Oyster®

Joined as employee no. 1 and helped scale the business from an idea to 700 employees and a $1bn+ valuation in 3.5 years. Reported to both the CEO and COO, leading many critical cross-functional programs that underpin how we operate and serve our customers.

Key achievements:

- Worked with the CEO to successfully raise a $25m series A from Tier 1 Silicon Valley and European VC’s
- Built our OKR goal-setting processes and led the Executive Team to align on strategic priorities on a quarterly basis
- Built company-wide project management processes to achieve quarterly OKR’s
- Built and managed the operational and cultural programs to be productive and happy as
a fully remote company of 700 people across 70+ countries

Director of Operations

Delocate (acquired by Oyster)

Helping startups thrive as remote organisations 👨‍💻🌍

Founder and CEO

Trade Nations

Built a remote-first company with employees across Europe and Latin America that helps governments to increase their country's international exports using technology.

Co-founder and CEO 

Yuvoh

Yuvoh is a cutting-edge property investment analytics platform that allows property investors to analysed investment opportunities for short-term rental strategies and streamline the buying process.

I took this company from being pre-product with a team of 2 to launching the product, generating revenue and building a team of 10 distributed between the UK, Ukraine, Greece and China.

Head of Product

RateSetter

My responsibilities have grown so that I now own all aspects of the investor side of RateSetter's product.

I managed a 2 teams, totalling 15 developers between the UK, Portugal and Ukraine.

Senior Product Manager - Investors

I owned the core systems of RateSetter, such as the financial matching engine and market structures among others.

Main areas of focus include:
- Fostering a product-driven culture within the organisation 
- Developing data-driven product strategy
- Managing the entire product lifecycle from planning to release.
- Leading projects with a global team of software engineers, QA engineers and UX designers
- Managing the roadmap of RateSetters markets via Agile frameworks - Scrum and Kanban.

Product Manager - Marketplace

AIR Worldwide

Product Consultant responsible for a suite of advanced catastrophe risk modelling SaaS products used to make individuals, businesses, and society more resilient to range of natural, anthropogenic and cyber risks.

Product Consultant

Product Analyst

Versatile SaaS leader with 10 years experience in Operations and Product. Specialities include 0-to-1 strategic projects, OKR planning and building operating rhythms. 

I get excited about opportunities to build foundational operating systems that support Product and GTM.

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