Samayama was a tech-enabled delivery company on a mission to solve the last-mile challenges in Nepal.• Owed to the operational excellence inculcated within the operations, successfully fended off a competitor with 17X more funding from poaching our largest client despite them offering a 11% lower price in an industry that operates on low margins and high volumes. • After 3 months of relationship building, onboarded as clients two of the largest fintech players in the country to… Show more Samayama was a tech-enabled delivery company on a mission to solve the last-mile challenges in Nepal.• Owed to the operational excellence inculcated within the operations, successfully fended off a competitor with 17X more funding from poaching our largest client despite them offering a 11% lower price in an industry that operates on low margins and high volumes. • After 3 months of relationship building, onboarded as clients two of the largest fintech players in the country to digitize SMEs by delivering QR code standees nationwide to over 80,000 SME's. • Collaborated with product team to engineer a tech platform from scratch to cater to thousands of merchants, customers and delivery partners. • Set yearly targets and OKRs that kept the team aligned with the long term and immediate objectives of the company despite having to navigate through ambiguity of Covid lockdowns. • Expanded presence in all 77 districts of Nepal in by cultivating partnerships and creating a network of local agents. Show less

Backstreet Academy was a 2-sided travel marketplace for unique experiences in emerging markets empowering locals to host experiences while helping to conserve heritage and culture.Expansion, Partnerships, Operations, Press and Product Development• Built Backstreet Academy by developing and implementing strategies that grew the business throughout South and Southeast Asia over 7 years, living in six cities (Cebu City, Siem Reap, Hanoi, Udaipur, Pokhara and Kathmandu), setting up… Show more Backstreet Academy was a 2-sided travel marketplace for unique experiences in emerging markets empowering locals to host experiences while helping to conserve heritage and culture.Expansion, Partnerships, Operations, Press and Product Development• Built Backstreet Academy by developing and implementing strategies that grew the business throughout South and Southeast Asia over 7 years, living in six cities (Cebu City, Siem Reap, Hanoi, Udaipur, Pokhara and Kathmandu), setting up four offices and hiring over 100 full & part-time employees. • Recruited, trained and led high-performing cross-functional teams in these respective locations in partnerships, product development, operations and customer service launching over 1,000 travel products (70% of which no competitor offered). • Instilled a customer-first approach SOPs across all offices thus consistently maintaining >95% customer satisfaction across all destinations. • With the ambition of becoming a regional company, successfully led the team to overcome ambiguity to internationalize product and define go-to-market strategy for 8 countries. • As part of business development forged partnerships with the largest travel platforms in the region to sell our unique travel products and drive revenue growth: Expedia, Airbnb, Getyourguide, Viator, Buffalo Tours, Intrepid Travel and Diethelm Travel. • Developed and executed a press strategy that resulted in press generated across global publications: Forbes, Conde Nast, The New York Times, The Guardian, National Geographic, BBC Travel, The Huffington Post and CNN Travel. • Participated in Booking.com's inaugural accelerator program and was the top placed team winning a prize money of € 400,000.Awards- Winner of Booking.com’s Booster Program- Sustainable Travel Accelerator 2017- Grand Finalists for UBS Social Innovator Challenge 2016- Winner of United Nations World Summit Awards for Best ICT Implementation in Southeast Asia 2016 Show less

• The NEST was a collaboration between Backstreet Academy and IAAC (Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia), Barcelona. This venture was part of Backstreet's foray into accommodation ventures.• Collaborated with world-renowned architects and structural engineers in the field of computational and AI in Architecture to design and build a modular structure to be used as alternative accommodation in the high Himalayas able to withstand 100km/h winds and -25 degree Celsius… Show more • The NEST was a collaboration between Backstreet Academy and IAAC (Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia), Barcelona. This venture was part of Backstreet's foray into accommodation ventures.• Collaborated with world-renowned architects and structural engineers in the field of computational and AI in Architecture to design and build a modular structure to be used as alternative accommodation in the high Himalayas able to withstand 100km/h winds and -25 degree Celsius temperatures.• In addition to contributing to the design brief, also streamlined business processes by creating a project brief and guiding the project through engineering and budget obstacles. Show less

• Gazaab Social Ventures was a micro-social venture capital fund with the vision of alleviating poverty through the creation of impactful social entrepreneurs. • Led the organization and execution of business competitions in rural communities that led to 4 investments in potential social entrepreneurs in a profit-sharing agreement.• Provided guidance on best business practices to 4 investees on marketing, inventory management and book-keeping.

• Spearheaded a year long inter-department project to re-evaluate Vale’s entire strategy for India which resulted in a wholesale shift in asset acquisition and sales approach to clients in India.• As the resident macro analyst for APAC, contributed the Asian perspective and insights on Vale's feasibility study of a $14 billion project in Brazil, by analyzing the economic and geopolitical risk of various South East Asian countries, and by providing the potential price of the commodity to… Show more • Spearheaded a year long inter-department project to re-evaluate Vale’s entire strategy for India which resulted in a wholesale shift in asset acquisition and sales approach to clients in India.• As the resident macro analyst for APAC, contributed the Asian perspective and insights on Vale's feasibility study of a $14 billion project in Brazil, by analyzing the economic and geopolitical risk of various South East Asian countries, and by providing the potential price of the commodity to be extracted given various demand and supply scenarios.• Generated reports by combining secondary research and on-the-ground interaction by meeting industry analysts, port authorities, steel mills, mines and railways in China, Japan, Korea, India and Southeast Asia for the C-Suite in making strategic immediate and medium-term strategy decisions.• Quarterly evaluated the financial and operational health of Vale’s clients in Japan, South Korea and India to assist the sales and technical team to identify risks and opportunities.• Successfully convinced my General Manager and HR to re-evaluate and incentive structure for the global Market Intelligence team to align with the projects and research topics with higher market relevance. Show less

• Embedded in the Mitsui headquarters in Tokyo for over 3 months as part of a corporate exchange program and learnt about Mitsui’s organizational structure and global business ventures and strategies.• Through extensive site visits and discussions with management, received a first-hand insight into Japan’s largest corporations such as Toyota, Bridgestone, Nippon Steel, Toshiba and Komatsu. • The program helped me better understand the Japanese economy, society and business… Show more • Embedded in the Mitsui headquarters in Tokyo for over 3 months as part of a corporate exchange program and learnt about Mitsui’s organizational structure and global business ventures and strategies.• Through extensive site visits and discussions with management, received a first-hand insight into Japan’s largest corporations such as Toyota, Bridgestone, Nippon Steel, Toshiba and Komatsu. • The program helped me better understand the Japanese economy, society and business practices from a geo-political, historical and cultural perspective. This has sharpened my ability to engage and build partnerships in Japan for a global business. Show less