Experience
Four times, from built to adopted.
Mozn, Cardstack, Merkle Science and Radware each brought me in when their technology was ahead of its market, across enterprise AI, financial crime, developer platforms, crypto compliance and cybersecurity. Each time the work was the same: choose the markets to win, decide what to build first, price and package it, and build the team to scale it. Here is what that involved.
Mozn
Senior Manager - Product · 2024–present
Enterprise AI & financial crime · Riyadh, remote from Brno
An enterprise AI company backed by HUMAIN (PIF), serving 150+ banks, fintechs and public-sector institutions across two lines: enterprise AI (mozn.ai) and financial crime prevention (FOCAL). I joined to build the product and GTM team from scratch and now lead product operations and go-to-market strategy across both lines. I work as a strategic partner to the commercial and executive leadership.
Personal award · 2026
Most Valuable Player
Mozn's company-wide award
Personal award · 2025
Mozn Hero
Top performer award
Analyst recognition earned by the team
Chartis AML & KYC Leader, one of 10 vendors globallyChartis Enterprise Fraud Leader, the only one from the Middle EastForrester Notable Vendor, Q1 2026IDC Innovator 2026#16 on the FCC50, up 30 places
What I owned
Product strategyProduct operationsMarket research & sizingGTM strategyPositioning & messagingPricing & packagingProduct launchesRelease managementAnalyst relationsSales enablementCompetitive intelligenceCustomer advocacyExecutive eventsTeam leadership
Key work
Company-wide product leadership
- Led the market research and sizing that shaped product and business priorities across both lines, adopted for company planning
- Built the GTM system, pricing, positioning and commercial motions behind 2.5× ARR growth in one year, on track for 4.5× over two years, across both lines
- Rebuilt pricing and packaging around value-based segmentation tied to customer scale (end-user volume, deployment size), using competitor benchmarking, deal data and cost analysis, which expanded contract values in larger accounts
- Spotted the need for self-service rule control in client and field feedback, prioritised it on the roadmap, and ran the release, rollout and client adoption of the rule simulator and expression viewer, so banks can test and validate detection logic before going live
- Own release sign-off across both lines, and built the client request system in Zendesk: approved requests flow straight into prioritisation, each owned by a product manager for the build and a product marketer for communication
- Led AI adoption across the team's slowest workflows: release preparation dropped from 5 days to 24 hours, and the operations team built an RFP agent trained on past responses
- As Mozn's first lead for product operations and GTM strategy, built and lead a 7-person global team across product operations, GTM strategy and analyst relations, hiring director-level talent and promoting two senior PMMs to lead
Financial crime (FOCAL)
- Created and commercialised a regulatory readiness assessment for Saudi Arabia's new counter-fraud regulation, repositioning the fraud product around a regulatory anchor and making it an active revenue line within three quarters
- Prepared each AI module launch with consultant training and RFP tooling, and co-led the internal pre-sales copilot with product leadership, which halved questionnaire response time
- Ran the analyst relations programme behind the recognitions above, across Chartis, Forrester, IDC and others
- Launched executive forums for banks, fintechs and financial institutions, built on peer conversations rather than vendor pitches
Enterprise AI (mozn.ai)
- Led the positioning and messaging overhaul of the enterprise AI business into six solutions for high-assurance domains, verticalised across public sector, defence, banking, insurance and fintech, and relaunched the website around the new structure
- Built the sales enablement programme for this new line from scratch (pitch decks, solution briefs, sales training), giving the field team a repeatable way to sell sovereign AI to governments and financial institutions
- Leading the commercial model for the AI line: per-user platform licensing combined with forward-deployed engineering fees for customisation, so pricing follows how enterprise AI is actually adopted; now used in public-sector deals
Results
- 2.5× ARR growth in a single year, on track for 4.5× over two years
- The readiness assessment became a new revenue line within three quarters
- Questionnaire response time halved with the pre-sales copilot
- Inbound grew to around 80% of all leads, led by a financial crime glossary
- 25 analyst recognitions in 2026 so far, up from 21 in 2025
Panther Protocol
Head of Product Marketing · 2023–2024
Blockchain infrastructure · Dubai
A blockchain infrastructure company that needed to move from a community-led audience to institutional buyers in the US, then hold its ground through a regulatory event.
