Civil engineer by education. Hands-on entrepreneur by choice. No-nonsense human being in general. At present, I advise founders of high-growth startups (B2B and B2C) and help them scale sustainably. I enjoy building high-quality scalable marketing and sales teams. With extensive knowledge of marketing and sales principles and practices, and a proven ability to coach and build high-performance teams of various sizes. Outside of work, I am an avid traveller(12 countries, 24 states, 4 union territories, and counting), an F1 enthusiast, and a volunteer at the Blue Cross. In my most recent stint, I was advising the founding team of BigFday, and helped them scale their event services business to 650+ events in FY19/20. Prior to that I was heading sales at Pickyourtrail, where I hired, trained and managed a team of 25+ travel consultants and grew revenue 2.5X in 12 months Earlier as an entrepreneur, I bootstrapped and built Effect Works, a boutique design and product development agency. From helping startups such as Freshworks, Indix, KissMetrics build their MVPs to creating effective business pitches for large conglomerates such as CTS, Atlas Copco, The Times Group. Grew the team to a 35-member team with almost zero attrition in 8 years. Launched NFN labs for the love of apps. Went on to build and launch apps in IOS and Android. Our apps were ranked in the Top 10 in the Apple App Store in over 30 countries and were covered by global tech media such as The Verge, Mashable, The Next Web, and MacStories amongst others.