• Product innovation and business development professional with track record of launching and growing successful products and services at start-up as well as F-500 firms.
• Co-founded Accenture Open Innovation group to identify the next generation of technologies and products (Enterprise as well as consumer) that could be relevant to Accenture and our F-2000 clients, and to lead business development efforts in order to partner with the best players in the innovation ecosystem.
• Founded and grew LogicTree from an idea to an industry leader in Speech and Multi-Modal Content Delivery space with clients in 5 continents.
• Demonstrated track record of foreseeing opportunities in the market, successfully defining product positioning, and efficiently focusing the business development efforts for brining the vision to reality.
• Proven track record of success building and leading global multi-disciplinary teams of technology professionals and delivering products and services for F-100 enterprise and government clients.
• Demonstrated experience creating market-ready products and services through scalable, repeatable, and metrics/data driven agile processes.
• Highly fluent at communicating company’s vision to different audiences from clients or partners and from the C-Level to engineering teams.
• Recognized thought-leader and speaker at industry events. Serial inventor with 8 awarded patents.
Specialties: Business Strategy, Product Management, Technology Leadership, Business Development and M&A, Intrarpreneur / Entrepreneur.
Product Manager @ Building the next cool thing. From August 2015 to Present (3 months) Mountain View, CADirector, Open Innovation and Venturing Strategy @ Co-founded the Open Innovation group in Accenture to create a streamlined process for infusion of start-up innovation in Accenture's offerings to Global-2000, and to establish Accenture as the partner of choice for the most innovative B2B technology companies.
My areas of focus include technologies in Retail, Mobile, IOT, and Security space. From September 2013 to August 2015 (2 years) San Jose, CADirector, Innovation Management, Digital Experiences @ Product Strategy executive in charge of "Future or Work" with a focus on Enterprise Collaboration.
Through engagement with technology partners led two highly successful projects which demonstrated applications of modern enterprise collaboration in Field Service as well as Insurance.
Also led business transformation engagements by re-imagining existing business processes from a social collaboration perspective, and solving tangible business problems. From March 2012 to August 2013 (1 year 6 months) San Jose, CATurn around consultant @ I was hired by the board of directors as a turn-around specialist to save the company from bankruptcy.
I streamlined receivables and collections process, right-sized the operations, renegotiated company's contracts, rationalized the number of projects in flight, and in under 45 days had the company back to cash-flow positive, and in partnership with the VC and the bank positioned it for a successful sale in less than 5 months. From October 2011 to February 2012 (5 months) Bowie, MDTechnology Consulting @ Provide IT consulting services as to clients in the Internet and Telecoms convergence market in the following areas:
• Technology: Work with Web 2.0/Mobile Media companies in the areas of Messaging, Social/Mobile media and Information Retrieval Delivery: create technology road map, design the architecture, and lead projects.
• Technical Representation: Represent technology firms in sales and marketing activities as well as in investment meetings and presentations.
• Technical Due Diligence: Assisting investment community and technology firms to evaluate the technical assets and patent portfolios of potential investment or acquisition opportunities.
• Technical Team Building: Working with growing technology firms to put in place processes, policies, and structures needed for expansion of their technical team and stabilizing the growth path.
• Strategic Consulting: Introduce and identify potential partnership/acquisition candidates to growing technology firms. From June 2007 to February 2012 (4 years 9 months) EVP, Founder @ • As ti.ki’s EVP Product Management (and co-founder) identified the company’s market niche within the $150B general consumer event space. Defined the product strategy, marketing, and business development operations needed to address the market.
• As part of product management responsibilities created the formal PRDs as well as wire-frames and data models. Also defined the product road-map and worked with the technical team to ensure proper execution of the vision. Reviewed UI designs and workflow with the UI team, and worked with alpha test community (user advisory) in improving UI where necessary.
• Conducted market analysis, evaluated competitor’s offerings, and conducted user group focus studies.
• Pursued business development opportunities with national chains (e.g. a retailer in the U.S. with $7B in annual revenues) as well as local and regional service providers. From March 2009 to September 2011 (2 years 7 months) Santa Clara, CAEVP Product Management, CTO @ • Led the acquisition of BTS, a $5mm Danish search engine company, to form BTSLogic.
• Selected to lead BTSLogic after the acquisition, and through effective product management and successful market communication turned the company into a highly profitable and internationally recognized player in the Yellow Pages and Directory Assistance Search business with customers such as Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, Telenor (Norway), Eniro (division of Telia, Sweden), and Etisalat (UAE).
• Initiated and led new product development at BTSLogic for an open and standards-based content and information search gateway product for the Telecom sector. Partnered with clients in the U.S. and Scandinavia to refine the concept. The product resulted in 300% increase in sales volume, and solidified company’s brand in the market.
• Having successfully grown BTSLogic, led sale of BTSLogic in 2008.
• Architected BTSLogic’s approach for speech automation of massive databases (Directory Assistance, Yellow Pages), resulting in the highest rate of speech automation in the industry three years in a row (05,06,07). From March 2004 to March 2007 (3 years 1 month) Aarhus, DKFounder, CTO @ • Founded LogicTree to realize the vision of providing access to the web through speech.
• Architected LogicTree’s patented Mobile Multi-Modal solutions designed for the next generation of converged networks (3G/4G, IMS).
• Recruited, mentored, and managed a multi-discipline and global team of 65 architects, engineers, and product managers.
• Raised over $16mm in venture capital and angel funding for LogicTree.
• Strategic business and technical sales support through C-Level presentation to prospects and customers.
• Spoke at various domestic and international conferences, successfully forecasting the market evolution and promoting the company’s strategic response.
• Successfully delivered 511 traveler services (traffic information) and the first and the most successful speech automated solution for transit trip planning. From June 1997 to March 2004 (6 years 10 months)
MBA, Marketing, Finance @ Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management From 2010 to 2012 BS, Physics @ University of Maryland College Park Masoud Loghmani is skilled in: Product Management, Entrepreneurship, Technology Leadership, SaaS, Strategic Partnerships, Cloud Computing, Mobile Technology, Business Development, Telecommunications, Mobile Devices, Strategy, Leadership, Software Engineering, Competitive Analysis, Software Development, Enterprise Software, Mergers & Acquisitions, Team Leadership, Start-ups, Program Management