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. My research has been published in Management Science and recognized with the Strategic Management Society’s 2021 SRF Dissertation Scholar Award.

My research addresses a central question in corporate strategy: how do firms decide where to compete and mobilize the capital and talent needed to pursue those choices under uncertainty? I study how managers evaluate competing growth paths, define and revise firm scope, and convert strategic choices into organizational commitments. One stream examines the formation of corporate scope, including how capital-market actors influence which opportunities firms pursue. My current qualitative study traces Grab’s evolution from a taxi-hailing startup into a publicly listed, multi-industry platform and shows how changing relationships with venture, strategic, and public-market investors influenced the formation and revision of its scope.  

A complementary stream examines the resource-mobilization side of corporate strategy. Using field experiments embedded in live hiring processes, I study how strategic positioning, ownership, incentives, and the design of work affect firms’ ability to attract talent and secure commitment around uncertain opportunities. Together, this work examines how firms choose their strategic boundaries and assemble the capital and human resources needed to make those choices durable. 

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.

I hold a PhD in Strategy and Entrepreneurship from London Business School and a DPhil in Transport Studies from the University of Oxford.