Naveen Athresh

LIQUIDMIND® is an AI Agent marketplace. We also focus on some key areas such as Internatonal Trade. As part of that, we have AI Agents and Agentic workflows solving entire enterprise use cases. In this, LIQUIDMIND® automates workflows for International Trade using AI (+Trade Documentation optimization) for both medium->large domestic and medium->large exporters (manufacturers or traders). We are hiring for product management/sciences/engineering and data sciences roles. We are an NVIDIA Inception Program startup, a Microsoft for startups program company on Azure, Amazon for startups and using AWS, Hosted on Lambda. We also use the home grown data stack like Yotta's Shakti Cloud. We are bootstrapped, hiring smart engineers/data scientists, product management/sciences/engineering and data sciences roles.

Skill Agents is at the forefront of artificial intelligence education, dedicated to bridging the gap between theoretical knowledge and practical application in the rapidly evolving AI landscape. Our Mission We are committed to democratizing AI education and empowering individuals with the skills and knowledge needed to thrive in an AI-driven future. Our mission is to create a community of informed, skilled, and ethical AI practitioners who can drive innovation while understanding the responsibilities that come with this powerful technology. Our Vision In a world where AI is reshaping every industry, we envision being the catalyst that transforms passionate learners into confident AI professionals. We believe in hands-on learning, real-world applications, and creating a supportive environment where innovation flourishes. What Sets Us Apart Industry-leading curriculum developed by AI experts Hands-on learning with real-world projects Personalized mentorship from experienced professionals Focus on ethical AI development and implementation Strong emphasis on practical applications and industry relevance

Look to participate meaningfully in this role to help grow the product / platform community in India to nurture 10K product leaders.

MatchMove is a fast-growing and disruptive fintech company in digital payments and banking. The company's proprietary Banking OS enables Embedded Banking and the capabilities of Spend|Send|Lend|Defend|Ascend within our clients’ existing apps. The company is headquartered in Singapore with offices in India, Indonesia, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and the Philippines. The acquisition of leading e-commerce infrastructure provider, Shopmatic, is the next step in that journey: combining a best-in-class Digital Commerce platform focused on SMEs with MatchMove's advanced Embedded Finance capabilities.

Led the entire startup/SMB charter for PayU (India's largest Fintech) Product team. Played a pivotal role for Merchant experience across PayU product suite for merchants across Payment experience/Treasury/organic acquisition with our hunting / farming teams, partnerships across all verticals with platforms and resellers and banks in collaboration with our banking operations/Neobanking folks. Work closely with our data science+risk teams (Enterprise, SMB/omni channel) etc.

The Indian payments space is currently the hottest in the world! At PayU (India's largest Fintech), I get to innovate on unique industry first constructs to build platforms our PayU merchants will love! PayU India is the flagship company of the Prosus (Naspers) group which is a $200 Billion internet and media conglomerate listed on Amsterdam and Johannesburg stock exchanges respectively. PayU provides payment gateway/payment aggregator platform capabilities a/c Enterprises, SMB, startups and Government cohorts. In India, PayU serves more than 450000+ merchants with over 100+ payment methods and is the preferred payments partner for nearly 60% of the e-commerce merchants, including all leading e-commerce companies and a majority of airline businesses.

Responsibilities - Global data sciences group (GDSD - Data platform group) Partners Rakuten Ichiba (Japan), EBates (Rakuten Rewards)/Kobo, Rakuten Golf, Rakuten Taiwan Advertising, Rakuten France, Germany - Americas (+Rakuten Marketplace) across peak shopping seasons (ex: key thanksgiving holiday season (Black Friday/Cyber Monday) in Nov, Dec 2019 (impact recognized across leadership / Rakuten group worldwide)) - Championing the Product vision/strategy, execution (3, 5 year) for the Rakuten catalog platform / Competitive intelligence platform / expanding to other verticals across the Rakuten ecosystem of services - Launched a key highly cross functional product matching initiative across myriad teams around engineering, operations, PgMO, Product sciences - Seattle, San Mateo, Rakuten Institute of technology), Tokyo and 3rd party providers product matching initiative that directly contributes to an uplift of double digit million USD $/annum in time for holiday season, USA 2020 (utilising AI/deep learning) - Envisaged from the ground up a Competitive intelligence platform that contributed to direct millions of $ of increase in Gross merchandizing sales (GMS) and consumer experience

Rakuten is a global multi billion $ profitable behemoth doing a variety of businesses (the Rakuten eco-system) pivoted around its core memberships program, brand and data. They have marketplaces around the globe doing e-commerce (they run Japan’s largest E-commerce marketplace called Rakuten Ichiba), travel, fintech, messaging (they own Viber) and also offer carrier services (MNO) in Japan (from 2019). I would work for the Rakuten Catalog platform/EBates team (under the Global data science department) managing an advanced competitive intelligence platform whilst solving a variety of complex computer science problems around structured data for over a billion+ item and Product Master entities for their global catalog. The role provided me an unique opportunity to solve data/AI/ML problems at scale in an impactful way. Needless to say, the frequent travel helps me socialize and build lifelong relationships with my stakeholders worldwide from Tokyo Japan to India to Europe to the USA.

The eBay monetization platform processes over USD $10 billion of revenue/year (primarily from its over 14 million seller base) doing GMS (gross merchandizing sales) of over USD $90 billion/year whilst doing 12000 Transactions/second and is a high visibility team. I participated on many key seller billing/monetization/Indirect taxation/compliance (VAT/GST) initiatives for over 30+ countries globally) in this stint to build great momentum, improved product vision/strategy execution (moved the entire team to Agile Scrum successfully) capabilities of the team.

