Somml Health

Kurt co-founded Somml Health in 2016 after a family medical crisis opened his eyes to the frustratingly segmented nature of the current healthcare system. His vision of a Digital Health Neighborhood is quickly being realized as providers, payers, patients and families all find value in the collaborative, scalable platform.

Co-Founder

The Jeremiah Group

Kurt Lozier is a Principal Consultant with a focus on developing and executing patient and family-centric digital health goals for healthcare organizations. With expertise in digital transformation, product management, strategy, business development, and digital marketing, Kurt is skilled in all areas of digital health, including patient engagement through social media, digital marketing, and communication.

Principal

Dow Jones

Dow Jones Local Media Group
DowJones.com

As SVP Digital, Kurt led a digital based growth strategy to maximize the potential of existing franchises by capturing the accelerating shift to digital of audiences and advertiser marketing solutions by launching new businesses and products that broaden the traditional concepts of product and audiences.  These include a full service digital agency, multiple mobile products for iOS & Android phones and tablets, a email marketing unit and the first group-wide metered paywall in the marketplace.

SVP – Digital

Dow Jones Local Media Group
DowJones.com

As Director, Digital Revenue Development Kurt led a portfolio wide initiative that transformed the technology, content offerings and revenue streams of the local franchises’ digital products.  In addition new product, sales and support training was deployed which combined resulted in the strongest digital revenue growth rates to date.

Director, Digital Revenue Development

Olive Software

Olive Software, Inc.
OliveSoftware.com

Olive Software is the leading provider of digital edition and digital archiving solutions for the publishing industry. Olive’s solutions enable content publishers to cut printing and distribution costs, boost online traffic, create new markets and revenue streams.

As VP Sales, Kurt led new business development and sales within Olive’s product line, including product marketing, specifications for new and customized local online advertising products.  While leading sales Kurt established new distributors and resellers alongside building a structured, professional sales team with systematic pipeline development and sales forecasting.

VP Sales

PowerOne Media

PowerOne Media, Inc. (PowerAdz.Com, LLC)

PowerOne Media, Inc., pioneered SaaS / Cloud based platforms for local media companies providing digital publishing and marketing platforms including a highly configurable CMS plus automotive, employment, classified, yellow page and targeted advertising product solutions.

As Co-Founder and VP, Product Management & Business Development Kurt led the product teams and business development to a market leading position of 1,800 local media customers with 20M+ monthly uniques.

VP - Product Management & Business Development

Laboratory MicroSystems, Inc.

Laboratory MicroSystems, Inc. established the concept of a robust LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System) deployed on a PC - Client Server architecture with it’s LabVantage product for laboratory informatics.  LabVantage was the first fully configurable LIMS / Laboratory Informatics product that leveraged networking laboratory instruments, testing and reporting enabling organizations to redefine and optimize the way their laboratories conduct business significantly reducing the cost of laboratory automation.

Starting as Finance Director, then later with a dual role leading product QA/QC resulted in a promotion to VP Professional Services where Kurt led the US and European teams responsible for deploying LabVantage products and providing consulting services to clients.

VP Professional Services

Controller / Project Manager

A congruent series of professional positions with increasing and more diverse responsibilities.

Controller

As a successful serial B2B, B2B2C product manager & product owner (0-1, 1-1000) Kurt’s career as a digital executive spans healthcare, media, laboratory automation, product management & development, digital transformation, strategy and digital marketing. His first start-up, PowerOne Media, was focused on the cutting-edge online media space. At PowerOne Media, Kurt led the product teams and business development to a market leading position of 1,800 local media customers.

Kurt co-founded his latest venture, Somml Health, in 2017. Somml Health is a Digital Health Neighborhood that optimizes care delivery through connected data and communications between the patient, their family, and health care teams, in real-time.

Through our highly scalable platform, Somml creates quantifiable opportunities for better health and more efficiencies in care delivery by elevating personalized care, and connecting daily insights and family support to enable early intervention. We believe whole person health takes a community, connected.

