MIT Sloan MBA (2011); TED Fellow (2009); Sandbox Fellow; StartingBloc Fellow (2007).

Startup experience in India across sectors: helped build spinouts at SKS Microfinance including chain of 16 rural schools, founded E4SI which sourced top talent for 40+ projects at 13 early stage startups, founded Let Me Know which shared 3500+ opportunities with students in 150 Indian cities; founded Surathkal Innovation Challenge which spun out two tech companies; helped build People 1st Consulting which trained 3000+ executives from 80 companies; served as first external Staff Writer for NextBillion.net analyzing businesses in the $1T+ "base of the pyramid" market.