Matthias Zeller

Current

Group Product Manager, Enterprise Rich Internet Applications at Adobe Systems

Past

Group Product Manager, Corporate Development at Adobe Systems
Group Product Manager at Adobe
Director Product Management at Commerce One

Manager, Product Management at Sterling Commerce
European Product Manager at GE Information Services
Product Manager / Consultant at LION EDInet

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Education

European Business School

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Industry

Computer Software

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Matthias Zeller’s Summary

Highly accountable, results-oriented professional with 15 years experience in product and partner management for enterprise technologies (software and hosted services).

Successfully motivated and directed product management and product strategy teams to innovative global product releases for international companies in Germany and the USA.

Team player with proven skills for facilitation between engineering, business development and sales/marketing teams, in complex international environments.

Recognized by SAP as a SAP Mentor for his contributions to the SAP Developer and Partner eco-system (https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/sapmentors).

Matthias Zeller’s Specialties:

- Enterprise Collaboration, Mash-up and Social Networking
- Enterprise Software Product Management
- Partner and Alliance Management
- Adobe AIR, Flex, SaaS, Web Services, XML, PDF, Flex, SAP NetWeaver, B2B

Matthias Zeller’s Experience

Group Product Manager, Enterprise Rich Internet Applications

Adobe Systems

(Public Company; ADBE; Computer Software industry)

January 2009 — Present (11 months)

Group Product Manager for Adobe LiveCycle Enterprise Rich Internet Application (RIA) technology.
- Managing team of senior Product Managers to innovate, develop and deliver enterprise software and SaaS frameworks based on Adobe's RIA platform (Flex, Flash, AIR)
- Productized Genesis seed project and delivered to market as Adobe LiveCycle Mosaic, a composite RIA framework announced at Adobe MAX 2009
- Working closely with key large enterprise customers (with focus on the financial services industry) on innovative projects leveraging RIA technologies to enhance end-user experience and productivity of Financial Advisors, Support and Sales representatives.
- Frequent speaker at major enterprise software industry events and recognized expert on Enterprise 2.0, enterprise RIA and enterprise mashups.
Group Product Manager, Corporate Development

Adobe Systems

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; ADBE; Computer Software industry)

November 2007 — December 2008 (1 year 2 months)

Innovator and product lead for "Genesis" a collaborative workspace combining documents, web and enterprise applications (http://blogs.adobe.com/mashup).
Defining product strategy and road map. Building up initial team and driving Genesis from idea to productization.
Conducting customer research and building partner relationships.
Evangelizing enterprise collaboration and Genesis with Adobe customers, partners and developers.
Group Product Manager

Adobe

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; ADBE; Computer Software industry)

March 2003 — November 2007 (4 years 9 months)

Product Management for Adobe SAP partnership (http://www.adobe.com/sap). Responsiblity for the product requirements, evangelizing, and roll-out process in the Adobe SAP Alliance. Part of the Adobe SAP partnership management team.
Director Product Management

Commerce One

(Public Company; Computer Software industry)

January 2001 — March 2003 (2 years 3 months)

Lead team of four senior product managers to manage Collaborative Web Services Platform and MarketSite.
Lead definition and creation of initial requirements of web services platform in December 2001 and steered engineering efforts to a successful, timely release in November 2002.
Primary product management liason for the joint collaborative exchange project with SAP.
Manager, Product Management

Sterling Commerce

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)

May 1998 — December 2000 (2 years 8 months)

Managing a group of three product managers to design and launch the Sterling Commerce new global E-Marketplace offering.
Identification and documentation of business requirements for E-Marketplace applications, personalization, content administration, search engines, member management, real time integration, collaboration, payment, logistics and billing.
Global launch of a new E-Business broker software for E-Marketplace Process Integration, Web Application Integration and Enterprise Application Integration (Sterling Integrator).
European Product Manager

GE Information Services

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)

October 1996 — April 1998 (1 year 7 months)

Product Manager Electronic Commerce, Central Europe
Optimized the Electronic Commerce product portfolio to focus on revenue drivers.
Responsible for marketing of electronic commerce services, such as GE Tradeweb and E-Community Rollout Management as well as EC-Software.
Prepared the market entry for new Internet Commerce Software from Actra/Netscape in Germany.
Product Manager / Consultant

LION EDInet

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

December 1993 — October 1996 (2 years 11 months)

Product Manager Electronic Commerce Services
Rollout of new services offerings, electronic commerce messaging and outsourcing.
Developed product pricing and marketing tools.
Consultant Electronic Commerce
Primary liason with General Magic, e-Plus, a cellular phone service, and Sony, on wireless handheld project.
Managed projects implementing EDI integrations with SAP R/3.
Consulting and project management within the scope of Electronic Commerce projects, focused on supply-chain-management solutions, for example, Metro-Group, and Veba Oil AG.