Great product managers engage in strategic thinking and execution every day and apply this to all stages of Product Management. "Being strategic" is not a result of education but comes from practical experience.
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Mahesh Kumar
Head of Product Management (Strategy)
Broadcom Inc.
About the Speaker
Mahesh K Gupta has been working with software products since 2000. After completing his Electronics engineering and Masters in Maths from BITS Pilani, he worked on core system internals of Andrew File Systems and IBM Tivoli Directory Server, as a core software developer.
Then after his full-time MBA from IIM Ahmedabad, in 2006, he chose to take up product management as his career, unlike traditional iBanking/Consulting work. Till 2011 he globally managed all the Technical Communication products at Adobe and from 2011 he first managed all Disaster/System recovery products and also some Backup products at Symantec. 2013 onwards he managed all storage security products and last year he also started managing all encryption products.
He has many hobbies. Coaching and Mentoring is one area where he loves to contribute. He is also a panelist and mentor for IIM A - Economic Times, Power of Ideas PAN India startup contest.