Advisory & Mentorship

UNIVERSITY

  • UC Berkeley Haas School of Business

    Mentor & Judge — AI Entrepreneurship (MBSA 296T2)
    Feb – Apr 2026

    A YC-style 13-week course at Berkeley Haas selecting 30 teams to build AI-native products. Each week, teams pitch, share progress, and learn directly from startup operators across product, engineering, and go-to-market.

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  • UC Berkeley Big Ideas Contest

    JUDGE — EARLY STAGE & FINALS
    Dec 2025 – May 2026

    Berkeley's flagship student innovation competition, surfacing the most promising ventures across disciplines and evaluating them from early concept to finals-ready pitch.

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ACCELERATORS

  • MassChallenge

    JUDGE & MENTOR — HEALTHCARE & LIFE SCIENCES TRACTION PROGRAM
    Since Feb 2026

    A global accelerator backing high-impact startups across healthcare, energy, and enterprise — with a focus on founders ready to scale.

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  • beSUCCESS Global Mentorship Program

    MENTOR
    Dec 2025 – May 2026

    South Korea's leading government-backed startup platform, connecting early-stage founders with operators & advisors to accelerate international growth.

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PROFESSIONAL COMMUNITY

  • Operators Guild

    JUDGE
    Since Jan 2025

    A community for operators and builders. Contributing to key initiatives including Demo Day — a high- signal showcase of the best tools and products for operators across categories that matter.

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NONPROFIT

  • NFTE — Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship

    JUDGE & MENTOR
    Since Dec 2025

    A nonprofit bringing entrepreneurship education to young people in underserved communities — judging and mentoring founders at various stages of their entrepreneurial journey.

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  • Vibha.org

    BOARD MEMBER
    Since Jul 2025

    A nonprofit that has reached nearly 5 million children across India through scalable education programs. Serving on the board to strengthen operational sustainability and long-term impact.

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Open to Advisory

I advise a small number of post-PMF and growth-stage companies on the business side of scale. Once the product is in market, the next challenge is usually not what to build — it is how to find the right customers, improve go-to-market execution, increase adoption, and turn early traction into repeatable revenue. That's where I work.

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Note on independence

All advisory and mentoring work represents my independent perspective, informed by experience advising Fortune 500 and high-growth companies. I never share proprietary information from any organization.