Mikhil Innani

About

Achievements

Mikhil Innani is the Managing Director at Apollo Finvest, a public listed internet first transactional NBFC. He has 8+ years experience of building products from scratch to an unprecedented scale of 100+ million monthly active users. He is currently building the "AWS for Lending" platform which helps fintech's start lending in a matter of hours

Prior to Apollo Finvest, Mikhil headed consumer products at Hotstar (India’s largest OTT platform) and CouponDunia (Acquired by Times Internet) and co-founded PharmEasy (India’s largest, series C funded, online medicine delivery startup)
Mikhil holds a Master's degree in Information Systems from Carnegie Mellon University and a Bachelor's degree from Mumbai University

Describe the most impressive thing you've done.

Skills

Machine Learning Product Development Go to Market Strategy Recommendation Systems Product Marketing Product Management Agile methodology

Locations

Mumbai San Francisco Silicon Valley

Education

Experience

Apollo Finvest

Founder, Co-Founder and CEO 2018 - Present (over 8 years)

hotstar

Director, Product 2017 - 2018 (about 1 year)

Leading growth at Hotstar
Building the data architecture and personalisation platform
Hiring and building the core team across engineering, product, design and HR
Prioritising... more

PharmEasy

Founder, Co-Founder 2015 - 2016 (almost 2 years)

PharmEasy was launched in March,2015 with one aim: Affordable Healthcare for all.
Today, PharmEasy is a series B funded startup operating in 7 major cities of India providing... more

Exit

CouponDunia

Product Head 2013 - 2014 (over 1 year)

Joined as the 6th employee. CouponDunia was acquired by Times Internet in May 2014.
Managed vision of the product and data driven product iterations.
Led the product,... more

GEP

Lead Researcher in Machine Learning 2012 - 2013 (11 months)

Led the artificial intelligence team to build customised machine learning algorithms(clustering, classification, search).
Built highly scalable and accurate AI models from... more

Credit Suisse

Technical Analyst Intern 2011 (4 months)

Founder

PharmEasy, Apollo Finvest

Employee

Credit Suisse, CouponDunia, GEP, hotstar

Q&A

What's the most useful business-related book you've ever read?

Lean Startup

Which founders or startups do you most admire?

Steve jobs

What's your super power?

Speed and simplicity

What words of wisdom do you live by?

Take decisions which 10 years into the future you will thank yourself for

Mikhil Innani

Managing Director, Apollo Finvest | ex Hotstar, PharmEasy | Carnegie Mellon Alumni