Saurabh Palan is a user-centric innovator with over 12 years of experience built around bringing innovative and disruptive products to market. Palan has an entrepreneurial mindset and inclusive and empathetic leadership that has within the past seven years built revolutionary products from concept to millions of users for three Fortune 50 companies. Palan is an achiever, having established TV as the fastest-growing Google Assistant surface, pioneered the Level 2+ uncrashable vehicle and Level 4 autonomous vehicles for Toyota, invented a driver safety technology that could save lives, and built modular product development technology then sold to Facebook. Additionally, Palan owns nine patents in AI, robotics, and autonomous driving domains.

Palan's areas of expertise range from new product innovation (0 to1), complex problem-solving, technology roadmaps, business development, team-building, and mentorship, among others. He is also a technical expert in AI/ML, IoT, robotics, autonomous systems, cloud application, distributed systems, edTech, and hardware, among other technology domains. Palan also participates in DEI Allyship Committee Membership, Startup Advisory Board Experience, and Non-Profit Board Membership.

Palan is multitalented with several educational qualifications, having studied a Diploma at Vivekanand Education Society's Polytechnique, a Bachelor of Engineering (BE) at the University of Mumbai, and a Master of Science (MS) in the University of Pennsylvania.