Pavan is Clinical Strategy & Entrepreneurship faculty at ISB, and a visiting fellow at University of Melbourne and Anderson School UCLA. His research interests are in Adaptive Strategy under high flux and uncertainty e.g. New Technology and Emerging Markets. 

Pavan is a serial entrepreneur with a strong track-record of investor returns and successful exits including start-ups, high growth and turn-arounds. He also has 20+ years of international Senior Partner level corporate advisory experience in Country & Regional Head roles across Australia, USA, South East Asia and India with Strategy consulting & Private Equity firms such as Halcyon Partners, AT Kearney, Stern Stewart & co. and the Boston Consulting Group. 

In earlier career roles, he worked in corporate strategy; technology management and incubation, and as an engineer and research scientist. 

Pavan is an Indian born, US educated, Australian citizen, former permanent resident of Singapore and an Overseas Citizen of India.