Will Murphy Email & Phone Number

California, United States

GenLab.AI (personal website of AI projects)Building prototypes, personal projects, advising startups, executives, and VCs - focused on GenAI and AI/ ML.‭+ Advising a company to set up an applied AI New Product Lab+ Advising AI Product Managers on GenAI use cases+ Advising foundation models on GTM/ product focus+ Product experimentation advisor to venture capital funds+ Launched GenHub.AI - the first social site for creating and sharing agents you create. + Built AI beta releases+ Presenting thoughts on organizational innovation to Silicon Valley tech executive groups+ Writing a new book on organizational innovation+ Writing a new book on AI for product and design people

San Francisco, Ca, Us

data.ai (formerly named App Annie) is the SaaS Analytics Mobile Market Analytics Standard.I led teams of product managers, engineers, researchers, designers, and data scientists to develop, incubate, and launch transformative new capabilities and experiences, often focused on AI.Key responsibilities:+ Owned the strategy, vision, and roadmap for new product development (from research to engineering).+ As we gained more success and credibility, grew to a team of six direct reports (many indirect). + Launched a large number of applied AI product innovations, actively managing priorities based on data, customer research, and on my deep AI and Innovation experience.+ Developed POCs, MVPs, strategy presentations, opportunity presentations, and product requirements.+ AI/ML model management - led usage of models and model goals in order to create new products.+ Led user research of concepts, features, and UX - and prototyped experiments to test key hypotheses.+ Cross-functional collaboration with Engineering, Design, Legal, Sales, GTM, CEO, C-Suite, and other stakeholders.Products & Areas of Focus (at different stages)+ Mobile Performance Score: The industry-first industry standard for app scoring, ranking, and insights - the first "credit score" for mobile apps+ Reset strategy for Connect Plus, the 1st party data platform (multi-quarter roadmap)+ Automated Insight Feed+ Automated Newsfeed+ Ad Creative IQ - using AI to generate more successful ads (GenAI/ LLMs)+ Copilot Chatbot Assistant (GenAI/ LLMs)+ Ad Revenue estimates+ AI feedback loop service/ API (Cross-product)+ Recommendation engine: App similarity (app competitors)+ Recommendation engine: Apps of interest (based on user activity)+ Smart Search+ Consumer Intelligence Knowledge Graph (patent pending)+ Blockchain Intelligence (Blockchain metrics)+ Podcast Metrics+ Snowflake Data Share+ Snowflake Marketplace+ Synthetic Data + Data Clean Room+ Homomorphic Encryption

San Francisco, Ca, Us

+ Led global developer relations and data delivery product line (API), supporting tens of millions in annual revenue. + Re-designed API to overcome API design challenges.+ Brought in Snowflake to offer new data-sharing capabilities for high-value customers.

San Francisco, California, Us

+ ODCI is an elite community for Corporate Innovation and Strategy leaders.+ ODF is an elite community of founders working on their next career move.

San Mateo, California, Us

B2B SaaS co-pilot to assist sales, support, and marketing to write persuasive and on-brand messages.+ Ranked as No. 5 AI Writing Assistant Software (G2).+ Grew to thousands of happy users.+ Pioneered the concept of using AI to be persuasive and meet brand guidelines. + Rising Star Award (G2).+ Premium Usability Award (G2).

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Mountain View , California , Us

Boston, Ma, Us

AI-powered digital employee chatbot agent for web, Slack, and Microsoft Teams to support knowledge management for HR, sales, and support.+ Acquired by Seva/ Boomfire, now the 2024 AI-Based Knowledge Management Software Company of the Year (CIO Review).+ Provided founding executive-level vision and leadership to ideate, prototype, launch, and grow.+ I led the design, development, and launch of an AI B2B chatbot, collaborating with a cross-functional team of 30+.+ I provided early visions concerning NLP and our AI agentic future.+ I led the partnerships and integrations with Slack and Microsoft Teams, as well as many other future-looking business development conversations with industry leaders like Atlassian and Box.+ Grew team and product. + Directed a company through its first 2,000 users, onboarding 30+ employees.+ Led a team of two product managers, cross-collaborating with 30+ including a designer, ten developers, and 4 data scientists. + Worked closely with data science to experiment with and plan technology paths.+ Pioneered advancements in conversational AI and natural language processing (NLP).+ ‬‭Led the‬‭ SOC 2 and GDPR‬‭ implementations for the company.‬

Stanford, Ca, Us

Speaker and interviewee on the topics of AI, innovation, startups, and blockchain.Talks:+ MediaX multidisciplinary Stanford research: Transparency and Trust in a World of Social Bots.+ Leadership Garage: Innovation, leadership, and the Silicon Valley mindset.

