End-to-end product leader in consumer electronics
Manojit Ballav, also known as Mono, is a product leader with 9+ years of experience in consumer electronics, smart TV platforms, and connected devices. He works where hardware, software and business operations meet, building products that millions of people use every day.
Currently at Lumio, he leads home projectors, including the Arc series, India's No. 1 Google TV projector, and the new categories Lumio is expanding into. He built TLDR, Lumio's content discovery platform, from its first version through its redesign. He also builds the internal systems the company runs on, across manufacturing, sales and channel operations, after-sales service and analytics, which gives him a working view of how a product is planned, built, sold, supported and measured. Lumio crossed ₹100 crore in GMV within 13 months of commercial sales and raised a $12M Series A led by Blume Ventures in October 2026.
Previously at Xiaomi (2017–2024), he spent 7 years helping build India's #1 smart TV brand for 22 consecutive quarters (Q2 2018 – Q3 2023). He helped build PatchWall, one of India's earliest smart TV content aggregation platforms, serving 6M+ monthly active users, and managed Xiaomi and Redmi Smart TVs, streaming devices and soundbars. He was product manager for the Xiaomi Pad 6 in India and led the Xiaomi HyperOS program in India, from user awareness to on-schedule device upgrades. Earlier, he worked hands-on on Xiaomi's connected devices, from router QA to earbud audio tuning.
His focus areas include smart TV product strategy, CTV advertising, FAST channels, display technologies (QD-Mini LED, QLED, OLED), AI-driven content discovery, and the connected device ecosystem in India.
Manojit Ballav is also the author of an IEEE research publication, reflecting his technical background in computer science and engineering.
