Moodi Mahmoudi

CEO & Cofounder

Description

Moodi is cofounder and CEO of NEXT — an AI-powered product discovery platform that turns customer calls into product insights. Whether it's to validate day-to-day product decisions or big picture ideas - NEXT puts product discovery on autopilot by delivering insights backed with customer reels. Clients include Deloitte, Bosch, PaperCut, Wahi, and hundreds of other organizations that bring customers into every decision. Prior to NEXT, Moodi was VP for Optimal, a private-equity backed SAP solutions provider, where he was part of the management team that raised $100 million to accelerate growth and international expansion that led to the company’s acquisition by NTT Data Corporation. Moodi joined Optimal after the successful acquisition in 2008 of KBMS, a leading provider of SAP-based solutions he founded in 2005. Moodi started his first venture in his McGill dorm room in 1999 building Canada’s first online classified ads company, uswap.com. Moodi studied at McGill University, MIT Sloan, and holds an MBA from INSEAD and is a guest lecturer at Product School.