The art of coaching

We are excited to bring someone brings along a decade of experience in coaching others, and is himself a senior leader. Thank you Smita Nair and Mrinalini Ramakrishnan for chairining this!

Parin Mehta is the Managing Director Airbnb for Asia-Pacific.  He previously was the head of strategic partnerships for South-east Asia at Google. Parin has grown both small startups and large global sales organisations across APAC, EMEA and the US. He has been based in Singapore for the last 10 years, previously serving as head of strategic partnerships for Southeast Asia at Google. He worked for Google in Singapore, California and London to help superscale products such as Chrome, Android, Adsense and GMail. Prior to joining Google, Parin was a management consultant and a teacher in rural Japan. He continues to advise and coach several start-ups and entrepreneurs around the world.

He has a BA from The University of Cambridge and an MBA from INSEAD. In his spare time he enjoys boxing, coaching, investing and dressing up his baby son in silly costumes.