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Outside the org chart

I think in connections.

Maybe growing up Mauritian has something to do with it. Maybe working across countries reinforced it. Maybe it is simply how my brain works.

Mauritian. Marketer. Builder. Chronic reverse-engineer of unnecessarily complicated things.

Anishta Purrahoo Quiles hiking in the mountains of Mauritius
Mauritius
Anishta Purrahoo Quiles travelling beside a European city waterfront
Around the world
Anishta Purrahoo Quiles working on a laptop
Work & building
Anishta Purrahoo Quiles smiling at a waterfront café
Life in between
A life in context

Different places.
One connected story.

Mauritian by birth. Multicultural by default.

I grew up in a place where moving between cultures never felt unusual. It felt normal.

Indian-looking people might speak French, celebrate Chinese New Year, eat food shaped by Africa, India, China and Europe—and still simply call themselves Mauritian.

How it shows up

Context is not an afterthought.

Growing up between perspectives shaped the questions I instinctively ask.

01 What context am I missing?
02 Whose assumptions are built into this?
03 Would this work the same way elsewhere?
04 Can the system adapt to the person?

The person

Ambition, peace and two opinionated dachshunds.

Two cultures at my dinner table

Somewhere between Mauritius and Spain.

I’m proudly Mauritian, with Indian roots, married to a Spaniard. Our life is an ongoing conversation between cultures—food, family, traditions, language, travel and the rituals that make somewhere feel like home.

Where the drive came from

Before work, sport taught me discipline.

Six years of serious competition taught me to train for distant outcomes, take feedback, recover after losing and treat a disappointing result as information.

Movement now

Less competition. More reconnection.

Strength Pilates Aerial Pilates Yoga Walking Hiking
A quieter system

When my brain gets noisy, I go outside.

A lot of my work happens on screens. A lot of my best thinking doesn’t. Some of my favourite time is walking with Ozzy and Mitsy or getting into the mountains.

Usually accompanied by two dachshunds with very strong opinions.