Himanshu Bari

Co-Founder & CEO

2023 - Current

https://instinctiq.ai/ Industry’s first project schedule intelligence and risk management platform built from the ground up using GenerativeAI

Advisor & Mentor

2023

Berkeley Skydeck is a Forbes top-5 US university accelerator and part of UC Berkeley Advising young and upcoming startups and founders on Pricing, SaaS metrics, GTM, Product Management, Leadership & Culture development

Investor

2018

Vice President Of Product Management

2020 - 2023

Backed by a $114M investment from Softbank, Microsoft & PayPal, ArkoseLabs is a leading bot management vendor on a mission to bankrupt attackers and wipe out Google reCaptcha from the internet. I built & ran the product management, puzzle development, docs & UX design teams at Arkose. Grew the team from 3 to 12+, launched several new products and capabilities resulting in a 4X growth in revenue over 3 years. Combining Email, device, network, user identity & behavior biometrics based risk decisioning with an innovative challenge (Arkose Enforce) the Arkose platform defeats persistent bot attacks and coordinated human-driven attacks on the most targeted user interaction points on web/mobile/TVs/gaming consoles

Head of Product Management

2020 - 2021

Sr. Director of Product Management

2020 - 2020

Advisor

2019 - 2021

Sr. Director Product Management

2018 - 2020

Market leader in Sales enablement & Revenue Ops raised over $250M from NVP, Softbank, Canaan & Qualcomm - Partnered with the founders as a hands-on leader of the product and data analyst teams - Scaled the product team, processes & led the GTM efforts as we quadrupled our revenue over a short two-year span by successfully dominating both the SMB and the large enterprise customer segment - Catalyzed the pre-sales process throughout the lifecycle of the deal - from RFP to securing technical wins & engaging in strategic roadmap conversations with customer executives to get their buy-in - Served as an evangelist to establish thought leadership with analysts and maintain strong relationships with key customers & partners with activities like briefings, webinars and contributed articles

Director Product Management

2015 - 2018

Led the product team responsible for all of ThreatMetrix® data/ML/Integration products to a successful exit and acquisition by LexisNexis Risk Solutions ThreatMetrix is the market-leading cloud solution for authenticating digital personas and transactions on the Internet. Verifying more than 20 billion annual transactions supporting 30,000 websites and 4,500 customers globally - Launched the ThreatMetrix digital identity graph that leverages real-time link analysis to power transaction monitoring and case management addressing use cases in AML & fraud during onboarding, authentication & payments - Launched an identity verification API marketplace that allows customers to augment ThreatMetrix real-time transaction monitoring engine with pre-built connectors to 3rd party vendors by negotiating OEM licensing and data acquisition deals with several vendors like Idology, Danal, Telesign, Socure, Emailage etc. - Launched the ThreatMetrix Smart Learning capability that allows customers to automate fraud policy creation using supervised machine learning algorithms - Launched a Cloudera Impala based data discovery and visualization offering for fraud data analysis by OEM-ing Arcadia Data(In Hadoop BI) in the ThreatMetrix SaaS application

Director Product Management

2014 - 2015

Leader in Hadoop native real-time streaming processing & analytics. Headed product and drove all aspects of DataTorrent's (Apache Apex) product strategy, roadmap, positioning & pricing - Launched new applications for Hadoop data ingestion & distribution, data preparation/transformation & analytics - Launched two strategic product additions to our portfolio – a drag-n-drop unified stream and batch ETL pipeline builder & a real-time data visualization & analytics dashboard - Added new data connectors to enable IoT & big data solution architectures

Sr. Product Manager

2013 - 2014

As the #3 product hire at Hortonworks, I drove the product strategy, roadmap & execution for bringing several open source projects in the Hadoop ecosystem to market as enterprise-ready products of the Hortonworks Data Platform -Apache Storm - a real-time stream processing platform -OpenStack Sahara- Enabling Hadoop on public/private cloud platforms based on OpenStack -Apache Falcon- Data governance platform for Hadoop -Teradata/Aster products integration

Sr. Product Manager

2011 - 2013

Web based Virtualization, Storage & Availability Management/Reporting Products

User Experience Engineering (Data Loss Prevention Products)

2009 - 2011

- Collaborated with UI designers to define user personas and wrote user stories. Facilitated creative rapid design labs and wrote usability test scripts to validate features like File risk scoring - Conducted customer research using focus groups to validate UI designs & identify usability gaps