Expertise in: Digital Health, Patient Engagement, Innovation, Strategy, Product Management, Project Management, Mobile, Digital Marketing, Audience Development, Content Marketing, Content Distribution, Analytics, Search, Digital Media, Monetization, Business Development

Kurt Lozier

Aderant

•	Responsible for design and delivery of Stridyn data and AI platform, powering Aderant’s latest product launches such as Next Gen GL, AR, and Stridyn Analytics. 
•	Led end to end design and delivery of MADDI OS, Aderant’s composable AI services platform, and askMADDI, its AI powered virtual associate, architecting a unified suite of agents, enabling use cases such as RAG powered in product guidance, natural language query based business analytics, OCR,  unstructured data to business rules engine, summarization, semantic/hybrid search, guardrails, intent recognition, and prompt management to automate operational workflows and surface real time, data driven insights. 
•	Leading Aderant’s AI product strategy to transform law firm operations by architecting and executing a unified roadmap across five core value chains Financial & Performance Management; Client & Matter Lifecycle, Practice & Operations Management, People & Resource Enablement, and Strategic Insights & Governance designing and developing a cohesive network of domain specific autonomous agents with human oversight.

Director of Product Management - AI and Data Services

Veritas Technologies LLC

Founding Product Manager (zero to one) for Veritas Alta Recovery Vault, an isolated immutable cloud data vault as a service specializing in security, ransomware protection, and data protection use cases. Successfully scaled the product to over XXX+ customers and achieved $XXM+ in annual recurring revenue within two years of service launch.

Responsible for creating the product strategy and roadmap for autonomous data protection as a service. This encompasses generative, predictive, diagnostic (anomaly detection), descriptive, and prescriptive AI/ML use cases. 

Led the execution of ethnographic user research to pinpoint key user needs and facilitated design thinking workshops. Wrote product specifications for an AI-based co-pilot leveraging Vector Embeddings and Retrieval Augmented Generation for Q&A functionality and a flexible agent framework for task automation and an advanced recommendation system.

Founding Product Manager (zero to one) for Veritas Alta Backup as a Service. Built the service from ideation to launch by working collaboratively across the organization with Engineering, Marketing, Sales, Support, Legal, and Finance. Leading development of common platform services to create seamless Onboarding, Identity and Access Management, and Reporting experience for customers and connecting them into cross product experiences.

Crafted product requirements for customer Identity and Access Management (IAM) covering authentication aspects, including adaptive multi-factor authentication, reauthentication, integrations like SAML and OIDC and authorization including role-based access control (RBAC) and multi-person authorization.

Principal Product Manager

Pure Storage

Product Manager for software defined storage solution Pure Cloud Block Store and cloud data protection solution CloudSnap. 
•	Led product management of Pure Cloud Block Store, a software defined storage solution on AWS (early stage) and Azure (zero to one). Worked collaboratively with Engineering, Marketing, Sales, Support, Legal, Finance, and other cross-functional teams to successfully launch V1.0 of product on Azure.
•	Engaged with customers and partners through variety of channels and at different development phases (ideation, development, demo, presentations, beta & POCs) to drive awareness, get feedback on pain points, & design tradeoffs resulting in 50% increase in product adoption and $XXM+ in pipeline.
•	Analyzed different market opportunities for public cloud (IaaS) and SaaS (Storage, Backup & DR as a service), customer segments, competition, routes to market and developed business case for SaaS offerings.
•	Developed product strategy, value proposition, and go to market strategy. Defined product roadmap, product requirement document (PRD) and goals (OKRs). Built financial model to define addressable market, estimated revenue and prioritize product backlog.
•	Researched cloud user personas (Cloud Architects, Developers, DevOps Admins) and mapped out customer journey and usability requirements. Identified requirements for infrastructure lifecycle management using User Interface, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and integration with DevOps tool chain. Ideated, and defined usability needs. Shipped Terraform provider and Ansible playbooks to serve IaC and DevOps specific usability needs.
•	Led product management of CloudSnap, a hybrid cloud data protection solution. Defined product positioning and roadmap by analyzing customer adoption, use cases, industry trends and competitive landscape. Increased feature adoption by 35%.

