EPAM Systems

🚀 Wealth Product: Led and continue to drive end-to-end product strategy in Wealth; launched MVP within a year, accelerated GTM with a fail-fast mindset, and now delivering high-impact features to help branch advisors delight their clients.

🚀 Digital Smart Product: Transformed commuter experience by digitizing 200+ transit terminals with smart digital signage, serving 50,000+ daily users and significantly increasing user satisfaction and trust in public transit.

🚀 FinTech Product: Delivered a high-impact lending analytics engine within an existing B2B platform, slashing manual workflows by 30% and accelerating loan approvals for 20K+ customers.

👥 Managed a high-performing team of 19 direct reports (Business Analysts and Product Owners), and led a 13-member Scrum team across multiple features in a SAFe environment

Product Manager | BA Team Lead

🤖 Telecom: Led AI-powered predictive maintenance for Set-Top Boxes, reducing truck roll costs by 37% and boosting service reliability for 10M+ subscribers.

🧠 Healthcare: Operationalized fraud detection ML models, supporting SIU investigations and reducing fraudulent claims significantly.

💻 E-Commerce: Launched a 1-click buy flow across web and mobile, increasing sales by 26% and simplifying customer experience.

Product Manager | Lead Business Analyst

📊 Insurance: Delivered enterprise big data initiatives (e.g., Risk Pool Analytics, GL Optimization), earning a “Hero” badge for leading stakeholder alignment and delivery.

🛍️ Retail: Built an ML-driven Replenishment System, cutting markdown losses by 30% and optimizing inventory efficiency across e-commerce channels.

🔄 Retail: Defined and delivered an AI-enhanced Distributed Order Management System, accelerating fulfillment speed, reduced mark down, efficient DC replinishment and enabling seamless omni-channel operations.

Senior Business Analyst

Tangentia

🚀 Launched and scaled an Intelligent Automation practice, leading a team of 11 engineers to deliver high-impact RPA and BPM solutions, resulting in $1M in new revenue and streamlined enterprise operations.

Senior Practice Manager - RPA & AI

NESMA

⚡ Built a no-code BPM platform (K2 BlackPearl) that cut SME loan processing time by 70%, automating origination-to-approval workflows.

✈️ Modernized 25-year-old legacy systems for Miro (Boeing) & Rolls-Royce, deploying supply chain solutions across 7 air bases and 3,000 RSAF users.

🔧 Led a $4M digital transformation of aircraft inspections, streamlining operations via BPM and seamless data migration.

📊 Pioneered predictive demand forecasting (Servigistics), optimizing service parts SCM—now enhanced with AI-driven dynamic models.

Senior Business Systems Analyst

Drawbase Software

Software Developer

Stevens Institute of Technology

Graduate Teaching Assistant

I'm product manager with business analyst background. I delivered B2B and B2C products in Wealth, Telecom, Retail, Insurance, Healthcare, FinTech, Transportation for private and public sector using AI, Digital modernization & Process engineering. I love focusing on strategy and talking to stakeholders.

I focus on strategy, engineering, launch & feedback. 

I'm accomplishments driven
- Investment Management Reporting portal for Branch for Wealth management launched in 11 months
- FinTech product increased customer onboarding in commercial lending space
- Telecom product predicted STB failure, network interruption with the help of AI/ML
- Retail helped predict replenishment, size, best order policy using AI/ML
- Transportation helped digitalize signage on platforms in creasing customer experience
- Telecom helped digitalize their web and mobile application increasing the customer base
any many more

I can align, lead and grow world-class teams from 10 to 50 people
- I love to win, but helping team win gives me greater joy
- I speak tech and exec
- I tell great narratives that motivates

I worked in different countries
Canada | United States (USA) | Saudi Arabia (KSA) | United Arab Emirates (UAE) | India

I / Me
- Coached 500+ to become the BA, PO, SM
- Wrote many articles, IIBA instructor, Agile instructor, LinkedIn top voice
- host Tech Podcast channel

My academic highlights:
- Masters in CS & Bachelor in Engineering
- Certificates in CBAP, CSPO, A-CSPO, CSP-PO, CSM, PMP

