The short version.
I'm the founder of TRU Realty, a real estate development firm headquartered in Mumbai. We were featured in the Forbes DGEMS 200 list for 2025, and the team is now 100+ people strong.
Before TRU, I spent fifteen years operating inside other people's companies. Mechanical engineering at the Government College of Engineering, Pune. Three years writing code at Infosys. An MBA from the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad. Three more years at Jones Lang LaSalle as AVP, Capital Markets — which is where the real estate thread started. Then six years as CEO of Kolte-Patil Developers Limited, learning what it actually takes to run a listed developer through cycles.
I started TRU in 2018 because I wanted to build a company where the operating philosophy was a choice, not an inheritance. Most companies overcomplicate the work and underestimate the team. I try to do the opposite.
Today, alongside running TRU, I write and speak across India's business press — mostly on climate-resilient development, the shift between premium and mid-segment housing, and the regulatory cycles (RERA, the new labour codes) reshaping the next decade for both buyers and builders. Our most recent project, Spectrum Life in Santacruz, is a ₹200 cr premium residential development that captures most of what I think the next chapter of Indian urban housing should look like.
Off the clock: long runs, short books, slow coffee.