Location Naples, Florida, United States Regions East Coast, Southern US Gender Male
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I work with executives and customers to launch new ventures, and drive growth by leading product strategy, GTM, product/engineering teams, monetization models, solution partnerships and M&A - then wrapping it up with start-up fundraising or company budgeting cycles.
My focus is: SaaS, enterprise and consumer software, cloud, FinTech,
payments and commerce, digital transformation, workspaces and IoT platforms.
I've served as start-up CEO/CTO, product line P&L executive, head of corporate development/M&A teams , head of product management / strategy and have opened US operations for foreign entities.
I specialize in leading the product incubation and investment teams (corporate and venture capital) that tackle huge market opportunities: leading overall go-to-market strategy, managing the P&L, working with customers and key partners, and marketing with a clear value proposition and competitive position. I have led product and biz dev teams to define, refine and prioritize product roadmaps, structured contracts, led budgeting, fundraising and M&A transactions, and managed projects that are true to corporate strategy.
Skills and Experience: - Global management experience: 16 years - Product management: led numerous product and engineering teams, drive product P&Ls and product finance teams - Strategy & corporate development: Leading cross-functional teams, defining impactful product- and sales-driven partnerships; Board/investor pitches; fundraising, M&A efforts - Business Development: Developed GTM partnerships with Accenture, Microsoft, Samsung, Best Buy, IBM, ESPN, Comcast, Apple, Telstra, Telefonica, Time Warner, Verizon, etc.
Geographies of work / expertise: - North America - Europe: UK&I, France, Poland, Germany, Spain, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Nordics, Portugal, Belgium, Netherlands - Middle East: UAE - Asia: India, China, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, Phillipines
