Kaustubh Patekar founded The ProdZen, a product management and strategy consulting company, in 2016 and has helped several startups and IT services companies scale their product business. He was VP of Product and Design at Manthan where he led the transformation to SaaS and helped accelerate the business. Prior to this, he held leadership roles in product, strategy and engineering management at companies like Oracle and MicroStrategy in the US. He has a US patent for his work on database and subscription technology.

He enjoys working with entrepreneurs and mentors AI startups as part of NASSCOM DeepTech Club. He regularly writes about product building, scaling and leadership.

Kaustubh is an alumnus of IIT-Bombay and Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he studied Aerospace Engineering.