Functional Skills

Benchmarking
Go-to-market Strategy
Operations Management
Commercial Due Diligence
Business Analysis
Strategy Development
Growth Strategy
Commercial Strategy
Business Unit Strategy
Venture Capital Investing
Cost Reduction
Product Launch
Market Research
PMO Transformation
Qualitative Research

Sector Experience

Business Services
Consumer Goods
Financial Services
Social & Public Sector
Technology

Languages

English

Notable Clients

Bain & Co
Government of India
PayPal
Western Union

Big 3 Consulting (MBB)
Big 4 Accounting
Fortune 500
Top Consulting Firms

Experience

Scalar North Capital Finance
Investment Associate
5/2023 - Present
• Steering deal origination, conducting due diligence, and effecting execution for various early-stage investments at Seed and Series A within the UK, Europe and US, focusing on PropTech, CleanTech, FinTech and ConsumerTech
• Leading a £1Mn Series A cheque for a UK sustainable logistics player and a £500K bridge for a US AI-led AdTech, driving a £450K follow-on round for an AI-in-Gaming portco and a £120K pre-series A bridge for an InvestTech portco
• Innovating robust support to the entire portfolio across strategy, operations, and growth, aiding our FinTech portco 'Chip' on product, lean construction portco 'Visilean' on Asia expansion and Clean/PropTech portco 'Kamma' on partnerships
• Curated and launched our 'Venture Builder' wherein refined the business strategy for a clean mobility venture, evaluated its operations to ideate a 5-year financial forecast, and analysed the funding climate to seed a larger fundraise opportunity

Deliveroo Product Management / Strategy
Business Strategy Associate, Global Restaurant Strategy
5/2022 - 5/2023
• Identified inefficiencies in menu creation process for new partners on 'Admin' platform, designed new menu creation tool in 'Hub', led feasibility test in UAE with Product team, launching optimised tool in 12 markets with £35K/month cost savings
• Led 'Ideal menu' creation over current 'menu completeness' metric, mapped competitors, developed solutions like multilingual menus, and built 'menu quality tracker' with Data team, vitalising customer conversion by 23%
• Automated partner refund dispute process on 'Hub', increasing partner NPS by 10 points, and modelled 'Auto Claim Accept/Reject' tool by analysing past claims filed by partners, reducing claims pay-out by 31% and agent costs by 18%

Mastercard Corporate Strategy & Development
Strategy and Product Consultant
2/2022 - 5/2022
• Evaluated B2B products in Europe, analysed merchant and e-commerce pain points, creating T&E program for optimised travel spending, instant virtual cards to combat fraud, and card-to-account transfers for enhanced working capital
• Developed merchant segment strategy, ideated target firms, designed buyer personas and led customer engagement model, partnering with Amazon and HSBC for new payments product line, and raising B2B revenue forecast by 27%

McKinsey & Company Management Consulting
Associate, Financial Institutions Insights and Consulting
8/2020 - 8/2021
• Designed a go-to-market strategy and innovated product offerings for an Asian government launching a national 'Faster Payments Service', increasing the country's digital payments by 75% and financial inclusion forecast by 11%
• Broadened the portfolio of a global payments player in Europe by transforming its business model and diversified its offerings by benchmarking the market strategy of specialist players, accelerating profits by 35%
• Explored untapped markets and ideated the creation of new verticals like POS lending and global remittances to restructure operations of a leading fintech firm in Africa, raising its client retention rate to 93%

Connecting Dreams Foundation Start-Up
National Management Head and Advisory Board Member
8/2017 - 8/2020
A non-profit working towards accomplishing SDGs set by the UN through student-led social impact ventures National Management Head and Advisory Council Member
• Initiated 30+ SDG-driven ventures by creating sustainable business models, conducting fund allocation and social impact analysis, and onboarding the CSR vertical of Google, thereby getting acknowledged by UNDP for impacting 10,000+ lives
• Detected inefficiencies and implemented rectified measures such as inclusion of local community's know-how in project 'Unnati', aimed at converting local women into entrepreneurs by selling self-cooked food, raising their income by 250%
• Accelerated a COVID-19 targeted venture, 'Co-Win Action Network', devised a 3-part business model connecting volunteers to infected underprivileged communities, impacting 2000+ families

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Management Consulting
Consulting Intern
5/2019 - 7/2019
• Leveraged existing knowledge of new impact ventures to analyse financials, execute extensive research on target firms, and predict trends and behaviour for Commercial Due Diligence in ‘Upwards’ project, submitted deliverables in half time
• Brainstormed a unique time-efficient ‘Due Diligence’ tool in the ‘Landlord’ project that got incorporated into PwC’s due diligence methods, got acknowledged by the lead partner and received a return offer