Sep 2024 – Jan 2025 · 4 mos · United Kingdom

• Advisor to the CEO and team on product strategy, product management, growth initiatives, and individual and team performance management

Jul 2023 – Sep 2024 · 1 yr 2 mos · United Kingdom

• Led the Product, Design, Analytics and Research teams. Responsible for Nansen's AI, B2C and B2B product lines.

Feb 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 1 mo

• Advisor to startups and product teams on their product challenges.

Aug 2021 – Jul 2023 · 1 yr 11 mos · London, England, United Kingdom

• Established the Product function and grew Coinbase EMEA to 80% of non-US revenue. Led product for Coinbase EMEA and International Onboarding, driving growth and innovation.
• Some of the many notable product launches- Open Banking in the UK (1st exchange in EMEA), PayPal in Germany, Staking in 20+ countries, Licensure in multiple European countries, Product for VASP registration in the UK, Institutional banking rails, SEPA redundancy etc.
• Established an experimentation culture and robust product discovery processes to reduce distance with customers and inform strategy and roadmaps.

Nov 2020 – Aug 2021 · 9 mos · London, England, United Kingdom

• Led the re-design and re-architecture of TweetDeck (now X Pro)

Apr 2017 – Nov 2020 · 3 yrs 7 mos · London, United Kingdom

• Leading global product for Prime Video Client team for large screen devices (Smart TVs, Gaming Consoles, Set top boxes, MVPDs), the largest client for Prime Video by streams.

Jan 2016 – Apr 2017 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Led a team of product managers for Flipkart’s consumer web experiences on mobile and desktop platforms. Co-creator and Product Lead for Flipkart Lite, world's first native-like mobile website (Progressive Web App) and Flipkart's reimagined Desktop web experience.

Jul 2015 – Jan 2016 · 6 mos

Aug 2014 – Jul 2015 · 11 mos

• Responsible for shipping great shopping experiences for Indian consumers and building compelling businesses around them. Working to redefine E-Commerce experience for users on the web
• Flipkart Lite, a next generation native-like mobile web app. Defining vision and goals for Flipkart's mobile web experience
• Shipped mobile app and web experiences for the largest online sale in India, The Big Billion Days and the world’s first app-only sale, Big App Shopping Days
• Launched user acquisition initiatives to drive growth for Flipkart’s consumer apps across Android, iOS and Windows platforms
• Led user transition from mobile web to consumer apps. Worked with multiple functions which included design, engineering, SEO, marketing, product operations, customer service and public relations

Mar 2013 – Jun 2014 · 1 yr 3 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• Responsible for Content and Live experiences on first party Windows apps for mobile and desktop platforms. Owned the full product lifecycle including responsibility for in-app sports content experience involving working with partners such as Fox Sports, SBNation, Deadspin, Perform Group and Associated Press.
• Some highlights:
• ∙ Identified the opportunity, productized and automated the Bing and MSN Sports content pipeline using Named Entity Recognition and Natural Language Processing in partnership with Microsoft Research. Launched in 40+ countries leading to growth in retention, revenue and margins metrics. Solution was scaled to MSN and Bing universe of products.
• ∙ Launched Live NFL, NBA and Olympics experience for native mobile and desktop apps, which later became a UX benchmark for future live sport experiences on Bing and MSN. Opened additional revenue streams via sponsored advertising.
• ∙ Worked with the Perform Group (owns Goal.com) to power soccer content in 26 international markets. Developed internal processes to scale rollouts.

Jan 2012 – Mar 2013 · 1 yr 2 mos · New Delhi Area, India

• Cross-pollinating technology, business, user behaviour, cognitive science and pedagogy to develop consumer wowing products in the field of online K-12 education.
• Started the Mobile Cloud and VAS team. Built the product, engineering and design team from scratch. Secured sponsorship from GlaxoSmithKline and successfully launched 2 Android apps. Worked with large telcos such as Bharti Airtel, Idea Cellular to roll-out nationwide mobile VAS services for K-12 students in India.
• Launched a new and responsive mobile site as a part of transition to mobile-first.
• Led the migration of legacy CRM and CMS to cloud/Amazon Web Services to enable scaling.
• Established new processes to standardize and systemize collaboration between engineering, educators and content teams to enable faster growth.
• Launched 'CBSE/ICSE' (K-12 education boards) Android apps in collaboration with Idea Cellular, one of India's largest telcos. App was launched as a part of a national Ad campaign.

Mar 2011 – Jan 2012 · 10 mos · New Delhi Area, India

• A specialized online education company that aimed to provide on-demand self-paced and high-quality online learning programs in critical and difficult to understand subject areas for Indian professionals.

Oct 2010 – Feb 2011 · 4 mos

• Responsible for developing and helping execute the company's overall business strategy, including monitoring company's performance and making recommendations for strategy adjustments. This involved market research, competitive analysis, identifying new business opportunities, and development of long-term goals and plans. Worked closely with departments such as finance, marketing and operations to ensure alignment with the overall strategy.

Sep 2009 – Sep 2010 · 1 yr

• Pre-investment- Responsible for conducting due diligence and business valuations to assess and finalize investment opportunities.
• Post investment- Took up specialized fractional responsibilities such as general management, strategy, finance, and marketing and sales within portfolio companies to run these specific functions on behalf of the entrepreneurs in order to jump start, scale-up, or simply manage the venture’s operations. Generated targeted strategies and growth plans for portfolio companies and helped execute on them by taking on key management positions (human capital).

May 2006 – Aug 2007 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Led a team of engineers to develop and expose core banking APIs in the form of reusable business components. Responsibility included requirement gathering, problem analysis and providing expertise and professional advice to clients in the EMEA region.
• Led a team of engineers to implement the Retail Lending Module of a new core banking product. Actively interacted with clients and co-created the tech design.
• Designed components for a new framework aimed to provide a common platform for the various banking and healthcare products of Misys.

Jul 2004 – May 2006 · 1 yr 10 mos

• Recruited on campus and was responsible for developing components of healthcare and banking applications.
• Team leader within 6 months of joining. Responsible for requirements gathering, gap analysis, UML design, development and delegation for Internationalization and Localization of a renowned healthcare project for Chinese and Spanish markets. Led a team of 4 engineers.
• Led a team of 4 engineers to develop a Data Access Layer to interface with legacy systems for the client’s flagship banking software. This allowed the client to regain its lost market share in South Africa.
• Part of the Business Development team for ‘Wisdom’, a Knowledge Management product by Srishti Software. Conducted market research and assisted the VP of Marketing in client interactions as the technical voice.