30+ years of work experience driving product innovation, building world-class engineering teams, transforming engineering processes and developing leadership talent in USA and India. ● Conceptualized, developed and launched innovative software products - ClaimBook, a claim processing platform for hospitals to manage their revenue across all 45+ TPAs/Insurers in India; concept to first customer in 9 months and run-rate of half a million claims/yr within 2 years - UGC Cloud, a user-generated content platform for driving user engagement on Yahoo’s global online properties; achieved 70% growth in unique users using user engagement features● Created Centres of Excellence for software product innovation - Altisource Labs, a product innovation group that introduced high-throughput computing, service-oriented architecture and data science to mortgage servicing solutions - Intuit’s India Development Centre, which within 2 years had submitted over 25 ideas into the innovation pipeline, 7 of which were accepted for patent application● Nurtured talent for technology leadership and product innovation - Authored a book "The Innovation Imperative", which describes my own structured approach to bringing new ideas to life and a 3-blog series on why you need A Cohort of Foxes in the Hedgehog Factory - Developed a leadership program at Yahoo to equip high potential employees with skills required to address global opportunities; 13 participants were picked for emerging leadership positions at the end of the year-long program