I am a passionate Designer, Design Leader, Educator and an Investor. I love to build products and systems, and set up cross functional teams and initiatives.

Currently I function as the CEO of the Happy Horizons Group. , working towards better education, affordable quality healthcare at scale, and large scale employment creation by establishing industries in India.

It aims to do this by building products and services that leverage technology and best practices from manufacturing, education, healthcare, financial inclusion. 

ENTREPRENEURIAL STINTS

I am an investor and founder of Soochak, an Education platform working towards whole school transformations by promoting inductive learning amongst students and empowerment of teachers.

I co-founded Karekeba Ventures along with a few other people to invest in the startup ecosystem. 

I founded fondésan, a Research & Product Design Consulting Agency, to with organisations and individuals to create impactful solutions. Through the fondesan.academy I facilitate workshops on Design Thinking, Innovation & Leadership, User Experience Design, Entrepreneurship, Project Management. I have conducted over 30 workshops at companies across different domains.

As we move to a more connected world, User Experience & Design Thinking are critical skills towards creating products that add value to our daily lives.

SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
I am the chairman of board at Happy Horizons Trust, that uses the power of Design Thinking, Participatory Learning, Community-based learnings and alternative education interventions (storytelling, activity based learning, learning through films and videos) to improve the quality of school education in India. Currently the 40 people organisation works with 75 schools in Rural Bihar, outreaching to approximately 35000 students.  Through the READY (Rethinking Education and Development of Youth program), we empower girls in Rural Bihar. 50 girls have benefitted from of the program. 

TEACHING
I am a visiting faculty to numerous Design colleges and teach courses on Design Theory & Methods, User Experience Design, Design for Social Impact. I am a guest faculty at IIT Delhi and Shiv Nadar University (Greater Noida); DY Patil International University (Pune); J K Lakshmipat University (Jaipur).

In the past have mentored over 50 students in their Diploma projects, some of which have gone on to win awards too.

PAST ENGAGEMENTS
In the past, I was a principal consultant to L’école de design Nantes Atlantique, one of the leading Design schools in France. , where I functioned as Director and Head of Operations of India Studio. Over the 5 years of my association, I established the Master’s program in Transcultural Design, that emphasised on Design for Social Impact and Design Thinking.

Prior to this, I established and led the Design Team at Kuliza Technologies and facilitated the transition of the company from a services to a product company. I managed a team of 4 Designers and UX Developers and worked on building a suite of products to facilitate Social Commerce.  

I was a faculty of design at The Institute for Product Leadership, teaching User Experience, Prototyping and Usability to Product Management professionals.