About

Kishhanth Renganathan is a tech strategist with over 10 years of experience in developing and managing products on an agile environment. He specializes in helping small and medium-sized businesses automate their needs using robotics and artificial intelligence. Kishhanth is passionate about building and testing products that users love through design thinking principles. He has a demonstrated ability to develop and articulate strategic decisions with stakeholders effectively. Kishhanth's specialties include application development using robot manipulators, application development on mobile robotics, business design using lean methodologies, creating successful startup pitches, and idea to product market fit journey mapping. He loves to make things work, find opportunities in problems, ideate solutions, simplify innovations through storytelling, and connect with people. Currently, Kishhanth is the founder of Petti Pod, a pre-revenue and seed stage company with a product under development. His goal is to increase capital to establish a network of work pods around cities. Previously, Kishhanth worked as the Chief Innovation and Technology Officer at Macco Robotics, where he developed technical aspects of the company's strategy to ensure alignment with its business goals. He also led a cross-functional team of engineering, design, operations, and marketing to deliver new product solutions and enhance the existing portfolio. Kishhanth evangelized the product vision to key stakeholders and new investors using the metrics achieved and monetized it for the firm. He also monitored KPIs and IT budgets to assess technological performance. Kishhanth also worked as a Product Manager at Macco Robotics, where he developed a client base across the Middle East and explored a human-centered design approach to connect robots in the food and beverage sector. He achieved new sales and rent of robots as a product and service and positioned the startup to expand the business across the Middle East. Kishhanth launched three new products in two years, resulting in an increase in revenue. He also implemented agile methodology to launch new products as a service for the event sector and succeeded in 20+ events across the Middle East, Russia, and Europe. Kishhanth holds a Master of Science degree in Innovation, Strategy, and Entrepreneurship from Grenoble Ecole de Management and a Bachelor of Technology degree in Electronics and Instrumentation from Amrita University. He has experience in test, mobile, and research scientist tech stacks, and his relevant experience is 7.53 years.