Akshita Ganesh

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India13 yrs 11 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Led product growth strategies for multiple startups.
  • Pioneered AI adoption in product lifecycles.
  • Generated $20M revenue through flagship courses.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product and Growth Leader in the EdTech and Healthcare sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementGrowth Strategy

Other Skills

Strategic PartnershipsProduct DevelopmentAI ImplementationContent DevelopmentCourse StrategyMarketplace OperationsGTM StrategyEntrepreneurshipSocial MediaFacebookData AnalysisMarketingLeadershipSEOManagement

About

I'm a product and growth leader who's spent the last 12+ years working in early- and growth stage technology companies. I've been part of the 0-1 journey of finding product-market fit, scaling to the first $10M and $100M and the foundational pivots needed to stay valuable as markets and consumer expectations evolve. I'm passionate about healthcare and education because of their ability to significantly change the trajectory of human lives. My current area of study is exploring how AI can transform the broken experience of managing our health - at the doctor's office, or at home. I write at https://akshitaganesh.substack.com/, and I'm building at growthstory.in

Experience

Growthstory

Builder/ Investor

Dec 2025Present · 4 mos · Bengaluru

  • Interim Chief Product Officer at Portea Medical
  • Growth Advisor at Clearout.io
  • Investor in early-stage startups across the US and India, and advising portfolio companies on product and growth
Strategic PartnershipsProduct ManagementGrowth Strategy

Rula

Lead Product Manager

Jun 2024Dec 2025 · 1 yr 6 mos · United States · Remote

  • I lead B2B product-led growth (PLG) at Rula, where I built and scaled the Partnerships product function from the ground up. During my time, I doubled B2B-driven growth by designing products that help large health plans, PCPs, and provider groups connect their members to high-quality, timely mental healthcare.
  • Key highlights:
  • 2×’d our TAM by expanding into in-person therapy and EAP pathways
  • Unlocked new demand channels across payers and PCP networks
  • Extended Rula’s reach by 100M+ lives through a scalable direct-scheduling API platform
  • Championed AI adoption across the product lifecycle (custom GPTs, v0, Figma make)
Strategic PartnershipsProduct Management

Women defining ai

Member

Jul 2023Present · 2 yrs 9 mos

  • Women Defining AI (WDAI) is a community for women to share, learn, experiment with AI & flipping the script on women representation in STEM.

Reforge

3 roles

Director, Marketplace & Courses

Promoted

Nov 2022Jun 2024 · 1 yr 7 mos

  • Employee 10 and core member of leadership team through company’s growth 1->100 growth journey, 50x user growth and 2 fundraises (a16z, Insight Partners). Played pivotal role in shaping company’s strategy, goals and operating system. Pioneered use of AI to optimize workflow efficiency across content development, operations and marketing.
  • Reforge's core product is their courses. I led the E2E courses engine - from determining course strategy to leading the content development team; launched 20+ flagship courses generating $20M revenue and serving 20,000+ customers. Led expansion to 3 new verticals.
  • Once Reforge pivoted from a first-party publisher model to a marketplace, I led the pivot, setting up and scaled courses marketplace from 0 to 50+ courses, serving 3000+ customers generating > $2M in 6 months. My teams owns supply-side GTM, acquisition and onboarding, demand-side pricing and positioning and marketplace operations.

Group Strategy Lead

Dec 2020Nov 2022 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Owned audience expansion strategy, course positioning, demand generation and go-to-market strategy for 20+ program portfolio.
  • Launched Reforge’s marketing and engineering audiences
  • Executed end-to-end research for 15+ programs across discovery interviews, NPS surveys, usability testing and market analysis

Product Development and Strategy Lead

Jul 2019Dec 2020 · 1 yr 5 mos

Mckinsey & company

2 roles

Associate

Jun 2016Feb 2019 · 2 yrs 8 mos · US, India

  • Defining and implementing growth strategy for D2C and enterprise clients in tech, banking, healthcare & auto in US, India and South-East Asia

