Ankit Sahu Email & Phone Number

Ankit is a product management and strategy professional with over 17 years of experience in technology. He excels at solving user and business problems through a blend of data and technology.His diverse career includes roles as a CTO, Product Manager, Business Head, and Agile coach, primarily within startups. Notably, at Strive, he achieved a remarkable 4X growth, culminating in a $35 million acquisition. Ankit joined Strive as its third employee in 2021 and quickly ascended to the role of CTO, overseeing growth, technology and product development. Under his leadership, Ankit established a robust technology team of 20+ developers and product managers. Simultaneously, he revamped Strive's product strategy, evolving it from a basic benefits app into a comprehensive SaaS employee experience solution, expanding the market size to $200 million. He introduced and managed key offerings like Single Sign-On (IAM), a Rewards and Recognition Platform, and intranet for enterprises. Prior to Strive, Ankit played a pivotal role at Wynk Music, an OTT song streaming app with over 100 million users. During his three years there, he made significant contributions in growth, retention, and revenue. He launched subscriptions, freemium offerings, ads, a machine learning-based search and recommendation engine, and improved streaming quality.Beyond his corporate roles, Ankit provided consulting services to the Government of India. He was instrumental in launching web-based appointment systems for UIDAI and developing machine learning screening platforms for new applicants. Ankit also played a key part in setting up over 500 Aadhaar centers across India, complete with real-time monitoring systems.Ankit's passion for mentoring extends to startups and individuals across various domains, including Product Management, Strategy, Product Launches, Marketing, Data Analytics, and Technology stacks. He actively invests in startups at the Angel and Seed levels, aiming to give back to society and support the growth of innovative ventures.Skills: Product Management (Growth, Revenue, Retention and Engagement), AdTech, People Management, Scrum (agile), UX/Design, A/B Test, Prioritization, Roadmap, Product Strategy, Machine Learning, Data Science, Supervise and Unsupervised learning, Classification and regression, Text Analytics (NLP, NLI, Sentiment analysis, Topic Modeling), Deep Learning and AI, Python, R, Java, Flutter, html, css, Linear Programming, Security, SOC2, SIEMTools: DataStudio, Tableau, BigQuery, JMP, excel, JIRA, git,