EXPERIENCE

• Founder, Ashaya (Sep 2020 – Present): Currently working on starting a social enterprise in the waste management space focused primarily on long-term solutions to multidimensional poverty. At Ashaya, we are trying to increase the value of waste, and fairly redistribute that value to stakeholders in the supply chain, especially those that are the most poor: waste-pickers.
• Finance, Scaling Up & Board of Directors at EcoSattva / CARPE / CRT (March 2020 – Present): Built out a scaling model and an investment pitch for their Solid Waste Management optimization process. Currently advising on finance and strategy as a director on their board.
• COVID-19 Economic Vulnerability State-wise Tracker (first half of 2020): Built an interactive dashboard that isolates the most economically vulnerable states in India during the COVID-19 crisis based on 15 relevant indicators. Based on that, directed donations to local, grassroots organizations in the most vulnerable states.

• Advisory Board at Alterna (Jan 2019 – Present): Continuing as Advisor on the Advisory Board with this NGO in Guatemala where I worked for over a year.
• Cultivation & Operations at Alterna (Oct 2017 – Dec 2018) – An Ashoka-fellow winning non-profit based in Guatemala that focuses on local and regional incubation/cultivation/acceleration of social enterprises.
  • Worked individually with over 15 entrepreneurs (largely early-stage social entrepreneurs), guiding and cultivating them in financial, marketing and social impact-related concepts.
  • Helped structure and model our first impact investing fund (US$500k) that is focused on genuinely solving the pioneer gap through disruptive investments in super early-stage social entrepreneurs, relying less on guaranteed revenue streams, and more on entrepreneur potential.
  • Negotiated, designed, built and implemented single-handedly the entire internal digital infrastructure and operations of the company, which involves over 15 different types of software ranging from basic HR tools to complicated CRM builds for a company of 30+ employees and 1000+ clients (entrepreneurs, sponsors and allies).
  • Lead, developed and molded the cultivation methodology (a type of business acceleration) with an emphasis on its flow, quality and on finance-heavy concepts, partnering alongside the likes of Unilever, FOMIN, Hivos and INGUAT (Guatemalan Institute of Tourism).

• Member, Board of Directors & Consultant at Bridge For Change (March 2019 – Present) – A non-profit based in Tanzania that empowers and educates youth.
  • Co-created a new program with the founder that focused on transitioning the organization towards a higher level of financial sustainability
  • Designed and led a human-centred design session for 50+ students at the University of Dar Es Salaam
  • Conducted internal training sessions for volunteers and employees at the organization
  • Continue to serve on the Board of Directors to advise on operations
• Finance & Operations at Livelyhoods (March 2019 – October 2019) – A social enterprise based in Nairobi, Kenya trying to solve poverty through job creation.
  • Implemented the concept of lean start-up experimentation, aligning metrics and processes to drive result-based improvements
  • Built a financial model that projected financial, operation and impact-related metrics
  • Created an internal dashboard (using Google Data Studio) that closed the loop with the regional branch managers by providing them with their sales data from Salesforce that they previously didn’t have access to
  • Optimized the sales process by removing redundant steps and cleaning up internal tech and data (Salesforce)
  • Facilitated sessions and advised on strategy options for future growth and sustenance
  • Trained the team to ensure that I was not creating any dependencies

Started & lead a centralized finance, operations and strategy team of 6 employees (started off with 2, and grew to 6 within 14 months), reporting directly to the CFO of the iHeartMedia Markets Group which covered ~$2.4 billion in annual revenue.

iHeartMedia is a $20 billion media company that owns 858 radio stations across the U.S. It went through a L.B.O. in 2008, and is currently owned by private equity giants Bain Capital and T.H. Lee, floating on $20 billion of debt.

