGEF, and a host of private limited companies and family run businesses. Established in 1932, Brahmayya & Co is one of the oldest and largest Chartered Accountants in Southern India.