Hi, I'm Ankit 👋
Product Leader with experience in crypto, healthcare and fintech. Passionate about building innovative digital products and mentoring teams.
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Product leader with experience leading teams through ideation, design and deployment of digital products across healthcare, crypto, and fintech industries. Currently Director of Product at Novartis, driving AI-powered product strategy and digital transformation initiatives. Previously Head of Product at The Block leading web3 integrations, and led product teams at Johnson & Johnson and Nationwide Insurance.

Work Experience

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Novartis

Aug 2025 - Present
Director of AI Products
Own product strategy for internal tool adoption across sales, support, and operations. Lead development of agentic AI workflows to automate support triage and field engagement at scale. Partner with data science, engineering, and business teams to ship high-impact, AI-powered solutions. Drive cross-functional alignment across stakeholders on digital transformation initiatives.
Founder & AI Product Builder
Founder & AI Product Builder
Founder & AI Product Builder
Founder & AI Product Builder

Founder & AI Product Builder

Dec 2023 - Present
Founder
Built and launched multiple AI-powered products including postshorts.ai (UGC ad and viral shorts generator), purpal.ai (AI receptionist and voice agent for SMBs), storypup.com (iOS app for personalized bedtime stories with voice cloning), and wealthaire (AI financial assistant powered by RAG and LLMs). Delivered end-to-end LLM and RAG platforms using LLM APIs, Pinecone vector search, Supabase, and Stripe subscriptions, deploying production apps with live users.
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The Block

Oct 2021 - Feb 2025
Head of Product
First PM for a crypto information services startup. Led web3 integration with multi-chain protocols, launched B2B platform with multiple new apps, and grew monthly web traffic from 3M to 4M+. Created product OKRs and devised product strategy while implementing agile practices as company doubled in size.
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Johnson & Johnson

Sep 2019 - Sep 2021
Product Lead
Led team through ideation, design and deployment of D2C and HCP digital properties for Oncology franchise. Launched features for 15+ websites, improving metrics. Launched 'Contact a rep' feature during COVID, increasing sign-ups by 87%.
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Nationwide Mutual Insurance

July 2017 - Aug 2019
Product Manager, Senior Business Analyst
Managed product roadmaps and solution scoping for data products. Led multiple Tier 1 Go-To-Market projects worth $4M+. Developed dashboards and metrics to track feature shipping efficiency.
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The Blackstone Group

Nov 2012 - July 2015
Lead/Senior QA Consultant
Led QA team for web applications and Salesforce. Automated 75% of user management application, reducing manual effort by 30 hours/week. Managed IT support and resolved 600+ tickets.

Education

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Rutgers University

2019 - 2019
Mini-MBA, Digital Marketing
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Temple University

2015 - 2017
Master of Business Administration
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University of York

2011 - 2012
Master of Science, Software Engineering
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GGSIPU

2006 - 2010
Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science

Skills

Product Management
Web3
Digital Marketing
Analytics
Tableau
SQL
JIRA
Figma
Salesforce
Google Analytics
Entrepreneurial Ventures

My Startup Projects

I'm passionate about building innovative solutions to real-world problems. Here are some of the entrepreneurial ventures I've founded or co-founded.

Open Source

GitHub Activity

My contributions to open source projects and personal repositories.

 
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