PRODUCT STRATEGY & INNOVATION LEADERSHIP | AI-DRIVEN TRANSFORMATION
Strategic product innovation leader who transforms complex business challenges into market opportunities through AI-driven insights and customer-centric approaches.
With 10+ years spanning fintech, enterprise software, and sustainability initiatives, I specialise in turning ambiguous market signals into clearly defined product strategies that deliver measurable business impact.
MBA from London Business School and MS from Carnegie Mellon equip me with a unique blend of business acumen and technical expertise to drive cross-functional collaboration in high-stakes environments.
KEY SKILLS
Product Strategy & Market Opportunity Analysis
AI-Driven Innovation & Transformation
Customer Discovery & Needs Identification
Cross-functional Leadership & Stakeholder Management
Data-Driven Decision Making & Analysis
Rapid Prototyping & Experimentation
Strategic Planning & Execution
Executive Communication & Storytelling
BUSINESS EXPERIENCE
LEXISNEXIS RISK SOLUTIONS
Innovation Product Manager
2022 - PRESENT
Strategic Product Initiatives
Market-sized new £50M opportunity for Payments team for EU standard Verification of Payees (VoP); business case vetted by Payments Market Strategists and adopted into product roadmap.
Led customer discovery using Jobs-to-Be-Done framework with Tier 1 Banks; Synthesised insights to validate multiple business cases worth £1M-£2M each and shaped strategic product direction.
Developed AI-driven solution to improve product documentation experience; formulated hypothesis, designed technical experiment, and collaborated with tech team to repurpose LLM to validate market need.
Synthesised Tier 1 customer insights to validate need for new explainability feature and defined strategic integration approach; findings presented at Customer Advisory Session 2025.
Digital Transformation Leadership
Core member of 5-person Gen AI transformation taskforce; pioneered application of AI for customer discovery synthesis, workshop facilitation, and data-driven persona creation.
Engineered real-time Power BI dashboard visualising payments data quality metrics; reduced resolution time by 99% (from 1-day to seconds) by enabling direct access to coverage analytics and identifying critical data collection opportunities.
Orchestrated cross-functional taskforce of 8 product and technology leads to transform backlog management across 5 acquired solution lines; established centralised knowledge repository and drove standardisation initiatives endorsed by Product VP for organisation-wide implementation.
Program & Change Management
Led pivot of internal innovation repository from PowerApps to MS Lists; defined project taxonomy, established phase-specific touchpoints, and streamlined tool requirements to enhance team agility and reduce duplicate work.
LEXISNEXIS RISK SOLUTIONS
Leadership Development Associate
2020 - 2022
Selected for prestigious Leadership Development Program (5% acceptance rate) to provide strategic guidance across LexisNexis Risk divisions; focused on global expansion, M&A opportunities, and new market entry strategies.
Led end-to-end global expansion strategy; developed and validated prioritisation framework through expert interviews and market research to identify $4.5B market opportunity with 3x ROI potential.
Accelerated M&A decision-making process by 60% through systematic evaluation of 15+ acquisition targets; defined prioritisation framework, managed due diligence process, and presented strategic recommendations to executive leadership.
CADENCE DESIGN SYSTEMS
Principal Product Engineer
2013 - 2018
Generated $15M+ in revenue by identifying market opportunity, developing product strategy, and successfully launching new software solution to 10+ enterprise customers; led full product lifecycle from ideation through development, prototyping, and market introduction.
Identified critical validation bottleneck and initiated development of Tcl parser solution; authored code that reduced development time by 3 months and increased engineer efficiency by 400%.
Conceptualised and led development of comprehensive training ecosystem with 8 new modules; solution saved $1M in annual training costs and achieved 100K+ downloads across 50+ customer organizations.
EDUCATION
London Business School | MBA
Academic representative for MBA cohort
Strategy consulting projects (part-time) with EasyJet and Commonly
10-week summer internship with Rakuten RapidAPI in Tokyo for new product development
Carnegie Mellon University | MS, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Manipal Institute of Technology | BE, Electronics & Communications Engineering
TECHNICAL SKILLS
PowerBI
AI / ML Applications
Data Analytics
Product Strategy Frameworks
CERTIFICAT-IONS
BCG Climate & Sustainability Job Simulation on Forage (Oct 2024)
Climate Change: Learning for Action by Terra.do (Jul 2023)