The long way round
I started as a software engineer in India. Writing code, building systems, figuring out how enterprise software actually behaves when real people touch it.
That curiosity took me to Italy, then to London in 2005. Over the next two decades I worked inside some of the world's largest companies. Unilever, Mars, Shell, BP, LeasePlan. The kind of transformations that touch hundreds of millions of consumers without any of them knowing it happened.
Programme governance, AI strategy, data platforms, digital marketplaces. I've shipped them all, usually across three continents at once, usually with a budget someone said was too small.
In 2024 I stepped back from corporate life. In 2025 I came back briefly to support the Magnum Ice Cream separation from Unilever, working on the technology side of the M&A programme. Then back to building. The gap I keep seeing: AI is genuinely useful, but almost nobody outside tech is getting the benefit of it. That's the problem I'm working on.