Harinath Pudipeddi
AI Product Strategist · Entrepreneur · Educator

Harinath Pudipeddi

He doesn't just help organisations build products. He helps them build the ability to continuously reinvent them.

“Thinks like a VC · Strategizes like a CPO · Executes like a Founder”

25+

Years in Tech

110+

Associates Managed

$15M+

Annual Revenue

14

Time Zones

ARR Growth Delivered

Fractional Executive Leadership · Product Reinvention · Business Reinvention

Harinath Pudipeddi

He doesn't just help organisations build products. He helps them build the ability to continuously reinvent them.

Hari is a Fractional Executive Leader, Product Strategist, entrepreneur, and business reinvention advisor with over 25 years of experience across technology, product leadership, healthcare, PropTech, enterprise platforms, and entrepreneurship.

He works with founders, boards, business leaders, product teams, and technology organisations that have reached an inflection point—where incremental improvements are no longer enough, existing products are losing relevance, artificial intelligence is reshaping customer expectations, or the organisation needs experienced executive leadership without immediately appointing a full-time CTO or CPO.

His work brings together four connected areas: Fractional Executive Leadership, Leadership Immersion, Product Reinvention, and Business Reinvention.

What sets him apart: As a Fractional CTO/CPO, Hari works alongside leadership teams to bring strategic clarity across product, technology, commercial models, organisational capability, and execution. He helps organisations answer the questions that must be resolved before significant capital, time, and engineering capacity are committed: What should we build? Why will customers care? How should it be built? What technology should enable it? How will it create revenue? What capabilities must the organisation develop? And how will the business remain relevant as markets continue to evolve?

Hari's approach goes beyond roadmaps, features, and technology implementation. He connects customer problems, product decisions, operating models, engineering capability, commercial strategy, and leadership alignment into one integrated system.

His work is anchored in LiquidOcean™, his proprietary approach to product design, leadership transformation, and continuous business reinvention. LiquidOcean™ helps organisations move beyond one-time transformation programs and isolated innovation initiatives, creating a structured approach for understanding changing customer expectations, identifying emerging opportunities, designing commercially viable products, aligning technology investments, building revenue loops, and continuously reinventing the organisation's value proposition.

Before becoming an entrepreneur and advisor, Hari spent more than a decade at Cerner Corporation, now part of Oracle Health. During this period, he worked across enterprise healthcare technology, product delivery, market development, operational transformation, and large-scale team leadership. His experience spans both strategy and execution—from building teams and managing complex stakeholder environments to taking products into new markets and delivering technology in highly regulated industries.

Hari brings extensive experience across India, Australia, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and the broader APAC region. He understands that products and business models cannot simply be transferred from one market to another, and he advises organisations on APAC market entry, product localisation, cross-cultural product strategy, regional operating models, and scaling teams across geographies.

His point of view: The greatest risk facing organisations today is not a lack of innovation. It is the belief that yesterday's successful product, business model, leadership capability, or market position will remain relevant tomorrow. Technology will continue to change. Artificial intelligence will continue to lower barriers. Customer expectations will continue to rise. Competitive advantages will continue to erode. The organisations that thrive will not be those with the best current product—they will be those that develop the ability to reinvent continuously.

Fractional Executive LeadershipCTO/CPO StrategyProduct ReinventionBusiness ReinventionAI Product StrategyLeadership TransformationHealthTechPropTechEnterprise PlatformsAPAC Markets

Speaking Topics

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AI / GenAI Strategy

Deploying GenAI in enterprise environments; POC to Production roadmaps; Responsible AI governance for B2B; Designing Revenue Loops

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HealthTech Innovation

Product strategy for HealthTech SaaS; Automating clinical workflows; Building fundable HealthTech startups

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PropTech & Sustainability

SaaS for Commercial Real Estate (IWMS); Digitising physical workflows; Fractional Real Estate platforms

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B2B SaaS & Product Growth

0→1 in 90–120 day sprints; EdTech ARR $1M→$5M case study; Intrapreneurship frameworks (Mercedes-Benz, GCCs)

Past Speaking & Workshops

Panel Speaker

Global Startup's Club

Workshop

IIM Kolkata

Business Models & Product Strategy

Workshop

NIT Suratkal

Tech entrepreneurship

Workshop

PSG College, Coimbatore

Conference Speaker

Enterprising Bharat

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Conference Speaker

Co-working Conferences

Australia & The Netherlands

Also Teaching: Instructor at LaunchPad Melbourne — Product Strategy for Tech Leaders · YouTube: @TheStrategyMonk

Session Formats

Keynote

Panel Discussion

Workshop/Masterclass

Fireside Chat

Executive Roundtable

Guest Lecture

Coming Soon

My Upcoming Book

Fall in Love with the Client, Not the Idea - Book Cover

Fall in Love with the Client, Not the Idea

Most founders fail not because they lack passion — but because they fall in love with their idea instead of what the client actually wants. Fall in Love with the Client, Not the Idea is the no-nonsense playbook for today's entrepreneur: how to validate before you build, bootstrap without burning cash, harness AI as your unfair advantage, and grow through Product-Led Growth loops that run themselves — without a sales team. Whether you're sitting on an idea or stuck mid-build, this book hands you the 360° map that most founders only wish they had at the start.

ValidationBootstrappingAI StrategyProduct-Led Growth

Publication details coming soon

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Get in Touch

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harinpv {at} StudioNAVAKA {dot} com {dot} au
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+91 90709 07907 India
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+61 439 221 811 Australia
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+971 50 207 5855 Dubai

Publications

📘 OWASP Testing Guidebook Vol 1 & 2 — Co-author
✍️ The Founders Formula — Upcoming book: Ideation to a Successful Startup

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