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Volunteer Experience

  • Singapore Institute of Directors Graphic

    Member, Membership and Growth Committee and Revenue Strategy Committee

    Singapore Institute of Directors

    - 1 year

    Economic Empowerment

    SID is Singapore's leading non-profit organization for supporting Board Members, Independent Directors and development of best practices in Corporate Governance for Singapore SGX listed and private firms. Part of the Membership and Growth Committee to help welcome, nurture and grow the SID community as well as the Revenue Ideas Committee.

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    Dealflow Ambassador

    Spike Ventures

    - Present 7 years 1 month

    Economic Empowerment

    As a DealFlow Ambassador of Spike Ventures, I help advise early stage venture deals in engaging Spike Ventures, headquartered in San Francisco, CA, USA. Spike Ventures pays homage to the golden spike that was driven by Leland Stanford to finish the First Transcontinental Railroad across the nation, ushering a new era of commerce, transportation and expansion for our country. At Spike, we look to make equally audacious bets to improve the world we live in by investing in and for the Stanford…

    As a DealFlow Ambassador of Spike Ventures, I help advise early stage venture deals in engaging Spike Ventures, headquartered in San Francisco, CA, USA. Spike Ventures pays homage to the golden spike that was driven by Leland Stanford to finish the First Transcontinental Railroad across the nation, ushering a new era of commerce, transportation and expansion for our country. At Spike, we look to make equally audacious bets to improve the world we live in by investing in and for the Stanford Alumni network.

  • Castor Ventures Graphic

    Dealflow Ambassador

    Castor Ventures

    - Present 7 years 1 month

    Economic Empowerment

    As a DealFlow Ambassador of Castor Ventures, I help early stage venture deals get educated about Castor Ventures, headquartered in Boston, MA, USA. We look for an MIT affiliation on the board or the management team and a strong VC lead in the investment round. Sector, Stage and Geography agnostic. Castor Ventures is an early stage venture capital fund, funded by MIT alums. Note: This is a pro bono role and involves no compensation and no financial advice is offered.

  • Board Member

    Community Empowerment International

    - 1 year

    Poverty Alleviation

    Leadership development consulting for Founder/President; Marketing and fund-raising strategy and organizational design.

  • KarmaCircles Graphic

    Ideator and Helper

    KarmaCircles

    - Present 8 years 6 months

    Social Services

    Provided volunteer help on Karmacircles mobile platform helping fuel the "karmic economy"

  • Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) Graphic

    Startup Mentor and Business Plan Competition Judge

    Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)

    - 3 months

    Science and Technology

    Invited Judge-Mentor for SUTD 10K business plan competition. Mentored several startup teams.

  • Nanyang Technological University Graphic

    Startup Mentor and Business Plan Competition Judge

    Nanyang Technological University

    - Present 8 years 4 months

    Science and Technology

    Mentor and Business Plan Competition Judge to Student Business Plans.

Publications

Patents

  • Time dependent demographics for Digital Billboards

    Filed US 700219690WO01

    Confidential patent filed to allow digital billboards to display demographics of nearby things via an IOT/Context Aware Platform.

    Other inventors
    • Other inventors from HPE.

  • Vehicle Diagnostic Data via IOT/Context Aware Platforms

    Filed US 700219693WO01

    Confidential patent filed when I was with HPE around a new invention to allow cars to have onboard IOT devices that interact with a context aware platform.

    Other inventors
    • Other Inventors at HPE.

Courses

  • Business Plans and Pitching

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  • Coaching & Mentoring

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  • Conflict Resolution

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  • Corporate Governance via Boards

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  • Database Design

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  • Early stage capital

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  • Early stage venture financing

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  • How to conduct sales training

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  • ISO 9000 Quality and Audits

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  • Leadership Simulation and Coaching

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  • Marketing Management

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  • Negotiations

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  • New Enterprises (Startups)

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  • Object Oriented Analysis and Design

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  • Precision Questioning

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  • Presentation Techniques

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  • Project Planning and Control

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  • SEI-CMM Quality Model

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  • Six Sigma

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  • Software Estimation

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  • Venture Capital and Private Equity

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Honors & Awards

  • Management Recognition for Partnership first

    Hewlett Packard Enterprise

    Given HPE Recognition badge for partnership with regional, local and global teams by a Global VP at HPE.

  • Management Recognition for Innovation

    Hewlett Packard Enterprise

    Recognized for innovation @ HPE

  • Partner Appreciation Letter by Avaya

    Avaya Communications

    Appreciation letter from Avaya Inc for managing partner relationships and business from HPE for the HPE-Avaya partnership for Fiscal FY15

  • Management Recognition for Execution

    Hewlett Packard Enterprise

    Recognized for showing execution excellence

  • High Potential Employee Bench Program Election

    Microsoft

    The high potential employee award (HIPO) is bestowed on the top 4% of Microsoft's sales and marketing group employees. Employees are elected to go through a corporate bench program for grooming employees for senior leadership roles.

  • Management Appreciation Letter

    Fujitsu Consulting

    Received a special letter of appreciation for helping Fujitsu Consulting launch its ebusiness professional services practice in California.

  • Customer Appreciation Award

    Amdahl Corporation

    Awarded a launch award for exceeding customer expectations for launching an initiative on time to high satisfaction.

  • Customer Appreciation Award

    British Telecom

    Awarded a special mention letter for outstanding customer service due to a senior management consulting assignment to help BT outsource a multi-million pound project to MBT in India.

  • Customer appreciation letter by British Telecom

    British Telecom London UK

    Customer appreciation letter from BT received because I helped them understand in a simple way how complex outsourcing works.

  • Distinction

    Purdue University

    Awarded "Graduated with distinction" honor due to high GPA.

  • IIT Bombay Institute Silver Medal

    Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

    The institute silver medial is awarded to students in a particular stream of engineering at IIT Bombay, who graduate top of their stream.

Test Scores

  • MIT Sloan School of Management

    Score: 5.0 out of 5.0

    Achieved a perfect GPA at MIT Sloan. Received a special letter from the Program Director.

Languages

  • English

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • Tamil

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • Chinese

    Elementary proficiency

  • Japanese

    Elementary proficiency

  • German

    Elementary proficiency

  • Hindi

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • Bengali

    Elementary proficiency

  • Malay

    Elementary proficiency

  • Sanskrit

    Professional working proficiency

  • Korean

    Elementary proficiency

  • Japanese

    Limited working proficiency

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