As a Design Thinking Coach and Product Manager, Keerthi works with ideas that are in the early stages of the innovation life cycle (“just an idea”, “prototype”, “bootstrapped” etc.), and helps teams attain innovative breakthroughs. She helps teams crystallize their idea's value proposition and refine their pitches before they stand in front of investors. She supports people to become entrepreneurs (or corporate innovators), with confidence.

Keerthi’s background spans from coding to management consulting to starting new businesses, across the US, UK and Asia in multiple sectors. She graduated with a double major in Strategy and Marketing from Indian School of Business and holds an Engineering degree from the University of Kerala. She draws on her engineering foundation, business studies, and design thinking learnings (IDEO) to bring in a human-centered approach to problem-solving.

During her free time, Keerthi volunteers as a judge and mentor to local pitch competitions such as George Washington University’s PitchGeorge, NFTE DC Metro Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge etc.