Vinay Pahlajani

CEO

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India21 yrs 1 mo experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Founded India's first social hiring platform.
  • Led product management at Adobe.
  • Recognized as 'Star Entrepreneur' at Indira Gandhi Innovation Summit.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Product Management expert with a strong entrepreneurial background.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementEntrepreneurshipProduct DevelopmentProduct DesignIndustrial Design

Other Skills

StrategyGamingMobile ApplicationsMobile EducationSpeech Recognition TechnologyApplication DevelopmentDesign StrategyProduct InnovationDesign ManagementUser Experience DesignDesign ResearchDesign ThinkingConcept DesignStart-upsCross-functional Team Leadership

About

An entrepreneur and a design enthusiast, Vinay has vast experience in cross-functional business environments. Currently, he leads the product management for Graphic Design & Publishing at Adobe. With a proven track record as an entrepreneur and innovation leader, he founded India's first social hiring and career discovery platform "LetsCatchup"​, which got acquired by Asia's fastest-growing tech recruitment marketplace Getlinks Inc. Previously, Vinay was involved with a silicon valley education company as a product & strategy consultant and was the founding head of a gaming company called “punflay.com”, with a very strong portfolio in the field of mobile education, gaming, and application development. In 2007, he co-founded, “Hexolabs”, which soon became a leading mobile VAS company in India with its work in speech recognition technology. He led the product development team at Hexolabs to receive several awards in mobile entertainment and social innovation. He was also conferred as “Star Entrepreneur"​ of the year 2011, at the Indira Gandhi Innovation Summit in India and was amongst the finalist of “Business world young entrepreneur awards" in 2010. Personally, Vinay is an avid traveller and does it best through roads. He also loves to mentor students and young entrepreneurs. Specialties: Entrepreneurship, Startups, Product Management, Strategy, Design thinking, Lean Methodology, Mobile applications, User experience design.

Experience

21 yrs 1 mo
Total Experience
4 yrs 4 mos
Average Tenure
9 yrs 9 mos
Current Experience

Adobe

Director of Product Management

Aug 2016Present · 9 yrs 9 mos · Noida Area, India

Product Management

Letscatchup

Founder & CEO

Nov 2013Jul 2016 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • India's leading social hiring and career discovery platform for young graduates.
  • Got acquired by Getlinks Inc in July 2016.
EntrepreneurshipProduct ManagementStrategy

Punflay

Founding Head

Oct 2009May 2013 · 3 yrs 7 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • Punflay is a gaming company with over 50 games and applications on Itunes Stores. The unit holds a number of awards for development of educational applications.
Product ManagementGamingMobile Applications

Mlab emantras

Chief Consultant

Jan 2007May 2013 · 6 yrs 4 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • Product & Strategy Consulting, Product Management, Led initiatives in mobile edutainment and immersive learning for touch screen devices, gesture based technology and augmented reality platforms.
Product ManagementStrategyMobile Education

Hexolabs

Co-Founder

Jan 2007Dec 2012 · 5 yrs 11 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • Co-founded Hexolabs Media and Technology; Led the innovation and product development team.
Product DevelopmentSpeech Recognition Technology

Lednium pty. ltd.

Design Manager

Oct 2005Dec 2006 · 1 yr 2 mos · Melbourne,Australia; Chennai, India

  • Started and established the product design department for Lednium in Melbourne, Australia, and Chennai, India; with a focus on application development for LED Lighting products, Green Design and electrical/electronic appliances.
Product DesignApplication Development

Dilip chhabaria design

Industrial Designer

Jul 2004Sep 2005 · 1 yr 2 mos · Pune Area, India

  • Started my career as an Industrial designer with India's largest automotive design studio; which caters to Indian and international automotive design & prototyping market.
Industrial Design

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

M.Des

Jan 2002Jan 2004

Bhilai Institute of Technology

B.E — Mechanical Engineering

Jan 1998Jan 2002

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