Andy Boyd

CPO

United States17 yrs 4 mos experience
Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • Scaled Appfire from $30M to over $200M ARR.
  • Launched IBM Cloud for Financial Services.
  • Developed AI platform with 6 successful apps.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and AI product management expert with a strong focus on growth and innovation.

Contact

andyfboyd@gmail.comLinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementAiPlgGrowthNlpRevenue GrowthProduct MarketingMarketing Strategy

Other Skills

A/B testingAI SolutionsAdvertisingAnalyticsCompetitive AnalysisConversion OptimizationCross-functional CollaborationCross-functional Team LeadershipDeveloper ExperienceDigital MarketingDigital StrategyDigital TransformationE-commerceEmail MarketingEntrepreneurship

About

Software executive with successful track record of scaling SaaS, cloud and AI businesses. Expertise in product-led growth (PLG), M&A, platform strategy, and building high-performing product orgs.

Experience

Appfire

2 roles

Chief Product Officer (CPO)

Promoted

Jan 2023 – Jul 2025 · 2 yrs 6 mos

  • Appfire, the leading global provider of software that enhances, extends, and connects SaaS platforms such as Atlassian, Microsoft, Salesforce and monday.com. The Appfire portfolio serves teams in software development, service management, enterprise collaboration and knowledge management. Appfire is backed by Silversmith Capital Partners and TA Associates.
  • Growth: Appfire ~7x, from $30M ARR to over $200M ARR+ (as of Jan 2024)
  • Defined multi-year product vision, strategy, including expansion strategy
  • Built product org: Grew product org from 3 to 90 through a mix of acquisition and hiring
  • M&A: Partnered with corp dev on a cumulative 24 acquisitions
  • AI: Developed AI platform, launched 6 AI enabled apps - Workflow Pro, featured in Atlassian Keynote
Product ManagementProduct MarketingStrategyLeadershipAI

Senior Vice President, Product Management and Growth

Dec 2020 – Dec 2022 · 2 yrs

  • Fund-raising: Contributed product strategy, ultimately resulted in TA Associates $100M investment
  • Innovation: Led charge with legal, product and engineering to file the first patent in Appfire history
  • PLG: Developed and scaled PLG strategy across portfolio, 51 apps instrumented and optimized
Product ManagementPLGInnovation

Ibm

4 roles

Director Product Management - Growth, IBM Cloud

Jan 2019 – Dec 2020 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Product Manager for IBM Cloud and AI. Growth and Digital Transformation for IBM Cloud.
  • Achievements:
  • Partnered with marketing and sales, improved paid conversion rate by 200%+ and NPS by 34%
  • Led large-scale price project across Cloud infrastructure, reduced delivery time from 3 to 1 month
  • Launched IBM Cloud for Financial Services, a first of a kind offering with FS Cloud Team
  • Created Growth Acceleration Program, deploying 20+ growth squads (including IBM Quantum)
Product ManagementGrowthDigital Transformation

Director Product Management - Growth, IBM Watson / AI

Promoted

Nov 2016 – Jan 2019 · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • Growth for the Watson portfolio (Chatbot, NLP, Speech, Image APIs), including developer experience (Dev tools, SDKs, Docs, Demos, Starter kits) and go-to-market.
  • Achievements:
  • Increased daily account creation by 450%+ through developer-focused growth initiatives
  • Delivered IBM Watson Cloud Developer Experience, improving activation rate by 75%
  • Established digital channel program and team, driving 50% paying customer growth in 2 quarters
  • Drove organizational adoption of data-driven product management
Product ManagementGrowthDeveloper Experience

Senior Product Manager - NLP Portfolio, IBM Watson / AI

Promoted

May 2015 – Nov 2016 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Lead the natural language processing portfolio: AlchemyLanguage, Relationship Extraction, Concept Insights, Tone Analyzer and Language Translation.
  • Achievements:
  • Product lead for AlchemyAPI acquisition (strategy, diligence & integration), integrated successfully
  • 3x Alchemy paying customer base in 1 year
  • Launched NLP Products (emotion, multilingual models in Spanish, German, Arabic)
  • Collaborated cross-functionally to launch Watson Knowledge Studio, a first-of-its-kind product
  • Introduced Starter Kits, instrumental in closing multiple high-value contracts
Product ManagementNLPCross-functional Collaboration

Product Manager, Platform, IBM Watson / AI

May 2014 – May 2015 · 1 yr

  • Build the industry's first AI solutions leveraging IBM Watson.
  • Achievements:
  • Played key role in launching Watson Developer Cloud, the first AI platform of its kind
  • Defined strategy for Machine Learning NLP on Watson Developer Cloud
  • Implemented analytics strategy later used in C-suite reports and 10-K filings
Product ManagementAI SolutionsAnalyticsAI

Inet interactive

2 roles

Sr. Product Manager, Data Center Vertical

Jan 2013 – May 2014 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Lead and grow the Data Center product portfolio; increase revenue, build community, and drive innovation. (iNET Interactive, Acquired by Penton Media)
  • Achievements:
  • Managed and grew multi-million-dollar Data Center product portfolio
  • Launched series of 1-day events, exceeding revenue and profitability goals
  • Introduced new lead-gen product, sold out full-year inventory in 30 days
Product ManagementRevenue GrowthInnovation

Product Manager, Consumer Tech Vertical

Aug 2010 – Dec 2012 · 2 yrs 4 mos

  • Lead and grow the consumer tech product portfolio (vertical business unit); increase revenue, build community, and drive innovation. (iNET, Acquired by Penton Media)
  • Achievements:
  • Managed and grew $1M+ Consumer Tech product portfolio
  • Delivered full website rewrite, driving 730% traffic growth over 2 years
  • Optimized sales strategy, exceeding revenue targets by 40%
  • Introduced new product lines, including e-book series and WinDeals
Product ManagementRevenue GrowthSales Strategy

Idm computer solutions inc

Product Marketing Manager

Jan 2008 – Aug 2010 · 2 yrs 7 mos

  • Oversee all marketing, advertising, and promotional activities. Create and execute annual marketing plan to meet organizational objectives. Relationship manager for resellers and international distributors.
  • Achievements:
  • Increased UltraCompare download-to-purchase conversion rate by 67%
  • Launched three new products to market
Product MarketingMarketing StrategyAdvertising

Education

Wright State University

MBA — MBA

University of Wisconsin-Whitewater

BBA — Computer End-User Technologies

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