Nick Black

Nick leads a crack team of product thinkers, doers, designers and engineers whose products are changing the way people experience mobile games, creating new revenue opportunities for mobile game developers and creating transformative opportunities for retailers.

CloudMade is the location based services platform serving GPS OEMs (Motorola, MiTAC, Medion, Magellan) Automotive (Audi, Daimler), Enterprises (Transport for London, SAP) and app developers (23,000+).

Backed by Greylock Parters, Sunstone Capital and Intel Capital, CloudMade has grown from a startup to a business, empowering thousands of developers and creating thousands of location based experiences along the way.

As VP Product I lead product strategy, roadmaps and user experience design across the company. My roles included:

- Leading key customer engagements with GPS OEMs, Automotive and Enterprises.
- Leading product strategy and planning.
- Leading product design teams creating user experiences for mobile, desktop, tablets and personal navigation devices ontop of CloudMade's platform.
- Heading a product management group defining processes, managing teams of product managers.
- Managing and growing P&Ls from startup to profitability.
- Business development, sales and key account management.

I've been involved with many aspects of the OpenStreetMap Foundation. In the beginning I worked on server and map editor code, contributing to major API upgrades. I was part of the organising committee for the first State of the Map conference in 2007 and Chaired the committee in 2008 and 2009. I have represented the Foundation as a speaker at conferences and other events in UK, Europe and North America.