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Mentor India is a strategic nation building initiative to engage leaders who can guide and mentor students in 900+ Atal Tinkering Labs that Atal Innovation Mission has established / is in the process of establishing across India. Mentors enable students to experience, learn and practice future skills such as design and computational thinking.

Mentor for Change

A blockchain-based, digital contract management platform that enables users to easily collaborate on, sign and verify documents transparently.
- intuitive process flow focused on creating digital legal precedence
- integration with India stack (aadhar, NACH etc.)
- immutable footprint and verification using blockchain (L1/L2 optimisation)

Founder

Founded in 2019, World V is a venture capital fund with a goal to help Indian entrepreneurs in their global expansion journey. Focused on exploring opportunities in consumer, healthcare, finance, logistics and entertainment, World V aims to be a formidable investor in the Indian start-up ecosystem. The team has a cumulative experience of over 100 years and comprises entrepreneurs, business leaders, deep-tech specialists and financial service professionals.

Venture Consultant

Part of the founding team. Inceptra is a Thrasio-style family office, investing in and operating fashion and lifestyle brands.

- Led investment into Inceptra’s private portfolio brands
- Setup end to end operations for ‘Tom Tailor’ (EUR 1Bn+ International apparel brand) in India, deployed a seasonal management and operations team of over 70+ people 
- Overlook portfolio’s performance and compliance along with growth strategy related decisions
- Manage brand building and PR along with developing the entire technology eco-system

International Brands: 
- Tom Tailor: Setup Tom Tailor's end-to-end operations in India; Amazon India Fashion Week x Tom Tailor Event  

Domestic brands:
- Atorse: Men’s fashion and lifestyle brand
- Bells & Whistles: Kidswear brand
- Kidsberry: Multi-brand kidswear stores
- Loomtree: Artisanal lifestyle brand
- Lyla: Ethnic and Fusion wear for women
- Minizmo: Premium made-to-measure menswear

Head - Corporate Development

Tom Tailor: Setup Tom Tailor's foundation and end-to-end operations in India
- Core operations
- Supply chain
- Marketplace and online stores
- Retail and partnerships
- Marketing and PR

India Lead

Key Areas: Mergers and Acquisitions, Capital Raising, Business Consulting

Notable Engagements:
- Largest B2B player in Health and Wellness Space, Health-tech platform
- Tier IV datacentre project providing IaaS, PaaS, DRaaS and other cloud services
- One of India’s oldest and largest mobile payments company


Senior Associate

Owlers is a members-only service to discover and book curated events. The platform also enabled users to bid for unique deals, reserve tables and collect cashback using an integrated wallet.

- Developed an optimized platform for curated events, accessed through seamless payment
- Successfully raised angel round, 15 people team at peak
- Expanded to 4 cities in India
- Could not develop case for long-term profitability


Key Areas: Mergers and Acquisitions, Capital Raising

Notable Engagements:
- Premium bicycle company
- Do-it-yourself m-commerce platform customized for Indian users
- One of India’s leading bus-ticketing platform, with last mile logistic capabilities
- Structured a new product with the MD to promote cross border M&A and investments in India


Key Areas: Strategy Consulting & New Product Development

Notable Engagements:
- Consulting fortune 500 clients to optimize their procurement and supply chain
- Tailored consulting tools, including a new product which promoted max traction with clients
- Awarded a global recognition by the Chief Commercial Officer for record performance of client traction and retention, titled: ‘Engaging Members Scalably and Consistently’


Associate - Finance & Strategy

Summer Internship

Graduate Internship

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