Martin Band

“I have worked with Martin over a 12 month period during my assignment as Chief Strategy Officer at ArisGlobal. He was recommended to us by Nordic Capital the majority equity owner of ArisGlobal. Martin has teamed up with us in a time of heavy transformation and need specifically for state-of-the-art product management practices. He has been instrumental in helping us conduct this modernization of our requirements definition and our roadmap process, of our documentation and of our use of supporting IT tools. He has adjusted our product management concept to meet full agile requirements and he has also supported our engineering team to define the new Ways of Working. Martin has been hands on or strategic as was required and best for our company, he has immense knowledge and experience in his fields, of which any SaaS company could surely benefit from. I hope our paths will cross, I would love to work with Martin any time again.”

“I made a significant investment in Curo Compensation and sat on its board of directors for 2+ years. The company was not delivering the expected technology innovations and the Board lost confidence in the development team. The company had no product management leadership. Martin was tapped by the board to join the company, as an interim CTO, and help the CEO fix the issues. Within weeks of Martin joining, a new version of the software was launched to a Customer Advisory Board, revitalizing the sales pipeline and keeping current customers on board. Agile was introduced and the testing backlog was eliminated. The development backlog was put through a structured and visible prioritization process and then much reduced with each release. The first customers were implemented without a hitch and became strong references. We had a product roadmap to discuss and communication and confidence improved massively. Martin was offered the CTO role on a permanent basis, with responsibility for all technology, product management, and support. He went on to implement a professional product management process, deliver against the roadmap and expand the development team. Martin restored the board's confidence in the technology team and process at Curo and elevated the company's innovation and production significantly. I highly recommend Martin for any SaaS company that wants to deliver faster and more reliably, grow strongly, implement best practices across the company, and be well organized to support fundraising.”