Her Story
About Basanti
Basanti Nashine serves as Chief Product Officer at Organa, a role she has held for the past three months. In this position, she focuses on understanding customer needs in the health tech space, translating those into engineering priorities, and developing go-to-market strategies informed by venture capital feedback and AI advancements. With 13 years of total experience, including seven years in product management and four years as a data scientist, Nashine draws on her technical background to run experiments and verify hypotheses with data. She earned a bachelor's degree in electronics engineering from Bitspalani in India, where her interest in physics and mathematics led her to data science, and later completed an MBA at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management to strengthen her business skills. Nashine attributes her success to supportive mentors, particularly women who believed in her, and her own strong work ethic, while valuing the opportunity to learn from diverse perspectives at work and in her personal life.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Basanti
01What do you attribute your success to?
I attribute my success to the people around me, especially mentors and women who believed in me, and my own work ethic. I had a manager at Amazon named Miley who gave me confidence by saying I was too fast for the room, helping me realize it's not always my fault when ideas aren't immediately accepted.
02What’s the best career advice you’ve ever received?
The best career advice I received was to pause and think. My mentor advised that it's better to spend time at the start thinking through a project rather than rushing into the first idea, as it leads to better solutions and playing the long game.
03What values are most important to you in your work and personal life?
I value learning from people the most, both at work and in personal life. At work, I enjoy meeting customers and team members to understand different perspectives and solve problems with empathy and curiosity. In personal life, having friends from diverse backgrounds adds color and keeps me mentally healthy by getting out of my own bubble.
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