Leading enterprise strategy, portfolio direction and the evaluation of growth options. Working with the CEO, finance and business-unit leaders to connect strategic choices with resources and execution.
2016 — 202002
Vice President, Corporate Strategy
Fairhaven Holdings
Scope & contribution
Developed strategic assessments, partnership options and business plans across a portfolio. Built experience framing uncertainty and translating analysis into decisions that operating teams can act on.
2010 — 201703
Partner
Ashworth & Lyle Strategy Advisers
Scope & contribution
Advised boards in industrials and financial services on portfolio choices, acquisitions and long-range strategy.
2005 — 201004
Corporate Development Manager
Meridian Consolidated
Scope & contribution
Ran acquisition screening and integration, and learned the difference between a good deal and a good strategy.
Portfolio reshaped
₹6,200 Cr
Exits, entries and partnerships
New growth businesses
4
Incubated to independent scale
Strategic partnerships
15
Across three continents
Strategy horizon
2030
Approved by the board, funded and tracked
At the board table
Meridian Consolidated
Independent Director
Strategy & Investment (Chair)
The Futures Policy Institute
Fellow and Advisory Board Member
Scenario Council
Strategy should make a consequential choice clearer. I examine assumptions, alternatives and capability demands, then help the organisation connect its chosen direction with capital, ownership and a disciplined plan to learn.
The leadership record
Trusted with consequential decisions.
Recognition
Strategy Leader of the YearCapital & Governance Quarterly · 2024
Deal of the Year — PartnershipThe Corporate Development Awards · 2022
In conversation
“Making the portfolio choices most boards postpone”Capital & Governance Quarterly · 2025
“Scenarios the board can actually use”The Boardroom Review · 2024
“Episode 115 — Strategy is a choice, not a deck”The Leadership Ledger podcast · 2023
Formation
MBA, Strategy & FinanceWestbrook School of Management · 2004
M.Phil, EconomicsKingsgate University · 2003
Turned our strategy from an annual document into a set of decisions we actually made.