Product and operation leader with diverse experience across different industries: healthcare, fintech, agriculture, and consumer products. I also have significant experience leading AI Strategy, Partnership Development, Venture Building, Digital Strategy, and Cross-functional Operations. Currently provide consulting service as Fractional CPO to help early stage companies refine product-market fit and and get ready for the next investment round I have a proven track record in launching enterprise products and digital ventures. To date, I've built 4 incubators/accelerator programs and 12 corporate-invested ventures in APAC and EMEA. I have also led several projects on ecosystem development, digital transformation, and service design for large organisations. A versatile and seasoned people manager with hands-on technical skills, I have built and managed the full spectrum of tech talents, from designers to engineers. My leadership experience covers both managing small and agile product teams for early-stage companies and leading the entire division of 30+ people for large corporatesOutside of work, I am an experienced digital trustee for non-profit organisations.Born in Southeast Asia, I have the fortune to live and work in some of the most amazing cities in the world such as Singapore, Vancouver, Berlin, Antwerp, Munich and London.
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Product And Strategy (Healthcare)SenrimaLondon, Gb
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Venture And ProductVarious CompaniesLondon, Gb -
Fractional Cpo (Climate Financing / Ethical Lending / Generative Ai)Self-Employed Jul 2024 - PresentFractional product leadership for pre-seed to seed stage startups to help refine product-market fit and prepare for investment round: WieldMore | UK: climate financing digital solutionDike | Singapore: AI platform for ethical lendingHelping corporates to launch new business models, digital innovation units and in-house accelerators.Consultant for PE's search funds to help define target acquisitions and improve operation blueprint and business performance in the second stage. Targeted markets: pharma, consumer services, telecom and manufacturing
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Head Of Digital Innovation Hub For Northwest Europe (Pharma)Novo Nordisk 2022 - 2024Bagsværd, DkLed a team of scientist, consultants, designers and product experts to incubate new digital products for Novo Nordisk's European affiliatesSpearhead digital partnership in Europe. In charge of building digital health ecosystem with academia, biotech players, vendors, accelerators, hospital groups, public health providers, insurance companies and pharmaciesLed the development and deployment of patient experience platform and e-health activation clinics in 14 markets across Northwestern EuropeTAs: Obesity, Diabetes & Rare DiseasesCoverage: UK, France, Spain, Netherland, Denmark & Iceland, Sweden, Switzerland, Norway, Portugal, Austria, Ireland, Finland, Belgium & Luxembourg. -
Venture Lead, Digital Incubator / Head Of Apac Business Design & Rapid Prototyping (Life Science)Bayer 2020 - 2022Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia, DeAs Venture Lead for the APAC Digital Incubator, I built and led a diverse team of 30+ talents (product designers, product managers, sale ops, market researchers, data analysts, marketing associates) in Southeast Asia to develop new ventures and products. My unit also led the development of the digital ecosystem in Southeast Asia for startups to partner with Bayer.As Head of APAC Business Design, I built and led a team of business designers across 4 countries: Vietnam, Singapore, India and China to design new business models, and to integrate Human Centric Design across the organisation.As Head of APAC Rapid Prototyping, I built and led a small team of product managers, engineers and data scientists in Vietnam, Thailand & India to develop a low-cost prototyping system that leverages lowcode/nocode prototyping platforms such as Figma, Adalo, Airtable and flexible frameworks such as Flutter to reduce overall technology development cost, as well as turnaround time for test-and-learn digital products. -
Venture Building Programme Lead (Healthcare)Zinc 2019 - 2020LondonDesigned and led the mission-led venture building programme, from ideation to MVP developmentProvide commercial expertise & digital product development direction to founders from previous portfolios, enabled them to deliver scalable impact ventures (mental health, employment equity)Provided direction to an exceptional cohort of aspiring founders to build impact ventures to address the toughest challenges in geriatric care (cognitive disorders, behavioural healthcare, chronic disease management, incontinence, menopause, end-of-life support, musculoskeletal health) -
Venture Design Lead (Aviation / Beauty / Fintech / Retail)Founders Factory 2018 - 2019London, Gb•Built pre-seed startups from scratch (market research, business development, financial modelling, prototyping, validation and go-to-market strategy). Each approved ventures received £250K from the FF fund. •Led the incubator programme to connect aspiring entrepreneurs with corporate investors.•Led workshops and programs to advise corporate investors on investment opportunities across 4 sectors (A.I, Travel, Beauty & Retail) -
Consultant (Advertising / Automotive / Fintech / Healthcare / Esg)Various Companies 2014 - 2018Greenwich, Ct, UsConsulting services to early-stage startups, accelerators, incubators and corporates, mostly in Europe• Built and led corporate incubator & accelerator programs• Pre-seed business development for startups• Brand strategy & design direction• UX/UI/Web Development• Technical Project Management• Product Management• MVP Development• Service Design (Hackathon, Design Sprints, Customer Journey Mapping, etc)
Sam N. Education Details
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UclHuman Computer Interaction -
Royal College Of ArtInformation Experience Design
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Ashbourne CollegeSociology
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Sam N. attended Ucl, Royal College Of Art, Ashbourne College.
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