Industry
Been working for more than 4 years in the internet, mobile and new media industries across multiple functions. My experience in this industry spans diverse roles across Corporate Strategy, M&A, Capital Budgeting, New Venture Analysis, Product Management, Market Analytics and Geographical Expansion Strategies.
Intuit
Joined the company at a rather interesting phase as only the second employee in the Asian business and was responsible for heading strategy, M&A and new venture analysis for India and other emerging markets. One year, two ventures and several acquisition attempts later, I have now moved to a global role heading the strategy and investments for Intuit's consumer finance products globally working on capital budgeting, globalization of relevant acquisitions and new market entry strategies.
Yahoo
Responsible for product management and business development of Yahoo's local search and local advertiser oriented products.
RSG Media
Consulted Viacom, USA and Discovery, USA on their digital media strategies.
Intuit
Joined the company at a rather interesting phase as only the second employee in the Asian business and was responsible for heading strategy, M&A and new venture analysis for India and other emerging markets. One year, two ventures and several acquisition attempts later, I have now moved to a global role heading the strategy and investments for Intuit's consumer finance products globally working on capital budgeting, globalization of relevant acquisitions and new market entry strategies.
Yahoo
Responsible for product management and business development of Yahoo's local search and local advertiser oriented products.
RSG Media
Consulted Viacom, USA and Discovery, USA on their digital media strategies.
Education
PGDM (MBA), IIM Bangalore, 2004-06
Majored in Corporate Finance and Strategy
Undertook several industry consulting assignments including:
1. Formulation of growth strategy for Hewlett Packard's i-community business model in Kuppam
2. Consumer marketing strategy for a key FMCG major after analytical modelling of consumer behavior while buying detergents
B.Tech., Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Kanpur, 2000-04
Majored in Computer Science with a minor in Linguistics
Particularly interested in Artificial Intelligence and application of Ontology-based learning algorithms to building natural language intelligence
Key projects involced employment of Machine Learning for automated solution to English Language problems. E.g.
1. Summarization of news articles
2. Solution to parajumbles
3. Optimal solutions to several word games
4. Natural-language-driven spam identification
5. Journalist Article Categorization
Majored in Corporate Finance and Strategy
Undertook several industry consulting assignments including:
1. Formulation of growth strategy for Hewlett Packard's i-community business model in Kuppam
2. Consumer marketing strategy for a key FMCG major after analytical modelling of consumer behavior while buying detergents
B.Tech., Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Kanpur, 2000-04
Majored in Computer Science with a minor in Linguistics
Particularly interested in Artificial Intelligence and application of Ontology-based learning algorithms to building natural language intelligence
Key projects involced employment of Machine Learning for automated solution to English Language problems. E.g.
1. Summarization of news articles
2. Solution to parajumbles
3. Optimal solutions to several word games
4. Natural-language-driven spam identification
5. Journalist Article Categorization
