PECHANGA BAND OF INDIANS
Incubated a new Tech Company within a well respected Native American Tribe. Served as an advisor to the executive teams including General Counsel, CIO, CFO and elected boards.
The venture involved raising $30M in equity and $30M in debt for this new business involved tech teams and involved the construction of a Tier 4, 5MW Data Center in Southern California.
JELLYSMACK
Jellysmack is a $3Billion valued company in the creator economy – helping amplify some of the largest creators including Mr Beast and PewDePie.
I was hired to help the company build a crypto / NFT platform to help creators of all sizes tokenize and sell the rights to their video royalties using the blockchain via a decentralized platform.
I was then since moved to lead operations and business strategy within the US Revenues business unit to leverages product, data, operational processes, creative and marketing teams to help creators publish more and better videos.
STRATEGY KARMA
Strategy Karma is focused on helping businesses grow – typically from $5 Million to $50M in annual revenue. We are able to leverage business strategy experience and operational processes from experience working with and growing a dozen different businesses at various stages including incubator and accelerator programs as well.
We wear all the Operational hats for a company of that size from Capital Allocation, Building Teams & Operational Processes, Financial Modeling, Investor Pitches, Pricing Strategy to developing KPIs, studying insights from data , developing the product to target focused growth.
KREATOR KARMA
Built out of a need in the market, Kreator Karma has a team of seasoned professionals helping digital content creators grow via Pre-Production, Post Production and Data Driven insights.
We work with a team of 25+ editors serving creators on Facebook, YouTube, Snap and Instagram.
EXACTIUS & PRIVATE EQUITY
Exactius is a “growth engine” designed to accelerate young and ambitious firms to the next stage of their growth. The typical clients Exactius works with is between $100M – $200M in annual revenue.
My role in Exactius was to help scale several E-commerce clients via product experiments to improve operations and revenue or profitability – depending on the business need. Clients I’ve worked with include – TodayTix, PuppySpot, PopSockets, Omaze and others.
The work we did was hands on, via a combination of inhouse and external teams. Cross functional teams included Business Operations, Engineering, Product, Marketing, Data Science, IT, Design, and Finance.
PRIDEVEL/ NEVOTEK / CISCO S+
Working behind the scene since 2009, Pridevel is an IT software firm that builds and delivers products that are sold under the CISCO umbrella. We have over 3500 worldwide clients including Deloitte, Intercontinental Hotels, and the US Army.
My team and I build and deliver products in Web and Mobile, Telecom, Wireless, Enterprise Data, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Many of our hospitality products are sold under the Nevotek brand.
SWEET KARMA
Founded in 2017, Sweet Karma is an ice cream food brand that will make you Feel Good, Not Guilty®. The first product is a delicious french ice cream macaron with 160 calories, 10g of Protein and 0g of sugar (including no fibers, fillers and gums – can you believe it?).
The CPG brand launched in out of University of Chicago’s Platinum Ranked New Venture Challenge Accelerator ’18 – which has over $1 billion in created capital and previous winners like Grubhub. Sweet Karma’s investor panel included Polsky, University of Chicago and high net work individuals in Chicagoland region. The brand was sold to a larger distributor within the NYC region.
Timeline
2006
Finished 6 years of education in all boys boarding school in the foothills of the Himalayas. Left with honors in computer science, and as the first student to be in charge for two student clubs simultaneously – computers and electronics.
2007
First day of classes at USC as a Viterbi Deans Scholarship holder and double major in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering.2011
Move to Chicago to mentor under Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the year ’99. Starts work at PrideVel Consulting.
2014
First product I built from the ground up – including spending 3 months in Mumbai, and recruiting an entire dev team, and building Agile methodologies from the ground up.2015
With my work at PrideVel excelling, and us building IT products for larger clients, I realized I needed better credentials and applied to University of Chicago Booth School of Business. It was my luck to be accepted!
2016
Classes at Booth start, and I’m in awe of all these intelligent people – battling the imposter syndrome – but changing my life and my mind for the better. I start participating in more student groups and activities, and make it as a Finalist in the university’s Venture Capital Investment Competition.
2017
Sweet Karma is born, which eventually participates in the New Venture Challenge- gaining some notoriety in Chicago and in the Chicago investor community.
2018
Sweet Karma grows from the classroom and enters its first Pilot stores.
2019
Sweet Karma is now in over 35 stores, with 60% sample to purchase conversion. We pack up and move to NYC, where we hope to grow more.
2020
Sweet Karma exit takes place to a larger ice cream manufacturer and brand. Lots of lessons learned.
2020-2022
While operating out of NYC, I was navigating the pandemic while partnering with 6 growth stage firms – with strong E-Commerce foot prints. I was either brought in by Exactius or Private Equity management teams and my job was to help them grow their operations and develop their E-Commerce products to facilitate more revenue, faster sales, less drop offs, and more profitability via pricing strategy experiments.
2022 – 2023
I was brought on to lead Operations for a Crypto platform developed by Jellysmack which was intended to tokenize royalties and sell them via a decentralized platform on the Polygon exchange.
I was later tasked with leading Operations and Business Strategy for a business unit within US Revenues – where our goal was to work with some of the largest creators (earning Millions of Dollars per platform per year) and help them create more and better content.
2023- Present
I’m currently focus on bringing value to the world via building businesses by leveraging my entrepreneurial spirit, my experience wearing multiple hats – including technical, finance and operations, and my positive and calm demeanor mostly traveling between New York City and Los Angeles for specific client / project needs.