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Dallas, Texas, Us

Leading OpenKey’s growth as the world’s largest independent mobile key platform for hospitality, refocusing on SaaS expansion and IoT hardware development, including introduction of a new Hardware-as-a-Service (HaaS) model.● Strategic Growth and Financial Impact: Doubled top-line SaaS revenue within the first two years; improved EBITDA margin by 800%, positioning the business for sustainable growth.● Product Commercialization and Customer Retention: Delivered a highly reliable platform, achieving a 4.7-star app rating (up from 1.0), reducing churn, and securing high-profile global brand references. Oversaw the go-to-market strategy, driving a 40% increase in customer retention.● Cross-Functional Leadership: Aligned product, engineering, and sales teams across regions to ensure smooth deployment and scaling of new features, enabling OpenKey’s transformation into a preferred digital access solution.

Richardson, Texas, Us

Acquired by Thoma BravoOversaw five business units with a combined revenue of $300M and a net profit margin of 53%, managing full P&L responsibility, product development, operations, and go-to-market for solutions across multiple international locations.● Cross-Functional and Global Collaboration: Managed teams across the US, UK, India, and the Philippines, building an integrated culture that supported continuous improvement and operational efficiencies.● Product Innovation and Market Entry: Established the Smart Building division through strategic acquisitions (Chirp Systems, Stratis IoT, WhiteSky), forecasting $400M revenue with >45% EBITDA margin by 2025.● Efficiency and Customer Experience Enhancements: Devised and executed a unified product and market strategy for Utility Management leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) for business efficiency, improving margin by $15M. Enhanced Vendor Management, increasing NPS by 25 points and net margin by 10%.

Schaan, Li

Spearheaded Hilti’s entry into software, building a global application software business from inception to a $700M contribution across North America, Europe, and Asia, including 43% organic growth through the 2020 pandemic.● Greenfield Leadership: Created the global software organization with full P&L responsibility, spanning product development, operations, marketing and integration into Hilti’s regional sales. Through collaboration with the with the board, as well as hardware, and global service divisions, defined the product vision, commercialization strategy, and go-to-market initiatives to align with Hilti’s strengths, delivering a 4x increase in software-related revenue contribution.● Innovation and Portfolio Expansion: Expanded the portfolio from 10 to over 30 SaaS software products through organic development and acquisition, enhancing Hilti’s market position and securing a 30% increase in the software-enabled customer base.● Cultural and Operational Transformation: Drove a cohesive culture across newly formed global teams, through collaboration and accountability to support rapid scaling and sustained growth.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Led product, strategic growth, and go-to-market of SaaS products for the AEC and manufacturing industries, achieving growth through customer-centric product development and innovation.● Market Positioning and Product Differentiation: Redefined product strategy to focus on collaboration tools tailored for engineering, resulting in enhanced market adoption and customer satisfaction.● Operational Excellence: Streamlined innovation processes, positioning Kenesto as a leader in engineering document collaboration and task management, increasing recurring revenue by 35%.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

● Growth and Profitability: Drove 17x revenue growth over four years, reduced costs by 50%, and achieved a 71% EBITDA margin through portfolio optimization and enhanced business unit collaboration.● Innovation and Transformative Product Development: Launched a disruptive cloud-native SaaS PLM platform (PLM360, now Fusion Lifecycle), transforming Autodesk into a recognized market leader.● Stakeholder Engagement: Built partnerships and redefined the go-to-market strategy, aligning internal teams with external stakeholders to ensure business impact and scalability.● Full P&L responsibility

Newport Beach, Ca, Us

● Turnaround Leadership: Led Product and Marketing for a critical corporate turnaround, redefining product portfolios and business models as well as the introduction of analytics-based marketing to return the company to revenue growth and double the share price.● Portfolio Rationalization and Revenue Growth: Reduced a 130-product portfolio to five core solutions, optimizing costs and implementing a subscription-based model to drive predictable, recurring revenue.● Strategic Vision and Product Execution: Launched a new engineering and analysis software platform, contributing to sustained revenue growth and market share expansion.

Mergers And Acquisitions Postgraduate Certificate

Data Science For Business Postgraduate Certificate

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business Administration And Management, General

Graduate Certificate, Industrial Quality & Process Management

Engineering And Computer Science

Math And Computer Science