Bio

I am the founder and Editor-inChief @ DealStreetAsia - www.dealstreetasia.com - the largest deal news and intelligence platform in Southeast Asia. We are also growing our teams in India and HK/China. DealStreetAsia is a subscription media with offerings across news, data and research! Our USP is producing journalism worth paying for - we are NOT a content play! In 2019, the Nikkei Group, picked up a controlling stake in DealStreetAsia. DealStreetAsia tracks all deal activity - PE, VC, IPOs, fund-raising, startups, M&A and we are on track to become the go-to destination portal all developments in the alternate investments asset class across Asia. Headquartered in Singapore, we have a team of 35+ executives across SEA, India and HK. Our focus on news gathering, exclusive deal breaks and interviews, and big picture coverage of the ASEAN, India, and China/HK differentiates us in an aggregation-dominant market. In just five years of existence, we have broken new ground with original content making the deal ecosystem more visible and thus providing deal engineers a competitive edge. And we got here because of the dedication of the team and the fact that we focussed on editorial, and editorial alone Prior to founding DealStreetAsia, I had worked as Editor, Telecom and Senior Assistant Editor with The Economic Times (published by Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd.), India’s largest selling business daily. With a proven track record of breaking the biggest stories related to IT and telecom policies, cyber security, surveillance and internet, I was the most prolific business journalist in the profession, with over 300 exclusive stories annually, during my seven-year stint with The Economic Times. Worked with Business Standard and New Indian Express earlier covering defence, telecoms, science and technology. Won the Business Standard -Seema Nazareth Award for Excellence in Print Journalism in March 2006.