Founder Director of Ticket Design, leading strategic product design development for various domestic and multinational companies over the last two decades.Ticket Design is a strategic product design company based in Pune, India. Ticket Design has won German Red Dot award, President's Medal, AsiaStar 17, CII Design Excellence award, International Appliance Design Award USA and Business World NID Design Excellence award. I have worked with a MIT Media Lab, spinoff USA company to create a series of wearable wireless products that featured in the TIME magazine as the top twenty products of the future. I graduated from the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad.Created and led design teams to create innovative, value added business solutions through meaningful product design. A strong believer in networked innovation. I believe that I have a strong ability to find a right fit between technology and end user with tangible solutions, in the form of products that can be mass produced.I am also keen to contribute on social design issues and ready to play a role in creating local innovation using local skills and resources with global thinking. I am strong believer in the power of design thinking coupled with inventive exploration. I believe we have the tenacity, temperament to be persistent to create proof of concepts, prototype, validate, deploy and see impact of ground breaking ideas. Looking to setup/ partner/ collaborate with individuals, companies to bring to life game changing ideas that can potentially impact a large number of people. Looking forward to interact/ network with people with dreams.Specialties: Design research, Consumer Insights, Branding, Product positioning, Radical innovation, Understanding of user behavior, Blue sky thinking, Knowledge of Mass manufacturing processes, New product design, Manage/ create transition from idea to mass production, Prototyping, Design ready for tooling, Creative Sketching and representation