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Emmanuel Ashirifi
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Product & Service Development
Specialist | Growth Catalyst |
Business Developer | Senior
Executive, I.T & Finance
East Legon - Accra, Accra, Ghana
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Manuel McAshville
Tech-savvy and seasoned Chief Product & Service Development Officer with over a decade experience in various roles within the technology
and finance industries using multiple technology tools and business strategies to create exceptional products and services. I am well versed in
implementing profound transformation of businesses leveraging digital technologies to accelerate impact.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Managing Partner | Chief Product & Service
Development Officer
Skills
Product Development
Business Development
Responsibilities
Strategic Planning
Product Design
Lead team of over 40 software developers distributed
across Ghana, India, South Africa and Europe
Entrepreneurial
Cross-functional Leadership
Software Product & Service Development, Product
Vision, Product Growth and Product Analytics
Negotiations
User and market research with product domain
knowledge acquisition
Overall technology and business strategy on
software, digitization and technology operations
Project and product life cycle management
Project Management
Design | Build | Test | Deploy
Partnership Management
Organizations (2011 - Present)
Regional Director, Business Development | Africa
Responsibilities
Business Development and Sales Strategy for
operations across Africa
Executive communications and networking to
establish authority within Fintech ecosystem
Lead innovation and strategic partnerships to
establish market growth and penetration
Accountable for optimizing resources to achieve
revenue targets and P&L for region
Lead team across Africa for business development,
sales and operational activities
BDN-AFRICA (The Blue Wells) – Founder & CEO
Business development consulting firm (Africa)
BlueSPACE Africa – Managing Partner & CPO
Enterprise Fintech firm (Africa, Dubai)
EAI Information Systems – Director, Business Dev’t
Financial Services Technology firm (Oregon, USA)
Light Tree Marketing – VP, Strategy & Product Dev
Social Media Marketing Agency (New York, USA)
Star Group – Product Lead & Corporate Accnt Manager
Insurance and Banking firm (Ghana)
Tools, Design & Development Method
Product lead | Corporate Account Manager
Responsibilities
Financial Services product development and
enhancement within insurance and bank
B2B corporate sales activities across mid-size to large
companies
Lead team of Corporate Business Executives to drive
revenue target and establish product penetration
Lead product strategy and business partnerships
Drive predictive and prescriptive data analytics for
product customer fit metrics on unique products
Education
Degree - BBA
Financial Accounting – Wisconsin University College
Professional Certification - Advance Diploma
Strategic Management | Administration – IPED, UK
Technology Tools
Slack
Trello
Microsoft Stack (TFS, Microsoft Projects, Teams…)
Google Stack (forms, drive, Hangout, Classroom…)
Cloud Infrastructure – Azure, AWS & Google Cloud
Calendly & Grasshopper
Design & Development Methodology
Agile
DevOps Deployment
Waterfall
Scrum
Experienced Ecosystems | Interest
Start-up
FinTech
Consulting
Software
Networking
Bank & Insurance