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Alexander de Rafols

London, United Kingdom

Bio

Product leader in B2B, consumer marketplaces, and AI & ML systems. I’ve scaled products through ARR of >$200m, international expansions, and across GTM & EPD. On the side, I’m a partner at a VC fund and enjoy working closely with founders—if you’re building, say hello!

Work Experience

Director or Product at Affirm

Oct 2024 – Present

Leading product for international markets

Venture Partner at Lorimer Ventures

Mar 2023 – Present

Investing, diligence, and partnering with early stage startups and founders in B2B SaaS.

Fractional CPO at KODIF

Jun 2024 – Sep 2024

AI platform for customer support, powered by the latest genAI models.

Head of Product at Headway

May 2023 – Apr 2024

Led the product org, growing it to 8 PMs as we doubled ARR to $xxx millions and raised a Series C.

Group Product Manager, Conversational Products at Attentive

Jan 2022 – Jun 2023

Led a new vertical & acquisition into conversational marketing products across 40 GTM + EPD + Ops roles, hundreds of customer support agents, and a team of IC PMs. Our conversational products delivered millions of magical conversations between major e-commerce brands (LG, Reebok, etc) and their customers across SMS and web experiences.

Senior Product Manager at Dataminr

Jul 2021 – Feb 2021

Product owner of the multi-modal AI Platform and ML data labeling products as we 3x'd to >$110mm of ARR.

Product Manager at Dataminr

Dec 2018 – Jan 2021

Product owner on Dataminr's AI Platform

Associate Product Manager at Dataminr

Mar 2017 – Dec 2018

Dataminr is pioneering technology for detecting, classifying, and determining the significance of public information in real time.

Investment Analyst at Morgan Stanley

Aug 2015 – Jun 2017

Invested in Russian and Latin American corporate debt for an emerging markets debt fund

Fall Analyst at Fortress Investment Group

Aug 2013 – Dec 2013

Management of SME debt holdings in Spain.

Summer Analyst at Fortress Investment Group

Jun 2013 – Aug 2013

Long-only institutional fixed income asset management

Research Assistant, International Affairs at University of Pennsylvania

Sep 2011 – 2012
Education

Bachelor of Science in Economics at University of Pennsylvania