Mike Ward Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

Singapore, Sg

London, England, Gb

As the Head of Strategy, I played a critical role in driving the growth and expansion of the company. One of my major achievements was the successful closure of a $4M funding round, which provided essential resources to accelerate our growth trajectory. Working closely with the engineering team, I led the transformation of the company's technology white paper into a viable product that met our technical, economic, and customer-driven goals.

London, Gb

As the leader of the bus program at Arrival, a UK-based electric vehicle startup, I had full responsibility for mechanical engineering, product, and go-to-market strategy. My team consisted of 80 talented mechanical engineers tasked with designing a new bus ground-up. Under my leadership, we successfully designed a city bus as well as managed prototype builds, testing, validation, and launch plans brining a program that was significantly behind schedule back on track.

London, Gb

As an executive at R3, I was instrumental in transforming R3 from a services company to a thriving product company. Building and managing a team of 25 technical product managers and developer advocates my primary focus was on Corda, our enterprise blockchain which I took from an early prototype to commercial deployments.With responsibilities for product strategy, pricing, product marketing, and go-to-market strategy my team and I not only worked on Corda but led efforts in digital assets and central bank digital currency (CBDC), working with the world's largest commercial and central banks. Additionally, we developed commercial applications in supply chain, insurance and broad finance industries both on our own and alongside partners, expanding our addressable market.Recognizing the importance of developers to our platform success, I built a developer relations team that was pivotal in building a large and active developer community. Through a strategy of partner training, hackathons, online training and community engagement we were able to train thousands of engineers, and driving awareness in key communities including 1000’s of developers at financial institutions and Systems Integrator partners.

Redmond, Washington, Us

As a seasoned Product Business Group Lead, I landed the go-to-market strategy for Database, AI, and ML at Microsoft Australia. Over five years I achieved double-digit annual growth rates for a $400M revenue line. My responsibilities encompassed overseeing sales, forecasting, marketing, partner, and channel planning.Prior to this, I honed my skills as a Senior Product Manager, contributing to the global Audience Marketing team in Paris and the US Server & Tools group in Redmond. I crafted a successful mid-market GTM strategy for a multiple billion-dollar business line while working at the US subsidiary. In the audience marketing team, I leveraged my expertise in the IT Pro audience, pioneering new marketing channels to expand reach and generate leads.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Technical expert engaging with technical customer interactions in sales activities. Part of small team that obtained initial customers at early-stage startup. Worked in product capacity on product definition. Jaspersoft was a venture capital funded start-up purchased by TIBCO in 2014.

Waldorf, De

As a technical product manager at Ariba, I played a critical role in the development and launch of Ariba Network and Ariba Buyer - two of the world's most widely adopted supply chain platforms. My responsibilities included defining product requirements and ensuring they were successfully delivered. In addition, I developed and implemented Ariba's product management process, which improved efficiency and collaboration within the organization.As a program manager, I managed engineering activities and implemented changes that resulted in consistent on-time scheduling achieved after repeated missed deliveries.

Co-founded a web-based software firm, built a founding team and pitched to raise venture capital. We developed the first online project management tool to automate collaboration on planning across the supply chain.

Dublin 2, Ie

C Programmer for a custom large-scale CRM and product configuration engine at Microsoft and Pacific Bell. Lead a team of five programmers to deliver on-time, high quality code.