I started in intellectual property, doing the unglamorous groundwork of freedom-to-operate searches and inventor interviews for industrial R&D teams. Nineteen years on, that same discipline — find the defensible position, argue it, ship it — now shows up in AI governance memos, Agentic AI roadmaps, and enterprise data platforms for Fortune 100 clients. The thread runs through a founded startup at UC Berkeley SkyDeck, a $40M prop-tech platform, an AI diagnostics patent estate, and a Bengaluru AI product hub built from nothing. Below is the chronological record, one claim at a time.
Founder & CEO of Kreatrade, a DLT-based digital-IP startup incubated at UC Berkeley SkyDeck — Tier-1 LPs including Sequoia, Sierra, Mayfield, and Canvas sit behind the accelerator.
Read the case study →Customer Focal and IP Analyst supporting industrial-automation R&D — the foundation years where patent search discipline and voice-of-customer practice were built.
Read the case study →Sole intellectual-property professional for Schneider Electric's India product-development centre, prosecuting patents that shaped Smart Grid and circuit-breaker technology strategy.
Read the case study →Innovation-focused delivery lead for global industrial OEM clients (GE, Siemens, UTC), negotiating cross-border technology-transfer agreements and running large-scale capacity-building programmes.
Read the case study →Manager of Strategic Business Development & Innovation, building new digital ventures and an IP strategy for precision IoT sensor products on top of a century-old industrial manufacturer.
Read the case study →Lead IP Analyst driving product differentiation for an AI-based medical diagnostics platform spanning digital pathology, microfluidics, and deep-learning algorithms.
Read the case study →Product Owner for Lucernex, a $40M cloud-based, IFRS 16 / ASC 842 commercial-leasing and workplace-management platform used by global retail and corporate customers.
Read the case study →Senior Manager for Innovation & AI Governance, leading data- and AI-native product delivery for Fortune 100 clients spanning consumer healthcare, automotive sensor technology, and commercial real estate.
Read the case study →Between enterprise roles, I founded Kreatrade — a DLT-based digital-IP startup that reached $30K MRR within three months and earned a place in SkyDeck's Spring 2019 HotDesk cohort, backed by Tier-1 LPs including Sequoia, Sierra, Mayfield, and Canvas. It's the chapter that keeps every enterprise roadmap I write honest about what it actually takes to build something from zero.
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Designed and conducted the hackathon on invitation from the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India, and the Indian Chamber of Commerce (Jan 2018), convening startups, policymakers, and innovation intermediaries across ASEAN.
Recognised among finalists at the Confederation of Indian Industry's Industrial Innovation Awards for enterprise innovation programme work.
“A System & Method for Automating Performance Tests of Outage Management Systems” — filed and granted in own name, alongside 37+ client and portfolio patents across employers.