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Harmeet ZerqemviChief Product Officer
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Chief Product Officer · India

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Design the promise around the actual task

Eight hours was the number I had approved.

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Design the promise around the actual task

I lead product at Nerqavli Inspection Lighting in Udaipur, with assembly in Kota. We make portable rechargeable task lamps for ordinary non-hazardous industrial workspaces. The company employs 390 people and recorded ₹164 crore revenue and ₹13.4 crore operating profit for FY ending March 2026. Twenty-one product colleagues work through three heads within a ₹7.2 crore annual programme budget. Engineering director Nikhil Tevqami retains technical, safety and release decisions.

My work begins where the specification meets an ordinary task. A runtime belongs to a mode and test condition. A mounting option needs a suitable place to attach. A lamp passed between colleagues carries a setting the next person must understand. A brighter range does not automatically answer every kind of inspection question, and a repair promise must describe the work qualified service teams can actually perform.

In 2018 I approved an eight-hour runtime headline derived from low mode while the main use image showed high-mode work. Under the defined test conditions, high-mode runtime was 3.2 hours. Twelve of thirty reviewed customer jobs needed six hours in that mode. We withdrew the unqualified headline and spent ₹37 lakh on repositioning and field-material repair. The account concerns a product promise I allowed to become misleading; it does not invent a battery defect or recall.

One base could not describe the placement choices customers needed

A study of forty nonferrous workstations found twenty-six needed an assessed clamp option and fourteen a bench stand. We funded a ₹1.1 crore programme and retained two bounded choices rather than present the magnetic base as universal. Actual attachment suitability remained with qualified owners.

The next user needed to understand the inherited mode

In thirty-six prototype handover tasks, fourteen users misread the retained brightness setting after restart. A ₹68 lakh physical-indicator programme made mode visibility part of the product work. The reviewed account contains no accident claim or assertion that every future misunderstanding was eliminated.

Repairability was a qualified service outcome, not a promise for every return

A service pilot received forty-eight lamps. Thirty underwent lens-only repair and returned to service after qualified acceptance; eighteen required further housing or electrical assessment. The ₹56 lakh programme did not establish that every lamp was repairable or a measured environmental saving.

Current focus

Making the task-lighting range easier to choose and understand through mode-specific promises, assessed placement options and clear handover state. Application differences and qualified service scope should shape the proposition before a simple feature count decides it.

Conversations I welcome

A first outside board contribution where product judgement can complement financial, operating and technical perspectives. My present responsibility is executive product leadership, with neither a statutory appointment nor a personal shareholding. Fictional IICA preparation has not yet reached registration, and twenty-one provisional days depend on employer consent, relationship review and the actual demands of an appointment.

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Product colleagues

Three heads within a 390-person manufacturer

₹7.2 crore

Annual programme budget

Product responsibility; technical release remains with engineering

22 years

Product career

Design entry in July 2004; task-lighting manufacturer since September 2015

I want the person using a lamp to recognise the product we described before the order. That means explaining which mode produced a runtime, how the light can be placed, what state the next user inherits and which service work is actually supported. I once approved an eight-hour headline whose context belonged to a different mode from the work pictured beside it. The product account must keep those conditions together.

Harmeet Zerqemvi

Chief Product Officer

Areas of stewardship

Where accountability has been mine.

  1. IMode-specific product propositions
  2. IIPlacement choices grounded in the workspace
  3. IIIUnderstandable handover and application choice
  4. IVQualified service scope in the product offer

Selected work

Decisions, and what they changed.

I

Withdrawing the eight-hour headline I had detached from its operating mode

In 2018 I approved an eight-hour runtime headline derived from low-mode testing.

The full account

II

Keeping two assessed placement choices instead of a universal-base story

A 2022 study examined forty nonferrous workstations where customers wanted portable task lighting.

The full account

III

Making the retained mode visible to the colleague who used the lamp next

In 2023 we followed thirty-six prototype handover tasks.

The full account

In the words of others

Trusted by those who appoint.

Harmeet kept the eighteen lamps awaiting further assessment in the service account. That made the thirty completed repairs understandable without allowing the pilot to become a promise about every return.
Asha VezhqumiCEO, Nerqavli Inspection Lighting; fictional colleague
He treated the handover observations as a product question worth funding while leaving technical approval with engineering. The indicator programme was a defined next step, not a claim that its budget alone had resolved the finding.
Nikhil TevqamiEngineering Director, Nerqavli Inspection Lighting; fictional colleague

The journal

Perspective, set down with care.

An invitation

Contact

A first outside board contribution where product judgement can complement financial, operating and technical perspectives. My present responsibility is executive product leadership, with neither a statutory appointment nor a personal shareholding. Fictional IICA preparation has not yet reached registration, and twenty-one provisional days depend on employer consent, relationship review and the actual demands of an appointment.

Open to
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  • Speaking invitations
Write to Harmeet

office@harmeetzerqemvi.example