Mukesh Pitroda

Mukesh Pitroda has over 20 years of experience in product management, healthcare strategy, knowledge management, interactive projects, outsourcing initiatives, technology, project management, and hospital administration. In 2022, they joined BenchPrep as the Senior Director of Product Management. From 2018 to 2022, they worked at The Nerdery as the Sr. Director, Product Management & Regional Lead, where they developed and oversaw the product management methodology and strategy, collaborated across the company to develop and maintain the marketing plan, sales strategy and operational approaches to product management work, and acted as an advisor to clients and provided thought leadership in areas of product management, digital transformation, and innovation. From 2010 to 2018, they worked at Tahoe Partners as the Senior Manager, Healthcare Strategy, where they led the healthcare strategy practice, managed multiple consulting engagements, consulted with clients to develop strategic objectives, identified, designed and implemented business and technology solutions, and developed strong client relationships. From 2008 to 2010, they worked at Tribune Interactive as the Manager, Knowledge Management and Interactive Projects, where they led organization wide efforts to standardize product and project development lifecycle and collaborated with CTO and departmental VPs to define and standardize a stage gate approval and development process. From 2005 to 2008, they worked at Orbitz as the Manager, Outsourcing Initiatives, where they developed the outsourcing capabilities of the organization, evaluated vendors, negotiated contracts, interviewed senior resources, defined processes for effectively working with offshore resources and developed KPIs for program and vendor evaluation. From 2003 to 2005, they worked at i-Vantage as the Director of Technology, where they were responsible for the overall delivery of all application development projects and led a team of over 70 developers. During this same time period, they also worked at closerlook, inc. as the Senior Project Manager - Healthcare, working with large pharmaceutical clients in implementing physician management programs, overseeing the design and implementation of physician engagement platforms for edetailing and physician remuneration, and developing documentation such as scope, project plan, etc. From 2001 to 2003, they worked at Allscripts as the Senior Project Manager, leading the development and implementation of the organization’s dictation product, managing full life cycle implementations of Allscripts software solutions within hospitals and clinics, and working with PMO to centralize process between disparate implementation managers and create standardized process with templates and documentation for each implementation group. From 2000 to 2001, they worked at America's Doctor as the Manager of Web Operations, managing the day-to-day operations of the pioneering telehealth company and defining strategy to increase customer engagement, traffic and expand online services. In 1999, they worked at UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS HOSPITAL - Minimally Invasive Surgery Center as the Administrator.

Mukesh Pitroda holds a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Illinois Chicago, as well as a Master of Business Administration from the same institution. Mukesh has also obtained several certifications from Coursera, including Digital Transformation (2022), Leading the Modern Day Business Specialization (2022), Design Thinking for Innovation (2021), Digital Product Management: Modern Fundamentals (2021), Business Transformation with Google Cloud (2020), and Introduction to Data Science in Python (2020).