Giridharan Natarajan

Giridharan Natarajan has a strong background in product management and entrepreneurship. Giridharan co-founded and served as CEO of MVPRockets, a top product studio that launched and scaled over 20 MVPs and grew to a team of 140+. Nine of their products raised follow-on rounds from notable investors. Additionally, one of their products was featured in the Top 5 on Product Hunt.

Giridharan also co-founded and served as CEO of TestNinjas, a startup focused on launching features quickly and achieving product-market fit.

Prior to their entrepreneurial ventures, Giridharan held leadership positions at various companies. Giridharan was the VP and Head of Products at Babajob.com and the Director and Head of Products at Simplilearn, India's largest online ed-tech player in certification training. Giridharan also worked at Vodafone, where they conceptualized, designed, built, and launched innovative products in emerging markets. Giridharan began their career at Microsoft as a PM in the AdCenter team, where they collaborated with business counterparts, developers, and test engineers to deliver tools for controlling the relevance of advertisements.

Giridharan holds an MBA from IIM Bangalore and has experience as a product manager at Yahoo! in their Advertising Products group. Giridharan has also served as an Entrepreneur In Residence at the Parliamentarians with Innovators for India - COVID-19 Action initiative.

Giridharan Natarajan began their education in 1997 at Bharathi Vidya Bhavan. The specific degree and field of study are unknown. Giridharan completed their Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from PSG College of Technology in 2006. Following this, they pursued a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, which they completed in 2010.