Who we are

Some of Kairos' managing partners. Completely committed.

We are small and proud of it. For every engagement we assemble the exact combination of expertise your challenge needs — not whoever is available. The right people for your specific moment, personally involved from first conversation to final delivery.

"The person who pitches you is the person who does the work. Every session. No exceptions. That is the whole model."

— Shefali Gupta, Founder & CEO
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Managing Partner
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Shefali Gupta
Founder & CEO · Singapore

Shefali Gupta

McKinsey · DBS Bank · Citigroup · MIT AI & Agentic Systems

Shefali has spent 24 years at the intersection of strategy, technology and the deeply human work of transformation — and she is still as energised by it as she was on day one.

Senior Advisor at McKinsey & Company, where she advised the CIOs and CXOs of 40+ Fortune 500 companies across banking, insurance and retail on digital strategy and AI. Executive Director at DBS — the World's Best Digital Bank — where she led transformation for 8,000+ people and helped deliver 54 customer journeys touching 3.7 million customers.

SVP at Citigroup across India, London and EMEA. MIT-trained in AI and Agentic Systems. Speaker at the MIT CIO Forum and MIT Future of Work Summit.

She founded Kairos because she believed clients deserved something different: senior expertise, personal accountability, and a genuine desire to see them succeed.

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Managing Partner
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Manasi Mashru
Expert Partner · Strategy & Transformation

Manasi Mashru

Managing Partner, Trove Advisory · Former MD Strategy Asia, Accenture

Manasi is the kind of strategist organisations remember long after the engagement ends — because the work she does actually sticks.

As Managing Director of Strategy for Asia at Accenture, she led complex strategy engagements across APAC for top-tier financial services and multinational clients. She is now Managing Partner of Trove Advisory, focused on Asia strategy.

She walks into a room of sceptical senior leaders and comes out with alignment nobody thought was possible. At Kairos she leads our strategy and transformation practice.

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Managing Partner
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Anaheeta Goenka
Expert Partner · Brand, GTM & Consumer Strategy

Anaheeta Goenka

Managing Partner, Undertheskin · Former President, Lowe (MullenLowe)

If you want to understand why people actually choose things — not what they say in a focus group, but what genuinely moves them — Anaheeta is the person you want in the room.

She spent two decades at the heart of advertising and brand strategy, culminating in her role as President of Lowe (MullenLowe), where she led the agency's creative and commercial direction and built landmark relationships across financial services, FMCG and retail.

She is now Managing Partner and Founder of Undertheskin — a strategic consultancy that goes beneath the surface of brands to find the human truth that makes them genuinely resonate. At Kairos she leads brand management, GTM strategy and consumer insight.

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