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Director, Business Strategy | IIM Ahmedabad BPGP (2025-27) l COEP M.Tech (2011-13)

About

Strategy and Business Excellence professional with 12+ years of experience spanning corporate strategy, market and competitive research, KPI design and governance, and in-house IP creation and protection. Proven track record of structuring prioritization frameworks, designing KPI and governance cadences that surface risk early, and partnering with senior leadership and cross-functional teams to translate complex market and business realities into actionable direction. Building M&A strategies tailored to diverse product portfolios, assessing market opportunities, and ensuring strategic alignment to drive long-term value and growth. Uniquely positioned to serve as a trusted advisor and change agent for business leadership.

Location

Pune City

AI stack

claude

notebooklm

perplexity

ChatGPT

Microsoft Copilot

Napkin AI

Work experience

Director Business Strategy at Clarivate, Oct 2025 - Present · 1 yr, Remote, • Streamlined investment decision-making for senior leadership by creating and executing a structured, segment-wide project prioritization assessment across a multi-product portfolio. • Elevated executive communication quality and cadence by reshaping the monthly business review framework. • Identified and implemented new KPIs to improve visibility into business performance, enabling earlier corrective action and reducing business impact through stronger governance. • Sharpened IP Segment AI strategy by delivering competitive assessments that surfaced capability gaps and guided prioritization of AI investments.

Senior Manager - Business Strategy at Clarivate, Oct 2024 - Oct 2025 · 1 y, Remote, • Enabled a successful acquisition by building an end-to-end M&A strategy and execution framework and managing the full target pipeline from market scan through valuation support. • Led the product strategy for integration and future enhancement of a Drafting solution (post acquisition) and secured relevant capital allocation. • Independently owned customer discovery calls, UX concept mock-ups, and product roadmap development for attorney-facing patent drafting and prosecution tools, by being a bridge between strategy and technology teams for post-acquisition product development. • Designed and facilitated IP use-case workshops for Agentic AI deployment with 40+ IP and data science SMEs; produced a prioritized IP use-case roadmap assessing complexity, feasibility, value, and competitive signals across the patent lifecycle, leading to acceleration of the patent drafting AI implementation. • Forged trusted working relationships with senior IP professionals, UX, Product, and Operations stakeholders to secure cross-functional alignment on go-forward AI initiatives.

Manager - Corporate Strategy at Clarivate, Jun 2022 - Oct 2024 · 2 y 4 mo, Remote, • Drove a comprehensive customer and finance data segmentation exercise to improve business insight quality and support strategic decisions. • Informed Clarivate's IP portfolio investment decisions through rigorous SAM, market growth analysis. • Generated actionable insights on cross-sell and whitespace opportunities through structured business and market analysis, informing GTM and growth strategies. • Improved partnership evaluation by developing a partnership assessment framework.

Senior Analyst - Corporate Strategy at Clarivate, Dec 2021 - Jun 2022 · 6 mo, Remote

Strategic Development Analyst - Intellectual Property Group at Clarivate, Aug 2020 - Dec 2021 · 1 y 4 mo, Remote

Manager - IP Services at Clarivate, Aug 2019 - Jul 2020 · 11 mo, Mumbai

Deputy Manager at Hero MotoCorp Ltd, Jul 2017 - Aug 2019 · 2 yrs 2 mos, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, Core Skills: Patent Analytics - Competitive Intelligence - Freedom-to-Operate (FTO) - Patent Drafting - IP Risk Assessment - R&D Collaboration - Innovation Strategy - IP Awareness & Training Key Responsibilities: • IP Search & Analysis: Conduct comprehensive patentability assessments, infringement risk evaluations, freedom-to-operate analyses, and landscape studies to guide R&D and business strategy. • Patent Drafting & Filing Support: Prepare provisional and complete patent specifications aligned with patent office standards. Monitor and review competitor First Examination Reports (FERs) to identify strategic opportunities and risks. • Innovation Strategy & Risk Mitigation: Participate in design-around discussions and propose technically feasible patent workaround solutions to avoid infringement. • Awareness & R&D Engagement: Lead IP awareness programs, patent watch briefings, and organized recognition initiatives such as innovation award events for R&D teams. • Compliance Checks: Perform meticulous design and component screening for new or modified parts to ensure IP compliance and alignment with product development standards.

Senior Associate at Thomson Reuters, Apr 2016 - Jul 2017 · 1 yr 4 mos, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Associate at Thomson Reuters, Aug 2014 - Mar 2016 · 1 yr 8 mos, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Education

Master of Business Administration - MBA, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad

M. Tech, Physical Metallurgy, COEP Technological University