Experience

OpSec Security

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Chief Product Officer

  • Jan 2021 - Present



Omdia

• United Kingdom
• Research Services
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Chief Product Officer

  • Jan 2020 - Dec 2020

  Leading the full product and platform integration across IHS Markit Technology, Ovum and Tractica business lines including combined product portfolio, platform delivery, pricing and go-to-market strategy.Responsibilities include:- Designing, hiring and developing an expanded product management organisation to create growing, profitable market-leading products and platforms.- Defining and deploying frameworks and toolkits for strategy development, customer sensing, business case analysis, product lifecycle management, strategic partnerships, competitive analysis and displacement, and tactical sales tools including white space analysis.- Completing the design, launch and go-to-market strategy for a combined customer- and data-driven integrated product portfolio, including development of a new customer-facing delivery platform.- Managing product data transformation and integration between legacy product SFDC and transformed product sales opportunities.- Developing and deploying a new aligned pricing and approval methodology, including CPQ pricing automation.- Ideating, testing and launching new product sets, partnering across research, sales, marketing, technology and other stakeholders, including new product brands such as the Omdia Universe vendor selection tool.- Designing and delivering ongoing product and customer-centric sales training and ongoing sales support programs.



IHS Markit

• United Kingdom
• Information Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• VP/Executive Director - Consumer Technology Solutions

  • Dec 2018 - Jan 2020

  Leading the Consumer Technology Solutions Business Unit, which includes research, consulting and cost & performance benchmarking services, key responsibilities are:• Business unit P&L accountability• Leading a team of over 80 analysts across Asia (China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Australia), Europe and North America, covering display technologies, consumer electronics, service providers & platforms, and media & advertising. • Responsible for strategic direction, research agenda, operational structure, cross-divisional projects including consultancy, data management, research collaboration and third-party partnerships.

• Executive Director - Product Management

  • Mar 2018 - Dec 2018

  Expanded product management role to lead product team across the full IHS Markit Technology portfolio, leading a team of experienced product management directors. Highlights included deploying and formalizing customer sensing, product innovation and partnership and competitive assessment programs.

• Director - Product Management

  • Nov 2014 - Mar 2018

  Responsible for driving revenue and margin growth across a heavily acquisitive business line, including defining and managing product strategy, new product conception and introduction, portfolio integration and consolidation and go-to-market strategy, collaborating across research, marketing, sales and other stakeholders. General responsibilities ranged from working directly with clients to understand business requirements across different personas and sectors, to assessing our capabilities to fulfill these needs internally versus developing external partnerships.

• Director - Connectivity, Smart Homes & Smart Cities

  • Aug 2014 - Nov 2014



IMS RESEARCH

• United Kingdom
• Market Research
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Associate Director - Connectivity, Smart Home & Appliances

  • Aug 2012 - Aug 2014

  Responsible for the company’s connectivity, smart home and appliance research. This includes managing a team of connectivity analysts specialized across a broad range of technologies, covering high-bandwidth & low-power RF, as well as wired or powerline-based alternatives. Together, the team offers in-depth coverage of a strong range of current and emerging technologies, including an extensive list of 802.11 technologies, Bluetooth variants (including Classic, Smart Ready & Smart), 802.15.4 solutions (ZigBee PRO, RF4CE, SE2.0, WirelessHART, ISA100.11a & proprietary), other low-power RF technologies (Z-Wave, EnOcean, DECT ULE, etc.), 60GHz technologies, powerline communications, and wired alternatives.

• Senior Market Analyst

  • Nov 2010 - Aug 2012

  Responsible for developing IMS Research's low-bandwidth & 'smart' networks research, including client relationship management, new business development, team development, and quality control of research output. Research includes analysis of the following:- low-power RF (ZigBee PRO, ZigBee RF4CE, other 802.15.4 , Z-Wave, EnOcean, ANT+, DECT ULE, low-power Wi-Fi, proprietary sub-GHz, proprietary 2.4GHz, others)- low-bandwidth wired solutions (KNX, Insteon, HomePlug Green PHY, etc)- 'smart networks' ('HAN', 'smart home', municipal low-power wireless/'smart cities', others)- connectivity in other vertical segments (consumer health monitoring, lighting, home automation, consumer electronics, and others)- connectivity integration segmentation (analysis of direct IC integration compared with module uptake, and the variation by market segment & technology solution)

• Market Analyst

  • 2008 - Nov 2010

  Responsible for the development of semi-custom market sizing and growth projection studies across a range of connectivity markets, analyzing:1. The market for combination ICs, analyzing the uptake of BT/FM, BT/FM/GPS, BT/FM/WLAN, and quad-combos: BT/FM/GPS/WLAN. This includes analysis of a variety of consumer electronics markets, including cellular handsets, notebook PCs, portable media players, and portable navigation devices.2. The uptake of low power technologies for in-home applications, such as safety and security, home energy management and smart metering, white goods, and home monitoring. Key technologies analyzed include Z-Wave, ZigBee, low power WiFi, and proprietary sub GHz technologies.



Intellectual Capital Development Ltd

• Research Analyst

  • 2006 - 2007

  Undertook custom research studies for multiple blue chip companies, identifying strategic opportunities across a range of markets, including retail banking software, power generation components, and others. Undertook custom research studies for multiple blue chip companies, identifying strategic opportunities across a range of markets, including retail banking software, power generation components, and others.