What I owned
Positioning & ICPPartnershipsCommunicationsCommunityCrisis communicationsBoard reporting
Key work
- Repositioned the narrative, ideal customer profile and partnership architecture for institutional buyers
- Brought product marketing, communications and community under one GTM system, ending channel fragmentation
- Led regulatory and crisis communications, keeping institutional partners informed and confident
- Presented GTM strategy to the board and executive team throughout the pivot
Results
- A full market pivot within 90 days of joining
- No material contract loss through the regulatory event
Cardstack
Head of Product Marketing · 2022–2023
Composable software (boxel.ai) · New York / Zug / Dubai
A new developer platform for the US market, built by a team spread across the US, Southeast Asia and Europe, with no product marketing function in place.
What I owned
Product marketingDeveloper marketingContentCommunityDemand generationDistributed team leadership
Key work
- Defined the scope of the product marketing function and led a distributed team across product marketing, content and community
- Worked with the product team on the Boxel Framework, bringing developer feedback into the product, then launched it with a developer-led GTM strategy
- Ran engagement and ecosystem programmes to grow the developer community
- Designed demand generation that linked community growth to commercial pipeline
Results
- A developer community of 3,000+
- Open-source interest turned into enterprise conversations
Merkle Science
Product Marketing Manager · 2020–2022
Crypto AML compliance · Singapore
A crypto compliance platform selling to exchanges and financial institutions, in a market regulators were still defining. I was the first GTM hire.
What I owned
Positioning & messagingContentDemand generationInternational expansionCustomer marketingThought leadership
Key work
- Built positioning, messaging, content and demand generation from zero
- Created RegWatch, a regulatory-intelligence platform that compliance teams relied on and that convened the crypto and fintech compliance community
- Led market expansion across the US, UK, Canada and Europe
- Closed the loop between customer success and the product roadmap
Results
- RegWatch became the company's primary growth engine
- A glossary of 150+ terms became the main source of leads
- 70% year-on-year revenue growth
- Customer churn held below 5%
Radware
Senior Product Marketer · 2017–2020
Cybersecurity (NASDAQ: RDWR) · Bangalore
A public cybersecurity company with a new Bot Manager business and no dedicated product marketing behind it, in a category buyers barely understood. I also led GTM for API Security.
What I owned
Category strategyResearch & thought leadershipAnalyst relationsContent strategyMarket expansion
Key work
- Built the category and messaging architecture for bot security
- Created The Big Bad Bot Problem research series
- Shaped the Bot Manager product focus on intent-based behaviour analysis, and built the Tableau research pipeline behind the threat research
- Drove US and EU market expansion and managed global content strategy
Results
- 55% year-on-year revenue growth across Bot Manager and API Security
- Research cited by BBC, Forbes, TechRadar, Security Boulevard and the CSDE/USTelecom Botnet Guide 2021
- Forrester added intent-based analysis to its Bot Management Wave and named Bot Manager a Leader
- Radware still publishes the annual Bot Threat Report on the same framework
Earlier: Content Marketer at Moxo (B2B SaaS for financial services) and Assistant Editor at CIO Review, writing for technology leaders in the US and Canada.
Education & certifications
An engineer by training, still learning
I trained as an electronics and communication engineer, and my first job was as an editor, writing about technology for CIOs. Product and go-to-market turned out to be where both halves meet: taking something deeply technical and making it the answer to someone's real problem.
Education
2026 – 2027 · Part-time
Executive MBA
ESSEC Business School, Paris
Delivered jointly with HKUST Business School in Hong Kong, including Doing Business in China, and the University of Cape Town.
Undergraduate
B.Tech, Electronics & Communication Engineering
Punjab Technical University, India
Preceded by a three-year diploma in the same field. Published research on communication networks for robotics.
Certifications
2026
Management & Cooperation in Complex Situations (RS6682)
SCYFCO, Paris
A French state-registered programme, built on the experience of former military officers, on decision-making and coordination under pressure.
2022
Digital Marketing: Disruptive Strategy Programme
University of Oxford, Saïd Business School
2021
Product Marketing Certified: Leadership
Product Marketing Alliance