Product Manager

Product Manager for cloud data protection, cloud migration and multi cloud business continuity software for enterprise customers. Led product roadmap creation, feature definition, release planning, pricing and GTM.
•	Led product management of hybrid cloud use cases (migration, backup and DR) for enterprise customers. Increased customer adoption by 3X and awarded CEO’s Performance Excellence award for creating unique customer value.
•	Developed product strategy, and value proposition by analyzing different market opportunities, customer segments, and competition. Created product vision and roadmap to ensure delivery is aligned with product goals. 
•	Created an API strategy to integrate the product smoothly into the customer's CI/CD pipeline, developing user personas, specifications, and use cases. Shipped several iterations of the product with rich APIs.
•	Developed financial model and prioritized new features for key cloud use cases (such as support for different storage tiers, seeding and edge devices). Managed feature backlog and shipped new versions of the product increasing YOY revenue by 40%.
•	Engaged with customers through a variety of channels and at different development phases (ideation, development, demo and presentations) to get feedback on pain points, design choices, and tradeoffs. 
•	Wrote product requirement documents and worked closely with engineering throughout development cycle and provided guidance on design choices and served as the voice of the customer.
•	Worked with Product Marketing, PR, and global account teams to evangelize key functionalities, and customer benefits. Crafted audience specific presentation, demos, blogs and customer success stories to drive product adoption.

Senior Product Manager

•	Conducted customer interviews and analyzed business opportunities to establish key roadmap themes. Led product definition, planning and execution. Shipped two iterations of the product increasing customer adoption by 60%.
•	Launched product on Azure and AWS cloud marketplaces, resulting in second best cloud marketplace offer within the company with over 500 deployments per quarter via marketplace.	
•	Led customer research and identified new use cases to leverage machine learning and build intelligence into the product. Developed prototype of predictive analytics features to help customers make more informed decisions.
•	Developed CX vision for the product to create intuitive and simple customer experience. Developed user personas, customer journey maps, wireframes, and working prototypes to clearly communicate high level architecture, user interface, and interaction flow of services and experiences.
•	Led customer research and market analysis to ideate new simplified licensing model to increase product adoption and generate additional estimated annual revenue of $XM. Worked with engineering, pricing and operations team to productize the new licensing model.

University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business

MBA Candidate focusing on Technology Commercialization and Business Analytics.
Selected Projects:
1. Pricing strategy analysis for Online Video streaming services such as NetFlix, Amazon Prime Videos, YouTube Red and Hulu to determine consumer perceived value of different features and attributes and their willingness to pay. Develop pricing and bundling recommendations for YouTube Red to improve market share. Used conjoint analysis (part worth analysis and logistic modelling) to analyze customer perceived value and willingness to pay and different customer segments. 
2. Developed market entry strategy and multi-phase implementation plan for Fujikon (a Chinese electro acustic manufacturing company) to enter the US hearing aid industry and carve out a niche in the market. Developed detailed plan for product development, FDA approval, and market entry (direct to consumer and with partnership).
3. Developed technology commercialization plan for Lockheed Martin to monetize its quantum computer by developing a new cloud based energy grid optimization solution web service leveraging power of quantum computer.
4. Developed demand prediction model for San Francisco area Bike Share Program using machine learning techniques (such as best selection, decision tree, Lasso, Random Forest) to optimize demand forecasting and operational planning. Analyzed different customer segments using unsupervised machine learning technique – KMeans.
5. Developed technology commercialization plan for US Navy’s IP on biometric authentication. Developed value creation and value capture hypotheses, tested these hypotheses by interviewing industry experts and potential customers, performed customer discovery, industry analysis, developed go to market strategy and identified companies to partner with.

MBA Candidate

•	Designed and implemented go to market strategy to launch an early stage enterprise data management product on public cloud marketplace (AWS and Azure). Collaborated with customers, accounts team and consulting partners to perform qualitative and quantitative market research, competitive analysis, identify customer personas, and market opportunity for multi-cloud adoption and IT resiliency orchestration. Developed product positioning, business value proposition and messaging to increase customer adoption. Presented business case to senior executives and CEO.
•	Developed use cases and led design of customer journey for product provisioning within public cloud marketplace by collaborating with customers, cloud service providers, engineering team, enterprise architect, marketing team and sales team. Improved customer experience by reducing the product provisioning time from 45 minutes to 5 minutes. Produced marketing collaterals to clearly articulate business value and competitive advantage. Helped in increasing number of customers by 4x.
•	Developed business case for bring your own license (BYOL) monetization model on public cloud marketplace with estimated $4.0M additional booking in 3 years by working cross-functionally with customers, sales team, pricing team and other internal stakeholders across enterprise.

