Gaurav Malhotra

I am a seasoned Product Manager, technical leader and a strategist. I am an expert in strategic planning using agile & lean methodologies, technology and operational management of cloud data services, driving data driven decisions, customer communications, business model implementations, UX/product and process design. As a Product Leader at Microsoft, I have shipped multiple scalable, distributed data governance and data analytics solutions. I have helped Fortune 500 customers in different domains (Retail, Financial services, Health Care) unlock the power of governance and analytics resulting in 3x increase in revenue. I have worn many hats in my career-programmer, program manager, product leader. As a result, I have a unique and proven ability to navigate complex challenges; to interface with decision makers, partners, senior management and stakeholders to achieve goals and deliver results. But the actual experience has taught me that my professional value boils down to the following: a. Execution is what matters along with Big ideas, and I do execution. B. I don't react to problems. Rather, I respond to problems as I am the calm one. C. I run towards fires. D. I like working in diverse environments ranging from large services supporting hundreds of customers to start ups. Specialties: Strategic planning, Data Governance, Analytics, Data Integration (ETL/ELT), Customer focused Product design, Process design, Business model implementations, Data driven decisions, Customer communications, Evangelism, Social media, Weblog analytics, Product recommendations.