Prior to upGrad, Phalgun was a Principal at The Parthenon Group, an education strategy-consulting firm. He was involved in advising large education conglomerates and investment funds on their growth and investment strategy in education. Further, he has done significant work in the field of higher education and technology-enabled learning across India, US, Brazil, Africa and South East Asia. Prior to Parthenon, Phalgun worked at Opera Solutions, an analytics firm providing consultation to Fortune 500 companies on their revenue and cost optimization initiatives through data analytics. Hailing originally from Hyderabad, Phalgun completed his bachelor programme in technology from IIT Delhi.