ZOKRI

Strategy and OKR Consultant

Outcomes Thinking 

I help product organisations change their focus from outputs to outcomes. 

My typical clients are high-growth tech-oriented startups.  

I coach leadership teams to articulate their strategy, define persistent metrics and set powerful goals. 

Then I work with their teams to employ fast learning cycles to significantly improve their chances of delivering the outcomes the organisation and their customers need.

https://www.outcomesthinking.com/learnokr

Strategy and OKR Coach

Elsevier

At Elsevier I focused on achieving a few key goals. 
* Building organisational alignment through the implementation of OKRs
* Coaching and training product teams in outcomes planning product management techniques
* Managing the organisations largest portfolio of product investments

Achieving this has drawn on my three key work passions
* Through the implementation of OKRs I helped colleague understand the 'why?'
* Collectively we promoted inclusion and psychological safety with the teams we worked in
* I helped strengthen the bond between strategy and execution.

I also learned from working with a rapidly growing and highly capable technology organisation as part of the leadership team. 

And learned from the things I’ve tried that didn’t work and continue to do so!

Senior Portfolio Director

Program Manager

Pearson

In a technical product management role, I pioneered the use of semantic technology at Pearson, with a purpose of connecting data to provide organisational, content and customer insights. Created the strategy for linked data and formed a vision that spanned the key data that drives Pearson. 

Led a team that built the first Pearson tool to utilise semantic technology.

Head of Semantic Technology

Department head, accountable for the solution design, technical strategy, development and business fit of global content related products. Launched an image management product for educational content authors.
Accountable for three significant international digital products. Led a team of c. 45 mixed domain people.

Head of Content Management - Systems Development

Marsh

Brought on board in an interim role to kick-start the implementation of corporate web based content management systems. Accountable for re-focusing the programme and fast tracking a return on investment. Introduced Agile techniques to this inflight programme.

Provided department wide guidance on programme management best practice.

Interim Program Manager

Director level consultant, leading engagements with EMC’s highest profile clients all with budgets exceeding £1m. Consulted on transformation and change management for clients in a range of sectors, including finance, insurance and oil and gas.

Principal Consultant

Interim Project Management of a difficult IT project replacing key systems in insurance and reinsurance functions. 

Successfully re-focused scope of the project and delivered the system to pilot groups within the business.

Interim Project Manager

Envoque

Founding Partner

Strategy and Business Analyst

I am a strategy and OKR coach who helps organisations from household names to hyper-growth unicorns align and focus with OKRs. 

Do you want to connect your work to your strategy? Do you want to  focus on the things that really impact your customers, your employees and your organisation? 

If so, let’s talk.

If you want to know more about what I do, my clients can tell you better than I can.

“Collaborational, easy to work with, reliable, sticks to his words, inclusive, really values including everyone and pays attention to detail and each member of a (workshop) group”
Olivia Hupfeld, EQT Ventures describing a recent on-site workshop

“Pragmatic, hands on, flexible and business oriented expert who can apply OKR principles in a practical way to any organisation” - 
CPO, Insurtech Unicorn.

“With Ian's help we made a huge amount of progress last quarter from a standing start. The OKRs are incredibly clear and specific. We established a really good basis.”   
CEO

“Deep expertise and recognised OKR Leader”
CoS, Unicorn

"Yes, we definitely saw a difference. I would like to thank you a ton for the pro-active collaboration last year – it really helped us move forward!" - COO Unicorn Fintech

”Senior team had a range of complex personalities…. your approach was to build relationships and manage stakeholders carefully which paid off”



“You helped the Leadership Team become outcomes driven”

"Huge amount of progress last quarter from a standing start"

“Ian was particularly good at holding us to account”

“Ian is a terrific facilitator. The right balance of seriousness, knowledge, humour and patience.“

Ian Harvey

Batene

On the mission to make any battery better

valorwerk

Recognizing the primary reason DeepTech ventures fail - the disconnect between science and business - I founded valorwerk. With over two decades of experience at the intersection of science and business in various roles and functions, I've seen firsthand how this gap can hinder success and it became evident to me that leveraging the expertise of a generalist is essential in overcoming these challenges.

Valorwerk is a boutique DeepTech consultancy specializing in bridging the gap between science, technology, and business: We help start-ups and scale-ups navigate the challenges of turning science into valuable products and viable businesses. We support investors in assessing investment targets and providing strategic guidance to current portfolio companies.

