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Before founding your company, was there a specific experience—big or small—that made you feel, ‘I’m someone who builds things’? How did you know you have an entrepreneurial spirit that you wanted to nurture?
I had the entrepreneurial itch very early on. Still in college, while finishing my bachelor’s, I opened two businesses at the same time — a beauty clinic franchise unit and a smoothie bar. I just wanted the experience of building something from scratch, with all the uncertainty and responsibility that comes with it. It ended up being the best course in entrepreneurship I could have taken.
Even after I joined a consulting firm, I already knew my endgame would be to build things. That feeling never really left — the sense that I learn the most, and operate my best, when I’m creating something new and shaping it with my own hands.
Many organizations struggle with innovation and problem-solving. How did your personal journey or experience lead you to believe that High Bridge Academy was the solution?
Consultants work under a lot of pressure. It's an environment where you get the incentives to perform because time is super short. And usually, you have work that should be split up between two or three people, but you end up doing it yourself. So you have to be really productive and smooth, working and collaborating with other people.
And when we step out of consulting, we feel that environmental incentives change a lot. It slows things down and there's a lot less pressure, which sometimes builds a bit of inefficiency. And of course, there are plenty of advantages - like enjoying more work-life balance and so on.
But what I wanted to do with High Bridge Academy was to give people who did not have the chance to be groomed into consultants the opportunity to work more productively with a structured problem-solving methodology and communication skills for executive teams, so they can perform at a higher level.
Why do you think it is important to you to stay connected with CEMS alumni via the network? What would you say are the benefits?
CEMS is one of those rare networks where you can genuinely connect and build relationships on a completely different level. When you meet someone from the community, reaching out feels natural — you can WhatsApp them directly, and there are active groups and communities all over the world that make it easy to stay engaged. You can quickly find fellow CEMSies anywhere and you just get going for coffee, lunch, or other activities. In my own company, we often collaborate with CEMS students and even faculty, which shows just how strong and far-reaching the network truly is.
Rapid Fire:
One quality every innovative leader needs?
Problem solving - because innovation is really about method
Best leadership advice you ever received?
Understand that people have different needs and try to reach them and address them individually.
The Best part about being a CEMSie is?
Being a global citizen and connecting with people, even if you’re far away from home.
A fun fact about the alumni network?
You can always find a WhatsApp group that’s super active, everywhere you go.
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Published on 2 December, 2025
