Founder & CEO · Poornima Pathak
15 years leading the products that move money. Now building for businesses that move fast.
Poornima Pathak is a product executive with more than 15 years in fintech and financial services, across wealth management, banking and broker-dealer firms. She owns the full arc of product, from strategy and roadmap to delivery, and specializes in turning complex legacy platforms into modern, scalable systems a business can grow on.
She has led platform modernization, digitization and AI enablement, guided organizations through mergers and spin-offs, and built high-performing teams along the way. Her strength is the space between business and technology: turning ambiguous problems into clear priorities and shipped outcomes, with executives and engineers aligned behind them.
Award-winning product leader: Stevie® Award winner, The American Business Awards®.
Why GritFlair.
Most growing businesses never get that kind of product leadership. It usually comes with an enterprise budget and an enterprise timeline. GritFlair removes both. You get a product executive who owns your outcome, AI-assisted delivery that moves in days and weeks, and a fixed price, whatever your industry.
How we work.
Business first, technology second.
We start with your goals, customers and numbers, then choose the tools. Never the reverse.
Clarity from ambiguity.
We turn a messy problem into clear priorities, a plan you can see, and plain-language updates.
Pilot small. Scale what wins.
A focused first release, proven with real users, then investment only in what works.
Built to grow.
Modern, secure foundations with clean data and careful testing: standards learned in regulated finance.
Expertise
- Product strategy & roadmaps
- Platform modernization
- Digital & IT transformation
- Data & application architecture
- AI enablement
- Mergers & spin-offs