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Harish Abbott

Senior Vice President, Products

Harish Abbott is Senior Vice President of Products at Lulu.com, the premier global marketplace for new digital content on the Internet. Abbott's focus is on growing Lulu.com's existing user base and integrating social networking into Lulu’s product offerings.

Prior to joining Lulu, Abbott was the President and Co-Founder of Ugenie, the company behind weRead.com. At Ugenie, Abbott was responsible for setting the overall product direction and management of the engineering center and company operations.

Abbott was a Senior Program Manager at Amazon.com before Ugenie, leading initiatives on strategic planning, supply chains and order fulfillment. He helped Amazon launch and build its distribution network through warehousing and drop-shipping in North America and Europe. Before Amazon, Abbott was a Solution Architect at i2 Technologies where he played a key role in the consulting and sales teams of the retail and automotive division.

Abbott, a graduate with top honors from Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, also holds a Masters in Operations Research from University of Illinois Urbana Champaign and an MBA from Stanford University where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar. Abbott enjoys reading about behavioral economics and thinking about its implications on Internet business models.

In addition to his interests in reading and Internet technologies, Abbott enjoys hiking, skiing and playing golf. Abbott also likes to cook up a good curry although he secretly wishes he was better at both golf and cooking.