Hi, I'm Mike.

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I'm a product & business strategist with 12+ years of experience working for large and small tech companies on three continents. I enjoy turning data into executable narrative - breaking down complex problems into simple stories that drive a product towards market-fit, user delight, and scalable commercial success.

I'm currently based in Cape Town, South Africa, building money remittance solutions for markets across Africa.

Places I've worked

πŸ‡ΏπŸ‡ΌπŸ€πŸ‡ΏπŸ‡¦ Mama Money - mamamoney.co.za
Head Product Guy
June 2024 - Present
Cape Town, South Africa

I head up the product team, hang out with customers, and ultimately decide what we should be building to solve customer problems and grow our business.

πŸ’³ Yoco - yoco.com
Group Product Manager
March 2021 - June 2024
Cape Town, South Africa

I led a team of product managers to develop and evolve exciting payments products to enable Yoco's merchant customers to thrive.

πŸŽ“ Prodigy Finance - prodigyfinance.com
Head Of Product
2019 - 2021
Cape Town, South Africa

I led the Product team at Prodigy, managing a team of product managers and designers to solve international student financing problems in the midst of a global pandemic.

πŸ’Έ Wrapp (acquired by Meniga) - meniga.com
Product Manager
2017 - 2019
Stockholm, Sweden

I managed a team of developers to expose Wrapp's campaign logic and transactional insights to our merchant customers through an innovative self-service tool.

πŸ›’ Groupon - groupon.com
Analyst
2012 - 2017
Sydney, Australia & Cape Town, South Africa

This role was all about strategic product planning - using various data sources to understand regional demand, and plan supply accordingly.

Education

B.Com Economics - UNISA

Things I Know

Writing | Leadership | Communication | Roadmapping | Product | Strategy | Humour | Agile

Tools

Jira | Salesforce | PowerBI | Tableau | Periscope Data | Metabase | Firebase | Github | Gitlab | Heroku

Code

Node.js | Express | Vue | React | React Native | GraphQL | SQL