Jan 2025 – Aug 2025 · 7 mos · Palo Alto, California, United States · Remote

• Offer fractional leadership, strategic consulting, and tailored product management coaching for high-growth product teams.

Nov 2022 – Nov 2024 · 2 yrs · Redwood City, California, United States

• Drove product strategy across Cloud, Platform, and GenAI Application areas to grow the company from $100M to ~ $ 150 M; Series E, $340M raised at a $1.7B valuation.
• Drove product innovation to be a Leader in the Forrester Data Governance Wave (2023), IDC MarketScape (2022), and secured Snowflake DG Partner of the Year award in 2022, 2023, and Databricks DG Partner of the Year award in 2023.
• Introduced AI Governance and Data Products and new capabilities such as Workflow Automation and Business Lineage.
• Released GenAI Applications – Suggested Stewards, Suggested Descriptions, Semantic Search
• Drove the Open Data Quality initiative and signed up 13+ DQ and Data observability partners
• Improved Connectivity to 100+ Connectors and reduced Connector friction (70% success rate)
• Drove 60 %+ of the customer base to go to the Cloud; accelerate Cloud ARR and improve Cloud margin
• Drove CSAT improvement and Churn Prevention initiatives for the Top 45 customers
• Release Object-based pricing to improve competitive win rates
• Drove the creation of the Ideas Portal to drive customer engagement and the Product Usage Analytics Instrumentation framework (Pendo)

Jun 2020 – Nov 2022 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Mountain View, California, United States

• Drove product management team for Kafka Connect and Streaming ETL technologies and helped scale revenue from $150M to $600M, leading to an IPO in June 2021.
• Drove initiative to drive data mesh architectural improvements - built 100+ Kafka Connectors and infrastructure to allow custom connectors to run in the cloud
• Drove ecosystem expansion with leading vendors such as Snowflake, Databricks, etc.
• Was the initial PM for Streaming Data Pipeline UI (Streaming Designer)
• Drove Product Usage Analytics Instrumentation framework (Amplitude)

Dec 2019 – Jun 2020 · 6 mos · Palo Alto, California, United States · Hybrid

• Drove various product initiatives (Change Data Capture, Revamped Pricing, and Packaging, etc.) for StreamSets – a DataOps Platform & Modern Data Integration company.
• StreamSets was acquired by SoftwareAG (and eventually by IBM).

Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 · 2 yrs · San Mateo, California

• Defined overall product direction and product roadmap for Application Integration and Data Integration use cases
• Drove portfolio expansion in the iPaaS space beyond Application Integration and Data Integration to API Management, B2B Integration, Data Engineering, and Data Science / Machine Learning (ML) areas. Helped SnapLogic become a Visionary in the Gartner MQ for Data Integration Tools

Jan 2012 – Jan 2018 · 6 yrs · Redwood Shores

• As a founding Product Manager, led the strategic direction and execution for the first generation of Oracle Cloud IaaS services, including Compute, Storage, Network, and Common Infrastructure Services. Scaled these offerings to exceed $150M in revenue by 2017, contributing significantly to Oracle's $1.4B IaaS and PaaS cloud business.
• Drove a $ 80 M+ product line in the Big Data and Application Development areas of PaaS
• Conceptualized and delivered new cloud services - Big Data Cloud, Event Hub Cloud (Kafka-based), MySQL Cloud, and Data Hub Cloud (Cassandra-based) from PowerPoint to GA
• Responsible for driving innovation for Java Cloud and Application Container Cloud.
• Responsible for driving pricing and packaging, and GTM business model definition across all IaaS and PaaS Cloud services

Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 · 0 mo · Palo Alto, California, United States · Hybrid

• Drove the reporting and analytics product strategy for Series A startup - Anaplan, a cloud-based planning platform, helping grow the customer base by 500%, revenues by 800%, and secure Series B funding in 2012
• Anaplan went IPO in 2018.

Jan 2008 – Jan 2012 · 4 yrs

• Drove explosive revenue growth from $456M in 2008 to $812M in 2012 and was responsible for managing product managers responsible for the company’s flagship Data Integration Business Unit
• Pioneered the concept of Self-Service Data Integration and drove organic revenue ($5M+) through the Data Integration Analyst product
• Drove cross-functional product management teams (of 20+ PMs) for multiple product releases across geographically dispersed business units
• Drove revenue growth through the acquisition of the Data Validation product
• Influenced Gartner to list the Informatica Analyst product as one of the three strengths of Informatica in the 2011 MQ for Data Integration Tools

Jan 2006 – Jan 2008 · 2 yrs

• Drove Product Management, Engineering, QE, and Operations to acquire the initial set of paid customers for Series A startup - C9, a cloud analytics provider that helped high-growth and high-volume enterprises optimize their revenue-generating by leveraging a fully automated data management and predictive analytics platform.
• Was the first Product Manager and was responsible for working with the CTO to define the 2-year roadmap
• Responsible for driving Salesforce AppExchange Certification for the first product line
• Part of the executive team reporting to the CEO
• C9 (Series D, $36M in total funding) was acquired by InsideSales in 2015.

Jan 2004 – Jan 2006 · 2 yrs

• Directed multiple Engineering teams totaling 30+ resources spanning ETL, Data Architecture, DBA, and Business Analysis areas for Neoforma, a provider of a cloud-based healthcare supply-chain marketplace for hospitals and suppliers in the US
• Pioneered patented Price-point Analysis algorithms for helping hospitals make optimal purchasing decisions ($60M in savings)
• Act as Chief Data Steward for leading and driving the Data Stewardship Program for improving Data Quality
• Neoforma was acquired by GHX for $210M

Jan 2001 – Jan 2004 · 3 yrs

• Drove the business systems foundation for the TiVo 4.0 Product Release
• Drove direction for multiple Engineering teams - Data Warehousing, SAP, and Web Application Development totaling 25+ resources, including technical managers, DBAs, lead engineers, architects, and functional analysts.