Manasvi menon Co-Founder & Principal
Manasvi is an experienced urban strategist and educator committed to creating stronger, more vibrant cities by transforming how people experience shared spaces. With a foundation in urban planning and infrastructure policy, she has developed Digital Master Plans for diverse environments ranging from mixed-use campuses and retail spaces to parks and airports.
Her expertise bridges the technical aspects of infrastructure with the human-centered elements of community design, creating thoughtful urban solutions that enhance daily life and foster connection.
About Manasvi
Manasvi shepherds ideas from vision to execution by aligning user needs, business value, and technical feasibility to plan, pilot, implement and scale digital solutions in shared spaces. She has experience crafting compelling go-to-market strategies and business cases, navigating cross-sector and cross-discipline perspectives, and creating solutions that generate positive outcomes for communities, operators, investors, and policymakers alike.
Key Skills
Public Sector Innovation
Policy research, interagency and stakeholder workshop facilitation.
Business Case Development
Feasibility analysis, ROI modeling, benchmarking and prioritization.
Workforce Optimization
Organizational design, change management, and service transformation.
Digital Solution Design
Persona development, use case and feature specification, go-to-market strategies.
Experience
Manasvi was a founding member of the Connected Communities practice at Intersection, an Alphabet-backed technology and media company, where she developed Digital Master Plans for over 500 million square feet of mixed-use real estate. Previously, she was a consultant at WSP, a global infrastructure and transportation firm, where she advised mayors, city and state agencies on strategies to improve mobility in cities, drafted policy memos, and helped municipalities pursue funding for smart and connected transportation projects.
Manasvi is a lecturer at Yale University, where she teaches a seminar on the future of cities and is an advisor to the Urban Studies program. She is also a board member of Brooklyn Workforce Innovations, a NYC-wide workforce development and training non-profit, and a member of the Urban Land Institute’s Tech and Innovation Council. She holds a BA from Yale University and an MSc in City Design from the London School of Economics & Political Science.
