Summary
Adam Giles is a seasoned Product Manager with over two decades of product and programme experience and 11 years in senior roles, known for rescuing complex digital banking programmes and delivering award-winning internet banking and mobile products across APAC and the Middle East. He blends hands-on technical fluency (MEng in Computer Systems Engineering, PSM-I and Prince2) with a track record of building and scaling teams, managing 7-figure budgets, and leading delivery of serverless APIs, mobile apps and multi-country deployments. Adam excels at translating ambiguous business visions into pragmatic roadmaps, reducing time-to-hire and operational friction while mentoring technical talent to promotion. Entrepreneurial at heart—he co-founded a 500 Startups-backed blockchain venture and has repeatedly bridged startup instincts with enterprise rigour. Notably, he has led cross-cultural teams of 100+ engineers and implemented CI/CD and automated quality metrics where none existed, turning technical debt into repeatable delivery capability.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
MEng, Computer Systems Engineering, MEng, Computer Systems Engineering at King's College London, U. of London
Batch 9 500 Startups Accelerator, Neuroware.IO, Batch 9 500 Startups Accelerator, Neuroware.IO at 500Startups