Product leader with 12 years across sports gaming, cloud-security SaaS, financial analytics and insurance.

Currently on the IPMX (one-year MBA) at IIM Lucknow, 2026–27.

Delhi, India

Manish Sanil
  1. Oct 2024 – Mar 2026

    Head of Product

    PlayCKC Interactive Pvt Ltd / Fanoz

    Live sports gaming platform for fan engagement during cricket and football matches

    • Led a 12-member product, engineering and QA team that took a real-money gaming platform from scratch to 310K registered users and 12K peak DAU, working with community, marketing and operations
    • Restructured contest economics, replacing participant-dependent prize pooling with subscriptions and one-card entry for payout control and more predictable revenue, contributing to 150%+ total revenue growth in six months
  2. Nov 2025 – Mar 2026

    Consulting project

    Pandeux.com

    Home-chef marketplace for a US-based founder

    • Turned a US client’s home-chef marketplace concept into a business workflow and ready-to-build spec, researching food safety rules and competitors and driving build-versus-buy decisions; live since Jun 2026
  3. Oct 2018 – Jan 2023

    Product Manager

    Trend Micro / acquired Cloud Conformity

    Cloud infrastructure security and best practices for compliance and governance

    • Led a seven-member team in a 17-person US–Australia post-acquisition integration; with requirements over capacity and designs late, negotiated MVP scope with Marketing and met the fixed-date Cloud One launch
    • Implemented AWS BI infrastructure across five product teams in 15 months, moving analytics off production with anonymization; chose a serverless design over a data warehouse, forecast at 50% lower cost
  4. Jun 2014 – Oct 2018

    Senior Product Specialist

    Trefis

    Provider of analytical tools for data-driven decisions

    • Translated the needs of equity-research clients such as Bernstein and Berenberg into 10+ enhancements through requirements sessions, solution demos and pilots; pilot conversions contributed to $500K in new business
  5. May 2012 – May 2014

    Manager, Policy Servicing

    Kotak Life Insurance

    One of the leading life insurance firms in India

    • Reconciled the suspense account and released funds to clients, lowering interest liabilities by INR 5 million
  6. Feb 2011 – Apr 2012

    Co-founder

    Aaloo.in

    • Ran an online grocery startup in Mumbai