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Join The OTM Advisory Circle!
The OTM Advisory Circle connects students, professionals, and founders with experienced operators, investors, founders, and industry leaders through structured one-on-one conversations.
These are people you would not ordinarily have access to—leaders who have spent years building companies, scaling teams, investing in businesses, and navigating complex decisions. Whether you're seeking career guidance, industry insights, strategic advice, or help solving a specific challenge, the Advisory Circle gives you direct access to experienced perspectives.
Unlike traditional mentorship programs, there are no subscriptions or long-term commitments. You simply book a session when you need guidance.
For Students
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Understand different career paths and industries
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Receive honest feedback on resumes, internships, and applications
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Learn how experienced leaders think about building careers
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Explore entrepreneurship, higher education, or alternative career paths
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Build confidence before important decisions
For Professionals
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Navigate promotions, career transitions, or leadership challenges
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Think through difficult workplace situations
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Receive feedback on management, communication, or strategic decisions
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Understand how leaders approach growth and long-term career planning
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Gain perspective from someone outside your organisation
For Founders
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Stress-test your business strategy
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Refine your go-to-market approach
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Discuss hiring, team building, and organisational design
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Think through pricing, positioning, partnerships, or product decisions
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Receive objective feedback on operational or leadership challenges
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Learn from someone who has built and scaled businesses before
For mentors, the Advisory Circle is an opportunity to give back by sharing the lessons, mistakes, and insights you've gained throughout your career. It's a chance to help students, professionals, and founders navigate important decisions, accelerate their growth, and avoid common pitfalls. Many leaders find genuine satisfaction in supporting the next generation of builders and contributing to the broader entrepreneurial ecosystem.Beyond the conversations themselves, mentors may occasionally discover exceptional founders or businesses they'd like to stay involved with. This can naturally lead to future advisory roles, introductions, investments, or equity opportunities—though any such relationships are entirely independent of OTM.
Why Join?
Our Advisors
Vinod Nambiar
Executive Vice Chairman,
More Retail
Global business leader with nearly four decades of P&L, general management and brand-building
leadership across retail and consumer goods, in both emerging and developed markets. Currently leads MORE Retail. Previously built and scaled businesses for Colgate-Palmolive across India, China, Italy, Romania and the wider Asia Pacific region. Track record of turning around declining businesses, growing sales, profit and market share, and building customer-obsessed, data-driven organizations through sharp strategy and flawless execution. A decisive, authentic leader known for motivating large, diverse teams and instilling an entrepreneurial, capital-disciplined culture.
EXPERTISE:
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Retail
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FMCG
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Distribution
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Modern Trade
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Consumer Brands
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Go-to-Market Strategy
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Sales & Distribution
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Scaling Operations
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Leadership & Team Building
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Business Strategy
Abhishek Goenka
Partner,
Aeka Advisors India LLP
Trusted advisor to founders, investors, and family businesses with 30+ years of experience across tax, transactions, structuring, and governance. Combines deep advisory expertise from BMR, PwC, and Aeka with operator experience as former CEO of CoWrks, bringing practical solutions to complex business challenges.
EXPERTISE:
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Founder Structuring
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Tax & Regulatory Strategy
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Cross-Border Investments
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Fundraising & Exits
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Family Offices
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Trusts & Succession
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Shareholder & Governance Matters
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M&A Transactions
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Business Restructuring
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Strategic Decision-Making
Vikas Lachhwani
Co-Founder
M'Caffeine, Hyphen
Entrepreneur and startup builder best known for co-founding mCaffeine, India's pioneering caffeine-based personal care brand, and Hyphen, a next-generation skincare brand. He has built category-defining brands that have resonated with millions of consumers through strong product positioning, digital-first growth, and a deep understanding of evolving consumer behaviour. Over the past two decades, he has scaled organisations from zero to significant revenue and navigated multiple fundraising rounds and business deals.
Following his recent transition out of his active operating roles, he now advises and mentors founders on scaling their organisations and raising capital, while continuing to build and back new-age businesses.
EXPERTISE:
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Organizational scale-up & growth strategy
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Fundraising & investor relations
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Building & structuring leadership teams
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Unit economics & financial discipline
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Go-to-market strategy
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Product-market fit
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Business strategy & execution
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Operational efficiency at scale
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Brand Strategy and Positioning
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D2C & consumer brand building
Karishma Gupta
Founder
Alchemist Advisors
A Chartered Accountant and finance leader with over 20 years of experience across consumer, pharmaceutical, and FMCG businesses. She has held senior leadership roles including CFO at Licious and VP Finance at Jubilant FoodWorks, and previously worked with GSK Consumer Healthcare and ITC Foods. Throughout her career, she has partnered closely with founders, boards, investors, and business leaders to build financially disciplined, well-governed organisations. As a certified Independent Director, she brings a strategic perspective on governance, scaling businesses, fundraising, and creating long-term value.
EXPERTISE:
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Finance strategy & business scaling
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Fundraising & investor relations
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Financial planning & unit economics
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Governance & board management
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Leadership & organisational building
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Business strategy & decision-making
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Operational & financial discipline
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CFO mentorship & finance leadership
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Risk management & compliance
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Scaling high-growth businesses