Mikkel Løcke Winther

EGN Chair and Commercial Product Leader: Connecting Business Strategy, Product Strategy and Tactical Execution.

Frederiksberg Municipality, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark

About

Experience with people management, product development, project management, business development, partner management and relationship selling, press and PR work, marketing and product marketing as well as start-ups. Specialties: Concept development and business strategy, strategy and execution, organizational skills, e-commerce, e-services, entrepreneurship, management and much more... Experience includes 10+ years with product management in the IT industry, dealing with complex technology solving complex issues. Includes software product management, hardware and cloud based SaaS. Working with diverse stakeholder groups and handling large international partner ecosystems, building relations to both large industrial partners and government institutions. I have people manager experience from having lead senior teams as group manager and team manager. I am passionate about people growth. I thrive in the strategic elements of product management, being responsible for customer insights, conceptualizing and the product roadmap and communicating the roadmap and building up tension and anticipations for coming features and products. I have experience from the early phases of Product Management, covering customer and market insights, identifying opportunities and gaps, early ideation and prototyping leading up to conceptualizing and building the strong business case, that might lead to developing the opportunity at hand - delivering innovation and solutions to the market. Ability to communicate with all stakeholders and on all levels. Capability in making the complex comprehensible, transforming even very technical complex information into market relevant messages and create the right value proposition. I have experience from the venture capital industry and I am an experienced entrepreneur, having founded two High-Tech start-ups within Security and Computer Peripherals. Certified Software Product Manager, ISPMA. Contact: [email protected] / 2632-3062

Experience

  • Network Director at EGN Danmark
    Jun 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 1 mo

    EGN - making each other better! As Network Director I am leading professionel peer groups. This includes facilitation of meetings with a focus on professional knowledge sharing, networking and relationship building. KPI's for this role includes retention, attendance rate and customer satisfaction. I have groups within Product Management, Product Leadership, Marketing and more. My tasks are: - Facilitation of peer groups - Planning and execution of peer group meetings - Relationship building with and between members - Creating and open and confidential environment where knowledge and best practices are shared Share knowledge in a professional business network! EGN (Executives' Global Network is) a global, professional network for business executives. Since 1992 EGN has built relationships and shared knowledge, now counting more than 15,000 members gathered in 800+ confidential local peer groups for executives, managers and other key employees. With peer groups targeted at more than 70 different organizational functions and management levels, we provide members with the opportunity to get feedback across professions, companies and industries. A peer group provides access to current trends, inspiration and an opportunity to test ideas within a confidential setting. A peer group saves you time and money and at the same time provides you with relevant input for decision-making and thereby creates personal, professional and financial value to you and your business.

  • Partner Manager (interim) at Nevico Product Management
    Jan 2023 - Jun 2023 · 6 mos

    Responsible of securing Nevico Partner Programme. Creating profound value for clients that are searching a new way to build and maintain a world class product management function. Nevicos Partner Programme is aimed at strengthening the Product Management competencies in companies and in general strengthening and maturing the PM organizations with the partners. Mikkel will act as an advisor, consultant and trusted partner. Nevico is a Product Management agency that works across disciplines to build and develop our client’s Product Management and measure the business impact for them. Nevicos starting point is always our client’s business challenges, and we base our strategic Product Management and execution on data, user involvement and specialist knowledge of the individual industry. As a client, you can use us for broad, integrated Product Management efforts or as a specialist agency within specific disciplines, such as: Product strategy Roadmaps Release Management Product Management Alignment End-of-Life Management Digital Product Management Product Management Training #nevico #productmanagement #productmanagementagency #productstrategy #roadmaps #endoflifemanagement #productmanagementtraining Core competencies: - Product management - End-of life - Retirement of products - Product marketing - Product strategy - Project management - Business strategy - Sales management -Chair

  • Senior Product Management advisor at ProductFit
    Apr 2022 - Dec 2022 · 9 mos

    ProductFit is dedicated to help companies acquire better ProductFit and better Product Market Fit (PMF). The combination of experienced Product Marketing resources and Product Management resources creates a strong approach for analysis and implementation with the clients. My role is focused on the Commercial Product Management approach; Product strategy and vision, product planning, business cases and the product organisation. As a founding partner, I set the direction for the company and act as contact point for the clients.

  • Commercial Product Director at Projectum - A Broad Horizon company
    Jan 2022 - Apr 2022 · 4 mos

    Supporting and driving Projectums product journey towards becoming a product driven company, aiming for world domination within the business area of modern end-to-end Project Portfolio Management software. As the Commercial Product Director, I will be the ongoing sparring partner throughout the company in product related issues and will be driving the product and product portfolio strategy. I am part of the ambitious and very talented leadership team. The tasks and ambitions for the role are many – and large; Including but not limited to developing and evolve commercial models for all products, ensuring alignment of roadmaps and priorities for all products as well as setting and following up on product KPIs and much more. Projectum shape and sustain the modern workplace on all organizational levels, enabling efficient portfolio, project, and work management, by combining expert knowledge on the latest Microsoft technologies, deep interest in modern work trends, and our real-world experience. We offer modern industry best practices, best in class innovative products, solutions, and consulting services on technology implementation for Project Portfolio and Resource Management Capabilities. At the end of the day, we want to bring good vibes for people working with Project Portfolio and Resource Management (Mission) and thus help companies achieve their goals (Vision).

  • Director, Product Management, Services at TERMA Group
    Oct 2018 - Jan 2022 · 3 yrs 4 mos

    As Service Product Management Director, I am responsible for strengthening Termas Service Business, being responsible for developing and sustaining service offerings for the products in all of the SMS (Surveillance and Mission Systems) business areas. I work with new service concepts internally as well as with key external partners, and will manage the service offering and commercial models for existing and new products. Terma is a high-tech and innovative company that develops products and systems for defense, non-defense and security applications - including command and control systems, radar systems, self-protection systems, space technology, and aerostructures for the aircraft industry.