Soodeh Farokhi

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ABOUT SOODEH FAROKHI

I am a tech entrepreneur, a customer-centric product leader, and a strategic executive with exponential experience in building products/startups, defining a visionary yet practical business model, adopting technologies that accelerate the growth, building a product from the ground up, defining and executing the steps to pass the PMF, defining product strategies, managing roadmaps, building a winning team, establishing tier-1 strategic partnerships that accelerate the growth, and bringing the revenue to the company with a scalable pricing model. I am a working mom of 2, a startup advisor, a mentor, a board member, and a D&I advocate. I have a Ph.D. in CS, and I believe the future is better than what we think! Industries: Enterprise SW | B2B SaaS | Cloud | AI | Telco | Video Analytics | Cloud Robotics | HR - If you\'d like to know me even more, then plz keep reading- Dr. Soodeh Farokhi is a visionary tech entrepreneur and a proven strategic executive with over 15 years of exponential experience in the enterprise software domain as a customer-centric technology and product leader. She has a solid dual tech-business view with broad experience building innovative software products and startups from the ground up to large-scale customer deployments. She is a leader with a track record of managing, inspiring, and empowering people, building alignments, elevating autonomy, agility and diversity, making the right decision under uncertainty, and accomplishing the vision. She is currently the Chief Product Officer at NAKISA, a global leader in HR and Finance SaaS. She is the founder and the former CTO at C2RO, an award-winning Canadian AI Video Analytics SaaS company. Among her achievements, she\'s the finalist of the Canadian Women Entrepreneurs National Award (RBC, 2020), the finalist of the Young Quebec Entrepreneurs Provisional Award (ARISTA, 2018), an innovator transforming the AI Video Analytics industry (SAP, 2021), and the top 750 digital innovators worldwide (DataBird journal, 2018). Her entrepreneurial journey started at age 27 by co-founding a startup to automate business processes for enterprises. She\'s the co-founder and a former executive member of the Women of MENA in Tech Montreal, and an advisory committee member of the Women in Leadership Foundation in Canada. She serves as a business advisor and board member for several tech startups and organizations. She has a PhD. in computer science from Vienna and an M.Sc, and a B.Sc. in SW Eng.