Strategy · Growth · Stories

I build and
grow businesses.

Operator working at the intersection of strategy, talent and storytelling. Founder of Ninety-Eight Entertainment (exited), then Founder's Office at Intellewings. Now spending most of my time on go-to-market, founder advisory, and the future of Indian sports.

ISB  PGP '25 Georgia Tech  Research Scholar GMAT  760 / Top 1% ex-Founder · Strategy & Growth
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As featured in
Outlook The Week Mid-Day PTI Josh Talks

I started my first company, Ninety-Eight Entertainment, out of college — a full-service marketing and talent management agency. We grew it to ₹15Cr+ in revenue, 65x ROI, a team of 18, and a roster of 12 athletes, 500+ influencers, and 60+ F&B and hospitality clients before I exited to head to ISB.

Along the way I signed cricketer Ishant Sharma as exclusive talent, architected his RuPay × IPL partnership (300M+ impressions), ran award-winning campaigns for Happy Dent and Borges, and built a hyperlocal influencer engine that brands like TrulyMadly and Slay Coffee rode for growth.

After business school I joined Intellewings as Founder's Office — owned commercial GTM in MENA, helped close a $1M ARR upsell with Jio, secured 50% of the venture round, and ran an 8-week reset that lifted productivity 40% and cut cloud spend 30%.

Today I split my time between go-to-market and founder advisory work, the early build-out of ISB's first Sports Management course, and writing about the operating playbook I've collected the hard way.

Off the clock you'll find me on a golf course (12 handicap, longest drive at the BMW tournament), in a notebook designing something, or deep in a podcast about how India is changing.

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New Delhi · 2026

Trained at two of the world's sharpest schools.

Indian School of Business
PGP · Strategy & Leadership / Marketing · Class of 2025

National Finalist (10 of 15,000) at ABInBev, identifying a $120M white space and crafting a Gen-Z energy-drink GTM.

Top finalist in GameX (25/1000) and ISPROUTE (29/800) — pioneered scalable revenue models in e-sports.

Awarded "P2P Champ" for sessions on marketing strategy with 100+ batchmates · 95% positive feedback.

GMAT 760 · Top 1%
Georgia Institute of Technology
Research Scholar · Computer Science & Engineering

Achieved 29% faster computational efficiency in GPU optimization using CUDA and PARADISO under faculty mentorship.

Work supported broader research on parallel scientific computing pipelines and high-throughput numerical simulation.

Concurrent B.Tech in CSE at Bennett University (2017–21); Vice-President of the Student Council.

Atlanta · 2019

Things I've built, scaled or shipped.

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Ninety-Eight Entertainment
Founder & CEO · Exited
2021 — 2024

Bootstrapped a marketing & talent agency to ₹15Cr+ revenue, 65x ROI and a team of 18. Roster of 12 athletes and 500+ influencers across hospitality, F&B and lifestyle.

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Intellewings
Founder's Office · GTM & Ops
2025

Owned MENA GTM — first Saudi client, 200+ UAE SMEs. Secured 50% of the venture round. Closed a $1M ARR upsell with Jio. 40%+ productivity lift in 8 weeks.

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ISB Sports Management Course
Curriculum Architect · Ongoing
2025 —

Designing the school's first Sports Management course end-to-end — curriculum, industry partnerships, and a guest faculty pipeline of operators running the business of Indian sports.

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Ishant Sharma × RuPay
Talent Architect · IPL '22
2022

Architected the RuPay partnership for cricketer Ishant Sharma during IPL '22 — 300M+ impressions across TV, OTT and digital. Same year: Digies'23 award-winning Happy Dent campaign.

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Josh Talks Keynote
Speaker · 4M reach
2022

Delivered "Secrets of Turning ₹24,000 Into Crores" — a keynote on building a marketing agency from zero. Featured on Outlook, The Week, Mid-Day and PTI.

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GTM & Founder Advisory
Independent · Selective
Ongoing

Selectively partnering with early-stage founders on go-to-market — segment selection, partner-led entry into new geographies, enterprise sales playbooks, and operating cadence.

Golf, design and a varied life.

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Golf

12 handicap. Longest-drive award at the BMW tournament. Four tournaments and counting, mostly playing alongside pros and trying not to embarrass myself.

Design

I sketch most ideas before I write them. Brand systems, decks and the occasional album cover for friends. The fastest way to know if an idea has legs is to draw it.

Other lives

Avid podcast listener on India's transition decade. Spent some time studying for a sommelier exam. Always reading two books at once — one history, one operator memoir.

Stories from the operator's seat.

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