Thomas Soulez
Chief Product Officer
Salary / Daily rate
Aix-en-Provence, France
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
Work experience
Fractional CPO
TS4U
Jan 2024 - Present
2 years 10 months
Aix-en-Provence, France
- Idea to build to PMF : currently building a new Enterprise SaaS platform for a client - Consulting : enabling shifting from traditionnal ways of working to Agentic Engineering and Product Mgt
CPO
LumApps
Jul 2024 - Aug 2025
1 year 2 months
69340 Francheville, France
Chief Product Officer
Silae
Jul 2021 - Mar 2024
2 years 9 months
Aix-en-Provence, France
Leading the Product Mgt team at Silae * #1 payroll software in France (near 7M payslips per month), acquired by Silverlake (PE) as part of an LBO * Silae Payroll is complemented by integrated HR, Expense, BI and Document Mgt applications * The Silae Platform (applications and APIs) is used by more than 5k partners serving 900k companies * Silae's mission is to give to Payroll and HR professionals the highest productivity in the industry
Fractional CPO / Freelance
TS4U
Feb 2021 - Jun 2021
5 months
London, UK
Interim product management (eg new products introduction, product strategy, interim leader) Advisory (setting up and growing your product team, product strategy, product delivery) Due diligence and turnaround
Chief Product Officer
Cytora
Apr 2019 - Aug 2020
1 year 5 months
London, UK
Cytora is an artificial intelligence company powering a new way for commercial insurers to target, select and price risk. Cytora is a trusted partner to global insurers such as QBE, XL Catlin and Starr, backed by leading venture capital and supported by builders of some of the world's most successful technology companies including Supercell and and Indeed.com.
VP Product Strategy
Vonage
Oct 2018 - Apr 2019
7 months
London, UK
Product Strategy for Vonage across CPaaS (Communications Platforms as a Service - Nexmo, Tokbox) and UCaaS (Unified Communications as a Service)
VP Product Management
Nexmo (now Vonage)
Jan 2014 - Oct 2018
4 years 10 months
London, UK
* Set up PM function from scratch * From SMS vendor to a full communications platform with > 15 products * Exit ($230M) to Vonage in 2016 * 20x revenue growth so far.. * CPaaS now recognised as a category and Nexmo clear leader in the space * Member of Nexmo’s Senior Leadership Team
Owner
TS4U Ltd
Nov 2013 - Dec 2013
2 months
London, UK
Advising high-growth businesses (primarily online merchants) on Product Strategy and overcoming scaling challenges. Past clients include : - Farfetch : fashion marketplace - processes, org, vendor mgt - JustGiving : global social giving platform - processes, org, capabilities - A global Payments Service Provider : product marketing strategy for a new PSP product
Skype
Jun 2005 - Oct 2013
8 years 5 months
London, UK
Product, Engineering & Operations Planning Mgr
Mar 2013 - Oct 2013
8 months
London, UK
Leading formulation of long-term demand from Skype & Lync 100 Product teams onto Engineering & Operations : delivered first budget and plan for our Data Centre and Cloud (MS Azure) expenditures integrating granular product plans with company business and financial targets.
Head of Business Operations Strategy
Jan 2011 - Mar 2013
2 years 3 months
London, UK
* Led Strategy & long-range planning : revenue and gross margin contributions, operational capacity planning, strategic priorities, long-term KPI forecasts * Strategic Partnerships ( latest deals incl. Facebook, Comcast, KDDI, Telus, Telkomsel)
Head of Billing & Payments
Jun 2005 - Feb 2011
5 years 9 months
Created Skype’s function responsible for product management, operations and partner mgt of a global billing, payments and self-care platform : scaled to $1bn/year, 100M transaction/year, 200 markets, 16 currencies and a team of 15 people.
Project Manager
Carphone Warehouse
Apr 2004 - May 2005
1 year 2 months
• Enabled this pan-europeans MVNO to go to market via resellers • Led feasibility study to become of a fully-fledged telephony and broadband provider
Billing, Mediation & CRM Professional
Lucent Technologies
Jan 1999 - Apr 2004
5 years 4 months
Delivered solutions across 13 projects in 7 countries in Billing, CRM, Network Provisioning and Mediation areas for mobile & fixed operators in both consumers and enterprise markets.
Trainee - Management Consulting
Price Waterhouse Coopers
Jun 1997 - Sep 1997
4 months
Contributed to a proposal for a French conglomerate to integrate their TV and Telecom activities by setting up an Internet business
Education
Columbia Business School
Leading Strategic Growth, Business
2017 - 2017
2 months
The University of Manchester
MSc, Advanced Computer Science
1997 - 1998
1 year 2 months
ENSIIE - École Nationale Supérieure d'Informatique pour l'Industrie et l'Entreprise
MSc, Computer Science
1995 - 1998
3 years 2 months
Lycee Marcelin Berthelot
BSc, Mathematics and Physics
1993 - 1995
2 years 2 months
Licenses & certifications
Kanban Systems Design [KMP1]
Issued: Oct 2018
Team Kanban Practitioner [TKP]
Issued: Aug 2017
Scrum Product Owner
Issued: Feb 2013
PRINCE2
Issued: Sep 2004