Tina Ghanem

Founder & Principle Consultant @Produgile LLC

Engagement Manager🧨 ConsultingUnited States✔️ ITBusiness Owner💼 C-level ExecutiveCPOCOOProduct ManagerProject Manager

With over 20 years of experience as an ambitious and results-driven executive, I have a proven track record of fueling product innovation and driving agile product development. My expertise lies in defining product-led growth strategies for B2B SaaS companies, delivering customer-centric solutions, and solving real problems. I specialize in helping PE and VC-backed startups scale and grow. I optimize product strategy and operations and position the startups for successful funding and exits. My expertise extends to global product strategies, including product vision, roadmaps, post-M&A integration, and startup fundraising. I am passionate about coaching and mentoring teams and individuals in agile and product best practices. Key Strengths: • Proven leadership in guiding cross-functional teams and direct reports • Strategic execution of product development and market launches • Implementation of Agile and Scrum methodologies • Data-driven approach to KPI and OKR management • Extensive experience in SaaS, B2B, and B2C product environments Career Highlights: • Led a team of 90 individuals across five teams during the acquisition of Zawya by Thomson Reuters, doubling productivity without losing headcount • Spearheaded a 20% revenue increase in the first year by launching a self-service platform at Nicklpass. • Founded Produgile, where I helped startups secure funding by optimizing product strategies. • Led the fastest Go-to-Market for a digital proposition in Thomson Reuters (globally). • Successfully transitioned a luxury retailer's tech team in Japan from waterfall to agile methodologies. Professional Skill Set: • Direct Report Leadership • Product Management • Product Vision | Roadmaps • Product Development • KPI | OKR Management • Data Analytics | Reporting • Product Marketing | GTM Strategy • Agile | Scrum Methodologies • Product Feature Innovation | Delivery • Training | Coaching | Mentorship • Customer | User Experience • Post-M&A Operational Integration • P&L Management • Customer Acquisition • API Integra

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Work Background

NICKLpass - Get access to news & infoHead of Product and Technology

Feb. 2023Denver Metropolitan Area · RemoteKey Accountabilities: ● Responsible for providing leadership to 6 direct report personnel while driving product-led sales growth ● Relied upon to seamlessly collaborate across senior leadership to define vision and roadmaps for products including a Self-Service Platform, a White-labeled platform, ERP license management and an upsell extension Key Accomplishments: ● Led a cross-functional team of engineers, analysts and product managers to develop and launch a new self-service platform for Enterprise B2B SaaS customers, which resulted in elevating revenue 20% in the 1st year ● Successfully transitioned from external consultant to Head of Product and Technology ● Diligently accelerated digital customer acquisition strategies and oversaw core product feature delivery, driving product-led sales through the design and deployment of a new product

ProdugileFounder & Principal Consultant

Oct. 2020Tokyo, Japan & Denver, USA · RemoteKey Accountabilities: ● Responsible for providing expert product consultancy services to startup clientele while overseeing the design, testing, implementation and scaling of SaaS products across B2B, B2B2C and/or EdTech sectors ● Relied upon to exercise agile methodologies to optimize product strategy and empower accelerated time-to-market for startup initiatives Key Accomplishments: ● Helped an Atlassian marketplace partner increase retention 182% by shifting focus on customer needs and moving into 2-week dev sprints with parallel 2-week non-dev sprints to maintain a healthy backlog ● Effectively collaborated to launch a verified credential with a wallet app at one of the top universities in the US ● Worked with a client to calibrate product market fit and author a detailed product roadmap; presented as part of the founding team to VC, which helped close a round of investment

Altera ConsultingAgile Coach

Jul. 2021 - Jun. 2023Tokyo, Japan · HybridKey Accountabilities: ● Responsible for coaching and mentoring clientele in lean and agile principles, practices, behaviors and values ● Relied upon to develop and execute transformation plans aimed at pivoting teams from waterfall to agile Key Accomplishments: ● Excelled as Agile and Product Coach for one of the world's leading luxury retailers while navigating cultural differences between Japanese corporate practices and Western business norms ● Enabled 100% Jira adoption across a Japan team and 80% adoption across an APAC team by training, coaching, and mentoring team members while helping to create custom projects to fit every team's need ● Successfully converted a tech team from their project-based workflow approach to a product-based approach

Expo 2020 DubaiDirector of Product Management

Oct. 2018 - Jul. 2020Dubai, United Arab Emirates · On-siteKey Accountabilities: ● Responsible for providing leadership to 5 direct report personnel while orchestrating strategy and execution of Expo 2020 Dubai’s B2B digital marketplace, a new end-to-end digital procurement portal ● Relied upon to orchestrate communication and collaboration across stakeholders to ensure alignment with strategic plans, priorities, action items, milestones and deliverables to ensure a successful product deployment Key Accomplishments: ● Successfully sunset the legacy procurement portal, which including migrating suppliers ● Created a new digital workflow for all internal approval moved from paper to digital approval

Thomson ReutersHead of Product Management, Small & Medium Business - MENA

Jan. 2015 - Sep. 2018Dubai, UAEKey Accountabilities: ● Responsible for providing leadership to 8 direct report personnel while orchestrating product strategies for two products – Thomson Reuters Accelerate SME (New) and Thomson Reuters Business Development (Legacy) ● Relied upon to efficiently managed a $5M budget; presented at quarterly Investment Committee meetings to contribute updates as owner of a product that was part of new products investments group Key Accomplishments: ● Built the $5M global investment case for a B2B 2-sided marketplace by sizing and segmenting the SME market across MENA, mapping the stakeholder landscape, defining monetization streams and designing the roll-out plan ● Enabled YoY increases to visitors (200%), conversions (125%) and organic traffic (85%) ● Successfully launched 5 country editions in 2 languages with strategic partners; grew 2nd year revenue 633% ● Led the fastest Go-to-Market for a digital proposition in Thomson Reuters (globally)

Thomson ReutersHead of Content & Customer Support - Zawya

Mar. 2010 - Dec. 2014Beirut, LebanonKey Accountabilities: ● Responsible for providing leadership to 8 direct reports and 90 total personnel while shepherding content operations throughout 4 channels (In-House; Contribution; 3rd Party; Hub/Spoke) ● Relied upon to ensure effective support capabilities for 3,332 users from 1,275 institutional accounts across 6 product offerings Key Accomplishments: ● Increased MENA content coverage 70% by partnering with content suppliers/vendors focusing on 2 content sets; 47% increase in the private company database and a 100% increase in coverage in the construction projects database ● Increased team productivity by 50% and reduced employee turnover by 40%.