An engineer, management consultant, start-up evangelist and a trainer, he holds more than 7 years of work experience in the MSME sector, start-up and incubation. He has provided consulting services in MSME assignments across multiple sectors/subsectors of industrial and traditional clusters like engineering, textiles, leather, fly ash, diamond processing, food processing, packaging, coir and handicrafts. He has successful track record of leading multiple cluster development programs and initiatives working across positions as team leader and facilitator, advisor and assisting projects for clients like Directorate of Industries, Govt. of Odisha, National Productivity Council, SIDBI, MSME-DIs, KVIC, Coir Board, DC(MSME), M/o MSME, DC(Handlooms), M/o Textiles, Govt. of India among others. He has conducted training and capacity building programs for policy stakeholders, cluster development practitioners, Industry Associations/ BMOs and MSMEs in the area of cluster development, business-plan preparation, action plan formulation, execution and project management, result based management systems, monitoring and evaluation etc. He has hands on experience of working in the area of productivity, technology transfer, BDS development, skill & entrepreneurship development and value chain analysis in MSME sector.

He has also worked extensively in promoting growth and competitiveness among MSMEs through introduction of ICT and Digitalisation. He has also mentored and guided many start-ups in ideation techniques, design thinking process, development of business models, pivoting of businesses. He has also contributed in development of state level policies on start-ups and incubators.

• Founding Member of Global Links Impact Investment Forum (GLIIF)
• Invitee Member of MSME Guide
• Founding Member of Young Entrepreneurs Society (YES) Odisha