Latif Nathani Email & Phone Number

California, United States

San Jose, California, Us

aiXplain's vision is to empower everyone with AI tools regardless of their background. Build, deploy, and scale AI solutions in one platform. I am responsible for all functions outside of Vision, Product and Investor relationships.

Greenwich, Ct, Us

AnB Seed Fund - Independant Board Director (IC committee) on FinTech Seed Fund for KSA/MENAApkudo - Advised this "circular industry" leader on their India strategyCelo - Enterprise growth advisor for an amazing blockchain that puts planet first!AlphaWorks - Startup studio building businesses from Silicon Valley for MENA region (Advisor)HealthLucid - Essential tool for employee and employer health care savings in the US (Investor)BARQ - Disrupting the MENA last mile industry starting with Saudi Arabia! (BOD, 2021-23)Friends of Anjuman - Board member for a 147-year-old educational trust with 100k+ studentsTracyAnderson.com - Advised board on their eCommerce strategy for this global fitness brandGradio - Discriminate Data! eliminate noise, Stanford PhD thesis commercialized (Investor, acquired - HappyFace)SellerApp - eCommerce 3.0, smart data + Marketplace infrastructure (Investor)Red Door - Smartest way to finance your home in the US! (Investor, acquired by Opendoor)Sapien - A reimagined social platform built on the Ethereum Blockchain (Investor)EMQQ (US ETF) - Emerging markets eCommerce focused fund (advisor)

Berkeley, California, Us

Sapien is a Web 3.0 social network for the next generation of human connection using crypto, NFT's and the metaverse. Sapien's vision is to become the “Republic of DAO's” (Digital Autonomous Organizations). Sapien is built on the Ethereum Blockchain and utilizes the Polygon acceleration infrastructure to provide an advanced single stack for DAO networks. My role is to oversee all operational aspects of the company (strategy, product, marketing and operations) and ensure smooth functioning and growth

FAS Technologies is a member company of the Fawaz Al Hokair Group, the largest retail conglomerate in the Middle East. Businesses include 20 Malls (Arabian Centers), 2500+ stores in partnership with Zara, Mango, etc, 250+ restaurants Key actions:• Developed a business plan for a new Omnichannel marketplace targeting $1B GMV in 5 years with an investment of ~$150M and launch in 12 months. Plan was green-lighted by the Chairman and the group board• Built various market entry strategies including identifying key acquisition targets and alternative options – licensed scalable marketplace platform proven to scale to $1B GMV and achieved accelerated launch• Hired key people including COO from eBay India, logistics head from Flipkart, category managers from Souq, engineering team in Delhi, etc• Soft launched KZMO in Riyadh with 10 brands including Aldo, Clarks, OXXO, Quiz, etc in February 2019 across 5 malls in Riyadh and achieved delivery goal of 90 minutes!

San Jose, Ca, Us

eBay entered India through an acquisition in 2005 and suffered market share/talent loss in the hottest eCommerce market in the world. Team (approximately 300 direct). Key actions:• Sealed partnership with CAIT representing 60M traders (representing 92% retail trade in India).• Built strong digital marketing team resulting in contribution going from low single digit to 49% of top line.• First eBay India leader to visit sellers in their own locations including slums and villages for direct connect.• Led efforts with the Government resulting in benefits for eBay cross-border sellers in 2015 Foreign Trade Policy.• eBay sellers won the Gold and Bronze medals in the first eCommerce export awards by the Government of India .• Put in place a differentiated strategy based on Global/Refurbished supply to compete with Amazon and FlipKart.• Fastest growth in 10 years to nearly $500M GMV and 5.2M Active Buyers at 1/30th of competitive spend.• Drove exit with merger of eBay India with Flipkart and additional $500M investment.UPDATE - In May 2018, eBay sold its stake in Flipkart to Walmart for $1.1B

