Vinay Pahlajani — CEO
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.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Product Management expert with a strong entrepreneurial background.
Location: Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
Experience: 21 yrs 1 mo
Skills
- Product Management
- Entrepreneurship
- Product Development
- Product Design
- Industrial Design
Career Highlights
- Founded India's first social hiring platform.
- Led product management at Adobe.
- Recognized as 'Star Entrepreneur' at Indira Gandhi Innovation Summit.
Work Experience
Adobe
Director of Product Management (9 yrs 9 mos)
LetsCatchup
Founder & CEO (2 yrs 8 mos)
Punflay
Founding Head (3 yrs 7 mos)
Mlab Emantras
Chief Consultant (6 yrs 4 mos)
Hexolabs
Co-Founder (5 yrs 11 mos)
Lednium Pty. Ltd.
Design Manager (1 yr 2 mos)
Dilip Chhabaria Design
Industrial Designer (1 yr 2 mos)
Education
M.Des at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
B.E at Bhilai Institute of Technology