IIM Ahmedabad
MBA. A new way to look at businesses.
A life in chaptersHouston, Texas · 2026
Hello, I’m
Suraj
Shaw.
Chief of Staff to the CEO
HighRadius
I build businesses.
And the systems
that make them work.
Engineering in Japan. Building businesses in the Middle East. Now, enterprise AI in Houston. There’s a thread running through it all.
Let’s rewindWEST BENGAL THE WORLDThe story so far
01 / The beginningWest Bengal, India
School fees
₹250
A YEAR.A much
bigger world.
Every story
starts somewhere.
I went to a government school in West Bengal. The fees were ₹250 a year.
When I got into IIT Kharagpur, I became the first student in my school’s 107-year history to make it to an IIT.
The first big opening.
Plenty more to come.
IIT KharagpurB.Tech, Ocean Engineering · 2014
Department rank 2
Department rank 2
02 / A wider worldNagasaki, Japan · 2014–2016
New country.
New language.
First real job.
After IIT, I moved to Nagasaki to work as an engineer at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.
My career began with engineering. The years that followed would take me much further into the business of how things get built, sold, and run.
Mitsubishi Heavy IndustriesEngineer · Nagasaki
A change of perspective
One place. Then another.
Always something new to figure out.
03 / A new lens2016–2021
From engineering
to enterprise.
I returned to India for an MBA at IIM Ahmedabad. Then came AB InBev, followed by OYO in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. The work shifted from engineering to operations, market expansion, and building teams.
AB InBev
Program management and the work of getting things done at scale.
OYO
Market building in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. A 52-person organization.
At OYO
5273,943
rooms in the portfolio
04 / Building at scaleFashinza · 2021–2023
The numbers
got bigger.
So did the job.
At Fashinza, I built the enterprise business across EMEA—connecting buyers, suppliers, teams, and delivery.
A business only works when those pieces work together. That is the kind of problem I keep coming back to.
Commercial strategy · Operations · Team building$71M
Annualized bookings at peak
~$40M
Delivered GMV
25
Direct reports
Bookings describe orders placed; delivered GMV describes the value actually delivered.
05 / The next turn2023–2025
A plot twist.
Then another
open door.
A venture of my own didn’t work out. The next chapter kept moving.
At Traya, I opened the first store end to end and wrote the playbook for the channel.
Then I went back to the classroom: an MS in Finance at SMU, completed in 2025. Engineering, operations, and now a deeper financial lens.
06 / Back to the presentHouston, Texas · 2026
Now the opening scene makes a little more sense.
Different worlds.
The same
curiosity.
Today, I’m Chief of Staff to the CEO at HighRadius, working at the intersection of strategy, operations, finance, and enterprise AI.
The thread through my career is taking unfamiliar problems and turning them into something that works. A new market. A business. A store. A system.
What I keep coming back to
“The difficult last mile between AI capability and an enterprise workflow customers will trust, adopt, and pay for.”
That’s where my attention is now.
Suraj
07 / The whole pictureCareer at a glance
The short version.
Strategy & operations.
Business building. Finance. Enterprise AI.
2026–presentHighRadiusChief of Staff to the CEO
2024TrayaEntrepreneur in Residence
2023EntrepreneurshipA venture of my own
2021–2023FashinzaEnterprise business, EMEA
2019–2021OYOSaudi Arabia & Bahrain
2018–2019AB InBevProgram Management Office
2014–2016Mitsubishi Heavy IndustriesEngineer · Nagasaki, Japan
2014
IIT Kharagpur
B.Tech, Ocean Engineering
2018
IIM Ahmedabad
MBA
2025
SMU
MS, Finance
Languages along the way
English · Hindi · Bengali · Japanese