I am a Principal Lecturer of Strategy & Entrepreneurship at the MIT Sloan School of Management, where my teaching focuses primarily on Executive Education. I design, direct, and teach programs for senior executives on corporate entrepreneurship, innovation, and venture scaling. 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 focuses on a central question: Why are some firms better able than others to mobilize people and resources around uncertain opportunities? My current work examines how strategic positioning, ownership, incentives, and organizational design shape the cost and composition of talent available to entrepreneurial firms. More broadly, I study how firms assemble and organize resources to pursue new opportunities and create new sources of growth. 

These questions are informed by my experience building and scaling ventures in Southeast Asia. Before entering academia, I joined Grab (NASDAQ: GRAB) as the company’s first hire focused on scaling the business beyond its initial market. I went on to serve as Founding Vice President of Public Affairs, Founding Country Head of Thailand and 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. That experience continues to shape the questions I study and my work with executives and entrepreneurs. 

My research remains closely connected to practice. I co-authored the 2024 State of ESOPs in Asia report with Saison Capital 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 the XA Network and as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship. I also hold an MPA in International Development from Harvard University, an MA in Education from Teachers College, Columbia University, and a BSE in Bioengineering from the University of Pennsylvania. A first-generation college graduate, I began my career as a special education teacher through Teach For America, teaching students with autism at an inner-city high school in Miami.