K.D. Deshpande

K.D. Deshpande is the current Co-Founder and CEO at Simplified. Prior to this, Deshpande worked as a Product Manager at Facebook from March 2020 to November 2020. There, they worked on Messenger. From November 2017 to March 2020, Deshpande worked as a Product Manager at Uber, where they managed a team of Product Managers in San Francisco & Amsterdam. Prior to Uber, Deshpande worked at Marketo from December 2014 to November 2017 as the GM of Product Innovation & Partnerships, where they managed a team of product managers and engineers. K.D. also previously worked as the CEO & Co-Founder of Vessel.io from September 2011 to December 2014 (which was acquired by Marketo).

K.D. Deshpande has a Masters in Computer Science from Arizona State University and a BE in Computer Science from the Maharashtra Institute of Technology. K.D. also attended the 500 Startups accelerator program.

Some individuals on their team include Meg Grey - Community Manager, Ajay Y. - Co-Founder, and Shubham Kulkarni - Head of Operations, Founding Team.