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Product Officers Mastering the Art Of Excellence
Boss of Production:
A chief product officer (CPO) is a corporate title referring to an executive who leads the entire product organization. A CPO is responsible for the strategic product direction. Usually, it includes product vision, product innovation, product design, product development, project management, and product marketing. In many tech companies, this position also provides distribution, manufacturing, and procurement. A CPO leads a product management (PM) team in building great products that deliver sustainable value to the business.
The CPO is known as VP of product or head of product. A chief product officer (CPO) is a C-level executive who is responsible for the strategy and execution of all product-related activities within an organization.
Duties of Product Heads:
A CPO's primary goal is to lead and facilitate product management teams to ensure they are creating products that deliver value to both the user and the business. To do this, chief product officers must align the needs and goals of both the product and the company. A Chief Product Officer is critical in driving product innovation, market success, and customer satisfaction within an organization. They combine technical expertise, business acumen, leadership skills, and effective communication to lead cross-functional teams and shape product strategy.
CPOs holds in-depth knowledge about their business's people. However, they can lack the same breadth of business experience compared to other managers and A CEO's mission is to make a business successful. Chief product officers will likely have several years of experience in roles like product manager, director of product management and vice president of product before stepping into the CPO role.
CEO Insights ASIA in this issue presents a list of ‘Top 10 CPOs in UAE - 2023' who have leveraged their extensive industry expertise and experience in offering effective skills to the market. The following list has been prepared after being closely scrutinized by a distinguished panel of judges including CXOs, analysts and our editorial board. We recognize their valuable contribution to the ever expanding and competitive market and their ability to sustain themselves and emerge as top contestants through their reliable knowledge.
Our subscribers play a decisive role in finalization of our annual list of "Top 10 CPOs In UAE - 2023" by nominating those which have served them with excellence and are praiseworthy. If you feel there is a company that deserves to be on our annual list, do write to us about them mentioning their value proposition.
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Ashish Sood, Chief Product Officer | Polytrade | A web3 enthusiast and blockchain believer, dedicated to shaping a decentralised future through expertise and experience in smart contract architecture, Tokenomics, product development, Smart contract integration and product hacks |
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Christophe de Rassenfosse, Chief Product Officer | Property Finder | An innovative leader with a proven track of record in international organizations, M&A and obviously robust product leadership at scale, combine business appreciation and product performance to deliver higher return on investment |
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James Dickson , Chief Product Officer | Landmark Group | An emerging leader with 16 years of experience, specialized in operational restructuring, cost reduction and financial restructuring |
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Kapil Verma, Chief Product Officer | Namshi | A seasoned product and business leader with 21 years of global experience in product management, UX, product marketing and general management across e-commerce, travel, food tech, technology, telecom and financial services |
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Katya Leonova, Chief Product Officer | Tabby | A strategic leader with experience in both business and IT, deliver and grow an intensive tech project from idea to the version release, enabling the business to achieve our objectives through the effective use of technology |
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Ramesh Murti , Chief Product Officer | NorthLadder | A global leader with 20+ years of experience gained across industries delivering improvements to products and services, growing key accounts by building trusted relationships at CXO & other levels in client organizations |
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Sumi Mahmud , Co-Founder & CPO/CTO | Dawak | A dynamic entrepreneur, product visionary, and data science expert renowned for her transformative impact on industries through innovative leadership and groundbreaking solutions with a diverse background spanning various sectors |
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Tony Pagliocco, Chief Product Officer | RAI Digital | A professional leader with over 23 years of experience in product management passionate about bringing growth and innovation to consumer businesses with a deep understanding of the intersection between operations, strategy, and product management |
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Yatin P , Chief Product Officer | Wio Bank | A digital banking professional with 14+ years of experience across different geographies with a keen interest and expertise towards building globally scalable financial platform based ecosystems |
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Yi-Wei Ang , Chief Product Officer | talabat | A passionate leader with more thana decade of experience, skilled in user experience, HTML, software project management and CSS |
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