of innovations in the hands of people who use them
Across aerospace, automotive, telecom and networking, medical devices, semiconductors, consumer electronics and industrial automation.
Entrepreneur at Work
Converting simple ideas into useful world experiences.
Strategy, design and thoughtful creation - brought together to help ambitious people and teams lead a remarkable life.
Available for select projects
01 — About
Building what’s next—and the leaders and ecosystems that make it possible.
More than four decades at the intersection of innovation, entrepreneurship, technology and business transformation.
40+years building and transforming
3ventures built, scaled and exited
60+ventures and enterprises supported yearly
My journey began in the second year of engineering, when I founded a design lab that grew into an original-design boutique. For more than 15 years, we created pioneering products across industrial electronics, networking and communications, biomedical technology and aerospace. Alongside it, I built, scaled and exited three ventures in education technology, consumer electronics and agricultural technology.
Over the next 15 years, I moved from entrepreneurship into enterprise-scale leadership. I helped establish and run product programmes at Philips India; held end-to-end responsibility for Wi-Fi product programmes at Agere and Proxim; and built multimillion-dollar services businesses across telecom, mobile communications and financial services while helping transform iGATE into a services company. At HCLTech, I led strategic services, new service lines, large-deal programmes and business transformation initiatives. Later, as part of Cyient’s senior leadership, I led strategy for transformation and new business lines in design-led manufacturing.
I then founded Buoyanci—an innovation, entrepreneurship and leadership consulting firm. We help corporations build internal innovation and intrapreneurship programmes; support startups through acceleration, investment and scale-up; and guide businesses from strategy through execution, including leadership development and succession planning. Each year, this work touches more than 20 corporate ventures, 20 external startups and 20 social enterprises.
Throughout my career, I have contributed to ecosystem development through strategic leadership roles with NASSCOM, CII, IESA and other industry bodies. I hold a degree in Electronics Engineering, an MBA in Systems and Marketing, and fellowships spanning engineering, management, psychology and neuroscience. Beyond business, I am a passionate writer, poet and advocate for social enterprise—convinced that meaningful innovation should create human as well as economic value.
- Innovation
- Entrepreneurship
- Leadership Development
02 — Selected work
A few things I’m proud to have helped put into the world.
The most meaningful measure of a career is not simply what was built, but what it enabled—for businesses, leaders, communities and the people who made it possible.
in value created
Through hundreds of new businesses and services built to generate durable growth for companies.
of social entrepreneurs
Supported as they turn conviction into action and change the world for the better.
of leaders activated
Developed as catalysts, institution-builders and future-shifters.
of articles and poems
Written to explore ideas, share learning and make room for reflection.
countries—and countless remarkable collaborators
Most importantly, the privilege of working alongside great individuals and companies across cultures, disciplines and borders.
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