Axel Sooriah

    Axel Sooriah.

    Applied AI Evangelist · Builder · Enterprise to Founder

    Helping enterprises build AI-empowered teams, at Atlassian.

    Co-founded Panash — €1.1M revenue, team of three, 15 months.

    Host of Product in Practice (Atlassian) and Product Squad — #1 PM podcast in France, 100k+.

    Worked with
    CVS Health
    Roche
    Sanofi
    Vanguard
    PayPal
    Global Payments
    Mercedes-Benz
    Stellantis
    Ford
    Richemont
    Disney
    IKEA
    Deliveroo
    Starbucks
    Yum! Brands
    Contentsquare
    Greenhouse
    Canal+
    Now

    ContentLatest Product in Practice: Elena Verna on growth at Lovable. Listen →

    SpeakingSpoke at MTPCon London — June 18. See →

    Build and run Atlassian's enterprise evangelism motion for the "builder" audience from the ground up — workshops with customer teams, briefings with their executives. Codify what works into playbooks and content reused across sales and partner enablement.

    Drove enterprise AI adoption across 250+ companies in healthcare, finance, automotive and retail — taking teams from first agent build to daily-use workflows.
    Built live agent demos and automation workflows that teams adopted into their daily work.
    Spoke on agentic AI at 30+ talks and workshops across community and industry events.
    Host Product in Practice, Atlassian's product podcast — practitioner stories from Lovable, The Browser Company and Webflow.

    Co-founded a boutique product studio — consulting, coaching and training for product teams across European scale-ups and enterprises.

    Led product on a modular core-banking platform for banks and fintechs — ledger, transactional banking and back-office configuration.

    Built and led sales engineering across Northern Europe after Coveo Qubit's $40M Series C.

    Employee #1 at an AI-driven Customer Data Platform founded by ex-Google and ex-Yahoo engineers. Set up product and engineering from the ground up.

    Previously:Led product at Barclays UK Mobile Banking (6M MAUs, regulated environment, ranked #1 banking app by Forrester 2018) and Verisure (2M MAUs across 15 markets).
    Podcasts
    Product in Practice · Atlassian
    2024 – Present
    The Atlassian product podcast. Practitioner stories about building and shipping with AI.
    Leaders from Lovable, The Browser Company, Webflow and more.
    Product Squad · #1 in France
    2020 – Present
    The number-one product podcast in France. 100k+ downloads.
    CxOs from Superhuman, Accor, BackMarket, Mirakl, SNCF Connect and more.
    Boards & Teaching
    Board Member · La Product Conf, Paris
    Present
    Curate the speaker line-up for Europe's largest PM conference with 1,200+ attendees.
    Guest Lecturer · ESSEC Business School
    Present
    Teach Exec MBA students product management, product discovery, and applying AI in their work.
    NowAtlassian · Rovo
    Executive briefings, agent demos, and POC consultations for enterprise builders.
    CVS · Mercedes · Richemont · Starbucks
    AlsoPanash
    Field and advisory work with high-growth French tech scale-ups.
    Doctolib · Contentsquare · Scaleway · Welcome to the Jungle
    BeforeCoveo Qubit
    Built Sales Engineering across Northern Europe. Same playbook, pre-LLM.
    BMW · Mercedes · Carrefour · John Lewis · Emirates

    From inside enterprise AI adoption.

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