Ariya Hemati
Product Management Leader | Financial Modeling and Data Analytics | Operational Excellence
Summary
Ariya is an accomplished leader and trusted mentor; his entrepreneurial mindset strives to make an impact. He is inherently curious, innovative and a focused problem solver that thrives in a collaborative environment.
His leadership and cross-functional experience has helped Financial Services, Technology firms, and FinTech startups succeed in:
• Product Strategy, Management & Development
• Financial Modeling & Data Analytics
• Corporate Strategy & Operational Excellence
• Asset Management, Structured Finance & Risk Management
Concurrently, Ariya is a passionate startup investor and volunteer.
He successfully grew a craft beer microbrewery across 3 large cities, founded a profitable textbook resale business, and invested in multiple finance and technology startups. Additionally, Ariya enjoys volunteering and helping make an impact in his community.
Ariya earned his MBA from Mays School of Business at Texas A&M University with specializations in Finance and Entrepreneurship, and he holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.
Experience
Vice President of Product
Wells Fargo / San Francisco, CA
Product manager executing on data-driven strategies within Wells Fargo's Investment Portfolio (Fixed Income, Portfolio Analytics, and Renewable Energy Investments).
Leading product strategy, innovation, and Agile development for a portfolio of products that enable new capabilities focused around portfolio management, data analytics, business intelligence, financial forecasting, and risk management.
Overseeing all product lifecycle processes including product research, planning, positioning, roadmap development, requirements gathering, and product launches. Driving product and business planning processes across cross-functional teams, and leveraging partnerships to maximize ROI.
Creating product strategy documents that describe business cases, high-level use cases, technical requirements, revenue and expense forecasts, and ROI.
Translating product strategy into detailed requirements for prototype/MVP construction, and final product development by engineering teams.
Developing and implementing new business operating models, increasing operational efficiency, and leading multiple business projects and initiatives.
Manager of Strategic Planning, Risk Management, and Operations
San Francisco Public Utilities Commission / San Francisco, CA
Head of Risk Management and Operations for a $35M+, 400MW renewable energy portfolio for the SFPUC and CleanPowerSF.
Oversaw and executed commercial strategies that grew market share and optimized operations for the San Francisco Public Utility Commission and CleanPowerSF, San Francisco's new CCA.
Grew market share by 25% Q/Q by executing commercial go-to-market strategies for CleanPowerSF.
Developed commercial forecasting, optimization, and risk management models that resulted in 25% market growth Q/Q, 15% increased revenue YoY, and a forecast-actual variance of less than 5%.
Product Manager that led product strategy and development for 4 products respective to Risk Management, Settlements, Payments and Forecasting.
Coached product and operations teams to surpass KPIs that increased revenues by 25%, increased operational efficiency by 50%, and reduced operational expenses by 30%.
Product Manager
Veritas Total Solutions / Houston, TX
Veritas Total Solutions is a boutique management consulting firm that focuses on strategy, operations, and technology.
Led client engagements and executed commercial strategies that increased market share by 300%, increased revenues by 25%, and reduced expenses by 40%. Led portfolio analytics, business intelligence, and risk management (hedging, PnL, and VaR) work streams.
Product Manager that oversaw all product lifecycle processes, and analyzed market data to develop sales strategies, and define product objectives for effective marketing communications plans.
Collaborated closely with engineering, production, marketing, and sales teams on the development, QA, and release of products while working to balance resources to ensure success for our clients and Veritas.
Associate
Castleton Commodities International / Houston, TX
Top 10, multi-billion dollar independent global commodity hedge fund that focuses on physical and financial trading, asset optimization and portfolio management.
Researched, analyzed and assessed $MM dollar investments across trading desks. Developed and reported market metrics, P&L, VaR, and other investment metrics using SQL, VBA, Matlab.
Product Owner that led product development to automate, analyze, and report investment data.
Management Consultant
Accenture / Houston, TX
Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations.
Focus Areas: Finance & Performance Management (F&PM), Operational Excellence, Waterfall and Agile implementations.
Coordinated with Product Managers to create product roadmaps, and worked with business teams and key stakeholders to define scope, costs and timelines for updating existing products and implementing new products.
Engaged product and engineering teams to understand product feasibility and limitations, and collaborated with business stakeholders to conduct gap-analysis for additional requirements.
Assisted QA to ensure that delivered system is properly tested and meets the product requirements.
Education
Texas A&M University
Masters of Business Administration (MBA) / Finance, Entrepreneurship
University of Texas at Austin
B.S. in Civil Engineering
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