Guiding Growth.

Not every turnaround needs the same fix. As a turnaround CEO, I've had to reinvent a distressed acquisition from the ground up, cut a sprawling portfolio down to what actually worked, and rebuild a business through organic and inorganic growth at once — three different diagnoses, three different playbooks, and a comparable result each time. Here's what actually decides which one a business needs.

Most companies still treat AI as an IT initiative. The ones actually winning with it treat it as a business one. A look at why ownership — not model quality — decides whether AI compounds or quietly dies in a report nobody opens.

The story of six acquisitions over the years, from pivoting a struggling payments company into PayLo, to integrating TastyKhana and JustEat.in at Foodpanda, to folding Opigo into ET Now. What separates the executives who do a deal from the ones who stay to live with it.

Twenty years ago, I started building financial technology on a trading desk in London. Since then, I've built investment platforms, launched India's first omnichannel payments platform, scaled fintech businesses across media companies, and today I'm helping build ET Now Pro through the acquisition of OpiGo. This is the story of the ideas that shaped my career—and why I believe the next decade of fintech will belong to companies that combine trust, intelligence, distribution,

Twenty-five years after reading Digit magazine as a college student, I had the opportunity to acquire and rebuild the brand. Here's the story behind the acquisition, the turnaround, and the team that made it possible.

From scaling Foodpanda across 40+ countries to leading digital transformation at Times Group, I’ve learned that chaos isn’t a sign of failure — it’s a sign of growth. In this blog, I share hard-earned lessons on how to organize chaos, build resilient teams, and lead with clarity when everything feels uncertain.