Christian Busch

0 to 1 Innovation & Startup Expert, CPO, Startup Mentor @ Stanford GSB, Techstars, Healthcare AI, SAAS, IoT

Palo Alto, United States (-08:00 UTC) English, Germanfrom Palo Alto, United States
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$200 / hour
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Bio

CEO Mentor for companies across enterprise SAAS, Satellite Imaging, VR, Medical Devices, Industrial and Healthcare IoT, AI Computer Vision. Collectively, these companies raised north of $230m and had exits of more that $260m over the last 6 years. 20 years taking ideas from zero to one across industries and tech stacks. Love taking emerging tech and figure out how to turn it onto a revenue generating product or platform. My work - Led 0 – 1 initiatives across industries & tech stacks, each from idea to 60M ARR in 2-3 years – NLP, IoT, In-memory DB, Health care AI on GCP, AWS & Azure - Led global, cross-functional teams from 0 to 200 FTE and obtained innovation investment buy in at C-level at SAP, Cognizant and Anthem. - Startup mentor & angel investor at Stanford GSB, Alchemist Accelerator and the German Accelerator. - 3 years product and portfolio lead at Anthem, building health care AI platform on top of 70M lifetime patient records in FHIR with team of ~150 FTE. - Expert in FHIR, Utilization Management and Prior Authorizations Digital Transformation. - Using ethnography & social sciences to uncover needs, desires and challenges to form and deliver transformational products ideas to isolate successful, transformative value props. Things I can help with: - becoming an entrepreneur - creating a product - validating a product - target market identification - target market segmentation - innovation - pricing strategy - finding product market fit - launching a company - scaling a company - General Entrepreneurship (pros and cons, what it takes to get there) - building a passionate team - creating mission & values for your business - developing a meaningful company culture - raising money from individuals and institutions

Expertise


  • Advice on funding

    Have helped many of companies from pre-seed to series A perfect their pitch decks and find investors. Collectively, these companies raised north of $230m and had exits of more that $260m over the last 6 years.

  • Bootstrapping

    Have helped many of companies from pre-seed to series A perfect their pitch decks and find investors. Collectively, these companies raised north of $230m and had exits of more that $260m over the last 6 years.

  • Conversion rate optimisation

    Expert in direct and indirect GTM strategies. Have helped many companies determine the optimal target market segments across industries and perfect their GTM strategies.

  • Go to market strategy

    Expert in direct and indirect GTM strategies. Have helped many companies determine the optimal target market segments across industries and perfect their GTM strategies.

  • Product launches

    I have taken 6 platforms from idea to $60-250M in annual revenue across industries and tech stacks. (Real-time analytics, IoT, Cloud Imaging, NLP, Innovation, Prior Authorization)

  • Product management

    I have taken 6 platforms from idea to $60-250M in annual revenue across industries and tech stacks. (Real-time analytics, IoT, Cloud Imaging, NLP, Innovation, Prior Authorization)

  • Product market fit

    I have taken 6 platforms from idea to $60-250M in annual revenue across industries and tech stacks. (Real-time analytics, IoT, Cloud Imaging, NLP, Innovation, Prior Authorization, AI Healthcare platform)

  • Sales

    Expert in Enterprise and B2B sales, sales enablement. Have taken startups and large enterprise sales teams from 0 to 9-digit revenue. Expert in creating sales motions, sales plays and sales collateral.

  • User research

    Expert in ethnography and using observation to identify and isolate transformative value propositions. I usually find angles that other people do not see or dismiss.

Toolkit


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    Apollo

    16 years of experience

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    Confluence

    16 years of experience

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    Figma

    16 years of experience

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    Miro

    7 years of experience

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    JIRA

    16 years of experience

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    Mixpanel

    16 years of experience

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    Salesforce

    16 years of experience

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Industries


  • Artificial Intelligence

    Led technical product for AI platform on 70M FHIR medical records and 30 AI initiatives. Ideated and delivered Prior Authorizations Automation solution.

Experience

  • Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield

    VP Product, Chief AI Engineer
    anthem.com

    – Strategic Product Leadership and Innovation - Drove the strategy and execution of Elevance Health's AI/ML App platform, leading a diverse team of over 160 professionals. Successfully managed a portfolio of 30+ initiatives, leveraging AI, ML, and cloud-native technologies to significantly enhance patient outcomes and reduce healthcare costs. – Customer-Centric Product Development and Market Research - Analyzed market trends, realigned product and engineering strategies with a customer-centric focus, establishing key healthcare partnerships and a three-year roadmap. Implemented ethnographic research methodologies to gain deep insights into customer segments, influencing effective go-to-market strategies. – Executive-Level Impact and Engineering Excellence - Redefined agile engineering strategies and led the development of a zero-trust cloud-native Health Operating System. Achieving an 80% improvement in deployment efficiency and enabling GenAI tools. Saving $150M initially and recurring savings of $95M. Won first $4.8M deal on AI/ML platform. – Healthcare Transformation through AI/ML Solutions - Pioneered a groundbreaking ‘prior authorization solution’ using FHIR R4 patient records, reducing processing time from days to seconds and enabling $500M cost saving. Kick-off to launch in 5 months. Transformed FHIR clinical data pipeline, significantly enhancing data accuracy and daily updates for 70M members.

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  • Cognizant

    VP, Innovation Practice

    – Digital Transformation Leadership - Revitalized a JV digital transformation practice. Analyzed market, created business case. Implemented agile SDLC and ethnographic methods to launch enterprise SaaS products for Fortune 500 clients. – Strategic Market Repositioning and Growth - Reengineered the engineering and business strategy, creating a data-driven, multi-year market plan. Demonstrated effectiveness by securing $10M in strategic innovation software development deals within the first 10 months. – Innovative Product Development and Process Standardization - Led engineering and delivery of Azure's Self-Service Advertising platform with team of 47 for Comcast, encompassing all advertising initiatives. Transformed digital transformation methodology into a standardized, repeatable sales and development process. Kick-off to commercial market launch in 6 months. – Revenue Growth and Operational Excellence - Drove the practice's growth from $300K to $60M annual revenue within 2 years, achieving a 65% margin and maintaining 100% team utilization. Excelled in managing change and fostering continuous improvement across teams.

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