Risk consultant, now building
I’ve worked across risk, consulting and business operations, and now I’m exploring what comes next at the intersection of strategy, technology and building things.
Currently at Masters’ Union, after nearly three years at KPMG.
Curious about businesses, places and how things can work better.
About
I'm Revathi. I like understanding how things work: businesses, cities, destinations, products, and then inevitably wondering why they couldn't work differently.
After a few years in consulting, I'm now studying Technology & Business Management at Masters' Union, and experimenting with technology, building things, and researching the questions that keep pulling me back to places, development and, lately, F1.
Selected Work
A mix of things at different stages: a near-final build, a deployed product, ongoing research, and case work from consulting.
Uncover the real layers of India.
A place-intelligence platform that brings together the people, economy, businesses, infrastructure, culture, environment and development shaping a place, from India's biggest cities to its smallest villages.
Working in consulting, I spent a lot of time piecing together information from scattered sources before I could actually understand a business or a region. I started wondering why understanding a place is still this fragmented.
A city might have its economic data in one place, infrastructure information somewhere else, tourism data elsewhere, and local development buried in government reports. आina is my attempt to bring those layers together.
Instead of another city guide or a wall of statistics, आina lets you explore a place through six lenses:
The goal is simple: make a place easier to understand, while showing what the data says beneath the surface.
आina isn't built only around well-known cities. It's designed to work across metros, cities, towns, villages and regions, because India's story doesn't stop at its biggest cities.
Each place gets its own visual identity and story, while the underlying information is grounded in official public data wherever available.
Can fragmented public information be turned into something people can actually explore, understand and use? And can looking at the layers together reveal problems and opportunities that aren't obvious when each dataset is viewed alone?
A consulting case-preparation product built around short, daily practice instead of long prep sessions.
Consulting case prep tends to happen in long, irregular bursts: a few intense sessions before interviews, then nothing. That's a bad way to build the underlying skills (market sizing, mental math, chart reading, frameworks), which respond better to steady repetition.
Daily, short-form practice is more consistent with how these skills are actually built, closer to language learning apps than to traditional case-prep marathons.
A daily practice format covering market sizing, mental math, chart interpretation and framework practice, with progress tracking and streaks to keep it consistent, plus space for company-specific preparation.
Open the app, get a short daily set of exercises across one or two skill areas, see progress build up over time rather than in one sitting.
That the hardest part isn't designing the exercises, it's designing a version of "daily" that people actually stick with.
Ideas like AI-generated cases or AI feedback on responses are things I'd consider down the line. They aren't built, and I'm flagging them here only as directions, not existing features.
Research into how tourism is reshaping the Indian Himalayas, and what happens when a destination starts being treated like a product.
Thinking through tourism-led development, sustainability, overtourism and destination commodification in places like Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand. This is research and thinking in progress, not a claim to have solved anything.
Full pieces on these are in progress. See the Research section below.
Selected, anonymised case work from three years in risk consulting and internal audit, across healthcare, QSR and pharmaceuticals.
Problem: A healthcare client (part of a global capability centre) needed an independent view on whether vendor costs were in line with market rates.
Approach: Benchmarked vendor pricing and terms against market data across relevant procurement categories.
Analysis: Compared existing contracts and spend against benchmarks to isolate gaps worth pursuing.
Insight: A meaningful share of spend sat above benchmark, concentrated in a handful of vendor relationships.
Outcome: Validated an approximate ₹39 Cr cost-saving opportunity and presented the findings and recommendations to executive leadership.
Problem: A healthcare group at roughly $1.4B in scale needed enterprise-wide testing of internal financial controls to strengthen governance.
Approach: Led IFC testing across critical business processes, evaluating procurement, inventory, finance, HR and production controls.
Analysis: Identified high-risk control gaps and assessed their operational and compliance implications.
Insight: Several gaps were concentrated in a few process areas rather than spread evenly, which changed how remediation should be prioritised.
Outcome: Recommended sustainable corrective actions and improved the client's regulatory readiness.
Problem: A leading QSR chain needed to close control gaps to strengthen regulatory compliance across a large, distributed operation.
Approach: Tested 100+ internal financial controls across the business.
Outcome: Closed identified control gaps, strengthening the compliance posture across the chain.
Problem: A pharmaceutical client needed independent, end-to-end audit delivery they could rely on for Audit Committee reporting.
Approach: Owned two audits end-to-end over six months: scoping, execution and Audit Committee deliverables, largely independently.
Outcome: Delivery was well-received enough that the client came back for repeat engagements, and the work was recognised internally through KPMG's SPOTT award for client ownership.
Research & Writing
A couple of pieces on Himalayan tourism, and a growing thread on where economics shows up in Formula 1.
An essay working through what's structurally off about how tourism has grown across the Himalayan states.
Testing the tension between "sustainable" and "profitable" as it plays out in real destinations, not just in theory.
Reading the cost cap as an economics experiment: what happens to competition when spend gets artificially capped.
What marginal-gains thinking in a 2-second pit stop has in common with process improvement work off the track.
Why F1 team economics (sponsorship, constructor payouts, grid slots) are a decent case study in scarcity and pricing power.
Currently
Building
Aaina
Exploring
Where economics shows up in unexpected places, F1 right now, alongside how places get developed
Learning
Strategy, technology, product and AI
Researching
How tourism and development shape Indian destinations
Experience
PGP, Technology & Business Management
Consulting major, Marketing minor.
Associate Consultant, Risk, Internal Audit & Consulting
Internal financial controls, process improvement and governance work across healthcare, pharmaceutical and QSR clients.