Cory Slater

Tech-savvy product manager with a knack for bringing difficult, inventive ideas to life. *** My passion lies in understanding, dissecting, and improving the complex systems that comprise our everyday lives, from finance to commerce to social networks and more. My work focuses on incubating initiatives that drive impact for some of the world's largest commercial and social institutions at the centers of these networks. In a previous life, I built an AI/ML product that fundamentally changed how a $40B+ organization approached its core value proposition. I'm now focused on technology for social impact with a long term eye towards a coordinative protocol for ecosystem software. My background is a blend of management consulting, corporate strategy, product management, and the elusive "innovation". I have devised, evangelized, and executed some of the largest and most complex corporate strategy, M&A, and digital transformation programs. I graduated Magna Cum Laude with an accounting degree from the University of Washington's Foster School of Business. In my free time, I enjoy SCUBA diving (always looking for new dive buddies), building (mostly pointless) twitter bots, playing the drums, reading, playing squash, snowboarding, racing motorcycles, volunteering, running, and more. Always open for a conversation, coffee, or a game of squash. *** EXPERIENCE AND EXPERTISE: Product management; product development; product strategy; corporate strategy and development; business development; machine learning; active inference and dynamic causal modeling; natural language processing; explainable AI; spatial analytics; temporal analytics; corporate venture capital; user research; systems design; design thinking; human-centered design; value proposition development; business model design; innovation; concept development; concept testing; mergers, acquisitions, and restructuring; commercial due diligence; operational due diligence; market analysis and entry; operations; process mapping; financial modeling; business case development; enterprise digital transformations from start to finish.