Zishan Mohammad

I help build, run, transform, and scale AI/web2/3 product and corporate innovation teams. I have intervened in startups and enterprises. Today: Postbridge.ai 🏢 @Postbridge.ai - AI Argentic Postal Mailing Infrastructure. 📨 Product & Tech Lead: @Postbridge.ai - PostBridge gives AI agents the ability to send real physical mail — from quote and payment to print, delivery tracking, and cryptographic proof. As the product and tech lead, ➡️ Leading Postbridge.ai product strategy, roadmap and prioritization ➡️ I am designing and building the AI native document to mail output workflow infrastructure. ➡️ Leading the Got To Market via AI and SaaS partners like ChatGPT Marketplace, MCP for Claude/OpenAI or open source AI agents like Hermes or Claw, and vertical SaaS like Clio, Quickbooks etc. ➡️ As an AI Native operating system start-up, I have created and managing a fleet of AI agents and workflows in tech/engineering, marketing, operations and back-end support using frontier and open source AI models. Recently: 🏢 @Quadient Innovation 📨 Sr Innovation and Product Lead where ➡️ Leading innovation product strategy and roadmap across business lines. ➡️ Leading Quadient Mailing SaaS, and AI agent product discovery and delivery activities. ➡️ Leading the UX and Design team efforts ➡️ Help and support the digital marketing efforts ➡️ Help and support business transformation and change 🏢 @Accenture Innovation Lab 🚀 Sr Blockchain Consultant ➡️ My role was to conduct market, tech, and user studies on real estate tokenization and business modeling for the US and European Markets. ➡️ Delivered Token based Real-Estate Market & Competitive Research ➡️ Delivered UX research with 45+ interviews ➡️ Delivered Blockchain dApp Architecture study (L1, L2, Token, NFTs, Public/Private Blockchain…) ➡️ Conduct token-based web3 business model workshops Previous missions: 🏢 @Quadient Innovation 🚀 CPO / Sr Corporate Venture Builder ➡️ Lead Product and Design team efforts ➡️ Mentoring Venture founder teams for product discovery and definition phases ➡️ open Innovation: Build an innovation funnel pipeline through acquisition and partnerships with startups, incubators, and venture capital firms. ➡️ Lead, develop and build the product/venture team 🏢 @Baracoda 🚀Product and UX Lead ➡️ Lead the Insurtech Platform discovery and definition process ➡️ Platform MVP market and customer validation for the Seed fund stage 🏢 @France.tv 🚀Digital Transformation consultant ➡️ Lead the content delivery processes from post-production to digital distribution. ➡️ Help improve the video user experiences through better meta-data and better video play-out experience

Lectures E-Business #Entrepreneurship - #product #SaaS, #platform #web2 and #Blockchain #web3

Lectures #Innovation #Strategy to Masters students.

Lectures MSc students #Digital #Transformation, Advanced #Marketing #Strategy and #Data #Analytics,

Lecturer in #Blockchain, #Crypto, and #Metaverse

Lecturer to BSc and MSc students in 1/ #Product #Management, 2/ #Design 3/ #Business #Platforms #Strategy 4/ #Innovation Management 5/ #Blockchain

👉 What is Switch™️ ? For SMBs struggling to send documents through postal services ✉️, Switch™️ provides a frictionless, fast, and secure mailing SaaS app. Just upload📁 your document, enter the recipient's address 📫, and relax 💆🏼‍♂️💆🏼‍♀️. We take care of the printing and mailing, awesome isn't it 😎. A perfect tool to add to your remote setup -> Save Time: No more trips to the post office 🏣 -> Save Money: free service, no commitments, pay just for what you send. -> Stay Safe: 😷 #stayhome, #staysafe Bye-bye 👋🏼 stamps, post office, and clunky postage software 😃. 👉 What do I do? I lead the strategy, product management, and UX design teams. Switch™️ is a Quadient Innovation venture-backed startup. 👉 We are hiring, DM me 🗯️.

