Heike Schirmer
Investor and Advisor @Guava Health
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WORK HISTORY
Investor and Advisor @Guava Health
EDUCATION
Technical University of Munich
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Physics
Freie Universität Berlin
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Social Entrepreneurship
SKILLS
ABOUT HEIKE SCHIRMER
I am an innovative, hands-on product and tech leader with 15 years of experience. I have a unique blend of expertise in product management, technical leadership, strategy development, and organizational transformation. I lead high-performing, multi-disciplinary teams and develop products from concept to launch to driving adoption and growth - both for B2C and B2B. I have a strong track record of managing organizations through post-acquisition transitions from my consulting experience at McKinsey and my first-hand experience at Amazon. Currently, I am working on Alexa, the leading voice assistant, focusing on voice-based interaction between humans and computers. I lead a team of ~100 people including product and program managers, software and knowledge engineers, and scientists focused on question answering. Specialties: product development, engineering roadmap development & execution, product delivery and scaling, natural language processing / understanding and generation, voice design, knowledge graph / ontologies, post-merger / post-acquisition integration.
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