Chennai · India
Founders' Office, take two.
This time at Greenjoules.
Learning the shape of a new company from the inside — again. Different sector, similar posture: figure out what's needed, find a way to be useful.
Outside of the day job, I'm trying to meet more people and build a few things — some with AI, some without. If you're up to something interesting, send me a note.
Three roles, one thread: understand how things actually work.
Risk consulting taught me to look at a company from the inside. Equity research taught me to look at one from the outside. Now I'm inside one that's still being built.
The vantage keeps changing. The curiosity doesn't.
Business Consulting · Risk · 2021
Risk consulting is, broadly, the work of walking into a company and finding what could go wrong — mapping processes, testing controls, closing the gap between what a business says it does and what it actually does. My first real look inside real organisations, and a quick education in how much of business is quietly held together.
Institutional Equities · Equity Research · 2022–24
Avendus is one of India's leading investment banks. I was on the Institutional Equities desk — in equity research, part of the strategy team.
Founders' Office · 2024 – 2026
From reading about companies to helping build one. Product scoping, investor conversations, customer trials — the whole surface area. Also the first time I'd had to sit with real uncertainty for months at a stretch. It suited me.
Helped raise a bit of funds through the first COVID wave for people who needed it more than we did.
Writing on Medium — sporadically, honestly.
Listening to classic rock from the 60s, 70s and 80s. Billy Joel, all-time favourite.
Learning thermocracking chemistry and Hindi.
I read everything that comes in. I'm not always fast to reply.