Stuart Ryan Email & Phone Number

Chicago, IL, US

Eindhoven, North Brabant, NL

Eindhoven, North Brabant, NL

Eindhoven, North Brabant, NL

Eindhoven, North Brabant, NL

Eindhoven, North Brabant, NL

• Responsible for corporate level programs that deliver value across our operating model, culture, organization effectiveness and performance.
• Designed, initiated and orchestrated product management excellence workstream – addressing risk in business through uplifting competence and performance in our product management discipline in highly distributed.
• Supported go-to-market efforts with revised ‘product readiness’ assessment – enabling revenue prioritization for sales execution efforts – and highlighting specific improvement topics for products and market readiness
• Initiated uplifted PDF (product development framework) and NPI (new product introduction) process for product teams – to address sales readiness gaps, and to establish common criteria-set for product managers.

Eindhoven, North Brabant, NL

• Responsible for product management, evolution roadmap and strategy for our core platform services and offerings. HERE’s platform services power market-leading solutions for all major players in the navigation and.
• Defined next-generation platform strategy – leading to our OLP (open location platform) investment & execution plan
• Built revised NDS (Navigation Data Standards) strategy – allowing our customer organization to market NDS solutions at scale across multiple OEM’s
• Established, maintained and prioritized across business-segment view to determine product investment needs, new technology enablers and go-to-market activities to drive adoption of our platform.

Eindhoven, North Brabant, NL

Eindhoven, North Brabant, NL

• Everyday Mobility is the consumer business group, with responsibility for all mobile, SDK & B2B2C offerings. Responsible for product & engineering as part of our Android, iOS & Windows Phone map application channels..
• Responsible for Windows Phone Map Application strategy, development and roadmap - including map display, search, traffic, routing, satellite imagery and augmented reality services.
• Managed successful deployment of Windows Phone 8.0 maps application, and transition to Microsoft as part of an ongoing partnership agreement with HERE
• Created product strategy & roadmap definition for the team, supporting a three-year group strategy for our Android and iOS products
• Managed development teams that do the same as above in Windows Phone for Android-based OS phones and systems.
• Defined new product & innovation experiences e.g. OneWorld advanced visuals and rendering, to complement product roadmap & strategy, by bringing key differentiation features into our portfolio

Espoo, Southern Finland, FI

• One of the world’s leading telecommunication devices & services organizations encompassing automotive, consumer/wireless, and government/enterprise sectors. Full accountability for entire product//service line and.
• Composed and implemented EMEA Product Management redesign initiatives streamlining responsibilities with higher levels of local empowerment and autonomy.
• Spearheaded programs gaining organizational commitment to change focused on innovation, engagement, participation & ‘local ownership’ themes. Achieved higher levels of interaction with product management and problem.
• Directed blueprint for regional operations resource change demonstrating benefits of tools and technology investments critical to restructuring human resource capital models on a per-country level in EMEA forecasted to.
• Consistently deliver year-over-year revenue increase, including estimated increase of 10% over 2011.
• Unveiled $2+ million in ‘acceleration’ budget leading to successful balancing and management of regional spending in first half of 2012.

Chicago, Illinois, US

• Acquired by Nokia in 2008, and operated as an independent business unit until mid-2011. Annual revenues exceed $1 billion and 5,000+ employees at time of integration with Nokia.Charged with managing a team of 10.
• Innovated portfolio of products offering the capability to ‘differentiate’ look, feel, and functionality of the end product. Secured first large wireless customer launching product nationally in 2010.
• Generated $15 million in incremental sales revenue despite economic challenges in 2009. Introduced and supported ‘Mine the Vault’ initiative focused on understanding incentive model adopted company-wide.
• Improved productivity and stabilized/reduced costs by defining product maintenance investment strategies utilizing new technology.
• Within 6-months, drove down staff turnover rates by prioritizing recruitment and cultivating highly qualified team.

Chicago, Illinois, US

• Responsible for APAC product management with revenues of $50 million, team of product managers, and $7.5 million product budget.
• Sourced and recruited qualified product team for southeast Asia and Australia/New Zealand locations across a wide range of countries, cultures, and backgrounds. Within 6-months fully staffed operation with zero.
• Devised clear and executable product plan where none existed and created robust strategy based on flourishing markets versus South East Asia.
• Worked in partnership with the team to support local Nokia sales and marketing units to promote and drive adoption of NAVTEQ products during acquisition. Composed training collateral for full line of products.

Chicago, Illinois, US

• Manager, Content products Chicago (2004 - 2006)Responsible for North America content product management function with revenues of $50+ million.
• Championed new product strategy generating $10+ million in revenue in 3 years.
• supported programs to extend product strategy and value proposition to other regions, mainly in Europe. Program resulted in 3 new, revenue-producing products being introduced by EU team in 2006.
• Instrumental in recruiting European product team and product strategy initiative.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business Strategy & International Marketing

Management Information Systems (Mis), Computer Science

Bachelor Of Arts, Economics

Executive Class In Business Strategy

Product Management Excellence - Professional Development

Paris - Executive Leadership Training

Singapore - Executive Class In Business Strategy