Biography
I am a Doctoral student in the Management Department at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, specializing in Entrepreneurship and Strategy.
My advisors are Professors Exequiel Hernandez, J. Daniel Kim, and Paul A. Gompers. Presently, I am studying:
- How institutional constraints and organizational experience shape who becomes an entrepreneur, when they enter, and what kinds of ventures they build.
- Financial and non-pecuniary returns to entrepreneurship across developed and emerging markets.
- Entrepreneurial finance and venture capital outside VC-rich ecosystems, and how financing structures shape founder selection and post-investment scaling in capital-constrained environments.
- The impact of global talent flows on entrepreneurship, innovation, and labor-market outcomes.
Before Wharton, I spent two years as a Predoctoral Fellow in the Entrepreneurial Management and Finance unit at Harvard Business School (HBS), working closely with Professor Paul Gompers. At HBS, I led the full research pipeline on projects examining the career and labor-market spillovers of high-skilled immigration, non-pecuniary returns to entrepreneurship, peer and network effects in early-career hiring, and private-equity fund behavior.
Prior to HBS, I completed dual MS degrees in Engineering and Technology Innovation Management (ETIM) and Public Policy and Management (PPM) at Carnegie Mellon University, and earned my B.Tech in Electrical and Electronics Engineering (EEE) from Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University (GGSIPU), New Delhi, India.
Always happy to connect — whether about research, graduate school, entrepreneurship, immigration, or anything else that brought you here. Send me a note by email or find me online; I would be glad to hear from you.
Management Department, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
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