Member of the founding team in a Mobile Payments startup company.

Director of Products for Vala, an early-stage funded Fintech Startup, active in the Cross-Border Payments area. Executes the technical roadmap by working closely as Product Owner with the Engineering team utilizing Agile methodologies.Vala enables direct execution of money transfers between money transfer businesses, minimizes the total costs of every transaction and generates new revenue streams. Our technology starts with a digital infrastructure that automates all business front-end and back office processes and paves the way for one connected global money transfer network. Vala’s smart ledgers streams data into unique algorithms that identify potential business opportunities between different companies, such as FX trading.

TradAir is a leading Financial Technology (Fintech) provider of front office optimization solutions designed to offer financial institutions the ability to create new revenue layers, reduce costs and enhance client relationships. TradAir offers:• End-to-end trading infrastructure for FX and other asset classes, allowing price creation and dynamic distribution to clients and trading partners. • Financial Big-data Analytics platform for analyzing FX price and trading data.As the first externally-hired Product Manager reporting to the Founder CEO, I am responsible for product planning and execution. This includes managing the product throughout the product lifecycle, gathering and prioritizing product and customer requirements, defining the product vision, and working closely with engineering, to deliver winning products.

Panaya's cloud-delivered solutions significantly cut cost and risk related to testing, upgrades and maintenance of business applications such as SAP and Oracle. It has been named by the Gartner Group as a "2010 Cool Vendor"I was recruited as the first Manager for the SAP Functional Testing product – reporting directly to the CTO Successfully developed and launched a high-end product edition with tight HP Quality Center (QC) integration.

Founded in 2000, SD generates transparency by providing world-leading derivatives applications and services via the Cloud (SaaS) to thousands of customers in over 60 countries. The company is trusted by banks, corporates, fund managers, auditors and central banks. I Joined in 2003 as the 30th employee and played a key role in growing the company more than 10-fold and making it a world leader in its field.In my last position with the company I lead product and project management for DCX http://www.sdgm.com/Products/Trading-DCX a multi-bank e-trading platform for OTC derivatives. DCX aims to transform the way people trade FX options. The platform was developed and is operated as a joint venture of SuperDerivatives and FXCM Inc. (NYSE: FXCM).Joined as the second person in the founding team of this joint-venture upstart. Facilitated initial resource investment in extent of $5 millions in the project by successfully defining and communicating product vision. Articulated and documented product definition from scratch including business logic, functionality and user interface (UX) concept. Worked with R&D to deliver this real-time fault tolerant trading system that includes numerous sophisticated FIX and Web Service interfaces to global banks and processing hubs.Successfully launched the system to FX options trading-desks around the world through a joint marketing and sales channel composed of SuperDerivatives and FXCM teams.Earlier in my tenure with the company, have held two additional roles as specified herein.

Defined product positioning and messaging through the transition from single-product to multi-product vendor. Enabled 50% annual growth by working closely with an 80 people global sales team, providing leads and equipping them with first class sales tools. Additional responsibilities: e-marketing, documentation and competitive intelligence

Established the product management function during the company's fast growth phase. Worked closely with founders and R&D team to "productize" a whole-product offering; drove technical side for outbound projects, RFP responses and complex sales process to key accounts. Notable achievement: Initiated and launched the Revaluation Service - to become one of the company's strongest and fastest growing businesses.

Member of the leadership team in an early-stage start-up developing agent-based distributed technology for load testing and performance management of enterprise web applications. Key achievement: Contributed to a successful $2 Million investment round during the 2002 downturn

Keynote (NASDAQ:KEYN) is the world's largest supplier of Internet performance measurement, diagnostic, load testing and consulting services to companies with e-commerce Web sites Established and led a company-wide cross-function Transaction Perspective product team, by setting goals and providing leadership for Marketing, Sales-Engineering, Operations, Tech Support, QA and R&D – resulting in growth of the Service from 3% to $8 million or 16% of company revenue in a few months. The product won Internet Week’s “Best of Breed” award.

Fujitsu Microelectronics (FMI) is the semiconductor arm of Japanese electronics giant Fujitsu. It offers many types of semiconductors, including application-specific integrated circuits, ferroelectric random-access memories, biometric sensors, and microcontrollers.Leader and contributor in an independent FMI Business Unit cooperating with Microsoft in a multi-million project for the development and production of a Multimedia 3D Graphics chip based on advanced technology

An early Internet and web pioneer, NetManage, Inc. developed MS-Windows networking software for medium and large businesses. At NetManage, I developed and shipped “WebSpider” – one of the world's first WYSIWYG HTML (web) Editors.