# Kinan Saddekni Kinan Saddekni is a remote worker on Himalayas, Vice President, Technology and Innovation at Blackstone, based in United States. Source: https://himalayas.app/@kinansaddekni ```text Product executive at Blackstone who led a team that saved $52M in recurring vendor spend and built data and AI foundations. ``` | Detail | Value | | --- | --- | | Availability | Looking for a job | | Location | United States | | Authorized to work in | United States | | Salary expectations | 200k+ USD | | Job categories | Product Manager, Project Manager | | Skills | Product Strategy, Product Management, Portfolio Modernisation, Product Roadmap, Portfolio Rationalization, Product EOL, Subscription Billing, Monetization, Order To Cash, Data Migration, Data Lake, Data Sharing, Snowflake, AI Data Layers, Knowledge Layers | | LinkedIn | https://linkedin.com/in/kinan-saddekni-a5b89038 | ## About ```text At Blackstone, I led the team that saved $52M in recurring licensing fees, subscriptions, and vendor spend in the first year. I also drove Snowflake data migration, data lakes, and data sharing. I led AI partner selection and implementation of the data and knowledge layers and API automation. As product manager for the global migration of Blackstone operations to AWS and Azure, I owned business requirements and product definition across 23 offices and four product teams. At Assembly Legal, I built the SaaS product that replaced and sunset the legacy portfolio, delivering 30% revenue growth in year one and 30% year over year. I also led the product side of migrating about 1,000 personal injury law firm practices to Azure and owned billing and order-to-cash capabilities. At McLeod Software, I was the first and only product manager for 11 years, helping the company grow from about $26M to a $1B valuation and 1,000+ employees. I won 10% TMS market share for new products and features I owned, with 95% client satisfaction. ``` ## Experience ### Vice President, Technology and Innovation Blackstone. Sep 2021 - Aug 2023 ```text Led the team that saved $52M in recurring vendor spend in the first year. Drove Snowflake data migration, AI partner selection, and cloud migration to AWS and Azure. ``` Skills: Snowflake, Data-Migration, Data-Lake, Data-Sharing, AI, API-Automation, AWS, Azure, Product-Management ### Director of Product Management Assembly Legal. Nov 2019 - Jan 2021 ```text Delivered 30% revenue growth in year one and 30% year over year. Built the SaaS product that replaced and sunset the legacy portfolio, and led migration of 1,000 law firm practices to Azure. ``` Skills: SaaS, Product-Management, Azure, Billing, Order-To-Cash ### Senior Product Manager (Contract) [ADP](https://himalayas.app/companies/adp). Mar 2019 - Nov 2019 ```text Managed product for a $3.2B HR and PEO portfolio serving 520K+ employees, including payment disbursement by ACH, check and wire. ``` Skills: Product-Management, Human-Resources, PEO, ACH, Payments ### Senior Product Manager [Lumeris](https://himalayas.app/companies/lumeris). Apr 2018 - Mar 2019 ```text Cut claims processing time 40% on the payor side of value-based care and supported the consumer portal. ``` Skills: Product-Management, Claims-Processing, Value-Based-Care, Customer-Portal ### Professional Services Manager, BPO [SAP CallidusCloud](https://himalayas.app/companies/sap). Mar 2017 - Mar 2018 ```text Raised professional services productivity 20% in BPO delivery. ``` Skills: Professional-Services, BPO, Productivity ### Product Manager and Project Manager [McLeod Software](https://himalayas.app/companies/mcleod-software). Dec 2004 - Mar 2016 ```text Helped McLeod through growth from about $26M to a $1B valuation and 1,000+ employees. Won 10% TMS market share for new products with 95% client satisfaction. ``` Skills: Product-Management, Project-Management, TMS, Truckload, LTL, Intermodal, Route-Optimization, Fuel-Optimisation, Satellite-Positioning, Messaging, Settlements, Payroll, Accounting, Billing, Order-To-Cash ### Systems Engineer [Oracle Health Cerner (previously VitalWorks)](https://himalayas.app/companies/oracle). Dec 2000 - Dec 2004 ```text Shipped the first VitalWorks EHR and practice management product, including provider and patient portals, which became Cerner and then Oracle Health through acquisitions. ``` Skills: Electronic-Health-Records-(EHR), Practice-Management, Provider-Portals, Patient-Portal ### Implementation Manager [Houghton Mifflin Harcourt](https://himalayas.app/companies/houghton-mifflin-harcourt). Jan 1999 - Dec 2000 ```text Managed implementation projects for educational products. ``` Skills: Implementation, Project-Management ### Systems Engineer [Houghton Mifflin Harcourt](https://himalayas.app/companies/houghton-mifflin-harcourt). Jan 1997 - Jan 1999 ```text Worked as a systems engineer supporting educational technology systems. ``` Skills: Systems-Engineering ## Education ### Fairleigh Dickinson University Bachelor of Arts, Business Administration and Management ```text Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration and Management from Fairleigh Dickinson University. ``` ### University of Alabama at Birmingham Bachelor of Science, Biology and Chemistry ```text Bachelor of Science in Biology and Chemistry from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. ``` ### Amazon Web Services AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, Cloud Computing ```text Certified as an AWS Cloud Practitioner. ``` ## Tech stack - Snowflake - Microsoft Azure - AWS To contact Kinan, message them from this profile with a Himalayas employer account: [Hire on Himalayas](https://himalayas.app/hire). ## People also viewed - [Richard Small](https://himalayas.app/@richardsmall): Sr. Product Manager, Salesforce - [Tameka Williams](https://himalayas.app/@tamekawilliams1): Director of Product Management Consulting, NTT Data - [Anya Princess](https://himalayas.app/@anyaprincess): Product/Data Manager, Arttherapy HQ - [Dale Kloefkorn](https://himalayas.app/@dalekloefkorn): Principal Product Manager – AI /ML, Pfizer - [Deborah Cain](https://himalayas.app/@deborahcain): Office Manager & Consultant, BE VEry Resilient - [Rickey Helsel](https://himalayas.app/@rickeyhelsel): Director of Product Management, UnitedLex - [Michael Overstreet](https://himalayas.app/@michaeloverstreet): Manager of Products, Varec, Inc - [Sribatsa Nayak](https://himalayas.app/@sribatsanayak): Technical Product Manager GTM Systems and CRM Platform, ServiceNow - [Aditi Ranpise](https://himalayas.app/@aditiranpise): Product Manager, VP, Northern Trust - [Jayshree Singh](https://himalayas.app/@jayshreesingh): IT Product Owner, Randstad