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The long version

I started on a sales floor. Five years at Citibank, four promotions, from frontline associate to running a division of eighty-plus people and USD 2Mn in annual sales. It taught me the thing that no marketing course does — that a number on a dashboard is somebody's month, and that execution beats intention every single time.

Then I left. Co-founded Techpreneurs India, raised INR 5Mn in seed funding, built a product and a team from nothing, and learned product-market fit the expensive way. It remains the most useful two years of my career.

In 2013 I joined HostGator India as a founding team member and wrote the 360° India go-to-market playbook from a blank page. It grew into a USD 10Mn business and became the template the group used for every subsequent brand launch in the market.

The decade since has been at Endurance and then Newfold Digital, where I went from running one India brand to owning acquisition and growth across a USD 140Mn+ multi-brand portfolio spanning India, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, South-East Asia and North America — with a team of fifteen across five countries and a USD 15Mn+ annual media budget.

Alongside it, I have consistently done advisory work: an executive-education platform's India and Middle East strategy, and now fractional and project engagements through Gente Partners for founders who need CMO-level thinking without a CMO-level hire.

My north star: helping businesses build scalable growth systems by combining strategy, marketing and technology to create enduring business value.