Headline

Product Leader - Reliance Intelligence | ex- nurture.farm, Ola, Yahoo, Autodesk

About

Product and technology leader with 25 years of global experience across the US and India. A builder at heart — founding product team at Reliance Intelligence, founder at BrandFly AI, founding product and marketing leader at nurture.farm, Head of Products at Ola, Director of Products at Yahoo. Built and scaled products across personalization and AI, urban mobility, agritech, BFSI, sportstech, and consumer internet. Currently deep in building AI-first consumer products for India at scale. Experienced in building and leading cross-functional teams across product, engineering, design, research, marketing, and growth. Advised early-stage startups at Entrepreneur First and Antler. I hold an MBA from the University of Michigan, an MS in Mechanical Engineering from Oklahoma State University, and a BE in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Mumbai. Passionate about all things sports — tennis in particular — as a player, organizer, fan, and builder.

Location

Bengaluru

Work experience

Head of Products - Consumer AI at Reliance Intelligence, Nov 2025 - Present · 10 mos, Bangalore, Building AI-first consumer products for India. Intelligence for everyone, everywhere. Part of the founding team at Reliance Intelligence.

Co-Founder at BrandFly, Apr 2025 - Oct 2025 · 7 mos, Bangalore, Built BrandFly AI - an AI-powered brand intelligence product helping mid-to-large consumer brands understand and optimize their presence across mass consumer AI platforms such as ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity.

Product Consultant at Probe42, Jan 2024 - Feb 2025 · 1 yr 2 mos, Bangalore, Led product vision, build, and GTM for Mercury, a GenAI-powered intelligent assistant delivering insights on 3M+ Indian companies to RMs at India’s top 10 banks. Combined proprietary data, LLMs, and research into a secure, compliant enterprise experience with a conversational interface. Built the team, shipped the MVP and subsequent iterations, and supported client adoption.

Portfolio Advisor at Entrepreneur First, Oct 2023 - Apr 2024 · 7 mos, Bangalore, Advised global portfolio startups at Entrepreneur First on product and growth. Entrepreneur First is a global talent VC that helps individuals build startups through connections in the ecosystem via co-founders, funding, mentorship and networks.

Product Builder and Advisor at Independent, Jul 2023 - Mar 2025 · 1 yr 9 mos, Bangalore, Built and advised across a portfolio of early-stage ventures — AI products in financial services and digital marketing, computer vision and analytics in grassroots sports tech, and developer tools for new venture building.

Education

MBA, Strategy, Marketing, University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of Business

Master of Science - MS, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Oklahoma State University