Deepak has (literally) made it his business to help others. He has spent more than two decades in Silicon Valley mentoring and being mentored by exceptional minds and has now made it his mission to pay it forward, through technology. His brain child, ProductStudio, helps several startups in USA, Australia and UK in designing, building and marketing their products.

Prior to that, he was co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Packback (a Chicago-based startup funded by Mark Cuban & other notable angel investors) where he built their product strategy, online marketing strategy and engineering teams. Before that, he was Director of Product Management at Coupons.com where he created & grew several multi-million dollar products. It went public in 2014 – NYSE:QUOT, now called Quotient Technology Inc. He has also been a senior executive at Microsoft & Nokia.

Deepak is a serial entrepreneur and has been with three startups across stages (0-1 million, 1-10 million and 10-100 million). He has experience across domains (email, content, coupons, retail, e-commerce, real estate, maps, traffic & education), across product types (consumer, enterprise, mobile, social and platform), across functions (engineering, product management & marketing) and across levels (individual contributor, manager, director, VP and CXO).

For the last 12 years, Deepak is a mentor at 500 Startups and an angel investor in several startups in USA and India (such as TraknProtect, BlogLovin, Packback, Wishberry and Connect2India). Over the last few years, Deepak has reviewed several thousand business plans and has advised more than a thousand entrepreneurs in various areas. He is also an advisor to several startups on strategy, product, technology and marketing.

Deepak holds an MBA from Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley and a computer science graduate from IIT, Delhi, India. He is a TEDx speaker, Mensa member and has been issued 4 patents for his inventions.