Harish Venkatesan co-founded Designlab, an online education platform offering mentor-guided courses in UX/UI and product design, and led it as CEO for twelve years before becoming its advisor and chairman in 2025. He is now Head of Product at FLORA. Before Designlab, Venkatesan worked at Venmo and Grubwithus and co-founded TickrTalk while at the University of Pennsylvania. He holds a B.S. in systems engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.