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.
A partnership built around your agenda
Different seats at the table, one discipline.Sound fundamentals, hands-on execution, lasting results.
For universities & business schools
Executive ownership across strategy, finance, operations, and governance | Cross-sector alliances with businesses, government, and investors – for grants, curricula, practitioner-led learning, startup incubations, and placements.
For enterprises & startups
Hands-on engagement to build startups, or transform existing businesses that need financial discipline and a sound operating rhythm for sustainable growth.
For boards & founders
Oversight and independent judgment on strategy, sustainability, risk, and the decisions that shape long-term institutional value.
For leaders & teams
Customized, outcome-linked coaching and training programs – trusted by senior executives in India and abroad.
Connect to discuss mandates across India, UAE and APAC.
A global trajectory
C-suite stewardship, startup building, coaching & teaching.
Different environments, same playbook:
simplify, execute, repeat.
Oversaw a $750M P&L; built teams in seven countries; realized multi-million-dollar OpEx & CapEx savings; devised strategic models to win marquee clients.
Cofounded and helped scale an electronics startup to Series A; forged an Indo-Israeli collaboration that won a $1M grant.
Built financial governance frameworks that work globally; led Sustainability and DEI for a US global center, launched a successful school adoption program, and secured LEED Platinum certification.
Former Regional Chair, NASSCOM GCC Forum; active in startup and CFO forums.
A CXO journey rooted in developing high-performing teams and successors; coached 125+ leaders since.
Trained 600+ executives, including in Singapore and China, on Finance-101 with a “learning by doing” framework – a hit with Executive MBA students too.
Jargon-free simulations, live cases, and stories that turn complex scenarios into decisions managers can act on.
Scale 0 to 5•Gold boundary = score of 5•Source: SIBM student feedback
Testimonials from former bosses, C-suite peers, team members, clients, and coachees—including some from LinkedIn.
Speaker, writer and thought leader — India & abroad.
Former Regional Chair, NASSCOM GCC Forum
ET · The Hindu · TOI · The Indian Express · Inc42 · InformationWeek
IT-Next · India CSR · Citibank · NASSCOM · ICAI · CII · CFO Institute
Both are accountability partnerships built on trust — but conflating them means picking the wrong intervention at the wrong moment.
Values, systems and transparency sound obvious in principle — the discipline is in the disclosure architecture that makes them real.
A paan-shop owner with a seventh-grade education could recite his unit economics better than finance graduates I have managed as CFO.
The most common blind spot I see in coaching 125+ executives isn’t ambition — it’s the inability to decline a request.
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.
With roughly a thousand multinationals operating in India through branches and delivery centers, the applicability question came up constantly — and the statute is unambiguous.
Eighty-six percent of companies say executive coaching pays for itself. The value isn’t in ready-made answers — it’s in better thinking.
The Companies Act, 2013 was a landmark step — but five real gaps in the framework left boards and finance teams navigating genuine ambiguity.
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.
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If you are seeking executive talent to shape your enterprise’s or institution’s next chapter, or building a leadership development program, I’d welcome a conversation about the mandate, the challenges, and the contribution you need.