Raj Nagappan

Raj Nagappan is the founder and CEO of Catum — a software startup in the product management area. Prior to founding Catum, Raj worked as a lead engineer and manager for Nuix, which made innovative evi-

dence discovery software for the legal industry and police. He helped it grow from a small startup to more than 500 employees with customers in more than 70 countries. Before that, he was a senior engineer in diverse organizations from startups to software vendors to investment and retail banks.

Raj holds a PhD in computer science from the Australian National University and a First Class Honours in science (majoring in computer science) from the University of Sydney. He is a Professional Scrum Master and Professional Scrum Product Owner, both from Scrum.org.

Throughout his more than 20 years of experience, Raj has sought to achieve collaboration between product/design/engineering and sales and marketing to gain a deeper understanding of customer needs and thus to craft a better “whole of product” experience. Being an engineer himself and working directly with other engineers, designers, product managers, and business stakeholders, Raj has grown frustrated with the frequent shortcomings of conventional Agile implementations and the failure of the industry to address these concerns. From 2018 he started writing about these problems and suggesting possible ways to overcome them. This naturally led to his involvement in Agile 2.

He can be found on LinkedIn, or you can read his blog at https://medium.com/@rajnagappan