CPO/Senior VP/Director of Product Management with deep experience in diverse industries, disciplines, people and cultures

  • 15+ years of Product Management & Leadership in B2C, B2B, B2B2C, Desktop, Web/SAAS & Mobile

  • Prototyped, launched & hacked product growth to Millions of MAU & traffic

  • Built & led distributed teams of 3-50 ppl in Startups, SMEs & MNCs

Chief Product Officer

2019-Present

  • Proactively formulated & new company vision/strategy with CXOs & emphasized its internal communication ==> aligned all teams/disciplines with crystal clarity of the new company direction ==> company in unison on 50% growth trajectory

  • Re-built the Product Org, Strategy & Roadmaps across multiple cities & cultures; ==> product work pays directly pay into company vision/strategy for rapid growth

  • Grew several Senior PMs to leads, PMs to Seniors, Associates to PMs via training, mentoring, coaching & hands on application of Situational Leadership

 

Head of Product

2016-2019

  • Increased Dev & QA output by >50% via the Pandora & MVP Processes, which transformed the company to the market innovator instead of “copycat”

  • Revamped the product strategy towards new market segments & re-ignited team passion & belief in product by company-wide product planning process

  • Established a solid foundation of data driven decision making in product development including dashboards & direct ETL pipes to the company

 

Director of Products & Proposition

2007–2015

  • Built & led Product & Content Teams (11 people) launching & growing products in Telecom, mCommerce, SAAS, Food Ordering, GIS & Mapping

  • Innovated data driven product development & launch process including prototyping, Business Modeling, Market Analysis & Simulated Business Cases

  • Overhauled Content Delivery processes and customized them per market throughout Asia, Africa & Middle East dropping Error Rates from >45% to <5%

 

Co-Founder & GM

2010-2015

  • #1 Arabic audiobook app in MENA: Envisioned, launched, fund-raised & grew from idea to >200k MAU & 15 Mio monthly listened minutes via building & leading diverse team of 30+ doing audio production, product dev & marketing

  • Innovated extreme low-cost rapid, audio production process (40% < Market costs) & product growth resulting in methodology currently ranked #2 in Google search results for “aha moment analysis

 

Sales & BizDev Manager - Middle East

2009-2012

  • Achieved Sales Target of 500,000 USD and expanded company operation in Middle East (Qatar, UAE, KSA) region

  • Sold Company’s largest Process Simulation Solution to date via rigorous tendering & proposal management process

 

Product Manager

2007-2009

  • Owning & managing the Auto & Aero Wiring Harness Manufacturing Software delivering market requirements to product features with customers such as Ford, Jaguar Landrover, Volvo, Leoni, Bombardier Aerospace

  • Rescued Jaguar Landrover production by troubleshooting & fixing software usage flaw that rendered manufacturing designs incorrectly