Saker Ghani

Current

• Management Consulting at BearingPoint

Past

• Product Management at Palm
• Technical Product Management / Architecture at Yahoo!
• Product Localization at Apple

• Application Development Management at Apple
• Application Development at Apple

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Education

• Hampshire College

Connections

138 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Website
• My Company

Saker Ghani’s Summary

High performance creative visionary with broad management, business, and technology experience in multi-billion dollar enterprises. Dynamic consulting and corporate career with strong expertise in strategy, operations, technology, and risk management. Strong record of success in product development, helping build a number of the world’s most successful and disruptive products, including iPod, iTunes, Mac OSX, www.yahoo.com, Treo.

Saker brings over 13 years of experience in Financial Services, High Tech, Telco, and Internet/New Media sectors, and is well versed in the formulation of business models, strategies, and initiatives to drive innovation, growth, and operational excellence in the knowledge economy.

Saker Ghani’s Specialties:

Management & Business:
Strategic Planning, Performance Management, Cost Optimization, Product Development, Organization Design, Enterprise Architecture, Risk Management, Strategic Sourcing, Portfolio Rationalization, Process Design, Business Case, Business Development

Technology:
IT Strategy and Governance, Business Continuity, Data Mgmt., SaaS, Enterprise Search, Workflow Automation, Web 2.0, SEO, Sys. Architecture & Integration, Localization, Release Mgmt., SOA, SDLC and AppDev Mgmt.

Saker Ghani’s Experience

• Management Consulting

  BearingPoint

  (Public Company; OTC:BGPTQ; Management Consulting industry)

  2006 — Present (3 years)

• Product Management

  Palm

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

  2005 — 2006 (1 year)

• Technical Product Management / Architecture

  Yahoo!

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; YHOO; Internet industry)

  2004 — 2005 (1 year)

• Product Localization

  Apple

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; AAPL; Computer Hardware industry)

  2002 — 2004 (2 years)

• Application Development Management

  Apple

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; AAPL; Computer Hardware industry)

  1999 — 2002 (3 years)

• Application Development

  Apple

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; AAPL; Computer Hardware industry)

  1996 — 1999 (3 years)

Saker Ghani’s Education

• Hampshire College

  B.A. , Computer Science , 1991 — 1995

Additional Information

Saker Ghani’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Company

Saker Ghani’s Groups:

Member, Stanford / MIT Venture Lab, vlab.org

Member, Silicon Valley Association of Startup Entrepreneurs, svase.org

Board Advisor, provaat.org, a charitable organization focusing on poverty alleviation in under-developed rural communities

Trustee, Hampshire College Board of Trustees

Author, “Governance, Risk, and Compliance: Automated Testing and Enterprise Search”, Wiley, ISBN 047009589

Advanced reading, written and spoken Bengali; intermediate reading and written Arabic; basic spoken Hindi and Urdu.

Lean | Six Sigma, ICP International

Saker Ghani’s Honors:

Received MIT’s prestigious Lemelson Foundation National Research grant to explore MIDI’s entrepreneurial potential, resulting in the development of the MIDIGlove, a prototype medical device able to recognize and respond to extremity patterns. Product subsequently commercialized by Silicon Valley bio-tech firm.

Led development of enterprise social networking product, Connexsphere, which builds and leverages employee relationship capital to promote collaboration, information sharing, and idea generation within the enterprise. Based on concept of “social IPO”, Connexsphere delivers measurable improvements linking resources to Ideas, People, and Opportunities of interest.

Pioneered international P2P remittance service, Kazanah. Led market research, product planning and design, business workflow, and code development effort. Raised seed capital for product launch and deployment. Partnered with leading financial institutions to implement Asian funds disbursement capabilities.

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