A dynamic innovation leader and facilitator, Manu is sought for his ability to swing the spotlight onto teams'/organizations' own limiting 'thought spectrums', and energize them to go in pursuit of breakthrough business challenges.

Prior to getting into consulting and innovation facilitation full time, Manu spent 12 years in sales, product management and marketing with organizations like Sun Microsystems, IBM and Tata Consultancy Services. During his stint in the IT industry, he showed a penchant for challenging assignments, and his career is peppered with projects intended to take customers (and employers) off the beaten track into exciting new areas, be it ramping up a new product from nowhere to leadership position; developing radical solutions to customer nightmares; or energizing an entire organization behind a so-called 'laggard' offering.

Manu has been facilitated innovation initiatives in organizations such as Unilever, Mahindra & Mahindra Automotive, Rane Automotive, Times of India, Max New York Life, Johnson & Johnson, Dabur, Yum Restaurants, Vodafone, Tata Indicom, Virgin Mobile, Knight Frank, Kuoni Travels, Whirlpool, Blue Star Airconditioning, Mahindra Navistar, etc.