For universities & business schools
Academic Leadership & MBA Faculty
Contribute to institutional growth, industry partnerships and executive learning — connecting academic ambition with enterprise experience.
COO-CFO · Startup Mentor · Executive MBA Faculty
Developing leaders.
Transforming businesses.
A disciplined operator, educator, and storyteller – pairing Business 101, financial rigor, and a tech-savvy edge with a genuine joy in building leadership through executive coaching and teaching.
25+Years of leadership
7Countries
125+Executives coached
4.64/5Feedback (Executive MBA)
A partnership to create all-round value
One executive. Four ways to create value.
Different seats at the table, one discipline.Sound fundamentals, hands-on execution, lasting results.
For enterprises & startups
Cofounder or COO-CFO leadership
Hands-on leadership to build or transform businesses that need a sound operating rhythm for sustainable growth.
For boards & founders
Independent Director or Board Advisor
Bring oversight and independent judgment to strategy, risk, sustainability, and the decisions that shape long-term institutional value.
For leaders & teams
Executive Coaching & Leadership Training
Customized, outcome-linked programs – trusted by senior executives in India and abroad.
Connect to discuss mandates across India, the UAE and Asia-Pacific.
A global trajectory
Factory floors → Global tech centers →
Cofounder mode → MBA classroom.
C-suite stewardship, strategy & growth, startup building, coaching, and teaching.
Different environments, one outcome: results beyond expectations.
Proven knack for Business 101, with excellence
A record of results, not roles.
Tech-led transformation & profitable growth
Oversaw a $750M global P&L; built teams across seven countries; realized multi-million-dollar OpEx & CapEx savings; and devised strategic models to win global marquee clients.
Helped scale an electronics startup to Series A stage by building the operating backbone from scratch, forging an Indo-Israeli collaboration that won a $1M grant, and raising funds.
CSR, diversity, ERM, and ecosystem connect
Governance, risk management, and oversight for board have been the bedrock of every role.
Led Sustainability and DEI for a US global center: launched the school adoption program and secured LEED Platinum certification.
Active in startup/CFO forums; served as Regional Chair at the NASSCOM GCC Forum.
Coaching & mentoring, training, and teaching
A CXO journey rooted in developing high-performing teams and successors, later helping 125+ leaders unlock their potential through executive coaching.
Trained 600+ executives, including in Singapore and China, on Finance-101 with a "learning by doing" framework, which became a hit among Executive MBA students as well.
Faculty impact
Inside the Executive MBA classroom.
No jargon. Simulations, live cases and stories that turn complex financial scenarios into decisions managers can act on.
Scale 0–5 · Gold boundary = maximum score of 5 · Source: SIBM student feedback
Client perspectives
Trusted when the stakes are real.
Testimonials from former bosses, C-suite peers, team members, clients, and coachees—including some from LinkedIn.
a blended potential: executive & educator
For universities & business schools
01 / Steward
Institutional operations & financial stewardship
Bring operating discipline to planning, budgeting, resource allocation, processes and controls. Develop leadership talent through coaching, mentoring and experiential learning in business fundamentals and change management.
02 / Connect
Industry collaboration & executive education
Expand alliances across business forums, government, founders, and investors – creating pathways for partnerships, grants, startup incubations, industry-backed curricula, practitioner-led learning, and placements.
03 / Teach
Finance faculty & practical business learning
Teach business finance and entrepreneurship through lived decisions, simulations and simple tools that connect concepts with the choices managers and founders must make.
Media & press
A voice beyond the organization.
Speaker, writer and thought leader — India & abroad.
Former Regional Chair, NASSCOM GCC Forum
Featured in
ET · The Hindu · TOI · The Indian Express · Inc42 · InformationWeek
IT-Next · India CSR · Citibank · NASSCOM · ICAI · CII · CFO Institute
Selected insights
A practitioner’s perspective, shared.
Leadership & coaching
Coaching vs. Mentoring
Both are accountability partnerships built on trust — but conflating them means picking the wrong intervention at the wrong moment.
Boardroom & governance
The Pillars of Corporate Governance
Values, systems and transparency sound obvious in principle — the discipline is in the disclosure architecture that makes them real.
Financial excellence
The Financial Acumen That Blew Me Away
A paan-shop owner with a seventh-grade education could recite his unit economics better than finance graduates I have managed as CFO.
Leadership & coaching
How Do I Say ‘No’ to My Colleagues and Others?
The most common blind spot I see in coaching 150+ executives isn’t ambition — it’s the inability to decline a request.
Financial excellence
When Chopin Sounded Different on Two Pianos
Two performances of the same Chopin piece, a conductor’s answer, and a lesson from MIT Sloan converged on the same idea: leadership begins with interpretation.
Boardroom & governance
Does India’s CSR Law Apply to Multinationals?
With roughly a thousand multinationals operating in India through branches and delivery centres, the applicability question came up constantly — and the statute is unambiguous.
Leadership & coaching
Coaching — Transforming Perspectives
Eighty-six percent of companies say executive coaching pays for itself. The value isn’t in ready-made answers — it’s in better thinking.
Boardroom & governance
The Open Questions in India’s CSR Legislation
The Companies Act, 2013 was a landmark step — but five real gaps in the framework left boards and finance teams navigating genuine ambiguity.
CSR & sustainability
The Case Against Skepticism on CSR
The two most common objections to India’s 2% CSR law don’t survive contact with how the world’s most reputable companies actually behave.