Launched a BCG Digital Venture Chord X with an Industry partner, securing Series A investment and ARR of over 2M in less than 3 years. Managed and led cross-functional teams, including overarching limitations due to pandemic and energizing while ramping up a newly formed team to start working remote from day 1. Invented a new…
Track and Trace, Transparently
Case study According to the 2019 OECD Study Global Trade in Fakes : a Worring Threat the volume of international trade in counterfeit and pirated products amounted to as much as USD 464 billion in that year, or 2.5% of world trade. The Sneaker market is at the top of the Fashion segment, followed by…
Transparency and Rating Standards
Case study During 2017, in the high days of ICOs and the capital raise rush, I designed and created an index rating solution (under Blue-Swan.io, now focused on DeFi). The core idea was combining quantitative and qualitative methodology to rate digital assets (blockchain tokens, cryptocurrencies). The underlying hypothesis was to gather structured relationship data from…
Digitalizing Skincare
Context We started Kozhya with a purpose to improve Skincare and expand a large product portfolio quickly, personalizing user experience and enabling well-proven AI classification and data driven optimization to assist large and niche cosmetic brands reach their customers with higher value proposition. Globally, over 1.9 billion people suffer from skin conditions from severe concern…
Innovation within livable cities and mobility services
Independent consultant advising Private Equity and VC clients due diligence and later stages on product management, design and data engineering. Led organizational change programs with Business-Design-Thinking, Digital Transformation and Climate action establishing product innovation and data-driven development. Assisted launching startups renewing their offerings and propositions, which resulted in access to VC and sequential rounds. Consulted…
Immersive driving with Mercedes EQ
Led collaboration with Daimler, introducing new use cases for immersive maps which enhanced both companies’ press coverage and reputation in electrical vehicle space. Invented a new cinematic destination preview to be used in autonomous vehicles and large touch screens relevant in upcoming products.
Improving driving experience
Launched novel HMI automotive platform and supporting services with large press coverage in the Las Vegas Auto Show in 2016, and exhibited by Daimler Mercedes EQ line. Enhanced mobile application offering reducing the friction of switching transportation modality, which increase adoption rate by 20% and improved NPS scores. Led a multidisciplinary team achieving 30% shorter…
Driving growth in emerging markets
Led the design development for three new products evolving Asha product line as well as a new tablet and launched the products in emerging markets, resulting in over several million units sold worldwide.
Innovation on mobile e-Commerce with location
After Nokia completed Gate5 acquisition, expanded offering maps and location based commerce services, providing new revenue streams and increased gross margins for the services business unit. Launched a spearhead mobile incentive and payments PoS service enriched with location based which Nokia later spun off as an independent business.
Mobile platforms M&A and ecosystem growth
Accelerated the mobile developer ecosystem adoption by negotiating and structuring Java(TM) technology licensing agreements with IBM, Sun and Vodafone, which resulted in tripling mobile application content growth YoY from 2005 to 2007. Led and contributed to more than ten strategy, M&A and operational improvement projects, saving more than $50 million in costs, and resulting in…
Improving revenue with Unified Communications
With the introduction of multimedia messaging and mobile email, network carriers’ offering was enhanced with value added services, such as ringtones, photo storage, life blogging and other mobile apps on portals. Doubled messaging and value added services revenue for consecutive years and facilitated M&A due diligence for acquisitions such as customers with introduction of new…
Energy saving in retail through design innovation
Large manufacturing and retail light appliances which included heavy inductive ballast units were upgraded with high efficient switched mode power supply units, reducing 70% energy consumption and extending five to seven times lamp lifespan. We patented an electronic compact system with soft-start reducing energy peak on start demand and commercialized it as an embedded OEM…