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James Ruthven

Technology, Product & Security Consultant

€1,000/day
Stuttgart, DE
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

About James

Technical and Product leader with expertise in designing, launching, and managing innovative products, services, and platforms through an agile and data-driven approach. Delivered and managed products and platforms for both internal enterprises users and external customers. Experienced in implementing AI strategies to optimise costs and drive revenue growth across products and organisations.

- CXO-level communicator, with a collaborative leadership style to nurture talent and develop winning teams.
- Successfully executed multiple large-scale transformations, B2B AI SaaS Platform builds and M&A integrations & divestitures.
- Agile leader adept at fostering collaboration and driving alignment across engineering, architecture, product, sales and marketing.
- Proven track record of acquiring and retaining customers through product marketing, sales enablement, and post-sales support.
- Executive MBA focused on Leadership, Strategy and Corporate Finance and MSc in Computing for Commerce and Industry.
  • English

    Native or bilingual

  • German

    Basic

Can work on-site
Stuttgart (up to 50km)

Experience

  • Prudential Financial
    Product & Technology Advisor
    DIGITAL AND IT
    January 2025 - Today (1 year and 5 months)
    Leading delivery of a reinsurance data warehouse platform to support finance, pricing, actuary, investment and risk teams and processes including generative AI/ML reporting.
    Product Development Data Lake Project Management Product management IT Architecture
  • London Stock Exchange (LSEG)
    Platform Product Owner
    DIGITAL AND IT
    January 2024 - December 2024 (11 months)
    Successfully resolved platform development delays and accelerated the launch of an Internal Developer Portal (IDP) to enhance developer and architect experiences while streamlining the architecture to development process for multiple LSEG B2B SaaS Customer Applications.
    Backstage product owner IT Architecture Cloud computing Product Development
  • Evona
    Chief Technology Officer
    DIGITAL AND IT
    November 2023 - June 2025 (1 year and 7 months)
    Advising space and deep tech recruitment company on their IT and digital marketing strategy, ensuring a clear alignment with the broader business objectives to support scaling their business with target of a successful capital raise.
    Optimised IT team performance and supported technological investment planning and product road mapping.

    - Improved digital marketing, data strategy, CRM automation and governance.
    - Single Business Reporting Dashboard. Using Azure Fabric & Power Apps for consolidation of business reporting.
    - Managed platform cyber security audits including pen tests and Centre for Internet Security (CIS) framework alignment.
    - Development of a new AI powered SaaS recruitment platform (Google Cloud, Firebase Studio & Gemini).
    IT Architecture artificial intelligence Cloud computing Project Management IT Strategy

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Education

  • Executive MBA
    Bayes Business School
    2018
    Executive MBA
  • MSc
    Open University
    2018
    MSc

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