Naveen Athresh
Founder & CEO · Chief Product Officer
TEDx speaker and Forbes India 2020 Top 100 Leader, Naveen Athresh has spent over two decades at the intersection of product, technology, and entrepreneurship. He has built 200+ member high-performance teams and led cross-geo Product Engineering and Data Science organisations at PayU, Rakuten, and Flipkart.
Featured in Business Today and USAwire as a global thought leader, Naveen founded Liquidmind AI with a singular mission: use AI to unlock intelligence in India's $800B+ trade finance sector, making it accessible to every exporter — from large enterprises to first-generation entrepreneurs.
Innovation, Life & Choices
UVCE Bengaluru · 150,000+ views in under 2 months
Builder. Mentor. Thought Leader.
Product & Platform Thinking Pioneer
Naveen has evangelised Product/Platform Thinking across India's premier institutions — IIT Madras, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Bombay, IIM Bangalore, BITS Pilani, and 20+ more — helping transform how the next generation of leaders approach building products.
Enterprise AI & Fintech Leader
With senior leadership roles at PayU, Rakuten, and Flipkart, Naveen brings deep cross-geo product and engineering expertise. He has led data science and product engineering teams across geographies, building high-performance organisations from the ground up.
Global Thought Leader
Featured in Business Today, Forbes India, and USAwire as a global thought leader making an impact in AI and digital transformation. Co-panelled with MIT Media Lab's Prof. Ramesh Raskar at IISc Bengaluru on AI applied to societal challenges.
Startup Mentor & Ecosystem Builder
Mentor at BITS Pilani's Conquest (India's first student-run startup accelerator), IIM Bangalore's NSRCEL, GoK Mobile10X Hub, and UpGrad.com. Board member at EPIC (Institute of Product Leadership), shaping the curriculum for 10,000+ product thinkers.
The Japanese Lens
Naveen draws deeply from Japanese philosophy to guide how he builds products, leads teams, and lives his life.
The intersection of what you love, what the world needs, what you can be paid for, and what you're good at — the north star of every decision.
Small, consistent improvements over time compound into extraordinary outcomes. The foundation of Liquidmind's product development culture.
Embracing the imperfect and incomplete. Ships early, learns fast, iterates with humility — a deeply practical philosophy for building in uncertainty.
The Person Behind the Founder
Deep practitioner of Ikigai, Kaizen, and Wabi-sabi — principles that shape how Naveen approaches product design, team building, and life.
Long-distance solo rides across India — a meditation in motion, finding clarity on open roads.
Voracious reader spanning philosophy, product strategy, behavioural economics, and science fiction.
Volunteer mentor across 25+ institutions. Believes deeply in paying it forward to the next generation of builders.
The Team Behind the Vision
Srivani Dharwar Vijaya
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer
With 15+ years at Capgemini, Mindtree, Wipro, and Infosys, Srivani brings deep technology architecture experience in enterprise software and SAP systems. She approaches every problem from first principles with a focus on strategic objectives. Holds a BE from Visvesvaraya Technology University (VTU) in Information Science.
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