Redmond, Washington, Us

Unlimited Potential Strategy utilized new business models, technology solutions and advanced research. Built on partnerships (businesses, governments,organizations/NGOs), a broad range of offerings successfully extended the reach of technology. Goal: bringing relevant, accessible, affordable software to 5 billion emerging market consumers.Drove India product and solution incubations; lead business development initiatives; developed and managed both depth and breadth partnerships and roll out Unlimited Potential messaging.• Complete management of incubations, including four smooth graduations and six shutdowns• Built top-notch team of four directors with average 18 years robust industry experience• Launched (by Minister of Education/HP), new Multipoint Server reduced computer lab costs by 50%.• Negotiated key partnerships with education company, an ISP, and a leader in modern retail• Won 80% of government service center business (connecting India’s 600,000 villages); won 100% of the depth iCafe accounts for our shared access offerings (largest worldwide deal)• Co-lead first equity investment, (Oxigen Services $30M), emerging area of mobile payments; board member.

San Jose, California, Us

Built and led new worldwide product marketing team for Symantec’s $2B consumer business: best-selling Norton branded products [Norton AntiVirus, Internet Security, SystemWorks] consumed by 50M+ active consumers globally. Conducted significant market research to develop new consumer segmentation model, naming & messaging for new products; gained buyoff for go-to-market strategies. • Built new team of 12 product marketing managers in US, London, Tokyo and Singapore• Launched 2006 versions of Norton Anti-Virus and Norton Internet Security• Launched new consumer products - Norton Confidential, Norton Save & Restore, and Norton 360• Successfully coined the term “Security 2.0”, subsequently adopted all the way up to the CEO Recruited back by Microsoft for an exciting emerging markets role.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Director - NISDNatural Interactive Services Division (NISD) was formed to bring all human interaction technologies under one roof (Speech, Natural Language, Search). Productized key interactive technologies; built new product marketing team. • Established product strategy for Speech technologies, resulting in Speech Server product and SDK. • Formed consortium of Industry leaders: Intel, Cisco, Phillips; drove new standard SALT (Speech Application Language Tags); Four months: perceived as competitive to VoiceXM, existing standard. • Built top marketing, business development, evangelism team, 10+ people (three seasoned MS Directors). • Business Development & Marketing Successes: Negotiated strategic partnerships giving Microsoft jumpstart in Speech industry; on-going industry landscape evaluation for investments/acquisitions; Launched beta versions: Speech Server and SDK, Business Decision Maker (BDM) kit including video providing customer executives with business scenarios.Product Planning ManagerProduct management/planning for broadband network based PC service. Monitored key market trends/competition; strategic analysis. With keen customer understanding, designed compelling product/strategy.• Team member, representing Microsoft in UDSL group; innovated the DSL lite standard• Performed primary and secondary market research, regarding broadband technologies and services.Product Manager - Created and maintained worldwide business, Desktop Application: MSOffice via OEM channel; created/implemented strategy; grew $300MM part of overall $4.2B business. Launched/maintained: Office 95, 97, Home Essentials, Works. Group Manager - Co-founded SMS product unit. Oversaw long-term / day-to-day testing and release of Systems Management Server; Products shipped: Systems Management Server v1.0, v1.1.Software Design Engineer - Products shipped: LANMan 2.1, TCP/IP Utilities for LANMan 2.1 and Windows NT 3.1.

Wrote business plan; designed product/strategy with visionary goals. Hired creatives to design/construct website; powerfully enhancing user experience.. Tested and implemented online marketing vehicles. Selected world class PR agency. executed various partnerships. Favorable reviews: Forbes Online, Los Angeles Times, Seattle Times.• User acquisition cost reduced from $50/user to $10/user within 4 months of launch• Partnerships: District Photo (largest global photo lab), Microsoft PictureIt! (imaging software), Pets.com (Amazon via Pets.com to ememories.com), Earthlink (premier photo sharing partner, 3MM+ Earthlink users)• Facilitated successful merger with an eCompanies project; Hired Mattel ex-President as CEO

Mba, Marketing

Bs, Computer Science