James Colgan Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, Ca, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

Envoy is the leading integrated workplace platform that connects people, spaces, and data to create a seamless, secure, and efficient workplace experience.

Amsterdam, North Holland, Nl

Lepaya combines the power of AI with the skills and experience of learning and development professionals to guide leaders through their learning journey.

Amsterdam, North Holland, Nl

• Collaborated with Founders and Co-CEOs to establish and operationalize OKRs to increase efficiency and engineering effectiveness.• Trained the R&D team in modern product development processes to reduce product discovery and delivery time by 50%.• Led a cross-functional team to devise an integrated AI, Content, and platform strategy.

New York, New York, Us

Coho.ai applies AI to SaaS product engagement analytics. Their AI platform shortens a customer's time to revenue while decreasing CAC-payback and accelerating LTV. It's AI-driven PLG in a box.Advising the founders and the board on product strategy, roadmap and GTM.

Paris, Île-De-France, Fr

🦄 The premium European spend management platform built for SMBs and valued at over $1B. Recruited to transform the company into a product-led sales (PLS) organization to drive scale. Built and led an organization of product managers, designers, data analysts/researchers, and program operations.• Executed a targeted growth strategy enhancing product fundamentals, which increased ARR from €15M to €43M within two years.• Built a fast prototyping team that launched a freemium product, cutting lead creation costs by 90% in six months and reducing CAC Payback by 20% over 12 months.• Established a Product-Led Growth team that boosted Spendesk card transaction volume from €217M to over €600M in two years through user-focused iterations.• Recruited senior leaders from top-tier companies (e.g., Google, Miro, Algolia) to restructure and modernize the R&D organization, achieving a 4X increase in R&D velocity within two years.• Led a team of data engineers to bring AI to the spend management platform.

Paris, Île-De-France, Fr

Built and restructured the engineering organization to take the company from Start-up to Scale-up. • Spearheaded the adoption of OKRs, completing 90% of set goals, revamped planning cycles, and tripled engineering throughput within a year.• Recruited top-tier engineering leaders from across Europe, overhauled the engineering structure, expanding from 50 to 100 FTEs within a year.• Led the cultural shift from startup to scaleup, integrating new processes that enhancedoperational efficiency and employee satisfaction, while maintaining desired attrition at 6%.• Introduced metrics-driven (DORA) engineering principles, integrated customer support into engineering, achieving the following outcomes:> Reduced critical bugs to 0 and non-critical bugs by 50%.> Accelerated code releases to production to once every two weeks. > Reduced data inconsistencies by 90%.

San Francisco, California, Us

Recruited to build and lead the high-performing Productivity team . Working across engineering, design, program management, user research and data analytics and product marketing, we developed a product strategy and built native productivity tools and integrations to win Enterprise adoption and drive user engagement and growth.• Led product teams that built innovative premium features, achieving a 32% YoY increase in thenumber of enterprises with an Annual Contract Value (ACV) of over $100,000.• Implemented Product-Led Growth (PLG) strategies to drive active users of Slack from 12M to 25M in two years.

Redmond, Washington, Us

I built and led a cross-organizational product management, product marketing, data science, customer success, and field team that drove enterprise growth (PLS) and product roadmaps across Microsoft 365.• Increased usage of Outlook Mobile to over 100M users.• Helped increase Microsoft 365 revenues by 36% YoY.• Grew enterprise penetration of Outlook and Intune from less than 10% to over 85%.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Recruited to scale the team, bring the product to enterprise readiness, boost consumer satisfaction, and grow product usage. Scaled the R&D team, integrated two acquisitions, and built high-velocity product development processes.• Led the team to grow monthly active users from less than 1M to over 54M in two years. • Built innovative product development processes that accelerated engineering velocity and increased product quality resulting in an increase of app store rating from 2 stars to over 4.2 stars.

San Mateo, California, Us

• Built and led a rapid prototyping team that validated the product and won flagshipcustomers at Nike and Walmart within four months.• Modernized product development processes to increase sprint velocity by 10% in six months.

San Antonio, Texas, Us

Recruited to lead cross-functional teams - directed and energized 5 product managers and 30+ engineers.• Integrated 5 product development teams into a single cloud scaling and monitoring platform witha new freemium business model that increased product adoption by 500% within six months.• Instituted new customer support processes, automations, and data visualization that reducedthe time to ticket resolution from 24 hours to 30 minutes.

• Bootstrapped one of the earliest cloud scaling platforms with partnerships with 3 of the 4 topglobal semiconductor electronic design software companies.• Closed sales with top semiconductor companies such as Intel, Xilinx, Cadence, and Synopsysto develop the platform and raise seed funding.

I worked with the CEOs of 4 European enterprise software startups, positioned 3 companies for acquisition, and successfully launched products in North America, Europe, and Asia.

Framingham, Ma, Us

I commercialized technology for a software startup which had received $8 million in venture funding and a $2.5 million NIST grant. • Built $5 million sales pipeline and closed the company’s first enterprise sale after accelerating product release and brand relaunch.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Recruited to define, build, and launch multiple products globally. Collaborated with the founding CEO and CTO, VP Sales to productize intellectual property and enterprise software technology.• Grew annual revenues from zero to $12+ million by transforming the company from a technology-centric organization to a product/customer-focused business.

Designing And Building Ai Products And Services

Post-Grad Courses, Marketing, Sales, Macro Economics, Micro Economics, And Financial Accounting

B. Eng. (Hons.), Electronic Engineering