
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
5×
ARR Growth Delivered
Fractional Executive Leadership · Product Reinvention · Business Reinvention
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.
Deploying GenAI in enterprise environments; POC to Production roadmaps; Responsible AI governance for B2B; Designing Revenue Loops
Product strategy for HealthTech SaaS; Automating clinical workflows; Building fundable HealthTech startups
SaaS for Commercial Real Estate (IWMS); Digitising physical workflows; Fractional Real Estate platforms
0→1 in 90–120 day sprints; EdTech ARR $1M→$5M case study; Intrapreneurship frameworks (Mercedes-Benz, GCCs)
Panel Speaker
Workshop
Business Models & Product Strategy
Workshop
Tech entrepreneurship
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Conference Speaker
Australia & The Netherlands
Also Teaching: Instructor at LaunchPad Melbourne — Product Strategy for Tech Leaders · YouTube: @TheStrategyMonk
Current Roles
Empowering founders and organisations to curate a culture of innovation — from VC portfolio value architecture to 0→1 product sprints that turn ambiguous ideas into market-ready ventures.
Leading product design and strategy for a next-generation SaaS platform for Commercial Real Estate — translating complex physical workflows into intelligent, automated operations.
A curated collective of senior fractional executives — partnering with growth-stage companies to provide on-demand leadership across product, technology, and strategy.
Coming Soon

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.
Publication details coming soon
Press & Features
Featured interview discussing innovation strategy and the importance of solving real problems over following trends.
Profile on fractional leadership and how strategic product expertise drives measurable business growth.
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Publications
📘 OWASP Testing Guidebook Vol 1 & 2 — Co-author
✍️ The Founders Formula — Upcoming book: Ideation to a Successful Startup