Kim Stagg Email & Phone Number

Kirkland, Washington, Us

As the Chief Product and Technology Officer at Appen, I oversee all product, engineering, and IT functions, driving innovation and operational excellence across our AI data solutions. I lead a global team spanning five continents, with core centers in the U.S., Indonesia, India, Singapore, Australia, and the UK.Product:• CrowdGen: A contributor-facing platform that enables millions of global workers to find, apply, qualify, and get paid for projects. This platform powers AI development by enabling rapid, scalable access to a diverse, multilingual workforce for data collection, annotation, and model tuning.• ADAP Platform: A scalable AI Data Platform designed to enhance AI model development through high-quality data annotation and model training. ADAP supports multiple data types and provides tools for end-to-end workflows, including model evaluation and fine-tuning. • Data Collection: Utilizing our global network of contributors to gather diverse, high-quality data worldwide, this service supports real-time data acquisition critical for AI and machine learning applications.Engineering: I lead a world-class engineering division, which includes core developers, data engineers, data scientists, architects, QA, and DevOps. We focus on enhancing platform scalability and delivering cutting-edge AI solutions.IT: Overseeing platform engineering, internal solutions, infrastructure, support, security, and privacy. We maintain a balance between centralized governance and decentralized service lines to ensure agility and responsiveness.Core Focus Areas:• Continuously enhancing CrowdGen to optimize contributor engagement, streamline recruiting and qualification processes, and provide comprehensive predictive analytics.• Replatforming core annotation and data tools to improve scalability and feature speed to launch.• Focusing on generative AI and machine learning to increase automation, improve quality, and enhance communication between contributors and clients.

Kirkland, Washington, Us

Global Leader in AI Datasets with Millions of Contributors Worldwide (ASX: APX)Oversee multiple complex product lines, product operations, and related marketing functions, facilitating AI solutions at scale. Lead a major transformation project to create an integrated system for attracting, applying, matching, qualifying, managing, invoicing, and paying workers. This system enables technology companies to engage hundreds of thousands of workers worldwide, accommodating different languages and cultural nuances, with rapid turnaround times for AI data collection, annotation, and model tuning.Key Responsibilities and Achievements:• Crafting Product Vision: Developed a customer-centric product vision using AI-first methodologies, translating it into strategic roadmaps that aligned stakeholders around a shared growth vision.• Organizational Structuring: Offshored the engineering function, scaling the team by over 100%, and built a multi-functional organization around interdependent product streams to enable complex products at scale.• Transformation Project: Automated operational processes, achieving 80% efficiency gains. Enhanced matching algorithms and new applications increased worker NPS by 300%.• Speed and Efficiency: Reduced time from sourcing to active project involvement by up to 200% through improved processes and technologies.• Team Empowerment and Culture: Fostered a "fail fast and forward" mentality, drove execution with data-driven decisions, established accountability, and built high-performing teams through clear vision, effective communication, and coaching, leading to a team NPS of 100%.• Innovative Solutions: Leveraged ML and Generative AI to innovate in automation, predictive systems, and decision products for fraud prevention, operational efficiencies, and forecasting.• Streamlining Delivery: Enhanced product delivery through product operations by streamlining processes around communication, sales enablement, customer success, and marketing.

St. Paul, Minnesota, Us

Chair the Information Security Committee for the Inogen Global Alliance (80 companies, 150 countries, 5,000 consultants). Defined and shepherded the global cybersecurity framework designed to assess enterprise risk, assist with platform or consulting options, and govern the full supply-chain of these companies and improve their ability to deliver on large global contracts.

St Paul, Minnesota, Us

Leading Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Software & Professional Services (4,000 employees)Responsible for product and technology for the Americas. Lead 4 business units: Commercial Technology (product, engineering, professional services, and go-to-market); Innovation and R&D; Information Technology (Chief Information Officer assignment); and Information Security.• Grew the Commercial Technical Business Unit with tech-enabled product lines.• Own the overall product vision and strategy for all new products and growth product initiatives.• Defined, developed, and commercialized a customer data platform, including ingestion infrastructure, sophisticated data analysis, and AI services that is the core infrastructure for projects globally. Applied, these enable solutions such as: IoT pipelines feeding analytics with forecasting capabilities and machine learning models; spatial and mapping with drone deployment and AI defect detection; and AR products for remote assessment and location-based visualizations.• Built a professional services and sales engineering function to support strategy definition, solution architecture implementation, and data and analytics services.• Created and led an R&D lab to drive innovation, experimentation and for productization of new software and services. • Manage information technology company-wide including all hardware, software, etc.• Set a best-of-breed strategy migrating all corporate systems to cloud services including financial systems, HR, and project/performance management to Office365, and custom applications on the Salesforce platform.• Seasoned negotiator with millions of dollars of savings on contracts, licenses, and vendor agreements.

