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Former Co-Founder, Product & Growth Leader | B2B AI SaaS, eCommerce, Fintech

About

Former co-founder with a rare cross-sector product lens across growth stages. 19 years spanning - B2B AI SaaS, eCommerce & Fintech sectors; start-ups & corporates; India, US, Africa & APAC markets; technology waves from digital payments to BI to eCommerce to AI. Witnessed success & failures — a diversified journey that cultivated sharper business instincts. Known for building trusted relationships & long-term mindset.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude

gemini

ChatGPT

ChatGPT Images

Luma AI

Work experience

Co-Founder (business & product) at Drapezy, Jun 2019 - May 2024 · 5 yrs, Greater Bengaluru Area, Drapezy is a B2B AI SaaS startup offering on-model, catalog images of fashion products digitally to micro, small & medium sellers (MSMEs) on mobile using Machine Vision. Our product enables the customers to by-pass the entire traditional model photoshoot in arranging their catalog images at a fraction of cost & time the most easiest way with no or minimal studio setup. Draping made easy, digitally - "Drapezy" #DigitalDraping We started off with sarees as a GTM category but, with a very large vision. The core problem associated with Drapezy has been a long pending one to me that remained unsolved since my eCommerce / retail journey. Didn't expect that I would get an opportunity to solve it along with an unexpected colleague & that too in an entrepreneurial stint. We were one of the finalists in the Computer Vision category at the National Startup Awards 2021 - an initiative by Startup India (Govt of India). ** start-up is now closed **

Manager, Digital Product Management at Victoria’s Secret & Co., Dec 2017 - Mar 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Setup & manage the first, distributed product team for Victoria's Secret Digital within India GCC.

Product Head at interface.ai, Aug 2017 - Nov 2017 · 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Cognitive customer experience for banks powered by Artificial Intelligence Had an opportunity to be part of launching conversational banking: - SBI's Intelligent Assistant (SIA) on www.onlinesbi.com - YES Bank's YES ROBOT on Facebook Messenger (search for YES ROBOT in your messenger) - RBL Bank's ChatPay on Facebook Messenger (search for RBL Bank ChatPay in your messenger)

Group Product Manager (eCommerce) at Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail Ltd., Jun 2013 - Jul 2017 · 4 yrs 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, One of the early stage team member of the eCommerce business; first PM in the product team; launched & scaled multiple products (0 to 1 to 10) across different ecommerce business models (B2C / omni, B2B, seller on marketplaces). Strategic key member in business growth for the business from marketplaces - 0 to USD 15M annually via a proprietary, multi channel platform.

Lead Product Manager at iCreate Software (now, Fintellix), Apr 2011 - Jun 2013 · 2 yrs 3 mos, On-site, Discover new market opportunities (1 to 10), ideate & define platform enhancements in order to increase it's monetization by solutionizing vertical, point BI solutions for banks. Part of discovering, ideating & building multiple platform features & solutions. Few solutions around Retail Banking, Credit Cards, Single Customer View, Single Channel View, Sales Effectiveness, Central Bank Reporting, Risk & Compliance. Products: Biz$core Fintellix, Biz$core Drisk, Biz$core Centrum

Product Manager at iCreate Software (now, Fintellix), Jun 2009 - Mar 2011 · 1 yr 10 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Involved in the early-stage (0 to 1) - ideation, product & GTM activities of the flagship product, Biz$core - a BI, Analytics & Performance Management platform for banks. Also, the first PM in the product team. Products: Biz$core Platform

Education

Masters In International Business, Gandhi Institute of Technology and Management (GITAM)

Bachelors In Computer Applications, Osmania University