NIGEL A. ELKAN
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Global Product Development
Results-driven. Integrates development teams from across organizations, across the globe
Builds successful products
PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
KNOWLEDGE VECTOR: 2007– to date
Managing Partner, Complex Event Processing, Real Time Risk & Incident Resolution
o Developed the patented technologies and application frameworks that enable Situational Awareness and Appropriate Coordinated Response through the detection and correlation of real time events.
o Profit, Loss, and Operational Responsibility
• Raised $multi-million investment in the Company
• Transformed the business from loss-making to profitability
o Led Business Development, resulting in deployments at Washington Reagan Airport (DCA), major US Defense Installations, and Maritime Defense in Middle East and Africa.
o Managed Sales and Services -- achieving over 100% year-on-year revenue growth
o Led Product Management – designed the product roadmap and architecture.
• Transformed the legacy product into the KVI Suite – improving scalability, efficiency, maintainability, and licensing revenues.
o The KVI Suite has been adopted in commercial and defense solutions across the globe.
EVENTRIC INC: 2000 – 2007
Business Strategy Consultant
• Apptix
o Established Apptix as the leader in integrated hosted messaging solutions, based on Microsoft Exchange
• Targus Info
o Developed VoiceSecure, a suite of Identity Management solutions based on Biometric authentication. Established strategic alliances with leading financial institutions including the top 5 credit card issuers
o Designed and patented federated biometric record management and authentication.
• Audible
o Aided in establishing Audible as the market leader for distributing spoken word audio, distributed electronically.
o Aided in creating “Audible-inside”, the de facto standard for electronically distributed spoken word.
• VoiceMobile
o Designed, patented and licensed VoiceMobile, a voice managed portal for mobile phones, behaving as if there is a persistent connectivity with the underlying service -- using a “cache when cache can” method.
ENGENIA SOFTWARE INCORPORATED: 1998–2000
Chief Marketing Officer
• Co-developed the business plan resulting in $38 million in venture funding
• Designed, developed and marketed XML-based events-driven collaboration application suite.
• Developed strategic alliances with key strategic consultancies, including McKinsey, Bain, Nervewire, and Anderson Consulting (Accenture).
IBM: 1996–1998
Senior Director, Leader of Knowledge Management Strategy
• Established IBM/Lotus as the world’s leading vendor of Knowledge Management solutions
• Managed Product Management across multiple development teams across multiple organizations across the world
Director, Sales & Marketing, Document Management
• Led Product Management for Lotus Emerging Products businesses
• Launched and led the sales and marketing for Domino Document Management and Imaging solutions. Took Domino Document Manager from market entrant to market leader in less than a year.
HYPERDESK CORPORATION: 1992–1996
Vice President of Sales, Marketing, Product Management
• Design, develop and led the development of GroupWorks
• GroupWorks became the market leader in peer-to-peer project execution, resulting in the Company’s acquisition by FTP
Director, European Operations
• Launched HyperDesk in Europe, taking the Company’s CORBA middleware infrastructure to #1 market leadership
• Closed $multi-million deals with ABB/Ericsson, Volkswagen/Porsche, and closed major OEM contracts with IBM, Siemens, Bull, Olivetti, and established the HyperDesk solution as the European standard,
ALEX TECHNOLOGIES: 1988–1992
Co-founder, Leader of Sales & Marketing
• Conceived and led sales and marketing of ALEX Technologies – a leader in transforming legacy (character-based) applications into modern, graphical, event-driven, applications (without changing the underlying code base).
• Won major OEM sales with Sun, AT&T, HP, NCR, Informix, and $6 million deal with Lotus Development
• Raised Venture Funding
• Sold the business to Trusted Information Systems
EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH BUSINESS SCHOOL: B.A. Honors, Business, Marketing