Shrinath V

Visiting Faculty

Profile

Shrinath is a product management and design thinking coach with over 15 years of experience across entrepreneurial & established firms like Texas Instruments, Nokia, Motorola & MapmyIndia.

He has worked & consulted on product strategy, product management, product marketing, as an Agile product owner, managing user experience projects, business development, portfolio management and in analytics.

In his last corporate role, he was heading product management for location-based services on a range of Nokia phones used in over 100 countries.

Shrinath has worked extensively with startups, advising them on product strategy, Agile methods, product marketing, pricing and marketing strategies. He is actively involved in Google’s start-up Launchpad, a startup mentoring program by Google. He was recently invited as a product mentor for Google's Launchpad Accelerator at their Mountain View head office, where I advised startups from across 4 countries on a range of startup issues.

He is a mentor at Africa Angels Network, a South African Angel Investment firm looking to promote entrepreneurship in Africa.

Shrinath is a partner at Auspin Ventures, a design thinking in business organization and has helped develop a framework that lets organizations use creative techniques for business outcomes. Auspin Ventures is a partner with the Indian School of Business (ISB) and helps conduct corporate trainings on design thinking in business.

Shrinath has been recognized as a Product Strategy Expert under the Google Developer Experts program. Google Experts are a global network of experienced product strategists, designers, developers and marketing professionals actively supporting developers, startups and companies changing the world through web and mobile applications.