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Strategy, Product, Digital & AI | Reliance New Energy | PwC AC - Strategy& US | PhonePe | IIM Indore MBA

About

I turn ambiguous, high-stakes questions into decisions a business can actually act on. Sometimes the honest answer feels like "it depends," but I never stop there. Currently, at Reliance's New Energy business, I own strategy, business development, and planning for a first-of-its-kind solar manufacturing venture: polysilicon, specialty gases, new-business ideas, cross-border risk, and a steady stream of present & future relevant topics. It keeps things interesting. Before this, I spent some time as a strategy consultant at PwC's Strategy& US practice, helping global companies across financial services, payments, technology, and consumer with product and digital strategy, AI and automation, technology go-to-market, and cost transformation. And before consulting, as one of the youngest product managers at PhonePe, I built and scaled digital insurance products end to end, from strategy and UX to partnerships and the data plumbing underneath, the unglamorous part nobody notices until it breaks. My work lives where business meets technology: product portfolios, operating models, AI adoption, digital & AI governance and the economics that decide whether any of it survives contact with reality. I care about clarity, evidence, and building things that actually run, not just things that demo well. IIM Indore MBA, based in Mumbai. Always happy to talk product, digital, and AI, ideally over coffee.

Location

Navi Mumbai

AI stack

antigravity

codex

Work experience

Strategy, Planning and BD - Chairman's Office at Reliance Industries Limited, Dec 2025 - Present · 9 mos, Navi Mumbai, I'm in the Chairman's Office, doing strategy, BD, and planning for Reliance New Energy business, mostly the hardest open questions, made traceable and tractable. I own strategy for a first-of-its-kind solar upstream manufacturing venture (polysilicon, specialty gases), from capital and sourcing to production readiness. I drive new ventures and market entry, including semiconductors, plus analysis, planning and implementation for cross-border risk, market governance, and sustainability. I'm shaping the digital and AI agenda for the business.

Strategy Consultant | Enterprise Strategy & Value - Strategy& US at PwC, Feb 2024 - Dec 2025 · 1 yr 11 mos, Bengaluru, Enterprise Strategy & Value - Strategy& US I spent ~two years at PwC's Strategy& (US) practice, advising global market leaders across financial services, payments, technology, consumer, and energy on their biggest product and technology bets. Across engagements, I wore multiple hats and led multiple efforts: Managed product strategy and solutioning for a large-scale digital liquidity platform at a global top-3 asset manager, and set the roadmaps and governance for its end-to-end investment-management platform. Devised AI and automation strategy to digitize analytics and decision-making across global markets for a top-2 consumer-goods company, and pioneered AI and automation use-cases and operating models for the finance and legal functions of a global top-3 hardware maker. Built the revenue and sensitivity models behind a new-revenue play for a global top-5 payments company. Designed a multi-year go-to-market strategy for a global tech leader's device launch across North America and Europe. Strategized a product-centric operating model and a tech-debt roadmap for a top-3 North American energy company. Managed cost and operating-model transformation for a global top-2 card network, and ran part of a massive enterprise analytics-transformation programme across a several-thousand-person organization.

Career transition at Career Break, Sep 2023 - Feb 2024 · 6 mos, Critical time to discover my professional direction. Also helped build stealth startups in Fintech, pharma manufacturing (some doing well)

Engagement Manager at Impact Consulting, Dec 2022 - May 2023 · 6 mos, Led a team of 5 consultants from India, Thailand and Singapore to develop and implement a fundraising strategy for an NGO client working towards inclusivity of people with muscular dystrophy and other rare disorders.

Associate Product Manager at PhonePe, Apr 2022 - Aug 2023 · 1 yr 5 mos, Bengaluru, Insurance @ PhonePe As a product manager at PhonePe, I built and scaled digital general insurance products end to end, from product strategy down to the systems underneath. I led & managed product strategy for health and motor insurance, growing both sales and cross-sell across the portfolio. I rebuilt the end-to-end buy-side journey and UX so customers could actually find, understand, and buy cover, and lifted funnel conversion in the process. I built and ran partnerships with 8 insurers, and drove cross-functional delivery with engineering and design across 8+ microservices and 20+ insurer systems. I stood up a bi-directional claims-tracking framework that brought portfolio claim fraud down. I owned the product metrics, analytics stacks, and reporting that put decisions on data, and negotiated the process changes that improved reliability and daily sales.

Education

Master of Business Administration - MBA, Business Administration and Management, General, Indian Institute of Management, Indore

Master of Business Administration - MBA, Business Administration and Management, General, KEDGE Business School