Yohann Abittan
Founder of NewMail AI
Yohann Abittan
Founder of NewMail AI
Geneva, Geneva
Overview
Work Experience
Founder
2023 - Current
Pioneering a transformative approach to digital communication through AI. Our goal at NewMail AI is to revolutionize how professionals engage with their digital environment, beginning with a smarter, more intuitive email and calendar experience. In my role, I am committed to empowering users with AI tools that are not only innovative but also inherently intuitive and user-friendly. Data privacy is not an afterthought but the cornerstone of our design philosophy, ensuring every interaction within our platform is secure and respectful of user data. My journey with NewMail AI is driven by a passion to create solutions that simplify complex tasks, offer personalized insights, and enhance overall productivity. We're building a future where digital communication is seamlessly integrated into your workflow, enabling you to focus on what's truly important. Join us at NewMail AI as we pave the way for a more organized, efficient, and insightful way to navigate your digital life.
Founding Partner
2018
Armada Builders is a pre-seed Venture Capital firm investing in making AI safer and more trustworthy so it can become truly useful to the enterprise. We seek out disruptive innovators in the earliest stages of venture creation and accelerate their journey to product market fit. Armada also fosters a community of creatives and makers using data AI and robotics to create digital and physical art and music. Stimulating the way we think about working with automated systems to create new and exciting experiences.
Principal Product Manager
2020 - 2022
Lodestar is a video first deep learning platform, go from raw video files to a working custom AI model in 1 hour. Thanks to video native annotation, model assisted data curation and automated model training. Manage your dataset with a pythonic API, run experiments, get to know your data and build the best models. Lodestar is delivered as a cloud service running on dedicated GPU hardware managed by our team. - Defined personas, user journeys, use cases, UX, MRD, PRD - Owned the roadmap, product process, product requirements and user stories for all features - Collaborated cross-functionally with 10 engineers, marketing and sales from ideation to GA - Managed 2 full time team members and 4 contractors in the context of special projects - Acquired enterprise customers and delivered software+hardware solutions
Associate Product Manager
2019 - 2020
- Learned from founders experience delivering 100+ DL projects and GPU systems to F500. - Analysed competitive landscape and created visualizations and presentations for the wider team. - Defined positioning and branding of our company in the AI for enterprise space.
Guest Lecturer - datacentric AI
2021 - 2021
Part of a collaboration between CMU applied AI class for masters students and my role at Lodestar AI. Guided grad students in developing datasets, training vision transformers on GPU servers, testing, deploying and evaluating their vision applications. Giving students hands on experience in developing practical AI solutions using a datacentric approach.
Venture Capital Analyst
2019 - 2019
- Played a key role in defining the fund's positioning, branding and message architecture - Identified a team with disruptive potential, leading to a seed investment - Met one on one with 100+ founders to explore the fit between their company and our fund - Analyzed the product, team and market risks to determine the investment opportunity - Conducted technical due diligence of proposed technological innovations - Processed 260 companies through investment pipeline
Product Management and Security Engineering Trainee
2018 - 2018
- Collaborated with PM and 10 engineers to develop a network security solution for ISPs. - Performed market research and analysed value propositions of competitors and substitutes. - Leveraged competitive advantage and differentiating features to redefine positioning. - Identified key partners and valuable enterprise customers. Analyzed different connected devices ( Logitech, Dahua, TPlink, Withings) - Performed security assessment of the software and hardware - Designed proof-of-concept exploits for the identified vulnerabilities - Wrote appropriate counter measures which were then automated
Product Manager ( Acquired by Unity )
2017 - 2017
- Biggest pilot has shown 15% lift in conversion resulting in $1.5M/month additional revenue. - Developed go-to-market strategy for emerging speech technology directly with CEO. - Identified key features for our proof of concept and created first wireframes of the U/I. - Planned prepared and collected initial dataset for use in the machine learning pipeline. - Participated in fundraising meetings, raising a $2.2m pre-seed round.
Intern
2017 - 2017
- Shadowed the CEO during earliest stages of ideation of the company - Brainstormed potential business applications of SRI's proprietary technology
Assistant To The Director
2016 - 2016
Revenue in Y1 : $2M - Set up the PoS software and customized the U/I to fit our needs - Trained the staff on how to use the PoS software - Participated in strategy and marketing meetings - Hosted, waited, bussed tables
Sales Intern
2014 - 2014
- Helped customers find the products that were right for them - Upsold and cross sold customers different high margin items and services - Enhanced user experience by providing after sale care - Shadowed the CEO for one week