Product Director | Cybersecurity | Fintech | Healthcare
📍 Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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I am a seasoned Product Leader with 14+ years of experience building and scaling B2B products across cybersecurity, fintech, healthcare, and education domains.
I specialize in owning the entire product lifecycle — from discovery and strategy to delivery, GTM, and growth. My work consistently focuses on translating deep technical capabilities into products that deliver measurable business and customer impact.
Currently, I lead the development of AI-, cloud-, and platform-driven cybersecurity products that help enterprises stay secure in an ever-evolving threat landscape.
📆 Dec 2023 – Present | UAE
- Leading strategy, development, and launch of enterprise cybersecurity platforms
- Driving product vision using AI, cloud, and platform technologies
- Collaborating with engineering, sales, customers, and partners
- Aligning product outcomes with business growth and customer satisfaction
Aug 2023 – Dec 2023
Jun 2022 – Sep 2023
Products:
- Cisco Umbrella SSE (CASB & DLP)
- Cloudlock (SaaS API DLP, UEBA, App Firewall)
Key Impact:
- 🚀 Accelerated outbound sales cycle by 150% via Shadow IT discovery & control
- 🔍 Led OCR implementation in DLP, driving higher NPS
- 📈 Increased renewals by 70%
Mar 2020 – Jun 2022
Products: Endpoint Security (ENS), MVISION EDR
Key Impact:
- 💰 Delivered 2× growth generating ~$125M ACV
- 🎯 Enabled sales to hit 110% targets (FY 21–22)
- 🏆 Returned ENS to Gartner MQ Leaders quadrant
- 🛡️ Strong MITRE ATT&CK performance vs CrowdStrike & SentinelOne
- ⚙️ Conceptualized first kernel-less single-agent EPP–EDR
- 🔄 Drove 56% migration from legacy agents to ENSL
- 😊 Improved PSAT, CSAT, and overall NPS
Jan 2019 – Mar 2020 | San Francisco
- Owned product vision and roadmap for UNITY SaaS platform
- Defined MVP through market research, personas, and use cases
- 📦 Achieved 60% adoption at launch
- 📊 Increased NPS by 30% via productized managed services
- Product Management
- Software Product Management
- Product Ownership
- Business Analysis
- Product Marketing
- Information Security
- Cloud Security & Platforms
- Go-To-Market Strategy
- MA, Sociology — University of Kerala
- PG Certificate, Branding & Marketing Communications — MICA (The School of Ideas)
- Certified Blockchain Expert — Blockchain Council
- SAFe 4.0 PMPO — Scaled Agile
- English — Full Professional Proficiency
- Arabic — Elementary Proficiency
"Himesh has outstanding product knowledge and a true appreciation for customers.
He built a clear roadmap, restarted development momentum, and created powerful analytics dashboards."
— Allon Ram, Product Management Leader, Cisco
- 💼 LinkedIn: himesh-madhusoodanan
- 🌐 Location: Dubai, UAE
⭐ If you’re interested in cybersecurity products, AI-driven platforms, or scaling B2B SaaS — let’s talk!