Jivraj Karwa
Strategy consultant with 6+ years of experience advising CXOs across fintech, health-tech, and legal-tech, regulatory-tech sectors. Proven track record of driving business turnarounds, product growth, and inorganic strategy. Deep expertise in LLM/AI enablement strategy and delivery. Dual-degree holder from IIT Bombay with strong analytical rigor and cross-functional leadership.
Work Experience:
6.8 Years
Industry:
Consulting | Technology
Function:
Consulting & Strategy | General Management | Project & Program Management
FischerJordan (US Based Boutique Management Consultancy) | Mumbai
- Senior Roles: Engagement Manager & Senior Associate
- Strategy & Delivery
- Led enterprise-wide strategy transformations, turnarounds, and GTM plays across fintech health-tech, legal-tech, and regulatory-tech sector clients .
- Advised CXO-level clients through LLM adoption, M&A targeting, and margin uplift initiatives with measurable outcomes (Select projects: Delivered 3-5% market share growth at a regulatory-tech client, (Select projects: Delivered 3-5% market share growth at a RegTech client, developed resource planning strategy at Fintech client reducing cost by 3-4%).
- Built firm-level frameworks for AI opportunity mapping, partner evaluation, and growth levers across emerging sectors.
- Authored investment and strategic materials for client-side M&A and corporate finance decisioning.
- AI Capability Building & Commercialization
- Scaled FischerJordan’s LLM/AI consulting practice; Delivered 3+ high-value engagements driving $40k+ in topline for the firm.
- Structured, sold, and delivered custom LLM/AI tooling for the U.S.-based startups; positioned the firm as a differentiated player in the space.
- Leadership & Ownership
- Managed $75–100K monthly run-rate P&L; implemented strategic initiatives such as sales planning, skill based staffing, and delivery redesign to achieve 30–40% revenue growth and 20–30% margin expansion From H1 to H2 2024.
- Spearheaded India operations—Managed 15-member team, led hiring, appraisals, and cross-border staffing across consulting and tech functions.
- Institutionalized leadership culture via structured onboarding, performance systems, and firm offsite design.
- Client Development & Sales
- Closed $100K+ in new business across strategy and LLM/AI consulting verticals.
- Built and scaled a lead-gen channel using LLM-enabled targeting—grew annual revenue from $23K (2023) to $38K (2024) (65% YoY growth).
- Strategy & Delivery
- Early Roles: Associate Consultant, Senior Analyst and Analyst
- Market & Growth Strategy
- Drove core strategy work across legal-tech, fintech, and DEI sectors—covering pricing, growth planning, and opportunity sizing.
- Evaluated M&A targets, performed competitive benchmarking, and built long-term investment theses (including one successful acquisition).
- Created GTM blueprints and operational models supporting 3-year+ strategic plans for both high-growth and turnaround contexts.
- Analytics & Product Thinking
- Delivered deep-dive sales and customer diagnostics to uncover process inefficiencies and Product-Market-Fit gaps.
- Designed and deployed tools to automate client-side analyses (e.g., fuzzy matching algorithm in R).
- Identified 10+ revenue leakage points for a fintech client and built pricing architecture that unlocked 2.5% revenue uplift.
- Internal Contributions & Thought Leadership
- Co-authored a whitepaper applying thermodynamic theory to M&A valuation; published and submitted for peer review.
- Produced content on GDP growth and inflation’s effect on U.S. lending featured across firm’s media and training platforms.
- Piloted mentorship programs and knowledge sessions to increase team integration and capability-building.
- Market & Growth Strategy
MergerWare (SaaS based enterprise M&A platform management & execution of M&A deals) | Bangalore
- Strategy Consultant to CEO
- Created investor pitch and 3-year financial model to support growth-stage fundraising; outlined product differentiation in the M&A enablement space.
- Created investor pitch and 3-year financial model to support growth-stage fundraising; outlined product differentiation in the M&A enablement space.
Pinky Promise (An AI/ML-powered clinic focused on sexual and reproductive health care for women) | Mumbai
- Strategy Consultant to CEO
- Defined competitive landscape and market positioning for an AI-based women’s reproductive health platform; advised on product roadmap and user growth strategy.
- Defined competitive landscape and market positioning for an AI-based women’s reproductive health platform; advised on product roadmap and user growth strategy.
Blue Yonder (F.K.A JDA Software) (Supply chain software corporation) | Bangalore
- Associate Business Consultant
- Drove supply chain transformation for a Southeast Asian CPG firm; implemented demand planning platform to reduce product unavailability and inventory costs.
- B.Tech + M.Tech (Mechanical Engineering) – Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
- Master’s Thesis: Disruption Analysis in Supply Chain Networks (Advisor: Prof. Asim Tewari)
- Student Volunteer, National Service Scheme, IIT Bombay, Mumbai
- Created 500+ notebooks from one-sided papers & 100+ toys from trash for kids of construction workers in campus
- Participated in awareness campaign for 20+ endangered species; Identified, studied and tagged 200+ species found in campus - Adventure Sports
- Completed beginner to intermediate certification courses in wind surfing (2019), surfing (2022), and scuba diving (2021, 2024)
- Backpacked across 4 Indian states in 2021 – Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Goa and Pondicherry