Lakhan Darshan

Lakhan is a product leader with 7+ years of experience building and scaling B2B products, combining a founder’s mindset with a strong foundation in software engineering and business development. As Co-founder and Product Manager, he led the end-to-end delivery of DeFi and Web3 solutions, including an award-winning trade finance platform that tokenized real-world assets, reached over USD 2M in market capitalization, and drove more than $250K in revenue.  

## What Lakhan brings

Lakhan is comfortable owning the full product lifecycle in high-ambiguity, high-growth environments, from discovery and problem framing to roadmap definition, delivery, and iteration. He has led client workshops, stakeholder interviews, and market and user research to align product strategy with real customer pain points and measurable business outcomes.  

He has scaled and managed cross-functional teams, growing a blockchain engineering group from 3 to 22 while improving delivery efficiency by 20 percent through better workflow design and Kanban practices in Jira. His work includes driving UX improvements and using analytics and experimentation to reduce onboarding friction by 30 percent for a decentralized crowdfunding platform.  

## Technical and product depth

With a bachelors in Computer Science & Engineering and a Master of Information Systems, Lakhan brings strong technical fluency across blockchain, cloud, and modern software stacks. His earlier engineering roles at Accenture and blockchain work with Kerala Blockchain Academy on a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation funded project give him a solid grasp of how systems are actually built, tested, and scaled.  

He is also a hands-on prototyper and vibe coder, leveraging tools like Python, SQL, JavaScript, Figma, GitHub, and modern AI tools to quickly move from idea to working experiments. This allows him to partner deeply with engineers while still maintaining a clear focus on user value, time to market, and risk.  

## Commercial and stakeholder strength

Lakhan’s background in business development at Bolloré Logistics, where he closed multi-year deals with 30 to 40 percent margins and consistently hit 90 to 100 percent of financial targets, gives him a strong commercial lens on product decisions. He is comfortable thinking through pricing, packaging, and go-to-market strategy, not just feature delivery.  

He has a track record of communicating complex concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, reflected in speaking at CordaCon and being a finalist in multiple global blockchain challenges. For fast-moving startups in fintech, Web3, or adjacent B2B SaaS domains, Lakhan offers a rare blend of technical depth, product execution, and customer-facing experience in one leader.