Memphis, Tn, Us

I led the research, design, development, and launch of a first-of-its-kind IoT analytics platform and a FedEx Office/ eBay selling service. And, many research efforts that strategically drove the company from board-level strategy to product-level features. Collaborated with cross-functional teams of 100+.+ Fortune 50 Innovation Lab leadership and board-level strategy for business innovation and emerging tech.+ As a founding member of FedEx's Innovation Labs team, I participated in building a multi-disciplinary team that created FedEx's design thinking, design, prototyping, open innovation, and startup launch innovation laboratory.+ Researched the future of work, e-commerce, urban mobility, small business, retail redesign, data monetization, and blockchain, among others.+ Corporate Innovation expert, Design Researcher, Product Manager, and Strategist.+ Led team tasked with identification, experimentation, and incubation of technology-enabled new products, and customer experiences.+ Pitched the idea for FedEx Dataworks, the new (2020) division of FedEx that generates insights from FedEx data.+ Established FedEx’s open innovation practice, then developed open innovation relationships with startups, universities, and established companies (including Google and eBay) to bring new capabilities and customer value to FedEx. Solutions included eBay Valet, a marketplace consignment service enabled through 1,600 FedEx Office locations.+ Founded and launched the EPICenter Logistics Innovation Accelerator sponsored by FedEx.+ Contributed to creating Innovation Imperatives section of the corporate strategy presented annually to the FedEx Board of Directors.+ Conducted workshops utilizing design thinking, lean startup, and business model innovation to generate solutions. ‭+ FedEx Corporate Awards: 8 Leadership, 3 Innovation, 2 E-Commerce Strategy, 1 Research, 1 Prototyping, 1 Product Management and Business Development, 1 Venture Strategy, 1 Customer Experience Design

Memphis, Tn, Us

+ Exited to FedEx to scale.+ Co-founder of SenseAware, the pioneering global SaaS web-based IoT package tracking solution.+ Collaborated with cross-functional team of 100+.+ Pitched the original concept, vision, targeted market decisions, user interface design, product plan, and business development plan, grew to $XM/ ARR, and now has grown over $XXXM+.+ Created original business strategy, product design, marketing & IP (multiple patents).+ Go-to-market and strategy.+ Day-to-day work focused on product management, partner program, and UX design.+ General problem-solver across the entrepreneurial enterprise.Awards+ InformationWeek 500: 20 Great Ideas to Steal (2010)+ Top 10 Internet of Things Products of 2009 - ReadWriteWeb+ Winner of 2011 best of Enterprise Implementation of Internet of Things - Postscapes.com+ Winner of 2012 best of Enterprise Implementation of Internet of Things - Postscapes.com+ Won Two World Mail Awards - Innovation and Security Categories (2012)+ 2013 Winner: Supply Chain Integrity Innovator of the Year - Cool Chain Logistics 2013 Europe Excellence Awards+ 2014 Innovation Award Highly Commended, SHD Logistics Award+ Fast Company Top-20 Most Creative People in 2010 (Rob Carter, the CIO for sponsoring the effort)

Memphis, Tn, Us

+ Led cross-functional global teams (100 to 250 people) and managed executive stakeholder alignment through all phases of the product development cycle.+ Led $600M in incremental revenue for enterprise product launches.+ Led the launch of the FedEx API program DevRel team from the first few customers to thousands of integrations to generate first $1B in revenue, which grew to multi-billions. + Worked with companies including eBay, PayPal, Intuit, Microsoft, Oracle, and Stamps.com.+ Built a web app to manage API integration relationships with customers.+ Created an API testing app. It improved API testing speeds from one month to one hour.

Memphis, Tennessee, Us

+ Worked my way through college building and maintaining financial software.+ Maintained banking software.+ Built branch data backup software.+ Built the company’s intranet.

Nassau, Bahamas, Bs

+ Worked my way through college building and maintaining financial software.+ Built complex mortgage backed security software.

Innovation And Entrepreneurship: Prototyping

Ms, Information Systems

Bs, Economics & Finance