Co-founder and CEO, HappiNest.AI
AI leasing platform that automates lead response, qualification, tour scheduling, and follow up for property management companies through deep integrations with property management systems and listing portals.
Experience
From operator to founder.
A career across marketing intelligence, business development, product, growth, and company building, including four apps built independently.
Co-founder and CEO, 2024 to present
Past role / SchooLinks
About 6×paid account growth at SchooLinks
Independent work
4 appsFounder across five Indian languages
Education
Wharton + PennBusiness and anthropology, both with honors
Roles
The operating record.
A progression from strategy and business development into product, growth, company leadership, and independent product creation.
Founder, Zubane, Bhashalu, Bhashegalu, and Bhashao
Created and published four language apps tracing the words, scripts, and histories that connect Hindi, Urdu, Telugu, Kannada, and Gujarati.
Product and implementation specialist, SchooLinks
Led the work based learning division, shipping product and partnership features with the engineering team and growing paid accounts about six times over.
Head of growth and product, Virtuous AI
Built the growth and product function from the start for an ethical AI startup that monitored machine learning models for bias and explainability, taking the first product from idea into beta.
Co-founder, AirCampus
Co-founded an education technology startup, leading product, marketing, and strategy through beta trials with schools and a later wind down.
Business development, Zymergen
Worked in business development at a biotechnology company, building pricing strategy and researching new market opportunities with the research and product teams.
Marketing intelligence strategy and operations, LinkedIn
Worked on the marketing intelligence strategy and operations team, building processes to audit campaign operations and support work across marketing, finance, and operations.
Vice president, finance and marketing, The Ivy Council
Served on the national executive board of a nonprofit that connects Ivy League student governments, leading marketing and then finance.
Education
Business and anthropology.
Two complementary ways of understanding organizations, markets, and the people inside them.
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Finance, marketing, and operations management. Graduated with honors.
University of Pennsylvania
Anthropology. Graduated with honors.
Focus areas
Where the experience comes together.
The work is broad, but the same ideas keep returning.
Vertical AI
Building AI for the operating detail of property management and leasing.
Product and growth
Turning early products into systems customers can use and teams can operate.
Language tools
Building focused apps that connect language, history, and technology.
Company building
Building and operating early stage companies from product through go to market.