Product Manager - Intern

Lockheed Martin

•	Developed business plan for commercialization of Quantum Computing technology. 
Identified industry, target customers and developed detailed implementation plan for Lockheed Martin to monetize the quantum computing technology and improve absorptive capacity to be at the forefront of evolution of quantum computing technology.

Award - 1st place winner for the best overall business plan development.

MBA Consultant - Product Management

Infosys

•	Co-developed strategy to reduce annual cost of customer’s technology infrastructure by $1.2M. Led design of high availability active-active IaaS infrastructure with 99.999% availability. Developed product vision and road map and led design and implementation of live cloud migration strategy under DevOps model.
•	Led team of 24 to conceptualize, present and implement design changes for customer’s communication platform to increase productivity by 80% and reduce annual operating cost by $5.0M. Served as a product evangelist and presented product vision, roadmap and benefits to senior executive client leaders to get their buy in.
•	Developed machine learning based predictive model for capacity planning of technology platform. Reduced the time spent in capacity planning by more than 50% and improved the accuracy of the capacity planning.
•	Oversaw team of 5 to manage the smooth launch of payment solution cryptography platform for mobile payments such as Apple Pay, Android Pay and Mobile Wallet.
•	Oversaw team of 15 to manage Credit Card Issuance platform and launch Instant card issuance.
•	Partnered with customer to gather requirements, conducted feasibility analysis and prepared business plan as key member of 20-person sales enablement team to execute $100.0M technology modernization proposal.
•	Member of DevOps team and worked with technology product owners and architects to design and envision new customer centric features leveraging agile software development and continuous delivery models.

Technology Lead

•	Led client’s data center migration project. Developed and implemented strategy to consolidate and virtualize servers, which resulted in annual savings of $2.0M.
•	Conducted contract risk analysis and competitive analysis to prepare unique business value propositions as key member of 9-person pre-sales team to execute successful $10.0M technology modernization proposal.
•	Led 18-person team to develop new functionalities for client’s software platform. Improved change management processes to reduce system maintenance caused outages by 15%. Recognized with Infosys Insta award for innovation and value addition to the project.

Technology Analyst

•	Led team of 4 to identify key business issues and execute system enhancements to improve annual availability of client’s payment solution platform from 97% to 100%. 
•	Led team of 4 to set up new merchant partners and implement chip and pin (EMV) cards and contactless payment product across EMEA region.
•	Partnered with client’s Merchant Support and Services team to develop operating strategy for a new Merchant Help desk, as key member of 8 person team and subject matter expert on payments domain and European merchant network, to reduce the merchant query resolution time by 20%.
•	Developed statistical machine learning model to predict impact of payment system’s downtime on revenue & opportunity cost. 
•	Won Infosys MVP award for “Exemplifying excellence in creating initiatives, change and result orientation”.

Senior System Engineer

•	Analyzed business issues and implemented technical system enhancements that improved the system availability by 1% and reduced the maintenance cost of Client’s payment authorization platform by 10%.

System Engineer

Product leader with over 15 years of experience building and scaling zero-to-one products, establishing product market fit, and accelerating early stage growth of AI and data products within enterprise SaaS for global markets. Successfully led multiple products from inception to product market fit through cross-functional leadership and strategic, executive-facing initiatives. Deep expertise in building AI/ML (Classical ML, GenAI, LLM, RAG, and Agents), scalable data platforms, and developer-first APIs. Recognized for authoring peer-reviewed publications on AI, data platforms, and product strategy.

Expertise: 
•	Product Management
•	Machine Learning & Data Science (Classical ML, GenAI, LLM, RAG, and Agents)
•	Product strategy and roadmap planning
•	Product requirement definition and Specifications
•	Feature prioritization and estimation modeling
•	Modern Data Platform Architecture
•	Market Strategy, product positioning and messaging
•	Market Research, Competitive Analysis
•	Cloud Computing
•	Design Thinking, human centered design
•	Pricing – Conjoint Analysis, feature value analysis

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