An educator and advisor with 30 years spent building, running, and turning around businesses — and the last decade turning that experience into how other people learn. Adjunct professor at IIIT Hyderabad and a longtime startup coach, I teach product, strategy, and entrepreneurship the way I learned them: by doing, failing, and reflecting.

My teaching starts from the outcomes a learner actually needs and works backward to the experience that gets them there — real cases, live simulations, and stories drawn from my own ventures. I bring the same lens to founders and small businesses as an advisor: less theory, more of what genuinely moves a company forward. I've never considered any experience wasted; the lessons always find their way into the room.