Varun Sridhar

Varun Sridhar

New York City, NY

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Experience

  • Head of ProductMarch 2022 – Present
    Gynger Inc.New York City, NY
    • Product Leadership: Employee #3, owning the end-to-end product strategy and execution for an AI-powered financing and payments platform.
    • Embedded Financing: Deployed a financing platform with a proprietary automated underwriting engine that has facilitated 9-figure loan originations since its early 2023 launch.
    • Revenue Automation: Delivered a mid-2024 expansion into full-scale revenue and payments automation, enabling tech vendors to advance revenue by offering flexible payment options to their customers.
    • Platform & Growth: Unified various financial workflows—AP, AR, CRM and ERP syncs—into an integrated platform, driving multi-X topline growth and nearing 8-figures in ARR.
  • Vice President and Lead PM, Global Banking TechnologyJanuary 2021 – March 2022
    Morgan StanleyNew York City, NY
    • Led product development for Tailored Lending platform, driving 26% CAGR and supporting high 9-figures in yearly revenue.
    • Delivered Fed-mandated Alternative Reference Rates across the multi-billion dollar loan book by leading a cross-functional and multi-platform/team initiative.
  • Product Manager, Global Banking TechnologyAugust 2015 – December 2020
    Morgan StanleyNew York City, NY ; Montreal, QC
    • Increased revenue $5M+ annually by launching a multi-collateral loan product.
    • Delivered a reduction of 60% in loan booking time via servicing workflow automation and API integrations.
    • Drove 40% YoY loan volume growth by deploying new loan origination system.
  • Technology and Data Summer Intern, Business AnalystJune 2014 – August 2014
    Morgan StanleyNew York City, NY
    • Wrote a PRD for a Wealth Management application that was to be used by 16000+ Financial Advisors.

Skills and Expertise

Product Leadership: Strategy, Roadmap planning, Stakeholder management, Product launches, Branding

Technical Skills: Python, SQL, GraphQL, API tools, Figma, Retool, JIRA, Prompt engineering, AI tooling

Education

  • University of PennsylvaniaAugust 2013 – May 2015

    Masters in Systems Engineering, GPA: 3.94/4.0

  • The Wharton School, University of PennsylvaniaSeptember 2014 – January 2015

    Research Assistant

    • Built machine learning models to predict TV show viewership trends using scraped social network data.
  • Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology, University of DelhiAugust 2009 – June 2013

    B.E. in Electronics and Communication Engineering, First Division with Distinction

  • Carnegie Mellon UniversityJune 2012 – August 2012

    Summer Research Intern, Electrical and Computer Engineering

    • Developed a feature extraction algorithm achieving 96% classification accuracy on low-resolution images.