Professional Skills:
Product Management | Product Owner | Business Analysis | User Experience (UX) Design |  Team Development | Market Analysis | Strategy Planning | Product Roadmap | Agile | Scrum | Kanban | Requirement Gathering & Analysis | User Stories | BRD | UAT | Coaching | Mentoring

Technical Skills:
Jira | Confluence | Azure DevOps board | Azure Wiki | Trello | Pivotal Tracker | Figma | Lucid Chart | MS Visio | Draw.io | Mural | Miro | Json | API | PowerBi | COTS | XML | Cloud | Aha |  FinTech

Afaq Qazi

You did not start your fund to become a salesperson.

Your LP´s trust you. But growth still depends on luck and  referrals.  And too often, it depends on you.

This will sound familiar:

→ You have a timeline to reach your target AUM, and the deadline is near.
→ Not sure what you are doing when you outreach new LPs.
→ Spending $$$ on events with no pipeline.
→ Hoping for LPs to enter the VDR


Let us build your and run your pipeline.
We handle sales you take care of strategy.

Find the Uncorrelated Alpha in Your Sales Strategy

Jose Elguezabal

I am stranded in the USA while my wife and kids are enduring the sounds of war.

Last week was an amazing business week, sharing with colleagues and pushing my business forward here in Miami at iConnections Week. What looked like a closed deal and a long awaited trip back home has now turned into a nightmare.

We all know what is going on. There is no need to explain the geopolitical outlook.

But having a video call with your wife as she shows you a missile flying over your home, where she and your kids are supposed to feel protected, truly breaks your soul.

I never thought there would be a more important moment for a father and a husband to be with his family than to provide protection from the horrible fear of war.

Building a global business has a cost. It takes a toll on the family too. But I never calculated this cost.

I wish a safe return to all the families who are separated today.

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To my brave wife Laura who has been holding the fort, I love you and will see you soon.

Jose Elguezabal, CFA

Sales Systems for Emerging Fund Managers and B2B Firms Serving the Investment Industry | Sales Operations | Grow AUM

Miami Vibes🌴

2 more days to go connecting with amazing people, nothing beats handshakes and conversations.

Thank you to AYU for the invitation to their yacht HQ... nice office BTW.

Raising capital for your first fund can feel like being chased by a crocodile...It is a run for survival.

Every day I speak to first time fund managers. You are my clients and colleagues, and we usually find a quick way to discuss the challenges of raising capital.

No one wants to be the first check.
It is difficult to get close to family offices.
You are  doing everything from compliance to business development.

And more, of course.

Hey, I am with you. Maybe you have the most difficult job in our industry. 

You have to be a savant, highly analytical pro to run your strategy.

You are required to become a prolific salesperson and networker to develop relationships.

You have even been asked to become a content creator, podcaster, and social media influencer.

And on top of that, you are running with a crocodile chasing you. That crocodile is time.

Time to first close.
Time to reach target AUM.
Time before cash runs out.

We get it because we know you, we know emerging managers.

Here is my piece of advice: you do not have to do this alone. You do not need to figure out every aspect of the journey by yourself.

Find a journey partner. Find us.

We can be that partner who supports you with commercial operations, finding LPs, reaching out to leads, creating content, running a professional sales operation, preparing conferences trips and becoming your sounding board to help you keep your sanity.

We are your Crocodile Dundee. We will not let you get eaten.

Every emerging manager has heard this.

"We like what you are saying. Come back at Fund II"

You are building a record.
Pushing AUM.
Looking for conversations that actually move the needle.

You take the meetings.
Family offices.
Funds of funds.
Institutions that matter.

And then the door stays half open.

Not a no… Just later…

You know the pitch works.
You can feel it in the room.
But later does not help when Fund I has a target and a clock.

This is the loop.
Track record waits for size.
Size waits for trust.

Most managers stay stuck here longer than they should.

You do not need more patience.
You need continuity.

A way to keep showing up.
To follow through.

To stay present without forcing it.

Fund II will come.
But it only comes after Fund I closes

If you have $5 Million in AUM you're for real. 

But that's not enough, YOU NEED A PIPELINE.

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