Opening balance.
How I got hereMy father didn't hand me a business. He was too busy building one of India's largest social service networks.
During his tenure, he grew Vasavi Clubs International from 5,000 to over 150,000 members — through people, presence, and an extraordinary commitment to community. He has contacts at the highest levels of society. He has never once used them for personal gain.
I am not that person. I'm the one sitting in the corner, quietly thinking about business models. He filled rooms. I fill spreadsheets.
Growing up watching the family's Bombay Dyeing showroom take a back seat to his social commitments, I developed a quiet, stubborn obsession with business — with how things are built, funded, structured, and scaled.
CA was a challenge I set for myself. I completed it. Along the way, I had the privilege of working with Pattabhi Ram and M P Vijaykumar — stalwarts in CA education — helping refine their textbooks. My name is somewhere in those pages. Pattabhi Sir made me fall in love with Strategic Financial Management. That love has never left.
I qualified in 2014, but was deep in the startup world since 2012. I always believed tax filing was a dead end — a piece of code would eat it — so while others built traditional practices, I went toward startups, advisory, and modern financial thinking.
That obsession with finance never stopped. I went on to clear CFA Level 2 — not because anyone asked me to, but because Strategic Financial Management is the one subject I never got tired of.
That path led here.
"CA was a challenge I set for myself. I completed it."