Moodi Mahmoudi

Moodi is cofounder and CEO of NEXT — an AI-powered product discovery platform that transforms the way teams collect, consume, and act on customer insights. Product teams use NEXT to validate day-to-day product decisions and big-picture ideas with customer insights, not assumptions. Clients include Deloitte, Canon, Bosch, and hundreds of other organizations that bring customers into every decision.Prior to NEXT, Moodi was Vice President for Optimal, a private-equity backed SAP solutions provider, where he was part of the management team that raised $100 million to accelerate Optimal’s growth and international expansion that led to the company’s acquisition by NTT Data Corporation. Moodi joined Optimal after the successful acquisition in 2008 of KBMS, a leading provider of SAP-based solutions he founded in 2005. Moodi started his first venture in his McGill dorm room in 1999 building Canada’s first online classified ads company, Uswap.com.Moodi studied at McGill University, MIT Sloan, and holds an MBA from INSEAD.