Growth Memos
Short, useful notes, written for founders and operators in the trenches, not for management consultants.
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The doctor who builds businesses.
Scientist by training, entrepreneur by instinct. Three decades building, scaling, and turning around companies across water technology, international trade, and regenerative medicine.
Most advisors are one thing. The point is the combination.
§ I. The work
Diagnosis. Delivery. Access.
Three engagements. The first two are the same work at different depths: I diagnose and design, then my team installs. The third is separate, and older than both: the introductions that open a market.
- 01 Find the real problem. I read the company as it runs, not as its process documents describe it. Then I design the system that closes the gap. AI enters the strategy as an instrument, not as a feature. Strategy & Advisory
- 02 Install the system. Designing the system is the easy half. This is the team that carries it through the middle of the company, where transformation usually dies. Business Transformation
- 03 Get in the right rooms. Introductions across India, the Gulf and Europe. Mapped, qualified, and prepared on both sides before anyone meets. Founding engagements are open. The Bridge
One method. Only the depth changes.
§ II. By the numbers
Three decades, in brief.
- 0+Years building businesses
- 0+Ventures across sectors
- US$0M+Revenue led, in aggregate
- 0Years CEO of a listed co.'s Impex division
- 1995Doctorate · Gujarat State
- FundedPublic research grants · SIBRI · DBT · BIRAC
§ III. The journey
One journey. Six chapters.
Physician, builder, trader, healthcare innovator, advisor, writer. Six chapters that look unrelated and are not: the method came from working inside systems with nothing in common, and watching them fail in the same shapes.
- 01 The Physician
- 02 The Builder
- 03 The Global Trader
- 04 The Healthcare Innovator
- 05 The Advisor
- 06 The Thinker
§ IV. Writing
Three decades of operating, turned into practical ideas.
The Success Paradox
A running essay on what success quietly costs, for people who have already won something and are starting to see what got traded for it along the way.
Read the essayBooks
Longer-form work, in publishing now. Details when the dates are fixed.
Writing§ V. MSMErise
Advisory attention, where it is scarcest.
India runs on its small and medium businesses. They carry the country's employment and receive almost none of its advisory attention, because the operators who would benefit most are the ones who cannot afford to be advised. The promoter is usually the only person in the company thinking about the company. MSMErise is where I intend to put some of my own attention.
§ VI. Contact
Let's build something.
For advisory engagements, speaking, or simply a thoughtful introduction, write directly. I read everything that lands here.
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