Our Scholars: Conversations

It has been many years, but I still take immense pride in being an Aditya Birla Scholar and this has always been a source of inspiration for me over the years. I am an alumnus of IIM Ahmedabad and IIT Kharagpur and currently head Corporate Strategy, M&A and Product at Indegene, an Indian company helping the global life sciences industry become future-ready. Prior to this, I was the Chief Business Officer at Zapr Media Labs, a media technology startup where I helped set up the P&L from scratch, scaling it up and making it profitable before selling it to one of the largest Smart TV OEMs in the world. I have also worked with Atos Syntel, Bain & Co. and Goldman Sachs in roles across business and strategy. I am based out of Bengaluru and am passionate about equity investing and philately.

I am honoured to be a part of the prestigious Aditya Birla Scholarship roster! After graduating from IIT Bombay with a B.Tech in Computer Science, I moved to the US and started my career working for some of the biggest names in technology, including Facebook and Google. I also completed a minor in AI from Stanford University. Currently, I am a Co-Founder and Chief Architect of Co:Create, a company backed by a16z, developing a blockchain-based loyalty platform for consumer brands.

I am honoured to be a part of this prestigious community of Scholars. I am the CEO and Co-Founder of a German startup designing architecture for future quantum computing. Previously, I spent two years as Head of Architecture at Xanadu Quantum Technologies Inc., a Canadian quantum computing hardware unicorn. I completed my PhD at the age of 25 and gained three years of postdoctoral research experience at top quantum computing research groups worldwide