Hardik Patel

Hardik Patel is an experienced product management professional currently serving as Senior Manager of Product Management for Digital Retailing at Tekion Corp, with a career spanning multiple roles in automotive parts. Previous positions include Lead Product Manager, Product Manager, and Associate Product Manager within the same domain. Hardik's internship experience includes working as an Augmented Reality Product Development Intern at Carnegie Mellon University, where a 3-D modeling tool using Leap Motion technology was developed, and a Materials Science Research Intern at the National University of Singapore, focused on Mg-Zn-Gd alloys resulting in a published conference paper. An earlier engineering design internship at the Indian Institute of Science involved creating a cost-effective tool-offset measuring device for Friction Stir Welding. Hardik holds a Master of Integrated Innovation for Products and Services from Carnegie Mellon University and a Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology Karnataka.