I am a Principal Lecturer of Strategy & Entrepreneurship at the MIT Sloan School of Management, where I design, direct, and teach Executive Education programs for senior leaders on corporate entrepreneurship, strategic renewal, and venture scaling. I also teach entrepreneurship and innovation in degree programs.

I hold a PhD in Strategy and Entrepreneurship from London Business School and a DPhil in Transport Studies from the University of Oxford. My research has been published in Management Science and recognized with the Strategic Management Society’s 2021 SRF Dissertation Scholar Award.

My research lies at the intersection of strategy and human capital and is organized around a central question: Why are some firms better able than others to mobilize people and capital around uncertain opportunities? I examine how strategic choices at organizational entry, including positioning, ownership, incentives, and the design of work, shape firms’ access to talent and the terms on which people are willing to join. Using field experiments embedded in live hiring processes, I study how firms compete for and assemble the human capital needed to pursue new opportunities and create new sources of growth.

This agenda is informed by my experience building teams and scaling ventures in Southeast Asia. Before entering academia, I joined Grab (NASDAQ: GRAB) shortly after its Series A financing as its first regional executive and helped scale the company beyond its initial market. I went on to serve as Founding Vice President of Public Affairs, Founding Country Head for Grab Thailand and Grab Vietnam, and Regional General Manager of GrabCar. Across these roles, I built and scaled teams of more than 200 employees and worked across strategy, operations, fundraising, government relations, and market expansion.

My work remains closely connected to practice. I co-authored the 2024 State of ESOPs in Asia report with Saison Capital, XA Network, and Carta, examining equity compensation practices across 160 startups in India and Southeast Asia. I remain engaged with entrepreneurial ecosystems as an investor and advisor through CSVE Ventures and previously served on the Extended Leadership Team and Startup Review Committee of XA Network and as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship.