Jan 2019 – Present · 7 yrs 3 mos · India

• Helping build product community in India. Organising discussions, meetings, webinars to have experts talk about conquering product challenges.
• Mentor AI/deep tech companies and regularly present topics on product management and startup scaling via webinars and in person meetings to large audiences.
• How do we build the leaders that build the next 100 successful product companies out of India?

Dec 2017 – Present · 8 yrs 4 mos · India

• We help you build better products and grow faster
• As product advisors, we provide all-round support, from ideation, product building to go-to-market strategies, to ensure business scaling and value through creative problem solving.
• Working with founders, CEOs and product leaders, we facilitate sharper focus and clarity by offering a systematic approach to inspire product innovation and achieve growth.
• We use proprietary methods of product building and a milestone-driven approach to help ambitious entrepreneurs achieve product excellence and business success.
• Interested in growing your business with products or IP, please contact us

Feb 2017 – Dec 2021 · 4 yrs 10 mos · India

• Building India’s first platform for video search and discovery. “Search. Select. Enjoy.” and discover your favourite content. We offer only legal content and work with content producers and aggregators to reach the right audience. As of now we have over 500,000 movies, TV shows and videos from 28 streaming platforms in 14 languages.
• Check out Advott.com - Your Friend in Entertainment!
• Working to scale the site and traffic using AWS, Elasticsearch, MongoDB and Google Analytics.
• We are a B2B2C Media tech bootstrapped startup which is similar to Roku in the US without the hardware. Hardware is no longer essential because of the adoption of smart TVs and smart devices.
• We have a B2C sample site and are actively working with and seeking B2B partners for our Video Discovery and Search plug-in.

Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 · 2 yrs

• Led product management and product design for venture funded retail Analytics and AI startup (late stage).
• Achieved following through teamwork:
• Repositioned company as a SaaS player.
• Created new revenue streams
• Got company listed in Gartner MQ (attempted 7 times earlier)
• Built a product management team and UX design team and streamlined development processes for faster and timely delivery.
• Created a framework for product building, prioritisation and roadmap planning.
• Built a process of quick prototyping using wireframes, high fidelity mock-ups and quick testing to create 3 new mobile apps and revenue streams in 3 months.
• Established partnerships with larger vendors like Tableau and SAP.
• Mobile apps, Analytics, Retail, CPG, eCommerce
• Product building, team building, experience design.
• Product Management, Strategic partnerships, Vendor and Partner negotiations, Analyst Relations.
• Agile development, Scrum, Product Owner

Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 · 0 mo · San Francisco Bay Area

• Product management, product strategy, competitive positioning.

Jan 2010 – Jan 2013 · 3 yrs · San Jose, CA

• Lead product management team for reporting and analytics in the Oracle Cloud covering data loading, modeling, interface, infrastructure and mobile. All aspects of product definition, delivery and go to market.
• Responsibilities included:
• Customer presentations to CIO, CTO of large corporations
• Analyst briefings to Gartner, IDC and others
• Presenting to large audience at trade shows, company conferences and sales kickoffs
• Pricing/packaging and revenue/deal analysis
• Competitive research
• Analysing market and sales data
• Sales enablement and strategy- sales play books, roadmap presentations, competitive positioning, solution briefs etc.
• Acquisition evaluation- technical due diligence, integration planning - largest deal $1.08 billion Endeca (big data and search based Analytics space).

Jan 2007 – Jan 2010 · 3 yrs

• Managed PM team for high throughput report delivery system with web and mobile interfaces.
• Grew portfolio revenue to $110M+.
• Led large software integration and modernization project for access to broader market and expanded revenue.
• Managed a team and the projects for multiple products working closely with engineering management.
• Tracked the roadmap, backlog and prioritisation and followed an Agile development methodology.
• Invented method of information distribution and collaboration, granted US patent.

Jan 2005 – Jan 2007 · 2 yrs

• Product Manager for high throughput personalized report delivery system (millions of emails/statements per hour). Increased license revenue by improving ease of deployment in large enterprises. Reduced support cost be making product easy to setup and configure.

Jan 2003 – Jan 2004 · 1 yr

• Directed Analytical Starter Kit product development with modules including financial reporting, human resources, sales forecasting, CRM, product sales and website analysis.

Jan 2000 – Jan 2003 · 3 yrs

• Managed 3 developement teams - application/report building, data modeling and ETL to build award winning packaged analytics applications.

Jan 1998 – Jan 2000 · 2 yrs

• Managed a team of support engineers, trained new hires and delivered exceptional service to customers.