Principal Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management, 2025- present

Executive Education 

I help leaders build new ventures, launch innovations, and create growth in uncertain environments.

As a Principal Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, I teach entrepreneurship, innovation, and venture scaling to executives, entrepreneurs, and educators around the world. I also serve as Faculty Director for executive education programs, designing and leading custom engagements for corporations, governments, universities, and entrepreneurship centers.

My programs combine the Disciplined Entrepreneurship framework developed by Bill Aulet with insights from strategy research and my experience as a startup operator, investor, and educator. Prior to academia, I was an early executive and founding Vice President at Grab, where I helped launch and scale operations across Southeast Asia.

My approach is based on a simple belief: entrepreneurship is a craft that can be taught. Whether launching a startup, developing a new business within a large organization, or leading innovation initiatives, leaders can learn a systematic process for identifying opportunities, testing assumptions, acquiring customers, and scaling growth.

I regularly design and deliver custom and open-enrollment programs for senior leaders across Asia, Europe, Latin America, and North America. My teaching focuses on entrepreneurship, corporate innovation, venture creation, growth strategy, emerging markets, and the application of AI tools for venture building and organizational transformation.

Course 15.390: Entrepreneurship 101: Systematic Approach to New Venture Creation (formerly Building New Ventures)

(Open to MBAs, PhDs, postdocs and undergraduates; offered in Fall and Spring)

Based on the Disciplined Entrepreneurship framework developed by Bill Aulet, this course covers the process of identifying and quantifying market opportunities, and conceptualizing, planning, and starting a new, technology-based enterprise. Topics include opportunity assessment, the value proposition, the entrepreneur, legal issues, entrepreneurial ethics, the business plan, the founding team, seeking customers and raising funds. Students develop detailed business plans for a startup venture. Intended for students who want to start their own business, further develop an existing business, be a member of a management team in a new enterprise, or better understand the entrepreneur and the entrepreneurial process.