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Deepesh Banerji

Chief Product Officer at Deputy (B2B SaaS powering hourly work)

Sydney, New South Wales

Invests in

Stages:

Sectors:

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Education

Work Experience

2019

  • Chief Product Officer

    2019

    I lead Deputy's talented design, engineering, product management teams, leading product/technical direction, and building teams to deliver on that vision. Deputy transforms businesses with shift-based workers — driving profits by saving time and wages; staying compliant with evolving labor laws, and empowering employees to work the way they want. A product-led high-growth workforce management software (SaaS) company born in Sydney, Deputy is used by millions of people, close to 400,000 workplaces across 120+ countries each day.

2019

  • Portfolio Advisor

    2019

    Advising and partnering with Whiteoak portfolio companies on strategy and growth (with focus on technology and product); analysing investments into new businesses. Whiteoak is a mid-market private equity firm that invests in high-quality, growing, Australian businesses. Portfolio companies in B2B SaaS, B2C digital subscriptions, eCommerce and Omnichannel retail industries.

2018 - 2019

  • Chief Product & Technology Officer

    2018 - 2019

    Led the 0 to 1 build of Australia’s largest fintech payments app and digital wallet, scaling to 500,000 MAUs, and now used by 1,000,000s of active MAUs. Beem is Australia's easiest, fastest, social way to pay or get paid. The company was a joint venture founded by Australia's Top 3 banks (Commonwealth Bank, Westpac, NAB), and subsequently acquired by EFTPOS, Australia's largest payment network. Responsible for product strategy, product management, engineering and design teams, driving sequential month-over-month network growth of all key metrics with highest rated finance app in Australia (4.9 star rating, 30,000+ ratings), regularly maintaining Top 25 App position in Australian App Store.

2013 - 2018

  • VP, Product

    2013 - 2018

    Lead product strategy, design, and delivery for all CBS Sports Digital products, serving 70 million monthly users as the 2nd largest sports property in the US. Businesses driven by advertising and subscription revenues. Product suite included media news site and apps, real-time data, video, live data platform, subscription fantasy sports games across all platforms (TV, web, mobile apps). Responsibility across strategy, P/L, engineering, marketing, operations, commercial partnerships. Significant multi-million $ growth of topline revenue, margins, new business creation, and key product metrics such as 12-month customer retention. Built remote teams in Sydney and Kansas City.

2005 - 2013

  • VP, Product

    2005 - 2013

    Lead product development as the business scaled from small startup to publicly listed IPO on New York Stock Exchange (NYSE:EVDY, subsequently sold to NASDAQ:JCOM) Started as Product Manager and quickly promoted to Director then VP. Product strategy, business strategy and delivery of consumer platform across multiple health categories (pregnancy, diabetes, general health, diet and fitness). Audience grew to 20m+ monthly unique users. B2C app and media business driven by both subscription and ad revenues. * Grow the business: new business line creation, P/L oversight * Product strategy * Created a human-centered product development culture, * Scaled team, technology, processes * Platform build out of multi-tenant architecture * Lead cross functional team (engineers, product managers, editorial, ux design)

2005 - 2006

  • Software Engineer

    2005 - 2006

    Wrote software (C++) for the 3G protocol stack on the Blackberry mobile smartphone.

2004 - 2005

  • Software Engineer

    2004 - 2005

    Wrote software (Java) for one of the first mobile databases, iAnywhere/Sybase.

2000 - 2004

  • Software Engineer

    2000 - 2004

    During high school and university, developed SaaS purpose-built for professional associations, trade unions, nonprofit groups, and other membership-based organisations.