Headline

Product Management Leader | AI-Driven Product Strategy | Retail, Consumer Goods, Supply Chain & IoT | 4 GenAI Product Launches | Digital Transformation | GTM Strategy | 20+ Years

About

I turn ambiguous business problems into roadmaps — and roadmaps into shipped outcomes. 20+ years building customer-facing and enterprise products across Retail, Consumer Goods, and Supply Chain for global brands including Walmart, P&G, IKEA, Nestlé, and Titan — across India, US, Gulf, and APAC markets. DOMAINS & TOOLS Product Leadership · Omnichannel & Unified Commerce · Digital Customer Journeys · GenAI/LLM Products (RAG, AWS Bedrock, Claude, Copilot) · OKRs · P&L Ownership · SQL · Power BI · Jira · Figma · Azure DevOps · Kafka Chief Product Officer Program, IIM Kozhikode · AI Strategy for Business Transformation, Kellogg School of Management My Thoughts: "Build technology that serves people at scale — not technology for its own sake."

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

anthropic apis

deepseek

gemini

github copilot

lovable

openai

Work experience

Senior Director Product Management & Consulting - Retail & CPG at LTM, May 2026 - Present · 6 mos, Product management across four enterprise engagements — GenAI products (including a support chatbot that cut resolution time 35%), a corporate spin-off migration at 98% uptime, and the client's first IoT product line: 5 products, 3 releases, on schedule. Mentoring 3 product owners along the way. Ask me about the program I inherited 20% over budget.

Director/Principal Consulting - Retail & Consumer Goods at LTM, Mar 2022 - May 2026 · 4 yrs 3 mos, Tools Used: Aha, Rally, Jira, Asana, Confluence, Azure Devops, Lucid Charts, Indeemo, Figma, Canva.

Principal Consultant at Retail Insights, Nov 2020 - Mar 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos, Built the Kantar XTEL trade promotion practice from one consultant (me) to four in six months — $300K/yr in partner revenue. Mentored junior BAs across concurrent client projects — standardizing requirement-gathering practices, coaching domain knowledge, and improving coordination with engineering teams. Tools Used: Azure Devops, Jira, Confluence, Lucid Charts.

Product Manager | Senior Business Analyst at Unilog, Aug 2019 - Nov 2020 · 1 yr 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Owned the CIMM2 B2B e-commerce platform through a full replatform — a better digital buying journey, automated US tax compliance, headless CMS. Tools Used: Aha, Jira, Confluence, Lucid Charts, Figma.

Product Manager | Senior Enterprise Solutions Specialist at UST Global, Jul 2018 - Jul 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Product strategy for two in-house platform accelerators — plus a buy-vs-build call for a top global retailer that steered them clear of 40–50% COTS customization. Developed a retail/CPG capability microsite, adopted internally as the team's core presentation and reference asset for RFP/RFI responses.

Business Consultant at Aditi Technologies, Aug 2015 - Jul 2018 · 3 yrs, Bengaluru Area, India, Led discovery, solution design, and MVP roadmap for a US-based global telecom major in their supply chain transformation — secured funding for an 8–10 month development phase, scaling the team to 10. Mentored product owners on backlog management, requirements traceability (RTM), and stakeholder-ready roadmap reviews. Product Owner work that turned a discovery phase into a $2M project extension. Also scoped and secured funding for a telecom major in their transformation journey.

Education

Chief Product Officer, (Product Leadership, AI Strategy & Business Growth), Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode

Bachelor's Degree, Business Administration and Management, General, Annamalai university