Jim's unique consulting approach brings together two perspectives. First, strategy development and value creation techniques learned in stints on Wall Street and at McKinsey. Second, execution tools and tactics derived from many years as a corporate executive developing new technology platforms and business models. His experience included scaling market deployments to massive reach, often in the hundreds of millions of unique users worldwide. His recent consulting projects have included:

• Assisted one of the world’s largest Asset Management firms to elope its strategy and game plan for adopting Blockchain/Distributed-Ledger technologies internally and through partnerships
• For a leading global Internet of Things platform provider for Consumers and Enterprises, prioritized market pursuits by product and geography. Defined roadmaps, new product specs, solution bundle propositions, and talent-building programs. Focused especially on Smart Home and High-Value Industrial Supply Chain opportunities at the section of IoT and AI/ML
• For a PE-backed foreign technology firm delivering Customer Experience Management solutions to financial institutions, built and kicked off a multi-pronged market entry program into the US. Included new product development and aggressive M&A. Company’s liquidity event occurred in 3 years, at a significant valuation gain originally forecast to take at least 5 years, as a direct result of executing this bold strategy
• For one of the top 10 global FinTechs seeking to shift its revenue mix from mostly hardware to mostly software and services, devised a “right-angle turn” three-year strategic plan and nearer-term operating plans and budgets. Propelled company into new Emerging Payments, Omni-Channel Banking, and Financial AI opportunities.

Strategic sales executive that has repeatedly penetrated multiple vertical markets and distribution channels, strengthened product positioning and increased market share.
Achieves success with limited resources and emerging technologies requiring distribution through multiple marketing channels. Builds fast and lasting relationships that result in financial gain.
Acknowledged for entrepreneurial work ethic and ability to navigate between large and small companies while influencing the organization matrix on both sides of a partnership.

CEO of Kashat Venture Studios delivering Business-Development-as-a-Service to discover, design, build, test and validate solutions to help transform business’ at large enterprises by designing, building & delivering curated innovation partnerships with lines of businesses and technology platforms to drive agility and risk appetite in regulated environments and transformation ops & strategic advisory work to clients. Continues to play advisory and alliance builder roles for Fintech and Corporate accelerators in New York, Atlanta and Charlotte.

Formerly, both at Wells Fargo and at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, accelerated enterprise innovation with an outcome-based Innovation Lab, a Fintech accelerator to discover and enable external innovation and a design-think process to help identify and direct innovation toward desired outcomes for the business. Founding member of the team to help align Vendor Management, Technology Innovation, Industry & Investment relations and TMT IPO/M&A.

Executed a federated Technology Innovation Portfolio for Enterprise via intersection of Strategic, Human & Intellectual Capital. Nurtured collaboration between IT, business partners, technology providers, investors and academia to enhance translation of ideas to execution. Evangelized opportunities for strategic partnerships that enable new and incremental revenue growth

In 2008, was an EIR at Center For Future Banking @ MIT Media Lab via Bank of America to explore how emerging technologies and insights into human behavior can transform the customers' experience and elevate the role of the bank in their financial lives. In 2016, was part of cohort at an Executive Education Workshop @ Harvard Business School via Wells Fargo for rethinking corporate strategies to drive change in the enterprise in an innovation economy.

In the turn of the century (1997-2005) was an independent management consultant for M&A (banks) related Change Management Services including Technology Solution Definition & Transition Planning, Technology Integration, Analysis, Application Design/Re-engineering. Prior to that, was a database engineer at Ford Motor Co, State of New Mexico and Safeway.

Bachelors in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science from Bangalore, India.