About
Vasilis
Hello! My name is Vasilis Hartzoulakis. As a senior product professional, I enjoy producing and delivering strategic product plans that inspire customers, employees, and investors. I have also consulted with companies that want to develop ethical products.
Helping visionary founders to combine profitability with sustainability, social responsibility and compassion for all stakeholders feels to me the best way to use product management expertise to create a professional legacy.
I have worked and thrived under many different hats
🧢 Entrepreneur, 👑Product Strategist, 🎓 Innovator, 🥊National Champion Martial Artist.
My corporate skills range across:
✅ Leadership of multidisciplinary cross-functional teams delivering digital products or services.
✅ C-Suite experience, comfortable to engage across all levels in corporations and start-ups.
✅ Effective mentor and facilitator between customers, c-suite and technologists.
Topics I am passionate about professionally:
🌟 Ethical Product Management --> The art of taking into account ethical and stakeholder values when designing a product and implementing a business model. Values include sustainability, civil & social responsibility, and compassion for the planet and all stakeholders and communities.
🌟 Why organizations start with best intentions but more often than not fail to take advantage of the natural intelligence and resilience of their employees - see the book Humanocracy
🌟 Evangelizing about Product Management - It is the best profession ever invented
🌟 Blockchain and crypto - They could emerge as KEY inventions, driving the next technology shift and deliver a more decentralized future not controlled by governments or massive corporations.
🌟 LIFE - WORK EQUILIBRIUM (no balance!) - We are unique, amazing, always growing individuals. We serve our families our communities and our friends. Maintaining spiritual, emotional and physical fitness is the best way to serve our families, society and our businesses.
”Basil supported a team of scientists and programmers in building a B2B value proposition for pharma and FMCG enterprises. He was always keen to test the hypotheses underpinning the Product Development process with customers and he was involved in several successful enterprise sales.”
Mark Watson
Co Founder & CEO
”Basil worked tirelessly with the team to translate complex scientific concepts to manageable pieces offunctionality that could be prioritized against customer and business needs.”
Raminderpal Singh
Co Founder & CEO
”It was really refreshing to work with a Product Manager who can help scientists and technologists navigate successfully the commercial landscape around their inventions. Basil will use hard market data to justify strategic business decisions but when exploring solutions, he can be full of creative energy and enthousiasm.”
Nicholas Marsh
Head of Engineering
”Basil enabled our team to have productive discussions on vision and product strategy. He adapted to our needs quickly and chanelled our creativity and energy. His approach uses well understood tools in a thoughtful and disciplined fashion to align the team. His interactions with the whole team were considerate and efficient.”
Becky Sage
Director of Acceleration