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Shashank Deshpande

Chief Business Officer at Cubyts & Managing Partner at Pentathlon Ventures

Pune, Maharashtra

Education

Work Experience

2022

  • Co-Founder & Chief Business Officer

    2022

    Cubyts is a SaaS platform that helps build resilient and market-ready products by integrating with tools used throughout the ideation to adoption stages of the Product Life Cycle. It identifies and captures actionable gaps and anomalies in real-time.

  • Managing Partner

    2020

    Scaling Startups to their next orbit. We help early-stage technology companies grow their business by providing expertise, eco-system & capital.

2015 - 2019

  • Chief Design Officer - Asia

    2015 - 2019

    Responsible for steering design-led innovation at Globant in partnership with Customers, Globers & Partners. Scaled the Globant India operations to 1200 in 4X in 4 years

  • Co-Founder & President

    2008 - 2015

    Co-Founded Clarice Technologies in 2008 - a specialized consulting company that focused on providing User Experience Design and Technology Development services to Product Companies. Clarice scaled rapidly to 325+ design & technology experts working with leading global companies in enterprise & consumer segments.

  • Chief of Technical Staff

    2007 - 2008

    Technical leadership & management of 140+ usability engineering staff of HFI India

1998 - 2007

  • Sr. Manager - User Centered Design

    1998 - 2007

    Responsible for global usability team at VERITAS that has established a very credible name in span of 6 years. This team of 25+ (consisting of UI designers & visual designers) work as a central resource for design & evaluation of product user-interfaces at various Symantec development locations worldwide.

1992 - 1998

  • Founder/Partner

    1992 - 1998

    Founded & scaled a Multimedia/ UI Design company providing design & execution services for more than five large projects (3 man years+) in the area of instructional & information design on a range of learning topics. Quipus worked with several consulting & product-based/software development organizations like Siemens Information Systems Ltd., CMC, L&T, Mastek, NexGen to evangelize usability & design. Quipus was acqui-hired by Frontier Software (acquired by Veritas Software).

1988 - 1989

  • CAD Engineer

    1988 - 1989

    Mechanical Engineering design for Robotic Systems & Automated Assembly Systems, Establishing CADD Competence Center