Spice Catalyst Principals
David Fradin
President, Spice Catalyst | Distinguished Professor of Practice and Advisor | Product Management Programs, WileyNXT | Faculty, IIML-Wiley Data-Driven Product Management Program
Mr. Fradin has trained hundreds of managers throughout the world. He infuses his workshops with insights and experiences gained as a product leader at companies like Apple and HP. He was classically trained as an HP Product Manager and was then recruited by Apple to bring the first hard disk drive on a PC to market. As a result of his leadership and management skills, Apple promoted him first to Apple /// Group Product Manager and later Business Unit Manager at the same organizational level at that time as Steve Jobs. His forthcoming book “Building Insanely Great Products” online training and workshops cover the founding values, vision, product lifecycle and management employed by Apple at its founding and which it returned to in 1997 when Steve Jobs returned to Apple. What students will learn from Mr. Fradin is exactly what has made Apple the most valuable company in the world.
Dean Stewart
Independent Consultant, Spice Catalyst
Dean Stewart has been involved in product ownership and product marketing for over 30 years. His experience spans both hardware and software for the B2B environment.
During his time at NCR Corp. Dean was involved in the development of several generations of retail point of sale equipment. Most notably the first debit card/PIN pad and the first electronic signature capture terminals. Later at Diebold Inc. Dean lead a team of product managers and marketers for the ATM line of business. His team was responsible for one of the most successful ATM families in Diebold history selling over 300,000 units worldwide.
Dean holds 2 US patents and has published a number of articles related to the impacts of regulations and security on the financial industry.
Spice Catalyst helps you accelerate customer value by guiding your team in using Agile principles and practices for product creation, management, marketing and support.
Spice Catalyst continually updates, aligns team skills, processes, and systems, enabling sustainable delivery of breakthrough customer value. Spice Catalyst business-acceleration services include training, mentoring and consulting, and are provided through a global network of consultants and partners. We call ourselves an Agile B2B Acceleration Agency.
Spice Catalyst helps companies like yours build strategies, teams, systems and methodologies that continually deliver breakthrough innovation and new business growth.
We provide best practice skills, methodologies, and tools that provide your teams with an integrated Agile framework that focuses and aligns efforts across the organization
- Product Management
- Product Marketing
- Marketing
- Executives
- Product Development
- Service and support
When we are done, your teams will have a common language, process, and toolsets that spice up your new business growth engine. SPICE acceleration Engagements include:
- Assessments
- Strategic consulting
- Staff development
- Solution implementation
- Staff augmentation
Your teams will partner with people who have been there and done that in senior leadership roles within some of the most innovative companies on the planet, including Apple, Adobe, Compaq, HP, and Cisco. teams will be partnering with people that have been there and done that in senior leadership roles within some of the most innovative companies on the planet, including Apple, Adobe, Compaq, HP, and Cisco.
What makes us different?
We have been there, on the leading edge of technology and innovation. We have built, revitalized and led teams that delivered amazing growth. We have done this as entrepreneurs in raw startups and as senior leaders in $1B plus companies. We have product managed, sold, built channels and partnerships, marketed, created strategic plans, built positioning and pricing models, developed collateral, secured the first marquee customers and partners, and led needed organizational change. We are continually immersed in companies pioneering new technologies, new business models and new methodologies that drive disruptive innovation in their markets.
We have also authored some of the newest thinking about what it takes to deliver game-changing new products and solutions to the market in this new world of continual learning and innovation. We are as comfortable rolling up our sleeves to help out on pricing as we are presenting the need for change to a board of directors and investors. The bottom line is that we can help you gain a sustainable competitive edge that is so critical in today’s fast-moving markets.
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