Emmanuel Paraskakis Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, US

• Product Management Consultancy - Member Company, OpenAPI Initiative.
• Founded consultancy to help organizations build Product Strategies and Product Management teams, specializing in API Products, SaaS, and PLG
• Contracted with organizations ranging from Public Companies to Startups to enable transformation with Executive Training, M&A Analysis, strategic roadmapping, and UX/DX

Burlington, Massachusetts, US

• Precisely is a leader in Data Integrity and Location Analytics, serving more than 12,000 customers worldwide
• Head of Platform Product Management with a focus on Common Services, APIs, DX, Product-Led Growth, and Analytics
• Delivered first iterations of the UX for Data Integrity Suite, a newly launched SaaS platform as Head of Product Design
• Guided and established API Standards and a Developer Portal for REST and GraphQL APIs focused on Location Intelligence
• Started and launched the company's first GraphQL offering for Data Enrichment
• Achieved Product-Market Fit within 12 months of API product launch and closed a double-digit number of Global, Enterprise customers with 7-digit ARR

San Francisco, California, US

• TruSTAR (acquired by Splunk), is a cloud-native Threat Intelligence Management platform that uses APIs to integrate core detection, orchestration, and response tools. It helps organizations optimize and accelerate.
• When TruSTAR wanted to go API-first, I came in as an advisor to help transform their API strategy and GTM

Somerville, MA, US

• VP of Product for SmartBear’s API Design and Collaboration products and industry-leading Swagger Open Source tooling
• Led two cross-functional and globally distributed product teams for SwaggerHub and AlertSite, with eight-digit revenue and triple-digit growth
• Created and drove adoption for SmartBear’s API strategy and product vision, garnering support and approval from the Executive Leadership Team
• Assisted sales as the product lead in closing six-digit opportunities with global leaders in the tech and finance industries
• Transitioned the company to embrace cross-team collaboration for the purpose of continually delivering customer value and improving each product’s market impact

Austin, Texas, US

• Product Management for Oracle’s API Platform in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), managing products for API Management, API Gateway, API Design, and API Testing
• Led integration of newly-acquired API design and API testing tooling into the OCI platform
• Established product strategy and roadmap for Oracle’s API Management products
• Evangelized Oracle’s API platform to marquee customers at conferences, CABs, and customer onsite visits
• Drove product launch from start to beta for OCI’s API Gateway

San Francisco, US

• VP of Product Management for Apiary’s services and Open Source tools for API design, API testing, and API documentation
• Established the entire product management function, driving company product strategy and hiring a global team of product managers and defining new processes for a strong product focus
• Helped foster a strong partnership with Oracle while acting as key driver in eventual acquisition
• Spearheaded the company's Enterprise product as an upgrade from Teams plan thereby transitioning to product-market fit and seven-digit ARR
• Coordinated with company founders and engineering leadership to establish sustainable Agile product development processes for the purpose of creating customer value

Newark, California, US

• API and Data Management ‘czar’ at RMS, the industry leader in catastrophic risk modeling
• Led the newly formed Data Governance function to develop data architecture standards and processes
• Developed public API standards and roadmap, emphasizing consistency and overall developer experience
• Designed the RMS(one) platform public APIs, soliciting feedback from the customers and the developer community
• Evangelized RESTful API approach, internally and externally, presenting company API strategy at client meetings and user conferences

Boston, Massachusetts, US

• Owned Core Product (Touchstone, CLASIC/2 and CATRADER) APIs, Touchstone platform and ALERT/ClimateCast website
• Participated in business development and client support: maintained relations with Reinsurers, Primary Insurers and Brokers worldwide (USA, Bermuda, Germany, UK)
• Product Owner for three agile (Scrum) development teams, creating standards for API design, testing and documentation
• Designed and implemented Demo Applications that showcase APIs and Web Services in C#

• Founded Software as a Service (SaaS) company that uses the web to streamline business communication between insurance companies and their salesforce, resulting in simpler, faster and more accurate insurance policy.
• Ultimately responsible for Sales, client contracts, P&L and user adoption
• Executed business development and marketing aimed at Primary Insurer clients
• Managed and maintained outsourced hosting infrastructure and information security
• Maintained and developed SaaS software (HTML, CSS, JS, MS Stack)

• Company CEO
• Ultimately responsible for P&L, reported to the board of directors
• Integrated company into acquiring Banking Group
• Led Sales deals and GTM for insurance products
• Proposed and implemented synergies with Bank

• Company CEO
• Tripled premium income
• Executed sale and subsequent smooth transition of company into acquiring Banking Group
• Researched and implemented multiple technology initiatives, increasing productivity and efficiencies
• Maintained relations with overseas partners

• Led Sales, Marketing and Product Management
• Revamped product strategy and company identity
• Expanded Insurance agency network nationwide
• Led product launch roadtrips and sales efforts
• Spearheaded IT infrastructure initiatives