Jan 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 2 mos · California, United States

Jan 2019 – Jan 2024 · 5 yrs

Jan 2017 – Jan 2025 · 8 yrs

• Led Product management, Strategy & GTM development with industry-leading products at HP (Compute, Edge, Cloud, AI/ML, Manageability, Windows)
• Unlocked new markets via Modern Compute + Video platform services for hybrid collaboration via the HP Workforce Experience (WEX) platform.
• Strategic Investments: Helped expand HP retail portfolio from “hardware-only” to “full solutions” increasing addressable TAM from $9B to $17B in 2 years. Expanded on to OS platforms from Wintel to Android/Linux. Launched new cloud services in Retail.
• Helped design a custom “lean startup Incubation” with OKRs to address investment opportunities in AI/IoT/Edge.
• Created strategic product roadmaps in a variety of segments including Enterprise Compute, Consumer Mobility & Verticals (Retail, Healthcare etc.) Collaborate with Marketing, Business Planning, GTM and Engineering to define product release criteria. Helped form global partnerships:
• End-to-End Vision: Collaborate closely with the chief product architect to drive the end-to-end product vision. Advocate for priorities and resources, working across divisional boundaries to ensure successful execution.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with data science and analytics teams to drive deep insights and actionable plans. Engage with cross-functional internal and external stakeholders, including senior leadership and early adopting customers, to gather input and garner support for product vision, strategy, and roadmap.
• Spearheaded HP’s Thought Leadership as a Keynotes speaker and regular industry panelist. Represented HP at Linux Foundation (outreach committee) Occasional writing on Medium & newspapers

Jan 2013 – Jan 2017 · 4 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

• Product Management (IoT platform, Voice Assistant, Firefox OS)
• Bringing the principles of openness & user choice to the products, apps & services in mobile and IoT space
• Speech Tech (Voice assistance): Founding member of the Mozilla Speech Tech / CommonVoice initiative. Concepts prototyped, tested in the 1st year. Initiative funded under "emerging tech".
• IoT Platform: Strategy & baseline offering definition, differentiation, go to market
• Firefox OS: Helped launch & scale the Firefox OS platform to 15+ partners, 50 devices, 30 countries within 2 years.
• Open Web Device Compliance forum: Helped establish it with over 10 partners to drive API/KPI compliance

Jan 2013 – Jan 2017 · 4 yrs · www.openwebdevice.org

• I serve on the board as the elected Chairman of the steering committee of the Open Web Device CRB, an independent third-party certification for devices to meet API compliance and minimum performance benchmarks for Open Web devices. The group consists of over 10 industry leading partners including Chipset providers, Operators and OEMs.
• www.openwebdevice.org

Jan 2008 – Jan 2012 · 4 yrs

• Created & managed several major product software business cases for Smartphones & Tablets to great wins on margins/volumes. (ATRIX2, XOOM2, DROID XYBOARD)
• Productized Motorola’s new strategic initiatives like WebTop, Connected media, and MotoCast that helped drive carrier ARPU (revenue)
• Negotiated win-win software strategies with carriers for new ground breaking apps & services
• Interfaced with 12+ Technology (Platform) teams on Release strategies and launches.
• Defined 3rd party preload apps recipes that seamlessly fit the product value prop and royalty budgets

Jan 2005 – Jan 2008 · 3 yrs

• As a product software lead, successfully launched first Android device with AT&T: Motorola BACKFLIP. This involved leading a team of development leads/managers and engineers, liaising with internal/external customers and taking the product from bring-up stage to final customer and 3rd party approvals.
• Helped fine-tune product definition/experience specs & feature scope to balance customer needs & our resources. Seamlessly integrated existing software/product processes, ramped up team to a new (Android) platform.