Founder & Managing Director

NLC - The European Healthtech Venture Builder

NLC - the European Healthtech Venture Builder - is dedicated to advance health, accessible for everyone. By using entrepreneurship at scale, our unique NLC approach allows us to find inventions, and create and support ventures that have the potential to reach the patient. Led by winning teams, together with a dedicated network and driven by data and learnings.

Venture Partner

ZAGENO Inc.

Building and leading ZAGENO's cross-functional Science & Data department of 13 life science domain experts, product managers and data scientists. Responsible for overall data operations and data insights including data extraction, transformation & load (ETL), database management and automatization as well as content enrichment driven by data science techniques and machine learning. Developed a  new algorithm to expand ZAGENO's capabilities for data-driven decision support helping our customer to make better purchase decisions in life science research and compare more than 10 million products. Exponentially grew ZAGENO's database and scaled its data processes to create an unrivaled database of more than 400 million scientific facts.

VP Science & Data - Scientific Content, Data & Product Management

InChI Trust

The InChI Trust is a nonprofit charity which works to develop and promote the use of the IUPAC InChI open-source chemical structure representation algorithm. The InChI with its associated InChIKey was developed as a non-proprietary international standard to represent chemical structures and has just celebrated its tenth anniversary. The Trust aims to develop and improve on the current InChI standard, further enabling the interlinking of chemistry and chemical structures on the web.

Member Board of Directors

Leading the product management and development team of Elsevier’s digital chemistry solutions portfolio - including its flagship product Reaxys - providing data-driven decision support based on chemistry information and analytics. Responsible for overall strategy, roadmap and innovation driven by agile and scrum methods for software development, design thinking principles and web and data analytics.

Head of Chemistry Solutions - Senior Director Product Management

Merck Group

Member of the leadership team of Advanced Analytics, a EUR 500 million business field of Merck Millipore the Life Science division of Merck. Responsible for the strategic transformation shifting focus toward innovation, driving implementation of new innovation fields and franchise strategies and leading entire change activities for the business field.

Director Business Transformation

Focus on strategy and new business development projects for Merck Serono, Merck Millipore and Group Functions, including: strategic planning process of the Global Business Franchise Oncology, development of a business plan and strategy for the venture capital funds “Merck Serono Ventures 2.0”, development of business field strategies for Merck Millipore, organizational set-up of the commercial region Lab Americas.

Senior Consultant

Max Planck Society

Leading a start-up project in the field of bio-nanotechnology at Max-Planck-Institute of Intelligent Systems.

Group Leader

Boston Consulting Group (BCG)

Focus on innovation, strategy and business development in the pharmaceutical, chemical and biotechnological industry; projects include among others: implementation of a new global market access organization and processes for a global pharmaceutical company, support of a major pharmaceutical company in R&D efficiency and innovation, review of the internal innovation and IP process for the cultures & enzymes division of a food ingredients company, development of a global growth strategy for nitrogen and specialty fertilizers for a global supplier of fertilizers.

Consultant

Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Bio-applications of microfluidic lab-on-a-chip technologies: single-cell studies in picoliter-droplets; co-operation with RainDance Technologies, Lexington (USA). Co-inventor of one patent (WO/2009/134395) and co-author of three peer-reviewed publications in the field of microfluidics.

Leopoldina Research Fellow

With over two decades of cross-functional and general management experience at the intersection of science and business, Christian embodies the essence of a generalist. His invaluable expertise lies in translating scientific innovations into a viable business and building successful DeepTech ventures.

His unique experience encompasses top-tier strategy consulting (BCG), business leadership roles within global science & technology corporations (Merck, Elsevier), as well as fast-growing scale-ups (ZAGENO, NLC Ventures).  In these roles, he led teams managing both physical and digital data products.

His scientific background (PhD in biophysical chemistry, fellowships at Harvard, and the Max Planck Society) equips him to effectively communicate with scientists and translate complex technologies into business fundamentals and strategies that investors need to know.

This wealth of diverse experience serves as a cornerstone for Christian's work at valorwerk. In DeepTech, where understanding the broader picture is crucial, he utilizes his generalist perspective to connect science and business, guiding clients toward success while navigating common pitfalls in DeepTech venture building.

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