Roland Selmer

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CPTO @ Yapily
United Kingdom
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About Roland Selmer

An entrepreneurially driven Product leader with strong strategic, marketing and technical acumen and a proven track record of delivering successful products. Extremely creative, customer focussed and first principles driven. A commercial technologist with an MBA and Engineering degrees, he is as comfortable talking about API’s as he is NPV’s.- Designed and launched Nexmo’s Programmable Voice product in less than a year. Awarded “Fierce Innovation Award for Business Services”. Launched Stitch, Nexmo’s WebRTC product, into developer preview. Awarded U.S. Pat. No. 9,912,808, “Systems and Methods for Providing a Multi-Channel Communication Service"- Launched an internal CPaaS platform for Telefónica. Defined and led Telefónica Digital’s Future Communications Product strategy. Developed the core positioning of Future Comms products, supporting GTM operations with behavioural segmentation, insights and a new product model.- Implemented the first prepay and postpay wireless broadband proposition in emerging markets for Qubee. Led the product team with the help of local CMO’s to launch in key markets. Created and executed an integrated digital marketing strategy- Achieved the ‘Best Product’ award for the design of Orange’s ‘Business LAN’ product. Worked alongside Marketing and Sales throughout the launch and enabled the organisation to build a strong position in this sector and a substantial incremental revenue. Similarly designed a successful ‘Internet Link’ product; involved in all aspects from the original idea to market entry.

Roland Selmer's Current Company Details
Yapily

Yapily

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CPTO
United Kingdom
Website:
yapily.com
Employees:
119
Roland Selmer Work Experience Details
  • Yapily
    Cpto
    Yapily
    United Kingdom
  • Yapily
    Cpo
    Yapily Aug 2021 - Present
    Moorgate, England, Gb
  • Vonage
    Svp Product
    Vonage Jun 2020 - Jul 2021
    Holmdel, New Jersey, Us
  • Vonage
    Vp Product
    Vonage Sep 2018 - Jun 2020
    Holmdel, New Jersey, Us
    Vonage is a business cloud communications provider headquartered in Holmdel NJ. Originally founded in 2001 as a provider of residential telecommunications services based on VoIP, has now pivoted via the acquisition of New Voice Media, Nexmo and Tokbox, into a B2B platform of Communications Applications and API’s.- Rebuilt the Product team from the ground up from 10 individual contributors to a diverse team of over 80 with one of the highest employee engagement scores in the company - Increased API revenues by almost 10x since the acquisition by Vonage through new Product Development and lines of business- Supported the Application Group launch their UCaaS and CCaaS products, replacing existing competitor’s products.
  • Nexmo (Now Vonage)
    Voice And Webrtc Product Director
    Nexmo (Now Vonage) 2015 - Aug 2018
    Holmdel, New Jersey, Us
    Nexmo is a global Communications Platform as a Service leader providing innovative communication APIs for Voice, Text, Messaging and Verification Services- Led the Programmable Voice, WebRTC and Elastic SIP Product team- Designed and launched Nexmo’s new Voice API, introducing novel features e.g. JSON based voice schema, PSTN to WS and multichannel voice recording. Awarded 2017 “Fierce Innovation Award for Business Services” - Launched, Stitch, Nexmo’s WebRTC product for contextual communications. Awarded U.S. Pat. No. 9,912,808, “Systems and Methods for Providing a Multi-Channel Communication Service" with a further patent pending.- Owned and designed the Contact Centre building blocks to bring an omnichannel experience to traditional telephony contact centres
  • Connectico Ltd
    Connectico, Co-Founder
    Connectico Ltd 2014 - 2015
    Connectico is a calling service platform that allows you to buy local telephone numbers in foreign countries. Connectico is attempting to be the first digital MVNO built entirely in the cloud.- Responsible for Product & Operations- Collaborated on the initial architecture hosted on AWS utilising open source software (FreeSwitch, Kamailio)
  • Telefónica Digital
    Voice Platform Product Owner
    Telefónica Digital 2012 - 2014
    Madrid, Es
    Telefónica Digital was created to lead Telefónica’s transformation into a digital telco. It is the engine for bringing digital products and services to their operating businesses that is taking them from traditional Telco’s to a service oriented communications company.- Working with an agile team, built Telefónica Digitals next generation voice platform delivered as an internal CPaaS- Managed a complex and bespoke product portfolio including a FinTech product bringing in £6m incremental revenue for the local BU- Developed the core positioning, messaging, pricing and segmentation for Future Comm’s communications products
  • Augere
    Group Product Manager
    Augere 2008 - 2011
    Chicago , Illinois, Us
    Augere is a privately held company started by Orange Group CEO Sanjiv Ahuja and raised over $175M in funding. Augere trades under the Qubee brands in developing markets deploying wireless Internet services- End to end ownership of the group’s data, voice and VAS products throughout their life cycles including positioning and pricing- Provided strategic direction for local product marketing activities including online and digital- Drove and supported product development and deployment in local operations in 3 countries- Collaborated with the CMO to architect the group level product strategy
  • France Telecom Egt
    Senior Product Manager
    France Telecom Egt 2007 - 2008
    France Telécom is the incumbent telecommunication provider in France and one of the largest in the world. It currently employs about 191,000 people (half outside of France) and has nearly 159 million customers worldwide and a turnover of €51.7bn.- Responsible for the delivery of a £12 million hosted IP-PBX programme leading a team of over eighty and working directly with the finance directorate.- Owned the Orange Business’s B2B xDSL proposition- Headed up the advanced coverage solutions portfolio which included UMA
  • Revomark Limited
    Co-Founder
    Revomark Limited 2006 - 2007
    RevoMark is a privately held company specialising in all aspects of intellectual property, with trademarks and brand protection being a particular strength. RevoMark disintermediated the industry using low cost web applications allowing it to achieve a ranking of 6th highest UK registrations in its 2nd year- Identified the market opportunity, business model and product feature set and launched the business from concept to first customer in 6 months- Architected the web applications and backend used to power the business
  • Orange
    Principal, Product Design
    Orange 2001 - 2005
    Issy-Les-Moulineaux, Île-De-France, Fr
    Orange UK is a major mobile network operator and internet service provider in the United Kingdom which is owned by Orange SA, a subsidiary of France Télécom.- Principal, Product DesignResponsible for the delivery of strategic Products for the Enterprise Line of Business - Principal, Network Architecture DesignResponsible for the provision of extensive professional services to key Fortune 500 Orange clients together with internal business units and functions; interpreting commercial needs and working with Marketing and Sales to develop technical solutions to corporate requirements.
  • Telkom
    Senior Strategist
    Telkom 1999 - 2001
    Centurion, Gauteng, Za
    Telkom is Africa's largest integrated communications companyResponsible for the analysis of markets, technology and opportunities; formulation of polices and strategies and presentation at CxO level.

Roland Selmer Skills

Product Management Telecommunications Mobile Devices Strategy Product Marketing Start Ups Product Development Mobile Communications Business Development Management Ip Cloud Computing Wireless Program Management Business Intelligence Marketing Business Strategy Integration Leadership Outsourcing Internet Protocol Mobile Strategy Wireless Technologies Product Strategy

Roland Selmer Education Details

  • University Of Bath
    University Of Bath
    Business Administration
  • University Of Kwazulu-Natal
    University Of Kwazulu-Natal
    Electronic Engineering
  • University Of Kwazulu-Natal
    University Of Kwazulu-Natal
    Electronic Engineering

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