Manu Lakkur Email & Phone Number

Oakland, California, Us

Head of Product for Credit Karma's core consumer experience. I drive product strategy for our core consumer experience and lead a team of amazing PMs. We're focused on growing engagement with Credit Karma by helping our 110+ million members make progress in their financial lives. I originally joined Credit Karma as part of the Claimdog acquisition to scale and launch our product as Credit Karma Unclaimed Money, as featured on Techcrunch.In 2020, when the pandemic began and many jobs were lost, I led our effort to build a tool to help Americans navigate the crisis financially. The outcome, Credit Karma's Relief Roadmap, was featured in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas Awards 2021: Pandemic Response list.

Claimdog helps you find if a business owes you money. There's $60 billion in unclaimed property sitting with state governments -- Claimdog lets you search state databases from one place, and in California, we help you step-by-step through the process of getting back what's yours.Featured on Product Hunt, VentureBeat, BoingBoing, and elsewhere.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

One of 6 PMs managing Google’s multi-billion, high-growth mobile search advertising business. Led cross-functional teams (engineering, design, analysis, marketing, sales) to launch new lines of business and support existing products.

Founded company to build mobile & next-gen diagnostics for ophthalmologists and other health care professionals. Designed, coded, & launched a suite of mobile apps for vision testing with 1,200,000+ installations that are widely used in medical schools, hospitals, emergency rooms, and clinical trials worldwide. Products have been featured in over 30+ medical school curricula and the technology has been clinically validated in the American Journal of Ophthalmology, and the Journal of Telemedicine & Telecare.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Led a distributed team of developers to launch Flipboard 1.9.6 Android release that reached 5M+ users.

Assisted partners with running all aspects of firm's Information Technology, Life Science, and Clean Tech venture capital practices. Over $1B in assets under management.Highlights:- Incubated bioinformatics startup with Entrepreneur in Residence.- Developed investment thesis on mobile applications.- Assisted CEO of voice advertising startup to redevelop product strategy.- Advised founders of mobile music, fashion ecommerce, and mobile advertising startups on product design.

Worldwide, Oo

Promoted from Business Analyst 08/2008.

Houston, Texas, Us

Three R&D internships over summers at Hewlett-Packard.- Developed software and hardware to improve television contrast.- Created novel anti-reflective coating for television internal optics.

Mba

Ms, Electrical Engineering

Bs, Electrical Engineering