The story so far
The 2020s
Founder at , an AI-native presentation tool. Think Cursor, but for slides. The thesis is simple: how you present something matters as much as what you're presenting. You bring the thinking, Chronicle handles the structure and design.
Accel led one of the largest rounds () of its time, and we brought on stellar angels from Google, Slack, Stripe, and Atlassian. We've since grown the team to 20 across San Francisco 🇺🇸, Australia 🇦🇺, and India 🇮🇳, and the next chapter of Chronicle is taking shape.
On GTM and product, I'm obsessed with the 
of a user's experience. They need to feel the difference immediately, enough to place Chronicle in their workflow so that the next time a high-stakes deck comes up, it's the first tool they reach for. Not a marginal improvement. A 10x upgrade over whatever they were using. That bar didn't come from intuition alone. It came from a set of product principles ↓ we refined through years of shipping and watching what actually stuck.
That obsession showed up in the results. We went viral with our , then again with , and earned on Product Hunt, up against products like Notion, Cursor and Lovable. Hundreds of thousands of users and thousands of world-class teams now rely on Chronicle for their highest-stakes work.
On the side, I'm constantly tinkering. I spent 20 years playing competitive football, traveling to watch the sport at its highest level: the in Russia, the 2024 EUROs in Germany, and plenty in between. Eventually the competitive energy found a new outlet in distance running. I've been running half marathons since, with a personal best at Oakland in 2026. The obsession got specific enough that I designed and built my own marathon tracking app from scratch: . Solo project, every pixel and line of code.
Coffee runs in the family. Generations of my extended family have been in the sugar and coffee business, so the ritual came before the obsession. That familiarity turned into something more intentional over the years: seeking out , geeking out over how different regions approach everything from sourcing to serving. At home, we have a full espresso and drip setup. And I keep a running log plus rating of every spot we visit. That habit eventually became this , a guide to every corner of the city worth stopping in.
The mid-2010s
Before Chronicle, I was in Singapore at , Asia Pacific's #1 luxury company, operating across 15 countries from Singapore to Vietnam, with a portfolio of over 120 brands including Hermès, Dior, Bvlgari, and Chanel. With the Group CEO, I worked on the strategic bets that would define the company's next chapter: luxury ecommerce. Decks were bread and butter. Storytelling was essential to convince.
My career started in strategy. Three years at , working directly with the APAC Chairman. The work was high-stakes but what surprised me was how often the outcome lived or died in the deck. At Luxasia, that pattern intensified. Teams across 15 countries would ask for my slide templates after workshops. My slide library quietly became the unofficial standard across the region. That was the thread I couldn't ignore: storytelling and design weren't soft skills bolted on at the end. They were how decisions actually got made.
Somewhere in this stretch, my turned into something more hands-on. I've always brought people together around a table. It's been my move in every city I've lived in. Eventually I designed my own: , a custom card pack. When you care about how things look and feel, even game night becomes a design project.
The early 2010s
Rewind further: , where I did a bachelor's in Computational Physics. Simulations and mathematical models by day. Typography, layout, and color theory by night, entirely self-taught. Two worlds that had no reason to overlap. But that intersection, analytical rigour meeting visual instinct, turned out to be the foundation for everything.
At 16, I turned that instinct into my first business. I built an online platform selling . The jerseys were the same as everyone else's. The store wasn't. It looked better, and people bought from me because of it. Same product, better packaging. First proof of concept for an idea I'd test for the next fifteen years: taste is leverage.
The 2000s
The instinct showed up early. I collected and and spent more time redrawing them than trading them, studying colours, layouts, the weight of a good illustration. I in the 10th grade board exams, which made my parents proud and opened a few doors. But the education that actually compounded was simpler: I was training myself to pay attention to detail.