Richard Forslund
Employee, Head Of Product, eBay Inc.
Berlin, Germany
Timeline
Professional experience for Richard Forslund
Current , since Jun 2020
Head Of Product
eBay Inc.
7 years and 5 months, Jan 2013 - May 2020
VP Product Management & Innovation (Prokurist)
adviqo GmbH
Sept 2016, VP Product Management & Innovation January 2013, Head of Product Management Leadership of global product management team & UXD team (up to 20 ppl) Member of executive team and prokurist for adviqo AG Acquisition and build up of Mobile Product Management team. Definition of Product vision, strategy and roadmaps Driver of Innovation & New business development Development & optimizations of products in global product portfolio Definition, monitoring and analysis of KPIs
4 years and 9 months, Apr 2010 - Dec 2014
Co-founder
SportsOnly Sweden AB
Co-founder and lead product development for a service & consultant company providing expertise and auction solutions for sports clubs.
6 years, Jan 2009 - Dec 2014
Co-founder
Smakprov Media AB
Product development for a co-founded online book-sample community platform. http://www.smakprov.se
2 years and 10 months, Apr 2010 - Jan 2013
CEO, Founder & Managing Consultant
GenIT AB
Consulting for various organisations in europe including eBay, Dawanda. Analysis of Existing organizational processes, responsabilities & tools. Change Management, Project Management. Product Management, Management of Product & Business requirements. System Development. Set-up of Business Case Frameworks, Design of Partner Programs, Design of Commercial models, Market and customer needs analysis.
2 years, Jan 2008 - Dec 2009
Product Manager Sweden
eBay Inc
From conception to realization of bringing Swedish eBay platform from C2C to B2C and the enterprise market. Management & set-up of eBay Developers Program for Sweden. Management of API, Management of national and international payment solutions. Backbone between business owners and IT Management of projects and product requirements. Management of Release Coordination and Communication. Leading development with both internal and external development teams.
4 years and 8 months, Feb 2004 - Sep 2008
Founder & consultant
Riconit
Self-founded consulting company, predecessor to GenIT AB Project management, System development, Business development, Product & system development.
2 years, Feb 2006 - Jan 2008
Head of development
Front Display
Lead the product development of an Interactive Hotel TV solution. Including Partner contact & Cooperation, customer Services & development, Product backlog management. System Development.
1 year and 8 months, Jul 2004 - Feb 2006
IT Manager
Aktiebolagstjänst
Defining a new process for handling company registrations, architecting a supporting IT infrastructure & system, with internal and external interfaces and integrations towards Partner services. Leading software development of designed solution including Database design & implementation, Programming of interfaces, processes & integrations.
1 year and 3 months, May 2003 - Jul 2004
CTO
EasyContact
Lead the product development of an online & mobile e-commerce & community platform. Lead a team of 4 developers. Resource planning. Management of Product backlog.System development. Set-up of international operation environment.
10 months, Nov 1998 - Aug 1999
System administrator & developer
HSB Gävleborg
1997 - 1998
Sergeant soldier & Aircraft mechanic
Swedish Airforce
Group leader, Mechanic for fighter aircrafts, Survival & soldier training, Elected trusted soldier representative for division of 400 soldiers.
Educational background for Richard Forslund
3 months, Aug 2012 - Oct 2012
Gamification
University of Pennsylvania / Distance course
Behavioral psychology, Game design, Game elements, Business implementation design
4 months, Jul 2012 - Oct 2012
Software Engineering for SaaS
University of California / Distance course
SaaS, RubyOnRails, Cloud development
3 months, Mar 2003 - May 2003
System developent for Internet
KTH Royal institute of technology Stockholm
2 years and 11 months, Aug 2000 - Jun 2003
Computer science
University of Gävle
Project mgmt & economics
Languages
Swedish
First language
English
Fluent
German
Intermediate
Norwegian
Intermediate
Danish
Basic