My Journey
A twenty-year path from industrial engineering in India to frontier AI in Silicon Valley. Each stop added a layer: how machines are built, how enterprises buy, and how deep technology turns into revenue. Less a resume than a record of what each chapter taught me. 2006 to present.
Co-founded a data licensing platform sourcing compliant enterprise datasets for AI model training, from hospital systems across Latin America and India to conversations with frontier labs. Cold-starting a company from nothing is mostly an exercise in earning trust for something that does not exist yet.
What I took from it: in the earliest days, conviction and compliance matter more than product polish.
Joined a Series A multimodal AI company as one of the first commercial hires, with no sales infrastructure to inherit. I built the go-to-market motion from scratch: co-sell frameworks with NVIDIA, Dell, HPE, Qualcomm and ARM, and the first enterprise pilots for vision and speech agents across robotics, drones and autonomous systems. Most of the work was translating what the research team could do into something a buyer could act on.
What I took from it: selling frontier technology is mostly translation, and the market forgives a rough product long before it forgives a story it cannot follow.
Managed the Apple account at a leading semiconductor company, working design-ins across AirPods, Vision Pro, Watch and Beats through multi-quarter cycles from evaluation to mass production. This is where I learned how the physical layer of technology actually ships.
What I took from it: enterprise hardware moves at the speed of trust and engineering cadence, not sales quarters.
Two roles in business development and industrial marketing, spent tracking where robotics, autonomous vehicles and urban air mobility were heading, in conversation with Zoox, Waymo, Rivian, Lucid and Tesla. My first close look at the semiconductor demand behind physical AI.
What I took from it: being early to a market is a research discipline long before it is a sales one.
Founded and ran a thermal engineering and manufacturing company for nearly a decade. Filed a patent, built a team of 25+ engineers, and grew to 150+ enterprise accounts including BASF, Mitsubishi and Merck. This is where I learned to build a business with no playbook and no outside funding.
What I took from it: everything downstream of a sale, delivery, service and retention, is where a reputation is actually earned.
Built a biomass briquetting business from the ground up, sourcing agro-waste and supplying industrial boilers for Fortune 500 clients while cutting their energy costs and emissions. My first real lesson in selling to large enterprises.
What I took from it: a strong commercial case and a sustainability case can be the same case.
Founded and scaled a packaged drinking water plant end to end, from licensing and equipment to distribution across rural and urban markets. My first company, started young.
What I took from it: operations teach you the unglamorous detail that quietly makes or breaks a business.
Where it started. A marketing engineer role in industrial instrumentation, installing and servicing monitoring systems on the floors of steel and aluminum plants, and learning Six Sigma and Kaizen by doing.
What I took from it: before you can sell technology, you have to understand how it actually works in the field.