KD DESHPANDEFounder

United States - San Francisco Bay Area

I am entrepreneurial product leader who founded two SaaS companies, built teams & products from grounds up, raised venture capital, and successfully sold the business through an M&A exit.

Marketo acquired my last company (Vessel.io).

Area of expertise:

Leadership: Hire and develop talent, Managing PM, engineering and mobile teams
Product Management: 0 to 1 Product, Vision and strategy definition, stakeholder alignment, roadmap/priorities/trade-offs/ship
Finance management: P&L management for BUs.
Large teams: Ability to drive consensus across diverse, global technology and business stakeholders. Own complex, multi-faceted, open-ended problems and drive them to completion.
User experience: Passion for customer delight and user journey from product discovery to experience

Specialize in: Mobile & Web Apps. Enterprise, SaaS Products, MarTech, AdTech