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Professional Digital Product Manager with 12+ years of practice across IT services & consulting, research, NGOs, and startup environments. Specialist in human-centered AI product design, technology risk perception & customer-centric business analysis for use cases identification leveraging AI, GenAI, and Web3 applications.
Proficient at bridging design, technology, and business value creation, and passionate about designing exceptional products that delight customers & deliver +ROI.
Dr. Johanny Pestalozzi
Founder & CEO at Nanichi Atabey| Chief Innovation Officer at DeepTech & Sustainability Ventures (DTSVCH) & SparkX|Digital Innovation & Global Community Lead at Miro|Futurist & Tech Entrepreneur|EMBA UZH Candidate|Cyber-Bullying Resilience Advocate 🇨🇭 🇩🇪 🇪🇺 🇩🇴
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Earn Rewards with NextGen VR & Web3 Sustainability Games
Nanichi Atabey originates from the native Taino (Arawakan) language of the Greater Antilles in the Caribbean and means "my dear/my heart/my beloved" and "mother goddess & creator/Mother Earth". These words inspire the purpose of this startup to support organizations & individuals in loving Mother Earth by protecting endemic species in vulnerable ecosystems around the world & offsetting CO2 emissions, by leveraging VR games & Web3 customer loyalty programs.
profile Summary
12+ years of cumulative professional practice as a digital product manager, researcher & project manager, working with leading global brands, research institutions, startups, NGOs, and small & medium-sized enterprises.
Experienced project lead consulting clients across multiple industries, including SaaS, retail, banking, education & professional services.
Extensive digital experience portfolio across various use cases, incl. digital product management, customer loyalty programs, human-centered AI product design, employee experience, IoT service design, Web3/NFTs, metaverse/VR and AR experiences, behavioral economics principles in product design.
Adaptive & transformational leader: team coach working with multi-disciplinary & international teams across different business functions, incl. digital products, marketing, software development, and sales.
Broad professional network in Zurich/Switzerland with leaders across different industries, e.g., SwissMBAs, ZVG, Green FinTech Network, EMBA UZH, CVA.
EMBA Candidate (University of Zürich 2025-2026, Switzerland) focusing on digital transformation & B2B sales strategies & PhD (University of Hohenheim 2014-2019, Germany) specializing in technology acceptance & risk perception.
Certified in Digital Innovation & Business Strategies from Columbia University and Strategy Execution from Harvard Business School; trained in Human-Computer Interaction for User Experience Design from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Committed to designing human-centered digital experiences, innovating business models, solving complex problems, and creating customer-centric solutions that generate business advantage.
Digital Products selection
Human-centered/ethical AI, retail, consumer goods, e-commerce
Generative AI product discovery, use cases & business opportunities, business consulting
Generative AI in product management life cycle, business consulting
Conversational AI, consulting/professional services, e-commerce
Emerging sustainability products & services, futures design/strategic foresight, business consulting
Metaverse & ESG opportunities, global multi-channel bank insurer
Product management workshop: vision, roadmap, and customer experience, ICT & energy management sector
CX, SEO & improvement of online sales, telecom/ICT, e-commerce
Futures design/strategic foresight, banking, financial services & insurance
Applied behavioral economics principles, sustainable shopping/retail, consumer goods
Self-service automation/employee experience, a leading Norwegian seafood company
Enhancement of UX loyalty program in mobile app, a world leader in travel retail, e-commerce
NFT/Web3 startup for ESG Investing/carbon offsetting via blockchain, consulting
Phygital experiences/interactive displays, retail, luxury goods, e-commerce
End-to-end experience design (total experience), electronics multinational corporation
User research governance/design operations, airline/tourism/hospitality
Education & professional training with AI, learning & development
Wealth managers DX opportunities, leading multinational investment bank and financial services company
No-code software development, business operations/consulting
Additional projects: implementing industry best practices for executing usability tests, field visits, user interviews, analyzing qualitative data, and using the lean UX canvas for strategic UX research tasks definition