Product & Tech Operations at Bending Spoons

"Music. Video. Memes."• Led product, technology, and operations; Built a culture of fast agile experimentation• Grew global userbase from 10,000 to over 40,000,000• Pitched and built integrations with Apple, Facebook, Viber, Twitch, Snap, Skype, Slack and more• Supported fundraising, structured company finances, financial model, EIS, EMI, R&D grant, HR.

“Like Uber, but using the existing taxi networks across the UK & US”• Created the product function, scaled to 20+ people. • Led internationalization. Launched in 10+ cities across UK, US, Singapore.

"The world's No. 1 web scraping provider. Used by millions to machine read the web"• Responsible for the products strategy, roadmap planning and execution.• Translated strategy into the product roadmap, across B2B, B2C and AI Machine Learning teams• Tripled active users, closed $13m Series A, led the introduction of transparent salaries

“Like Dropbox but for the legal enterprise market”• Created the Data Science function, shaped a metrics-led culture• De-facto CIO: ran DevOps and IT, consolidated data centres, achieved ISO 27001 certification.

"IdeaPlane enables regulated businesses to use social networking technology to communicate, collaborate and share knowledge in a secure and simple way."• Built the engineering team from the ground up to 23 people in 12 months • Designed the business plan and financial model, leading to a fundraise of £1M ($1.6M) • Managed key accounts (incl. Deutsche Bank, UBS) bringing revenues in excess of £2M ($3.2M)• Pivoted from on-premise solution to cloud offering • Exited to Workshare in 2012

Proposed an offering consolidation and streamlining for a new Cisco service lineArticulated the service value across the ITIL Service Lifecycle, then implemented globally

Identified opportunities to further increase market penetration of the Google Apps in the EMEA education sector

• Implemented a business services repository to support reuse of existing software assets at a primary European bank. Managed 20 people and a 2 m€ budget. Business Case NPV: 5 m€• Designed the IT Governance processes for IT Masterplan definition, Demand Management and Time Reporting at a primary European bank. Implemented and deployed supporting tools• Shaped a three year infrastructure based cost savings program. Supported the identifications of three scenarios, addressing a total yearly budget of 200 m€• Managed the tools stream of a software lifecycle industrialization program at a primary European bank. Implemented enterprise wide tools for requirements, test and configuration management.• Designed the Software Configuration Management system for a large italian bank application. Reviewed application design to reduce application running costs. Confirmed savings for 1m€

• Founded the internet branch of the company• Developed go-to-market strategy, successfully led the branch to profit• Designed innovative products, such as a system to monitor production times based on palm systems with wi-fi and barcode reader

CTO, Co-Founder• Managed Technology and Operations from incubation until exit• Secured strategic billing and technological partnership with US based companies• Defined the sites creation platform and development lifecycle