Practice

Independent Strategy Advisor

The structural and emotional physics of the decisions that actually move a company.

Works with CXOs, founders, and boards on strategy, organisational emotional dynamics, and complex problem solving. Does not take full-time roles. Project-based or retainer-based.

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Positioning

Independent. Non-executive. Retainer or project.

Works with CXOs, founders, and boards. Does not take full-time roles. The work sits at the intersection of strategy, organisational emotional dynamics, and first-principles problem solving.

Three decades across finance, transformation, and leadership. Chartered Accountant. MBA, Indian School of Business. Advanced Development Programme, The Wharton School.

Chartered AccountantMBA, ISBADP, Wharton

Five lines of work

Where the organisation is actually stuck, not where the slide says it is.

Business transformation and scale-up

Designing and navigating transformation and growth inflection points.

M&A strategy and integration

Lived as CFO then CEO through a listed-company merger, not as a slide theory.

Leadership emotional coherence

Aligning leadership teams using a proprietary emotional-state method. Theory not public.

Negotiation and communication dynamics

High-pressure negotiations, stakeholder conflicts, misaligned expectations.

Organisational emotional-state analysis

Diagnosing and shifting the emotional state of teams and functions.

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Lived in the chair, not adjacent to it.

Building materials · tiles

CFO to CEO · 2008–2014

Joined as CFO with legal and IT; given sales and marketing; made CEO in 2012
Negotiated the acquisition of a listed company in the same sector and led the merger
Turned around the acquired company within one year
More than doubled sales in two years
Led private-equity funding; sector first employee ESOP

Telecom

Vice President, Finance · 2006–2008

Regional responsibility for North India: finance, credit, collection, revenue assurance
Circles with combined revenue exceeding INR 10,000 crore
Network department as additional responsibility
New network and business strategy for a southern circle on day one; promoted within two months

Nutrition and healthcare

Financial Director · 2003–2006

Board position as whole-time director
Finance, IT, and legal for Delhi and NCR operations
Brand and portfolio work across infant and clinical nutrition
Turned around a loss-making healthcare business within one year

Recognition

2012

Marketing Professional of the Year, IIPM

Presented by Lord Meghnad Desai, January 2012.

2005

Least measured strategic decision-making bias

Among 90 senior professionals from 25 countries, McKinsey-designed exercise, INSEAD, September 2005.

Intellectual property

Patent-pending inventions, open to licence.

Three inventions. Methods stay confidential. Licensing conversations are welcome.

Patent pending

UNITE

Emotional-state modelling framework. Used in leadership, negotiation, organisational work. Open to licence.

Patent pending

Emotionally Conscious AI

Methodology for what current AI systems are missing to become emotionally conscious. Open to licence.

Patent pending

Quantum computing constraints

Physical-constraint work behind delays and overspend. Paper 24. Restricted from public disclosure. Open to licence.

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Articles

Startup, Scale-Up, Go.

Newsletter and essays. Links will be attached to the live pieces.

Startup, Scale-Up, Go

LinkedIn newsletter

Mental investment strategy

Link to be attached

The emotional state of a deal

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