Three chairs, one way of seeing.

I qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 2003. Since then my work has moved across three vantage points that rarely sit together in one person — and that combination is most of what I have to offer.

The clientI began inside industry: finance and accounts at a chemicals company, then the infrastructure arm of L&T, where I ran the financial cycle for project companies, worked with consortium lenders on funding and restructuring, and dealt with government agencies on concession agreements. That is where I learned what it feels like to carry the numbers and answer to the board.

The advisorIn 2012 I started my own risk-advisory practice — risk-focused internal audits, internal controls over financial reporting, forensic and fraud investigation, SOX readiness and ERP work — for Indian companies and multinationals across diverse industries. The consultant's craft: walking into someone else's problem and reframing it.

The one who deliversMore recently my work has centred on building and leading delivery and strategy for North American clients. Since October 2025 I am a Partner at an established Indian Professional Services Firm with a seventy-six-year history, where I help shape the operating models behind offshore and hybrid professional-services work — quality assurance, risk governance, and scalable, sustainable growth across borders.

Governance

Alongside the practice, I have served as an independent director since 2015 — on a listed road-infrastructure company and across the road portfolio of one of India's earliest listed Infrastructure Investment Trusts, sitting on the boards of multiple project companies through significant platform-level acquisitions, sponsor-structure transitions, and large refinancing exercises. My board focus is financial-reporting oversight, audit-committee effectiveness, risk assessment, governance and compliance, and forensic and regulatory matters.

For about a decade I also chaired grievance-redressal and arbitration cases for the National Stock Exchange and the Multi Commodity Exchange — several hundred of them. It is where I learned, case after case, that disputes resolve not when someone argues harder, but when someone establishes what is actually true and stands on it.

The letters, for those who keep count

FCA (Institute of Chartered Accountants of India), CPA (US), CISA, and a certification in forensic audit and fraud prevention — with executive programmes in strategy, leadership, and M&A at IIM Ahmedabad.

What I care about is plainer than the CV: clear governance, decisions made on evidence rather than volume, talent given room to grow, and quality that holds whether the work is done in one country or three.