Sterling Raphael is a business technology leader with focus on product innovation through iterative collaborative. Having created several successful companies, Sterling's experience and skillset includes executive leadership, technical product management, user experience design (UI/UX), product marketing, channel partnerships, and investments .Key roles have been Executive Leadership, Senior Product Management, Product Owner, Product Marketing Management, Enterprise Software Sales and International Business Development. Currently, inventing, investing and consulting under self owned company, Next Step Labs (NSL). NSL helps ideas become realized through incubation, iteration and collaboration. Success starts with the stakeholder consensus on the Purpose and the WHY. Sustained success comes from alignment of business requirements, feature user stories, UX/mockups, prototypes, proof of concepts, pilot programs, beta groups, soft and full go-to-market campaigns. Sterling founded NFi Studios, comprised of an exceptional team of software creators, launching innovated SaaS collaboration solutions for associations and events around the world. NFi was acquired by Avectra (now Abila). As President of Products, Sterling organized product innovation, thought leadership of SocialCRM, and established the channel partner program.Sterling has worked with companies including The Walt Disney Company, Hard Rock International, Mark Cuban, NBA, NFL, P&G, Salesforce and US Department of Energy.
Listed skills include Social Networking, Entrepreneurship, Social Media, Marketing, and 45 others.