Paul Philp

Current

Advisor at VM6

Past

VP, Products at dna13
Consultant at Avokia
CTO at PlateSpin Ltd

Consultant at Platform Computing
President at Visible Decisions Inc.
Director at Alias

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Education

McMaster University

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Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

Paul Philp’s Summary

Taking products from concept to commecialization to market leadership.

I am a performance-oriented software executive that drives technology and business for leading-edge software start-ups. I am market driven and customer success focussed. I build and manage high-performance development and product management teams that consistently deliver results. I have experience building large scalable web services.
I am interested in social media, software-as-a-service, and cloud computing, virtualization and data center automation. I have over 25 years experience with software start-ups - including Alias, Platform and Platespin.

Paul Philp’s Specialties:

Product Development Proces
Cloud Computing
Saas Applications
Agile Development
Product Management / Pragmatic Marketing
High Performance Team Building
SAAS
Social Media
Cloud Computing
Virtualization
Data Center Automation
Scalable Web Sites
Web 2.0

Paul Philp’s Experience

Advisor

VM6

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

August 2009 — Present (5 months)

I am advising VM6 on product strategy, product management process, and the product development process and organization.
VP, Products

dna13

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

April 2007 — June 2009 (2 years 3 months)

As VP, Products, I was responsible for all aspects of the product lifecycle, including product vision, roadmap, release planning, development, testing and deployment:
• Built a vision for the technology, how it affects the customer’s business, and how to deliver value from these disruptions.
• Worked closely with large multi-national clients to ensure successful implementations of the dna13 product.
• Fostered a culture of engineering excellence and merit-based achievement.
• Managed and scaled a SAAS engineering organization of software, IT and product management professionals.
• Established and maintained a roadmap for future development projects.
• Met deadlines set for projects and drove maximum productivity.
• Led the development of a fully scalable multi-tenant, single-instance SAAS architecture.
• Oversaw and tracked engineer productivity, and managed the career path and overall job satisfaction of each engineer.
• Led the implementation of Agile development processes with very frequent releases and deployments.
• Built and managed a successful IT infrastructure and operations team.
• Built and managed a successful QA and second line support organization.
Consultant

Avokia

(Computer Software industry)

2007 — 2007 (less than a year)
CTO

PlateSpin Ltd

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

2005 — 2007 (2 years )

As Program Manager and CTO, I was responsible for managing the delivery of feature and maintenance releases of PlateSpin platform products. In this capacity, I worked closely with Product Management, Implementation, Test Engineering, Product Support and Sustaining Engineering. Working with these teams, I innovated a rapid response lifecycle that successfully managed the volatile customer and market demands, producing 15 product releases in 14 months. I also drove a hiring initiative to increase PlateSpin’s development capacity, resulting in 15 hires over a 3 month period.

As Chief Technology Officer, I focused on identifying and exploiting new technologies, business opportunities and potential partnerships in the market. I worked with Product Management to shape the on-going product roadmap with the objective of making PlateSpin an industry-standard platform for managing and optimizing the new datacenter.

My responsibilities as CTO included:
• Using ‘CTO Forums’ as venues to create and further customer intimacy, augmenting this with market and customer research initiatives.
• Working closely with several large ‘lighthouse’ accounts to understand their requirements for future PlateSpin products.
• Leading the team that identified and acquired new technologies for future PlateSpin products.
• Working closely with the Alliances team to identify strategic opportunities with large system vendors and system integrators.
• Leading the M&A activity of PlateSpin.
Consultant

Platform Computing

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

March 2001 — November 2001 (9 months)

Market research, analysis and sizing.
Competitive positioning.
President

Visible Decisions Inc.

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

June 1991 — May 1995 (4 years )
Director

Alias

(Computer Software industry)

1986 — 1991 (5 years )