In my 18 months at Flipkart, I led a team of product managers/engineers to ship a whopping 6 high visibility/high value and impactful customer delight features (many a first in Indian e-commerce) as part of the Commerce (Customer shopping experience, Cart/Checkout, Flash Sales) and Supply chain platforms (Last mile). In this stint, we managed to raise the CSAT (NPS) by over 20-30% straight (sustained) across many aspects of the forward and reverse supply chain whilst improving the bottom line by millions of $ and frauds/leakages by 90% instituting the right product design constructs. My work has been widely recognised by the then top leadership of Flipkart. Flipkart was acquired by Walmart in May 2018 for USD $21 billion.

I setup, scaled the product team with A+ hires from good b-schools, focused on the end-end Capillary tech product portfolio through extensive product/customer development by working closely with his end customers (omni channel retailers)/sales team to ship products customers love around omni channel and marketing campaigns to deliver a 5-10% ROI on their businesses.

Capillary was an exciting bet on marquee VC firms (Sequoia Capital, Norwest Ventures and Qualcomm ventures) and the founding team (from IIT-KGP) with a unique opportunity to contribute to the Indian startup eco system to build out their early product capabilities and Product team with a classic “saying no to focus on fewer things that matter” and bringing in enterprise Product management skills/process rigour.

I worked with the Product Management function at iPass Inc. (Nasdaq: IPAS) in the Telecom/networking space. In this role, I directly (or indirectly) engaged with carrier partners and enterprises worldwide (North America, EMEA, J/APAC), through iPass' sales channels to deliver products to iPass' customers by constantly shipping products in an iterative 6-week (Agile Scrum) release cycle.

Graduated In April 2006 IIFT with an EMIB degree and stood within the top 10% of my graduating class.

Having participated in several Harvard programs over the past 7.5 years, this course stood out for its direct application to our work at LIQUIDMIND®. Our journey began in 2017, refining our idea during a design thinking course at the Harvard campus I had participated on during HBS Connext 2017 at Boston, MA. Today, LIQUIDMIND® has evolved into a Platform/ Product company leveraging AI to address the needs of MSME domestic and international manufacturing exporters and traders through design thinking. The program featured enlightening case studies from CEOs of renowned corporations like T-mobile, Amazon, Moderna, Philips, and IBM, offering a diverse range of frameworks for the design phases. This experience has been instrumental in shaping our approach and strategies at LIQUIDMIND®. Under the guidance of Harvard Business School Dean, Dr. Srikant Datar, this intensive 2-month course provided invaluable insights.

Earned my Diploma in "Entrepreneurship and Innovation" for the Sr. executives cohort (valuable for those with significant experience running startups/MSME companies) from the Harvard business school Sr. Dean Prof V.G Narayanan https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=6520. The classroom course credits (each 2 months) I took that were of direct value to me were: 1. Disruptive Innovation - Professor Clayton Christensen 2. Entrepreneurship essentials - William Sahlman - https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=6544 3. Negotiation Mastery - Michael Wheeler - https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=6575 In addition, I took up the Design thinking course from MIT, Boston, MA and a short on campus workshop at HBS, Boston, MA Time to continue applying the knowledge gained on the focus areas! #harvardbusinessschool #entrepreneurship #entrepreneurialmindset #disruptiveinnovation #innovation #negotiationstrategies #designthinking

Negotiation Mastery is an 8-week, 40-hour online certificate program from Harvard Business School. Negotiation Mastery prepares students to close deals that might otherwise be dead-locked, maximize value creation in agreements, and resolve differences before they escalate into costly conflicts. The program provides both an analytical toolkit and interpersonal techniques for dealing effectively with different bargaining styles and tactics. Negotiation Mastery was developed by leading Harvard Business School faculty and is delivered in an active learning environment based on the HBS signature case-based learning model.

Attended the classroom sessions@Harvard business school, Boston, MA in May 2017, May 2018, May 2019, May 2020, May 2021 and May 2022 as part of our HBS event. Entrepreneurship Essentials is a 4-week, 25-hour online certificate program from Harvard Business School Online. Entrepreneurship Essentials introduces participants to the entrepreneurial journey from finding an idea to gaining traction in the marketplace to raising capital for a venture. Participants learn an overarching framework—People, Opportunity, Context, Deal—to evaluate opportunities, manage start-ups, and finance ventures. This course also introduces participants to the idea that entrepreneurs run structured experiments to validate ideas and refine business strategy. Participants work through real-world challenges faced by entrepreneurs across a variety of industries and come away with tangible tools and techniques that they can apply to their own entrepreneurial journeys.

Attended the classroom sessions@Harvard business school, Boston, MA in May 2017 and May 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021 as part of our HBX event. HBS Online Disruptive Strategy with Clayton Christensen is a 6-week, 30 hour certificate program from Harvard Business School. Disruptive Strategy helps students become fluent in disruption theory and gain confidence in articulating complex viewpoints, apply strategic frameworks to assess new opportunities and potential threats, and acquire techniques for executive-level strategy formulation and team management. The program was developed by leading Harvard Business School faculty and is delivered in an active learning environment based on the HBS signature case-based learning model.

Naveen successfully completed this program from MIT on design thinking (March - May 2017). His belief is that this program will add genuine value to his own entrepreneurship pursuits with LIQUID MIND® Product/IP consulting Inc.