St Paul, Minnesota, Us

Responsible for product and engineering for America’s.• Analyzed company-wide product portfolios to determine market-share, potential market-growth, and competitive analysis as well as alignment with the overall Antea Group strategic direction.• Determined strategy for restructuring products into two lines: tech-enabled products to support consulting channel and configurable platform (iEHS) product line, resulting in a recommendation to divest the iEHS platform.• Created the iEHS platform divestiture information memorandum, identified potential acquirers, negotiated, and managed the divestiture including the successful transition of all customer contracts.• Built the product strategy and framework and recruited and structured the team for the tech-enabled product line.

Leading SaaS/PaaS Software Company in EHS&S/ESG MarketResponsible for vision, strategy, and development for all solutions.• Set the overall product vision and strategy and partnered with clients for requirement-gathering and market research along with product managers to ensure product market-fit and alignment of vision and strategy.• Transformed the SaaS product into an extensible online platform (PaaS) with no-code configurable forms, workflow, and analytics/reporting to enable users to easily create commercial and customer-specific applications. These changes increased growth (10x) through expansion into additional markets and functional areas.• Accelerated the business by scaling the product management and engineering teams and transforming all cross-functional teams to use Agile Methodologies and Scrum.• Led the creation of a low-code product architecture by exposing core APIs allowing users to embed JavaScript and html into customer-specific applications significantly enhancing functionality and usability.• Utilized product metrics, client feedback loops, and user experience analysis to set and refine roadmap for new products, growth products, and customer experience initiatives.• Implemented AI services for predictive analytics, machine-learning, and other algorithms relevant to future forecasting, ‘what if’ scenarios, probabilistic modeling, and binary predictions as a configurable function within the platform.• Developed configurable and extensible parameter-based time series solution to enable tracking and calculating metrics for energy management, water use, greenhouse gas accounting, and global climate change.• Created pricing and positioning strategies and collaborated with product marketing to produce go-to-market materials. • Collaborated with sales to grow the platform to be used by thousands of industry consultants and hundreds of Global 1000 and Fortune 500 companies.

SaaS Software Company in EHS&S MarketStartup company (under Antea Group) formed to develop a software-as-a-service application.• Defined product roadmap and led product development to create a single-instance, multi-tenant SaaS offering for the environmental, health and safety, and sustainability (EHS&S) sector.• Modules created include facility, file & tasks management, governance, regulatory compliance, risk management, vendor management and training tracking with e-learning.• Partner with numerous clients for customer needs and requirement gathering to tailor solutions for multiple business verticals including technology, retail, oil & gas, chemical, manufacturing, food and beverage, and financial services.

Startup company to create commercial software products and provide professional services to multinational companies.• Developed product within the areas of data systems, risk analysis, modeling and visualization, business analytics and predictive modeling, risk assessment, and financial services.• Renowned expert in enterprise systems implementing data/analytics/IoT systems for 4 of the 5 largest oil companies.• Created globally recognized international transfer formats for environmental data and gained US O1 visa for top 5 in the world in specific area of expertise.

Shrewsbury, Shropshire, Gb

General manager (with P&L responsibility) for one of the largest environmental software businesses in Europe. • Responsible for building software business, driving company growth, setting commercial strategy, and go-to-market. • Led product and engineering teams to develop commercial risk, modeling, data, and visualization products. • Set up a global strategic partner ecosystem for reselling, supporting, and implementing company products.• Created e-commerce site for the sale of company products as well as reselling 3rd party software.• Led professional services in data management, business analytics, GIS, web solutions and environmental software.

Phd, Hydrogeology & Computer Science

Msc, Engineering Geology

Bsc, Geology

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