• Managed, executed and helped strategize a company-wide reorganization which involved clustering 158 Business Units (Markets) into 36 Business Units (Regions) with the goal of establishing synergies, optimizing communication and employing a more manageable organizational structure
• Drove the business logic behind implementation of our future BI strategy which is centered around one platform (using Tableau) that merges and masters account-level data from multiple systems (Prime, Operative, Viero, BMS, IBM Cognos, Salesforce & Core)
• Lead the implementation of an Inventory Management Tool for iHeartMedia’s fastest growing branch – Events, with the goal of maximizing revenue (~$100M), optimizing inventory for experiential assets and inculcating transparency across selling teams
• Provided financial, strategic and operational support to the:
  • Auto Business Development and Strategy Team – helped streamline goals, objectives, strategies, tactics, budgets and financial reporting (~$400M in revenue)
  • Division Presidents (who oversee iHeartMedia’s 858 radio stations)
  • Events Sales and Operational Team (~$100M in revenue), National Sales & Marketing Partnerships (~$1.5B in revenue) & the Digital Team (~$200M in revenue)

• Assisted on a ~$400M cash-generating transaction with financial modeling, process and operational support that involved 411 assets across 158 markets
• Analyzed and modeled over 70 investment opportunities totaling over $800M in funding requests which included acquisitions, divestitures and capital expenditure requests, using return metrics such as IRR, NPV and accretion/dilution analysis
• Lead the Capital Expenditure management process (capex budget at ~$250M) that involved reforecasting and optimizing capital expenditure spend across the entire enterprise, along with ad-hoc deep-dives in select cases
• Conducted financial planning and analysis for the Media and Entertainment division of iHeartMedia, Inc. sized at ~$3.3B in revenue and ~$1.3B in EBITDA which involved financial forecasting, budgeting and reporting using Excel-based projection models and reports
• Assisted the Corporate Strategy team in exploring potential liquidity opportunities by constructing complex scenario-analysis models around iHeartMedia’s 3-year strategic plan

• Bachelor of Business Administration, Finance (BBA)
• Bachelor of Science, Sports Management (w/ Honors)
• Additional Coursework in Management Information Systems (12 credits)
  
  Institution:
  McCombs School of Business
  The University of Texas at Austin
  May 2012 | Overall GPA: 3.8
  University Honors – 7 Semesters | 2 Merit-Based Semester Scholarships

• Data Science Immersive (3-month bootcamp) at General Assembly in London, UK (2019)
• Post-Graduate Certificate, Social Innovation Management at Amani Institute in Nairobi, Kenya (2019)

• Passed Level I of the CFA Program (Chartered Financial Analyst) (2013)
• MovingWorlds Impact Team (2017)
• StartUp Weekend Participant – Theme: Social Innovation (June 2017 in NYC) – Placed 2nd out of 12
• Online Courses / Workshops:
  • Social Entrepreneurship 101  – +Acumen (May 2017)
  • Intro to Human-Centered Design -+Acumen (March 2018)
  • Blockchain & Bitcoin Fundamentals – Udemy (June 2018)
• Co-founder at Impactful  (Jun 2017 – May 2018) – A side-project that is an early-stage start-up focused on increasing annual charitable donations and making them more effective (inspired by Effective Altruism). I like to think this initiative is currently in “dormant” mode. Either way I learnt a ton.
• Improv 101 at Upright Citizens Brigade (UCB) (2015)
• Internships at:
  • IMG Broadcasting (2011)
  • Dubai Sports City (2009)
  • TEN Sports – Sports Channel (2008)
• Redial Entertainment – Video Production Company – co-founded (2007 / Grade 12)
• Volunteered at SFS (Special Families Support) – a support group for the children with special needs and their families (2007-2008)

• Forecasting, Budgeting & Expense Control
• Financial Modeling w/ Scenario Analysis
• Data Architecture & Data Analytics (taking a lot of data and making sense of it)
• Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence
• Operations Optimization (Compensation, BI, Research)
• Systems Implementation (incl. Project Management)
• Strategic Initiatives & Planning
• Social Entrepreneurship & Impact Investing
• Impact Measurement

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Here’s a link to my video portfolio from way back when!