Saad Saeed

Co-Founder, CEO

2023 - Current

Hey, I’m on a mission to redefine your travel adventures, blending cutting-edge AI, content & insights from the worlds best 2000 creators, and my strong partnerships with Booking.com & Skyscanner. With my community already over 50 million strong through @beautifuldestinations and backings from celebrities like Paris Hilton, my goal is to personalize your discovery and booking experiences so you get the trip you deserve.

Business Angel

2021

Advisor, mentor and early-stage investor in the qCommerce and logistics space. Focus on headless commerce, rider solutions, last mile at early stage startups with potential for high growth both in developed and emerging markets.

Co-Founder, Director of Technology

2020 - 2021

Founder

2019 - 2020

Our mission is to be the holistic guide that improves your health every day. Every fitness activity is rewarded with Crumbs through our mobile app. These Crumbs can then be used to get offers from top brands. - www.crumb.health

Project Portfolio Manager

2017 - 2019

Reporting directly to Andrew Shaw • Ensured strategic direction are met by facilitating the definition of a 2-year company-wide roadmap including teams involved and the relation of a project to overall company strategy. • Worked with key stakeholders to define requirements and delivery milestones for major programs. • Created tools in Google Sheets for allowing project managers to update data about their projects so automated reports such as Gantt charts, Risk matrix, Capacity allowance, etc., could be generated. Implemented policies to guide project managers regarding steps to take in each stage of a project life cycle from initiation to end. Key Achievement • Set up an advanced Program Portfolio Management System in a complex international setting across all the functions in the company. Led the process from initial design, through setting up, leading change management across 100+ people in 8 locations, up to the regular and tuned up rhythm.

Product Owner

2016 - 2017

• Working closely with the Data Science department to ensure that models are properly deployed and overlooking the data process from the stage of acquisition from partners and website to the final stage of getting a credit risk score. Technical Lead of the product Control Center which contrasted business objectives and reality, monitored processes, notified workflow inconsistencies, illustrated loan underwriting flow and verified and forecasted CPO. • Introduced Agile methodologies into the department and helped the team transition from a waterfall to an agile approach. Key Achievement • Hired a fantastic team to implement a personal brainchild, the web application Control Center, which helped optimize the work of multiple company departments and provide an intuitive visualization of important KPIs and scoring rules.

Lead Software Engineer

2014 - 2016

Kreditech uses big data, unique proprietary algorithms and automated processes to offer financial products to the underbanked and the 4bn people with no credit score. Responsibilities: - Overlooking performance of underwriting projects to verify if they are meeting the business and technical objectives and managing stakeholders expectations. • Ensuring the completeness, consistency, uniqueness, timeliness, and validity of data used to score an application. • Creating and maintaining rules in the scorecard, that every application goes through during scoring, to implement legal, anti-fraud and financial checks. • Troubleshooting applications that have irregularities such as missing customer information or wrong application flow. • Communicating with new potential business partners that can offer information about customers or provide services such as a CRM tool.