Saurabh Palan

Building Products to Empower, Educate & Enhance The Human Experience at Scale - Always Hungry & Always Foolish - Dad to a Future Superhero - Roboticist at heart

Saurabh Palan is a user-centric innovator with a focus on inclusive and empathetic leadership, backed by an entrepreneurial mindset, boasting over 12 years of experience in building and launching innovative and disruptive products.

Throughout his career, Saurabh has excelled in driving cross-organizational and cross-functional efforts by employing a data-driven, people-centric, and inclusive product development approach, leading to the creation of revolutionary products for three Fortune 50 companies since 2014.

Some of Saurabh's notable achievements include establishing TV as the fastest-growing Google Assistant surface, pioneering uncrashable vehicle technology for Toyota, developing modular product development technology sold to Facebook, inventing life-saving driver safety technology, and holding nine patents in AI, robotics, and autonomous driving domains.

His areas of expertise span new product innovation, large-scale initiatives, complex problem-solving, go-to-market strategy, technology roadmaps, internationalization, team building, mentorship, data-driven decision-making, business development, data privacy and security, as well as product design and user experience.

In terms of technical expertise, Saurabh is well-versed in AI/ML, IoT, robotics, autonomous systems, EdTech, hardware, cloud applications, and distributed systems.

Beyond his professional roles, Saurabh is actively involved in DEI allyship committees, serves on non-profit boards, and provides guidance as an advisor on startup boards.

Saurabh's educational background includes a Diploma from Vivekanand Education Society's Polytechnique, a Master of Science from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Bachelor of Engineering from the University of Mumbai.

His career journey includes positions such as Product Manager in Audio Monetization (Ads) at Google, Board of Advisors at Adori Labs, Inc., Product Manager for Google Assistant at Google, Product Manager at Toyota Research Institute, Head of Hardware - Product & Engineering at Nascent Objects (now part of Facebook), Founder & CEO at MightyCarma, Inc., Founder - Research & Learning at iRoboticist, and various engineering and teaching roles at esteemed institutions and organizations.