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Roy Ghandour

@royghandour

Product and technology leader with an entrepreneurial mindset, bridging business and engineering to build scalable products and drive growth.

Lebanon

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking for a remote role where I can bring together product, technology, and business to solve meaningful problems and help a company grow. I do my best work when I have ownership, autonomy, and a clear outcome to deliver. Most importantly, I want to work on products and initiatives that serve a bigger vision and give me a reason to be invested in what we build.

I've spent most of my career at the intersection of product, technology and business, across financial-market infrastructure, fintech, B2B SaaS and digital products. I've worked in product management, program and delivery leadership, product leadership and entrepreneurship, which has given me a broad view of how products are built, from architecture and APIs to customer needs, business models and production operations.

My approach to product management is hands-on. I like working closely with engineers and business stakeholders, understanding asks and constraints before choosing a solution, making trade-offs explicit and following through from discovery to production. I also care about how teams work together: creating shared principles and clarity while giving people enough autonomy to make decisions and improve their work.

I'm particularly interested in products where reliability, integrations and execution matter. I am attached to work on project/initiiatives/product linked to a bigger vision. It is important to me to feel invested in a mission that brings the best of me. I'm looking for a role where I can combine my technical background, product experience and entrepreneurial perspective, work closely with engineering, and have a tangible impact. I value direct communication, ownership and teams that focus on solving real problems rather than following process for its own sake.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior Product Lead

Current

Thales

Jun 2024 - Present (2 years 4 months)

Owned definition and execution of 5 BI products supporting decision-making across Business Units and enterprise support functions.
Managed a €5M+ portfolio budget and drove adoption of a shared data products build architecture, improving delivery efficiency by 40%.

Head of Product

The Padelist

Mar 2023 - Jun 2024 (1 year 3 months)

Scaled a 10K+ user sports community in 2 months through rapid product iteration and experimentation.
Designed and integrated Stripe into the payment flow, improving conversion and engagement across acquisition funnels.

Senior Product Manager

Tekion Corp

Feb 2022 - Mar 2023 (1 year 1 month)

Defined and evolved product architecture across APIs, event-driven flows and data models, improving data consistency and meeting European regulatory requirements.
Built a real-time credit scoring system and adapted Tekion Pay for the French market.

Product Management API Design Event Driven Architecture Data Modeling Credit Scoring Regulatory Compliance

Chief Product Officer

Inqom

Feb 2021 - Feb 2022 (1 year)

Rebuilt ML-driven accounting workflows, increasing automation by 60% and improving accuracy beyond 95%.
Evolved platform architecture to support 99.9% availability and shipped an automated accounting review feature.

Machine Learning Accounting Platform Architecture Automation

Lead Product Manager

Inqom

May 2020 - Feb 2021 (9 months)

Designed and implemented core features, including Loan Accounting and automated Accounting Review workflows. Identified and validated a credit-check use case using accounting data and platform integration.

Product Management Loan Accounting Accounting Review Credit Checks Platform Integration

Founder

Moneezen

Jan 2019 - Apr 2020 (1 year 3 months)

Launched a data-driven microcredit platform in 6 months, reaching 6000 active users within 2 months while complying with PSD2 and ACPR. Built ML models and an ML-driven credit decisioning engine.

Machine Learning Credit Decisioning PSD2 ACPR Payment Integration Mangopay Lemonway

Head of Release Management

Murex

Feb 2014 - Jan 2018 (3 years 11 months)

Led platform release engineering directing a cross-continental team of 25 from roadmap to production deployment.
Defined and deployed a cross-division release model ensuring predictable delivery and 4 years of on-time production releases.

Release Management Data Driven Pipelines Validation Corrective Maintenance defect reduction

Program Manager

Murex

Feb 2011 - Feb 2014 (3 years)

Led program delivering a portfolio management solution serving 180 enterprise clients, directing 45 experts across 3 geographical locations.
Acted as solution architect and delivery lead to ship a real-time clearing solution for London Clearing House regulatory compliance.

Program Management Solutions Architect Delivery Management Regulatory Compliance Team Leadership

Technical Product Manager

Murex

Feb 2007 - Feb 2011 (4 years)

Led platform architecture overhaul reducing TCO by 20% and improving latency 10-fold.
Improved platform scalability for high-volume trading via load, latency, and runtime behavior analysis.

Product Management Platform Architecture Scalability Latency Optimization Swift Derivatives