Giving lecture in #Business #Platforms #Strategy and #Tech #Entreneurship

Product Lead for Identity and Platform Services ➡️ Manage Identity process (Authentification, Authorization, and Access) for all company product portfolio, that is 20 million users and 1 million drivers. ➡️ Product owner for the identity teams(1 dev lead and 2 developers) ➡️ Co-lead the platform v2 discovery & definition

➡️ Platform strategy ➡️ Product design ➡️ Product development ➡️ Product team organization ➡️ Mentor other Product managers Find, hire, retain and grow team members (design, tech, product) ➡️ Product marketing

➡️ Mentoring and coaching x3 product managers ➡️ Product design: Lead the UX design x6 team member ➡️ Change management: people, processes, tools in the Digital unit ➡️ Strategy: Define Digital and IoT product strategies around advertising, data and payment. ➡️ Product Management: IoT, connected car, e-commerce, video and audio streaming, data and advertising, innovation lab.

Purpose: Redefine #video and #tv #experiences. Mission: create, develop, launch and sale #OTT #video cloud-based #apps and #platforms delivered on all devices that are #set-top boxes, mobiles & tablets, browsers and video consoles for #Pay-TV and #Telecom operators. > Product #Strategy: Define, propose and communicate the #OTT video #products, #platform and #data #strategy, #value #proposition, and #roadmap. Identify key opportunities and functional gaps among #TMT customers, #Build#/M&A/#Partner/#JV business cases, perform customer discovery and validation until finding the right #product-market fit. Manage #partners. Define the #business #model. Produce robust #quantitative and #qualitative analysis of the demand and supply side as well as #competitive and #positioning analysis. Drive the #Go_To_Market_Strategy > #UX Product Design: Collect customer and end-user needs and translate them into #design requirements through analytics, #wireframing, and #prototyping and work with the #Design #Office peers design & tech teams to deliver the best application experience across all touch points. > #Product #development: As the #global product owner, managing up to 5 #scrums, I am responsible for end to end product deliveries, #backlog priorities and defining new functionalities. Actively contribute to the implementation software best practices like continuous delivery, quality, #Agile, #Kanban and #Lean start-up. > #Business #Transformation: a key contributor to the transformation of the engineering and product management into a more #Agile, #Lean and #Human-centered new software development and #innovation

> Product Strategy: Top down analysis that is market and demand study through quantitative and qualitative researches to determine addressable market, market share, and positioning and market trends for the product line. Then the bottom up that is a competitive analysis/supply analysis that is competitive positioning, benchmarking, financial analysis, install base, functionality/technical competitive analysis, GAP analysis. Resource base analysis later, it allows me to design the 3-5 years vision for the product line and manage product roadmaps. Once the product concept is clear and accepted, I define the product promise and the 7Ps (Product, Process, Price…). During my course, my main strategic assignments were to : => Deliver the Amadeus B2C monetization strategic business plan for the CheckMyTrip product line (44 million visitors, 250K iOS/Android mobile app install base) => Deliver strategic business plan for an ERP offering toward for the travel industry => Deliver strategic analysis and recommendation on Amadeus Distribution Product Portfolio revenue growth to regions > Product Owner: my main activities ranges from analysing business requirements from specific customers through workshops, identify business/ functional gaps and formulate creative solutions, prioritizing product backlog though detailed ROI and arbitrage analysis (R&D/competition/customer) and defining new product functionalities according to business requirement and priorities. My area of expertise was search, advertising and payment functionalities as well as user interface. I have managed and coordinated multi-disciplinary teams like designers, architects, developers (onshore/offshore), QA, marketers, 3rd party companies. I have actively participated in defining and introducing innovative solutions like the recommendation engines, contextual user experiences, rich and native advertising and content aggregation solution to enrich the User experience and monetization

