Head of Product, Derive Labs

Hitesh Donga is a highly effective global business executive with over 20 years of leadership experience in the financial services industry covering product management, strategy, trading and technology. He has a proven track record in building and growing world class products leading globally distributed teams ranging from large banks and FinTechs to seed-stage startups through an intense focus on customer focus and market dynamics. He offers a unique blend of financial services domain expertise in both traditional and digital assets space, client focus, strategic leadership, and execution experience. Hitesh has proven track record of designing, developing and launching new electronic trading and lending platforms in Crypto and TradFi. Hitesh's rich and Diverse experiences in Crypto and FinTech space have allowed him to have touched every aspect of the Product Development Life Cycle and work on innovative platforms and solutions that leverage the latest technologies like AI and Machine Learning. Hitesh has Extensive Start-up experience leading Product development and stakeholder relationships in a high-pressure environment with ability ‘to see the forest from the trees’ while continuing to ship new product features. His start up experience includes managing key client relationships as well as managing critical strategic and operational initiatives. Keywords: Product Leadership, Startup Leadership, Crypto / Digital Assets, Blockchain, DeFi and Web3, Asset Management, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Relationship Management, Product Strategy and Roadmap, Scrum Product Owner, UI/UX Design, A/B Testing, Integration & APIs - FIX, REST, Websocket, Electronic Trading, Cloud Computing, B2B SAAS, AWS, Startup Advisor, Board Member, Co-founder, Executive team, C-suite