Balaji Gopalan

20+ years' experience in product, organizational and business leadership - Co-founder and CEO of MedStack, a cloud security automation platform dedicated for healthcare apps, bringing them to market 60% faster. A major brand in the Toronto digital health community, company has nearly 50 customers (July 2018) in several regions, and is a successful graduate of Dreamit Health, Creative Destruction Lab and 500 Startups (TechCrunch pick). - Led Platform for Nymi, supporting partnerships with global brands to drive secure convenience and personalization into everyday interaction with technology, and developed, launched and supported the global Developer Program as a key company executive in its early stage - Developed Desire2Learn's platform and ecosystem strategy, fostering product partnerships that innovate in education, launching the company's app store and platform roadmap - Led Content Ops planning / marketing for Qwyrk Media to revolutionize Consumer engagement with music and movies - Developed organization, operations and business for new Consumer software products and business models at BlackBerry, providing the foundation for the worldwide Consumer smartphone revolution. Launch Product Manager of BBM, the first mobile-centric global chat system. - Designed and deployed product development processes for Bombardier Aerospace, focused on the flagship Global series, one of the most advanced private jets on the planet. - Developed mandates and portfolio strategy, and sourced and hired direct world-class managers for Product and Program organizations at several companies. Specialties: Market planning and strategy | Platform and developer ecosystems | Product requirements | Business process design | Product positioning | Strategic partnerships | Portfolio management | Leadership and change | Organization design | Execution and in-life | Mobile value chain and ecosystem