Lead mobile app, web & gaming projects in various industries. The company has been sold in November 2012. > Digital solutions advisory and consulting: Audit client IT infrastructure and architecture, collect business requirements, formalize functional specifications. Apply creative IT/digital solution to customer business pains. Provide key advises to client in terms of Web development (CMS, design and ergonomic, technology, hosting, database etc.), Mobile development (iOS & Android), infrastructure (Iaas, PaaS like Google App Engine, client/server side, Database, XML etc.) and Gaming (3D, 2D, Flash, Facebook games, Unity3D games engines, story board, Algorithms) > Digital Project Management: lead the development and design teams in new product development through Agile SCRUM Methodologies. > Business development: Search for projects, develop partnerships, respond to RFQ, RFP. Negotiate with clients. Make client presentations. > Digital Advertising and Promotion Strategy: Develop monetization strategies for customers, develop Facebook app, improve SEO and manage SEM campaigns according to their marketing strategies. > Landmark projects: In the public sector we launch successfully the NHS Antibiotic application on iOS and Android. The first NHS Primary care mobile app project intending to doctors and pharmacists. The app has been recognized as the 2013 NHS innovation laureate.

In charge of key growth and strategic planning projects, responsible for market planning and analysis activities. > Go To Market/Organic growth main projects - Firstly, developed company cloud strategy. The work is the base for preparing company next technology “all online” revolution. Secondly, I performed R&D Go to Market consulting projects mainly around industry diversification and new product development strategy. My activities ranged from market opportunity identification through R&D investment to partnering/alliance negotiation. Finally, I have delivered Make/Buy/Partnering R&D investment analysis that is a 3/5-year plan for annual R&D, OpEx, CapEx and budget reviews. Investment Portfolio Arbitrage by Industry & Brands which is estimated to €300 Million annually > Corporate Finance/External growth main projects – Developed financial engineering tools for M&A, company’s valuation & investment strategies. Participating actively in Due Diligence. For example the biggest and successful company acquisition, IBM PLM unit worth $600 Million. My role was to get the green light from the European Union DG Comp. & Anti-trust. Actively participate in the M&A Radar by proposing business cases supporting potential targets that fit the firm mid-long term strategy and product portfolio. >Strategic Planning and Competitive Intelligence main projects - Actively involved in defining the 2020 firm strategy based 3 product line and communities My role was to collect data, assess the addressable market, synthetize data and propose a strategic framework. I have developed an economic model and a customized competitive positioning and GAP analysis tools like the Magic Quadrant to support Annual Strategic Reviews, strategic options assessment, and setting up objectives across all organisations. I proposed, developed, implemented and maintained marketing and financial models to support Market/Competitive intelligence as well as M&A activities.

> Market research activities: Responsible for 3 IDC Continuous Intelligence Support programs for major accounts in EMEA, based in London (P&L £1.6m). I managed relationship with major customers, which were IT vendors and financial institutions. I designed and published market research based on rigorous and detailed quantitative and qualitative analysis of key European, Middle East and Africa Economic and IT Trends. Thirdly, I have created, coordinated and maintained custom market researches for Major accounts to support their Annual and Midyear Strategic Reviews through European IT market strategy and competitive analysis mainly for HP, IBM and Microsoft. > Consulting Project: Management engagement in support for customers Go To Market initiatives in the Hardware, Software and Outsourcing Services. Main projects for the public sector, for example the EU Commission, WEEE Directive impact analysis. Part of a pan-European team, my role was to actively participate in the survey design, survey data analysis, secondary research and produce written deliverables. Another case is the Business Software Alliance: Piracy report. My role was to actively participate in the secondary research and help in the data computation, interpret it and deliver written notes and reports. Finally, in the high Tech sector: IBM IT purchase intention barometer for Western Europe. My role was to collect client requirements, design survey, collect data, interpret it and produce quarterly deliverable for the IBM EMEA Market Intel team.