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Every role, most recent first

1. August 2025 – Present

   Aven Hospitality

   E-commerce Customer Engagement Lead

   $1M+

   Customer retail revenue

   85%

   Year-over-year growth across 80 medium-to-high-maturity hotel properties

   113% including two accounts run with a colleague

   I own customer engagement for Aven’s retail business: an account base of 1,000+ customers scaling toward 4,000, and end-to-end product account ownership on the SynXis Retailing platform — storefront architecture, SKU strategy, platform configuration, merchandising and pricing.

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2. February 2025 – August 2025

   Delta Rising Foundation

   Product Strategy Consultant

   15%

   Cut from GTM launch-cycle time

   +30%

   Sprint velocity, as acting Scrum Master on a 14-person cross-functional AI team

   This is the one project where I did the diagnosis, the product decisions and the go-to-market myself.

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3. September 2024 – December 2024

   Columbia University

   Graduate Teaching Assistant

   Frontiers of Tough Tech: coaching graduate teams through problem framing, user research and product concept validation.

   Game Theoretic Models of Operation: supporting coursework in incentive design, competitive strategy and pricing under strategic behaviour.

4. May 2024 – August 2024

   HearMe

   Summer Business Development Analyst

   $200,000

   In funding secured from SAGE, on an evidence-based investment case

   I led this alongside a colleague.

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5. January 2024 – January 2025

   Columbia ELC Club

   VP, External Affairs & Communications

6. September 2023 – April 2024

   Droice Labs

   Marketing Strategy Consultant, Team Lead

   +40%

   digital engagement

   −25%

   customer acquisition cost

   I led this engagement.

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7. September 2023 – April 2024

   EY-Parthenon

   Strategy Consultant

   25%

   improvement in forecast reliability, on a co-led workstream

   I co-led this workstream.

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8. September 2023 – April 2024

   Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

   Product Strategy Consultant

   25%

   Better chatbot user experience, from six integrated features

   I contributed to a product strategy engagement on conversational AI for underserved languages — natural language understanding and dialog management built to run in CPU-only environments, where GPUs are not available.

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9. May 2022 – June 2022

   Zobotronics, Mumbai

   Product Development Intern

   I built 3 automation products end to end in Proteus and Fritzing — concept, circuit design, simulation testing and commercialization — and wrote embedded firmware on NodeMCU, Arduino and ATMEGA8, debugging 10 hardware and firmware issues.

10. December 2021 – April 2023

    Nanavati Max Super Speciality Hospital, Mumbai

    Research Intern

    53%

    detection accuracy, on the initial model

    AI-based auto-segmentation to contour the left anterior descending artery in 3D radiation oncology planning for left-breast cancer — aimed at sparing cardiac tissue, and at extending patient life expectancy by an estimated 5–7 years.

    I prepared 20 clinical CT datasets, trained on site in manual contouring, and ran the image-processing pipeline behind that accuracy — noise reduction, edge sharpening, contour detection.

    [ PLACEHOLDER — about/nanavati-paper ] Link to the co-authored paper goes here.

11. June 2021 – July 2022

    Finbits India

    Product Manager

    50%

    surge in application users

    30%

    higher user engagement

    3

    angel investors I helped secure funding from, supporting the move from startup to LLP

    Leading a 20-person team, I removed operational bottlenecks and automated the delivery pipeline for daily news shorts, weekly newsletters, market commentary and podcasts — the work behind the growth in application users.