I joined Reuters news agency in Bombay in 1994 and in the next 12 years I moved to New Delhi, London and then New York where I wrote on business and finance. In 2006, I joined Dow Jones in London, writing the ‘Heard On the Street’ column for the Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires. I hold an MBA from New York University’s Stern School of Business, post-grad degrees in Applied Economics and Journalism, and am also a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst.

I spent the bulk of my career working as an editor for glossy women’s magazines. I spent 15 years at Conde Nast and Hearst, honing my skills with some amazing mentors. I also had a brief stint at Working Woman – where I reported their annual salary survey – and became acutely aware of the complex issues women faced with gender parity in the workplace.
I believe that personal finance –or any topic– should be written to be engaging, social, and jargon-free. Money is an emotional topic.

As the father of three millennial sons, I fully understand the importance of financial literacy and the difficulty of giving quality, easy-to-understand advice that isn’t “boilerplate” or in their “dad’s voice.” Most of my clients have been in the financial services industry, and as such, I have developed a great appreciation for the challenges they face as they try to enhance their client relationships by fostering better and more meaningful engagement. I am excited to be part of the CentSai team.

At CentSai I am responsible for market research, overall product strategy and corresponding roadmap, business and product planning, user experience, business intelligence and analytic, user base growth planning. I lead CentSai’s product management team and and working with the core design/engineering teams to ensure the success of the product. I love building products, but I fell in love with online education when I helped build WizIQ, a an online platform and virtual classroom tool for students and educators.

I am a technology strategist, product builder, and start-up adviser based out of the San Francisco Bay Area, as well as a serial intrapreneur with 15-plus years of experience. I excel at driving end-to-end development of multiple innovative B2B user-centric SaaS and Mobile products, having scaled to more than $100M revenue in five years and won two acquisitions by Oracle & Software AG. Additionally, I enjoy mentoring and advising early-stage founders and leadership teams building emerging technology start-ups.