George Khadder

Current

Sr. Product Line Manager / Marketing at Trilliant Incorporated

Past

Strategy Consultant at Mutliple Companies
Director, Product Management & Marketing at SureCircle
Co-founder / CEO / VP, Marketing at Resource Adapters, Inc.

Marketing Consultant at IDS Software (PDFS)
Product / Project Manager at Schlumberger

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Education

University of California, Berkeley
Purdue University
Purdue University

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George Khadder’s Summary

• Seasoned, strategic big-picture thinker, and results-focused Product Management & Marketing professional with 12+ years experience in the Utility Smart Grid, Health Care, e-Commerce, and Enterprise Software industries.

• Proven track record of exceeding expectations: developing effective strategy, managing product lines “from cradle to grave”, product positioning, defining requirements (detail-oriented), developing roadmaps, and launching new products
• Developed business plans, SWOT & competitive analysis, ROI & revenue models, pricing strategies, and sales forecasts.
• Developed effective branding, marketing campaigns, collateral (data sheets, white-papers).
• Extensive experience defining, positioning, developing and delivering to market products in Smart Grid, AMI, Demand Side Management (DSM), DR, AMI, and MDM.
*** Delivered the first ever to market 2-way DSM system (price based) ***
• Managed and developed strategic relation with partners and analysts. Developed and negotiated contracts/licensing (partners, OEM, direct sales). Developed strategic RFI and RFP responses.
• Managed projects & programs on time and on budget leading internationally dispersed cross-functional teams.
• Conducted presentations to executives, secured buy-in and aligned support around common objectives.
• Raised several rounds of funding

Extensive experience in the following areas / technologies:
• Smart Grid: Demand Side Management (DSM), Demand Response (DR), Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI), Home Area Network (HAN), Meter Data Management (MDM); CleanTech, Utility
• E-commerce, Web 2.0, Enterprise Software, Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), EDI, ACH
• Healthcare, dental, HIPAA

George Khadder’s Specialties:

• Product Management: product strategy, defining product requirements (PRD,MRD, Use Cases, Specifications, Prototypes), product development life cycle (PDLC) management, competitive analyses & positioning, pricing strategy, go-to market strategy
• Strategic Marketing, branding, messaging
• Business development, contract development
• Business plan development, revenue modeling forecasting, fund raising
• Building and leading startups; business strategy

George Khadder’s Experience

Sr. Product Line Manager / Marketing

Trilliant Incorporated

(Utilities industry)

June 2007 — Present (2 years 2 months)

Trilliant is the leader in delivering intelligent networks that power the Smart Grid. Trilliant offers a combination of hardware, software and services that together act as the equivalent to a central nervous system for the Smart Grid. Trilliant develops and implements advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), demand response (DR), and grid management solutions in addition to installation, program management and meter revenue cycle services. Enabling utilities to implement time-of-use (TOU) metering and demand side management programs.

- Products: Demand Side Management (DSM) Application, Advanced Metering Application, Consumer Portal Application (customer facing), Application Platform.
- Industry: CleanTech, Utilities, Smart Grid
Strategy Consultant

Mutliple Companies

(Computer Software industry)

September 2006 — June 2007 (10 months)
Director, Product Management & Marketing

SureCircle

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

January 2004 — August 2006 (2 years 8 months)

SureCircle (formerly DDRnet)
Co-founder / CEO / VP, Marketing

Resource Adapters, Inc.

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

April 2001 — December 2003 (2 years 9 months)
Marketing Consultant

IDS Software (PDFS)

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; PDFS; Semiconductors industry)

June 2003 — September 2003 (4 months)
Product / Project Manager

Schlumberger

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SLB; Semiconductors industry)

June 1997 — January 2001 (3 years 8 months)

George Khadder’s Education

University of California, Berkeley

Certificate (~MS) , E-Business & Marketing , 1998 — 2001

2 classes short of degree
Purdue University

MS , Aeronautical & Astronautical Engineering , 1995 — 1997
Purdue University

BS , Aeronautical & Astronautical Engineering , 1990 — 1994