Leading a team of talented product managers to define and deliver exciting new generative AI products for OutShift, Cisco's new businesses incubation group. Driving GenAI feature development across privacy, security, trust, Retrieval-Augmented-Generation (RAG), prompt understanding, and agentic applications. Defining strategy and portfolio of products spanning GenAI infrastructure, models, tooling, and applications.Evaluating build, invest, partner, and buy decisions to support rapid time to market of differentiated capabilities.Driving cutting-edge multi-agentic applications for AIOps tasks such as evaluation, testing, root cause analysis, failure prediction, and remediation.

Led the product management team, strategy, and execution to best support the AI/ML computer vision requirements of all AWS external and internal customers. Drove near and long term roadmap planning for critical pre-trained computer vision AI features such as face detection, facial recognition, fraud detection, object/scene detection, generative AI, vision-language foundational models, text detection, content moderation, few-shot learning, automated machine learning, and next-generation science techniques. Defined business, product, and go-to-market plans in critical computer vision areas spanning face-based identity verification, content moderation, advertising analytics, retail analysis, broadcast media tagging, photo sharing, security camera analytics, workplace safety, and other key applications. Guided thought leadership in fair and responsible development of AI features through AI service cards, policy-level and standards-level engagements, and internal process/science innovations. Guided business growth levers and go-to-market strategy through dotted reporting of business development managers, product marketing managers, solution architects, and partner development managers.Also, led product management/marketing for AWS end-user applications and developer service such as Amazon Chime, Amazon Chime SDK, and Alexa for Business. Launched Amazon Chime SDK, Amazon Chime Slack app, and multiple features for Alexa for Business. Drove the development of a net new "Communication Developer Services" category in AWS and Remote Work and Learn Solutions.

Datrium raised $170M and was acquired by VMware in August 2020.Led product management for Datrium DVX (hyperconverged system), Cloud DVX (cloud back up AWS), and ControlShift offerings (cloud disaster recovery on VMWare Cloud on AWS). Reported to the CEO and later CPO and worked closely with founders, lead engineers, and customers on product roadmap, prioritization, feature definitions, feature delivery, and enablement.Collaborated closely with VP of marketing and sales to drive key product marketing and go-to-market initiatives.

Atlantis Computing raised over $30M and was acquired by Hive-IO.Drove product management, product marketing, and go-to-market motions for Atlantis HyperScale hyperconverged appliance.

Drove roadmap and portfolio planning for the HPE’s $1B+ high-end x86 compute & server platform portfolio (HPE ProLiant).Drove outbound, go-to-market and lifecycle management for mission-critical two-socket HPE Integrity server portfolio ($200M+ annually). Launched a major product refresh targeting entry-sized data-intensive applications such as Oracle, SAP, Cerner and SAS.Managed the networking, storage and graphics IO cards portfolio for all of HPE Integrity portfolio ($100M+ annually). This portfolio included over 300+ products across stand-up and mezzanine (blade) form factors. Established a cadence of steady product launches and sales enablement/training to drive higher margin IO attach sales.

Drove product qualification strategy and management for HP high-end LaserJet single-function and multi-function printer products. Managed several contracted test teams (25+ engineers) spread globally for driving timely tests execution and ensuring high quality standards.