Summer Associate

Apr 2015May 2015 · 1 mo · Mumbai

Growthstory

Entrepreneur in Residence

Mar 2014Jul 2014 · 4 mos · Bangalore, India

  • Growthstory is an entrepreneurship platform which founds, promotes, funds and mentors startups in consumer technology, e-commerce and education. Key portfolio companies include TutorVista (Acquired by Pearson), Portea Medical, BigBasket, Bluestone and Marketics (and more)
  • Role: Identify business opportunities, define products and business plans, assemble teams and work with teams to launch products

Zynga

2 roles

Product Management

May 2013Mar 2014 · 10 mos

  • APM on the largest social game launched from India. Post-launch, implemented many strategies to improve retention and curb-player drop-offs. Grew game to >1mn DAU.
  • Analyzed feature performance and A/B tests; regularly presented results to senior executives and product leaders
  • Developed quarterly revenue strategy and forecasts and managed daily revenues for India’s largest social game
  • Designed and launched a number of features including special deals, in-game events, new game play mechanics and improvements to user experience
  • Owned, designed and launched the largest feature of Q3-Q4 2013 that increased revenue on launch and shifted the baseline of revenue.
  • Key Skills:
  • Extracting, managing and analyzing massive data sets using SQL, R and MS Excel to deliver actionable recommendations
  • Writing product specifications and working with development and design teams to launch products and features
  • Translate high-level strategy into defined goals and product roadmap

Analytics

Jul 2012Mar 2014 · 1 yr 8 mos

  • Structured and solved complex business problems that informed studio strategy and decision making
  • Analyzed revenue and payer behavior to control a 15% QoQ revenue decline and grew game’s revenue by >3%
  • Analyzed and recommended changes to Zynga’s best subscriptions program which led to a 15% rise in adoption
  • Led the analytics transition of a top 5 game and set up the framework for reporting and analysis in Studio
  • Led, trained and mentored an analytics team of 5 at Studio I, who are now indispensable in their respective teams
  • Spearheaded dashboard, reporting and post-launch analytics for a game from pre-launch to growth stage
  • Designed and delivered the analytics training program across PM, design and engineering.
  • Defined key metrics to monitor health of a game and created dashboards and reports to track the metrics

Sigfig

Data Analyst, Product Management

Aug 2010Jul 2011 · 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Data Analytics - Extracted and Analyzed data to create meaningful press articles and user-focused insights from our $16bn assets using SQL and Microsoft Excel.
  • Product Management– Conceptualized and co-created the brokerage recommendation feature
  • Marketing – Led the marketing initiative for mobile apps, leading to a hit rate of over 100,000 downloads.

Chakpak media pvt ltd

Content Manager

Jun 2009Jul 2009 · 1 mo · Bangalore, India

  • Put together a content syndication strategy
  • Identified gaps in Chakpak and potential partner’s offerings to create a win-win situation
  • Implemented processes to improve quality of content, recruited content developers and a content manager
  • Was solely responsible for and initiated a high-impact viral campaign on Facebook and Twitter

Tutorvista global pvt ltd

Intern

May 2009Jun 2009 · 1 mo · Bangalore, India

  • Learnt Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Techniques
  • Undertook responsibility for implementing SEO techniques for a number of newly created pages through content enhancement, link building
  • Wrote blogs, created bookmarks and promoted the site using social media modes like Facebook and Twitter

Aseanpreneurs youth leaders network

Sponsorship Director

Jan 2009Aug 2010 · 1 yr 7 mos

  • Led a team of 4 to create fundraising pitches, reach out to organizations and forge partnerships.
  • Raised over SGD 100,000 for organizing events and lead network expansion initiatives
  • Organized the ASEANpreneurs Youth Leaders' Exchange in Jakarta, Indonesia which brought together 50 young entrepreneurial leaders across the 10 ASEAN countries

Education

Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad

Master's degree

Jan 2014Jan 2016

National University of Singapore

B.A — Economics

Jan 2008Jan 2012

Stanford University

Minor — Technopreneurship

Jan 2010Jan 2011

National Public School

Jan 1999Jan 2008

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