Ross Garrett Email & Phone Number

Mountain View, California, Us

Responsible for our team of ~180 people building Volkswagen Group's new Automotive Cloud platform & Software Defined Vehicle (SDV) program.CARIAD is the technology & software powerhouse within VW Group. My team are building the world's largest IoT platform and transforming the digital experiences customers have within and around their vehicle.Our platform is being built for all of our brands -- including VW, Audi, Skoda, Seat, Porsche, Lamborghini, Bugatti, and Bentley. VW automotive cloud platform will deliver capabilities for an intelligent body and cockpit, autonomous driving, vehicle and energy performance, and mobility as a service products. This enables our brands to better serve customers through well-integrated, reliable, securely connected systems, while reducing complexity and achieving significant economies of scale.

Wolfsburg, Niedersachsen, De

New York, Ny, Us

Cloud Elements is a visionary application & data integration platform designed to allow SaaS platforms to deliver productized integration capabilities to their customers.Chief Product Officer, leading the following functions and teams. * Product Management * UX Research & Design * Documentation & Enablement * Product Marketing * Technology Partnerships * Data Strategy / Analytics- Ownership of Analyst Relations - establishing CE position in 2 Gartner MQs.- Leading outcome-oriented roadmap with product team. - 2019 saw a major new product launch from inception to release in 3 quarters.- Ownership of product pricing and packaging. Helping to define better upsell opportunities and structuring built-in growth for new deals.- Creator, lead author and editor of the industry report “State of API Integration”. Now in its 4th year.

Reading, Gb

Push Technology is a real-time data integration and distribution platform designed to power the most critical applications on the internet.• Key role in developing and expanding Push Technology market growth in N. America.• Ownership of product strategy and product marketing.• Responsible for commercial positioning of Push’s products. Including pricing, market planning, competitive analysis and strategic roadmap.• Development and ownership of product solutions, collateral, presentations and online/social/video content.• Supporting sales and field teams with domain expertise, product positioning and competitive intelligence.• Frequent speaker at industry events and regular engagement with press and analysts to represent Push Technology’s view of the realtime web market.• Direct report to CEO.

Scottsdale, Az, Us

Enterprise integration solutions, spanning API Management, EDI & MFT.• Responsible for product strategy, thought leadership, business development and partnerships across key market verticals (finance, utilities, healthcare and telco).• Development and ownership of product solutions, collateral, presentations and online/social content.• Supporting sales and field teams with domain expertise, product positioning and competitive intelligence.• Frequent speaker at industry events in the API Management / B2B integration space. • Led analyst relations and other press/media engagements.

San Jose, California, Us

Strategy and Marketing for CA's API Management & Security products (Following CA's acquisition of Layer 7)Regular speaker at industry events, providing insight and best practices across the API ecosystem.

San Jose, California, Us

• Primarily hired to craft a business oriented product narrative, elevating the value of Layer 7 software beyond middleware use cases.• Responsible for product strategy, business development and partnerships across key market verticals (finance, utilities, healthcare and telco).• Development and ownership of product solutions, collateral, presentations and online/social content.• Internal & External evangelism of Layer 7 vertical solutions.• Supporting sales and field teams with domain expertise, product positioning and competitive intelligence.• Frequent speaker at industry events and regular engagement with press and analysts to represent Layer 7's view of the API and application ecosystem.• Involved with M&A activities, ultimately securing a highly successful exit for Layer 7.• Direct report to Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer.

Belfast, Co Antrim, Gb

• Mainly an outbound product management role, with a focus on solution selling and business development.• Responsible for commercial & market positioning of Aepona’s products. Define product licensing price list, and work with account teams for customer specific pricing models.• Leadership role around business development efforts for new product solutions, and building a pipeline of prospects.

Belfast, Co Antrim, Gb

Recruited into Aepona to manage the evolution of the Universal Service Platform. This is a Service Delivery Platform to help mobile and fixed line carriers to expose Network APIs to 3rd party application developers. Total ownership of product strategy and roadmap. We pioneered the term 'Network as a Service' building upon the concept of a 2-sided business model for Network Operators. Very customer focused role, spending 60% of my time supporting sales and business development.

Gb

Responsible for scoping & specification of customer requirements and translating these into sellable product features. Ownership of functional/technical product requirements across all areas of MobileCohesion's Service Delivery Platform.

Gb

Managing delivery, installation/integration and customer acceptance testing of software products for major telecom customers in APAC & EMEA. Also responsible for customer training and product demonstrations.