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 strategy and entrepreneurship and teach entrepreneurship in degree programs. My research has been published in Management Science, and my current job market paper has received a 1st-round revise-and-resubmit at Management Science and is a finalist for the Best Paper Prize at the 2026 Strategic Management Society Annual Meeting. I am also a recipient of the Strategic Management Society’s SRF Dissertation Scholar Award.

My research addresses a central question in strategy: How do firms acquire and mobilize the people and capital needed to pursue new strategic opportunities? Firms may identify attractive markets, technologies, or business models yet struggle to execute them because the resources they need are costly, contested, or difficult to redeploy. I study how strategic choices shape firms’ access to talent and capital and, in turn, how relationships with employees and investors enable, constrain, and redirect the strategies firms pursue.

I study these questions using field experiments embedded in live organizations and longitudinal field research. My current work examines how competitive positioning shapes firms’ ability to attract and afford the talent needed to execute strategy. Related field experiments examine employee equity compensation and how AI-agent versus human supervision changes the attractiveness and compensation of technical leadership roles. Complementing this work, my qualitative research examines how managers and investors shape firm scope, including a longitudinal study of Grab’s evolution from a taxi-hailing startup into a publicly listed, multi-industry platform. Together, these studies examine how firms secure and organize the talent and capital needed to turn strategic opportunities into new businesses.

My broader research agenda focuses on corporate entrepreneurship and strategic renewal: why established firms with substantial talent, capital, technologies, customer relationships, and market access nevertheless struggle to build new businesses. I am particularly interested in internal markets for talent and capital and in how organizational design shapes firms’ ability to redeploy resources toward uncertain new opportunities.

This agenda is informed by my experience building teams and scaling new 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.

I hold a PhD in Strategy and Entrepreneurship from London Business School and a DPhil (PhD) in Transport Policy from the University of Oxford, as well as an MPA in International Development from the Harvard Kennedy School and a BSE from the University of Pennsylvania.