Produc Head at Omega Healthcare. ex-VP Product at IKS Health. Co-founded and sold a SaaS company. Helping Healthtech founders scale.
Enter →Road cyclist. Jaipur roads before dawn. The answer usually arrives by kilometre 40.
Enter →Home brewer. Café hunter. The ritual is therapeutic.
Enter →Your poroduct team needs to know the difference between a physician workflow and a consumer UX problem. Between a payer requirement and a user story. Between what gets adopted and what gets purchased. I've spent 20+ years learning that difference.
I ride road. Early mornings, before Jaipur wakes up properly. There's a particular quality to that hour — no notifications, no stakeholder opinions, no feature requests. Just effort and distance. Kilometres on a road bike are a very good thinking environment.
Some of my better product decisions started as half-formed thoughts somewhere around kilometre 20. What I know is that I'm a better product leader because I ride — and I'd ride even if I weren't.
Road cycling rewards consistency and process over inspiration and talent. Show up, put in the work, trust the training. Healthcare product management is not entirely different.
I have a home setup I've dialled in over several years — an entry-level espresso machine, a burr grinder, and a South Indian filter coffee set that's been in the family longer than I can remember. The pre-ride ritual takes about nine minutes. I don't skip it.
I'm also a café hunter. When I'm in a new city — and healthtech work takes me to the US market regularly — I find the specialty coffee before I find the hotel breakfast. My criteria: quality of espresso, whether a cyclist could stop there without feeling like an inconvenience, and whether I'd ride 20 minutes out of my way to go back.
There's something the specialty coffee world and product management have in common: both attract people who are unreasonably particular about process, genuinely believe the details matter, and are right about that more often than not.