I lead product innovation from opportunity to scaled adoption.

I choose the right opportunities, shape the product direction, align the operating model, and prove value across real users, real workflows, and real enterprise complexity.

Hi, I'm Himanshu Bahl
Enterprise Product Innovation Leader · Applied AI, Agentic AI, Platforms & CX
Twenty years turning emerging technology into products people actually use, across platforms, SaaS, customer experience, connectivity, and connected home
20+
Years across product, platforms & AI
5M+
Users reached
15+
Products taken from idea to launch
2
Enterprise AI products shipped to production
Himanshu Bahl

8 countries. 4 continents. Global impact.

From Silicon Valley to Amsterdam, London to Lima, delivering AI and product leadership on the ground

📍 California, US 📍 London, UK 📍 Amsterdam & Eindhoven, Netherlands 📍 Zurich, Switzerland 📍 Dublin, Ireland 📍 Mechelen & Namur, Belgium 📍 Lima, Peru 📍 Gurgaon, India

What senior leaders say about my work

A few comments from people who have seen it up close

Combines vision, execution, and deep AI knowledge to create great customer experiences, making complex technology understandable and useful.
CEO
Zattoo
Takes complex ideas, shapes them into clear strategy, and drives them to execution with speed and precision, always keeping users and impact at the centre.
VP Analytics
Liberty Global
A very strong product leader who won't be satisfied until the job is done. His technical affinity combined with a strong UX focus ensures the end result shines. Five stars.
Group Director B2B
Liberty Latin America
His storytelling and demo skills create priority with stakeholders and translate directly into roadmap. Led market explorations, research and prototyping to define real product strategy.
Director Management Consulting
YaWorks
Creative mind, great view on market developments and strong focus on customer experience. Relentlessly designing new user journeys based on customer research. A pleasure to work with.
Director Product
Infosys
Enthusiastic, innovative and result-driven. Connects the customer perspective with technological solutions. One of the driving forces for bringing CX-driven AI to life at Liberty Global.
CX Strategist
Essense
Combines vision, execution, and deep AI knowledge to create great customer experiences, making complex technology understandable and useful.
CEO
Zattoo
Takes complex ideas, shapes them into clear strategy, and drives them to execution with speed and precision, always keeping users and impact at the centre.
VP Analytics
Liberty Global
A very strong product leader who won't be satisfied until the job is done. His technical affinity combined with a strong UX focus ensures the end result shines. Five stars.
Group Director B2B
Liberty Latin America
His storytelling and demo skills create priority with stakeholders and translate directly into roadmap. Led market explorations, research and prototyping to define real product strategy.
Director Management Consulting
YaWorks
Creative mind, great view on market developments and strong focus on customer experience. Relentlessly designing new user journeys based on customer research. A pleasure to work with.
Director Product
Infosys
Enthusiastic, innovative and result-driven. Connects the customer perspective with technological solutions. One of the driving forces for bringing CX-driven AI to life at Liberty Global.
CX Strategist
Essense
Products shipped with and for
Liberty Global Plume Design Telenet Vodafone Ziggo Virgin Media O2 Altran Philips KPN
WHERE I LEAD

Product innovation, from strategy to scaled adoption.

Where new technology, customer experience, platform capability, and business value have to become one coherent product direction. These are operating routines learned from shipping in complex organisations, not deck frameworks.

01

Innovation Strategy & Portfolio

Shape the innovation agenda. Identify the opportunities worth pursuing, separate real product value from technical novelty, and turn ambition into clear strategic choices and a roadmap.

02

AI & Platform Product Leadership

Turn AI, agentic workflows, data signals, and platform capability into usable product experiences. Define the product logic, trust boundaries, escalation paths, and human-in-the-loop workflows that work for real users in real operations.

03

Governance, Evaluation & Standards

Define how AI systems are assessed, monitored, and governed before they reach users. Set standards for robustness, explainability, ethics, and operational reliability, and move responsible AI from policy to shipping-ready routines.

04

Scaling & Business Value

Move ideas from validated pilots into products that survive enterprise complexity. Drive reuse of platforms, models, and data products, and translate product behaviour into adoption, operating impact, and ROI.

Engagements typically support discovery, executive alignment, pilot shaping, product artefacts, and execution-ready roadmaps.

ENGAGEMENT VEHICLE

Work with ArNaFoundry.

If you have a product innovation, applied AI, platform, governance, or operating-model challenge, long-term or focused, this is where to start a conversation. ArNaFoundry is the vehicle: registered as a ZZP in the Netherlands, founder-led, and built around senior product judgment across AI operating models, governance standards, portfolio triage, pilot-to-production, and executive alignment.

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Portfolio Working builds, diagnostics, and product frameworks that show how I work through innovation problems: from opportunity framing and pilot design to AI governance, evaluation, ROI, and product adoption. The portfolio shows the method; selective engagements via ArNaFoundry apply it to a specific context.
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Areas of expertise
AI Innovation StrategyAI Strategy & Use Case DiscoveryConversational & Agentic AILLM Product Strategy & ArchitectureAI Platform Product LeadershipPilot-to-Production ScalingGovernance, Evaluation & StandardsAI Operating Models & CoECustomer Experience DesignConnected Products & Consumer TechSaaS Platform LeadershipISP & Telco ProductsExecutive Stakeholder ManagementAgile, SAFe & Scrum AI Innovation StrategyAI Strategy & Use Case DiscoveryConversational & Agentic AILLM Product Strategy & ArchitectureAI Platform Product LeadershipPilot-to-Production ScalingGovernance, Evaluation & StandardsAI Operating Models & CoECustomer Experience DesignConnected Products & Consumer TechSaaS Platform LeadershipISP & Telco ProductsExecutive Stakeholder ManagementAgile, SAFe & Scrum

Certifications & credentials

Continuously learning at the edge of AI, product and design

Executive MBA
RSM, Erasmus University, Rotterdam
M.Sc. Computer Science
Punjab University, Chandigarh
AI Essentials for Business Leaders & CPOs
LinkedIn
AI Advanced: Prompt Engineering & Agentic AI
Microsoft & LinkedIn
AI Foundations: Thinking Machines & Machine Learning
LinkedIn
Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
Microsoft
NEXT STEPS

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