Tapan Nayak

Drive the digital transformation business for an industrial org. Lead Data & AI-driven IoT platform, Inspire IQ, bridging digital and physical worlds. Drive user experience innovation in maintenance and fleet management, setting industry benchmarks. Integrate market insights & feedback to adapt and optimize the product portfolio. Spearhead digital transformation by refining roadmaps to maximize customer value. Guide high-performing teams, fostering resilience, innovation, and execution excellence.

Led product, development, and maintenance of cloud-based ERP solutions for K-12 education, driving revenue growth. Oversaw product management, coordinated engineering efforts, & managed partners to optimize execution. Drove product innovation, mitigated risks, and leveraged cross-functional capabilities for efficiency. Enhanced productivity and bridged competitive gaps through agile practices and tech optimizations. Fostered innovation, developed leaders, and implemented continuous performance improvements.

Formalized an MVP through ideation sessions, development planning, requirements gathering & UxD for a product to solve the skill, behavior & personality fitment for a job through game-based evaluation, knowledge graph & AI. • Spearheaded a lead generation engine and productization of repeatable solutions for a successful Analytic start-up. • Developed product roadmap, go-to-market plan, technology & growth strategy for a dispensing technology start-up. • Advised a Club aggregator start-up in growth hack.

Streamlined operations, IP development, delivery and customer success with full responsibility of B2C & B2B customers of an E-learning market leader resulting in NPS jump from 29 to 60. • Formulated a culture of customer focus through cross-functional leadership, management of AVPs, Directors, managers, and general oversight of 140 employees. Decreased operational cost by 11% through consolidation of business operations of B2B and B2C delivery, streamlining budget and spending.

Founded and led a B2C business around information consumption, which attempted to serve over 100K consumers through a digital bulletin board. • Built a powerful SaaS product & mobile app which simplified information consumption through interest-based intelligent filters and AI-driven behavioral decision-making, powered by underlying data acquisition and analytics engine. • Led all responsibilities of strategic planning, product management, product development, & user experience design & complete business

Directed product management, engineering and software release management for a Higher Education ERP, Finance & HR modules. Established a culture to adopt a higher degree of automation, focus on quality release and embrace DevOps by developing automation & application lifecycle management tools. Engineered simplification of next-generation cloud ERP adoption through out-of-the-box solutions. Implemented DevOps and drove automation.